Education
He was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975 at Yeshiva University (Belfer Graduate School of Science), New York, with advisor Joel Lebowitz.
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He was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975 at Yeshiva University (Belfer Graduate School of Science), New York, with advisor Joel Lebowitz.
The highlights of his work include: the triviality of a class of scalar quantum field theories in more than four dimensions. A description of the phase transition in the Ising model in three and more dimensions. The sharpness of the phase transition in percolation theory.
A method for the study of spectral and dynamical localization for random Schrödinger operators.
And insights concerning conformal invariance in two-dimensional percolation. Aizenman was an undergraduate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
After postdoctoral appointments at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University (1974-1975), and Princeton University (1975–1977), with Elliott H. Lieb, he was appointed Assistant Professor at Princeton. In 1982 he moved to Rutgers University as Associate Professor and then full Professor.
In 1987 he moved to the Courant Institute and in 1990 returned to Princeton as Professor of Mathematics and Physics.
He was several times a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, in 1984-1985, 1991-1992, and 1997-1998, and is a regular Visiting Scholar at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1997, and has been the editor-in-chief of the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics from 2001 to 2012.