Oded Schramm
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Oded Schramm
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| Born |
December 10, 1961 Jerusalem |
| Died | September 1, 2008 (aged 46) Washington, United States |
| Citizenship | Israeli and US |
| Institutions | Microsoft Research |
| Doctoral advisor | William Thurston |
| Doctoral students | Omer Angel |
| Known for | , circle packing |
| Notable awards |
Erdős Prize (1996) Salem Prize (2001) Clay Research Award (2002) Loève Prize (2003) Henri Poincaré Prize (2003) SIAM George Pólya Prize (2006) Ostrowski Prize (2007) |
Oded Schramm (Hebrew: עודד שרם; December 10, 1961 – September 1, 2008) was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory.
Schramm was born in Jerusalem. His father, Michael Schramm, was a biochemistry professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He attended Hebrew University where he received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science in 1986 and his master's degree in 1987, under the supervision of Gil Kalai. He then received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1990 under the supervision of William Thurston.
After receiving his doctorate, he worked for two years at the University of California, San Diego, and then had a permanent position at the Weizmann Institute from 1992 to 1999. In 1999 he moved to the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he remained for the rest of his life.
He and his wife had two children, Tselil and Pele.
On September 1, 2008, Schramm fell to his death while solo climbing Guye Peak, north of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington.
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