Education
Lacey received his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1987, under the direction of Walter Philipp.
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Michael Lacey
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Career
His thesis was in the area of probability in Banach spaces, and solved a problem related to the law of the iterated logarithm for empirical characteristic functions. In the intervening years, his work has touched on the areas of probability, ergodic theory, and most importantly, harmonic analysis. His first postdoctoral positions were at the Louisiana State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
While at University of North Carolina, Lacey and Walter Philipp gave their proof of the almost sure central limit theorem.
He held a position at Indiana University from 1989 to 1996. While there, he received a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, and during the tenure of this fellowship he began a study of the bilinear Hilbert transform.
Since 1996, he has been a Professor of Mathematics at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 2004, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship, for joint work with Xiaochun Li.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Achievements
Membership
American Mathematical Society.
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Nationality
United States
Awards
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Guggenheim Fellowship Salem Prize
The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.The Salem Prize, founded by the widow of Raphael Salem, is awarded every year to a young mathematician judged to have done outstanding work in Salem's field of interest, primarily the theory of Fourier series.