Background
He was born in Israel and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990 under the supervision of Hillel Furstenberg.
mathematician university professor
He was born in Israel and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1990 under the supervision of Hillel Furstenberg.
Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He is known for his research in probability theory, ergodic theory, mathematical analysis, theoretical computer science, and in particular for topics such as fractals and Hausdorff measure, random walks, Brownian motion, percolation and Markov chain mixing times. He was a faculty member at the Hebrew University and the University of California at Berkeley. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2002.
In 2011, he was a co-recipient of the David P. Robbins Prize.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Peres has coauthored more than 250 research papers.
Some of his long-term research collaborators are Itai Benjamini, Amir Dembo, Russell Lyons, Assaf Naor, Robin Pemantle, Oded Schramm, Scott Sheffield, Boris Solomyak and Ofer Zeitouni. He has advised 21 Doctor of Philosophy students.
American Mathematical Society.
