Itai Benjamini

Itai Benjamini is an Israeli mathematician who holds the Renee and Jay Weiss Chair in the Department of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science.[1]

Benjamini completed his Ph.D. in 1992 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Benjamin Weiss, with a dissertation concerning random walks.[2]

With Olle Häggström, Benjamini edited the selected works of Oded Schramm.[pub 1] He has also made contributions to topics including the Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model for simulating traffic flow by cellular automata,[pub 2] isoperimetric inequalities and curve-shortening flow on Riemannian manifolds,[pub 3] and the use of the circle packing theorem to analyze random walks on infinite limits of bounded-degree finite planar graphs.[pub 4]

In 2004 he won the Rollo Davidson Prize for young probability theorists "for his work across probability, including the analytic and geometric, particularly in the study of random processes associated with graphs".[3] In the same year he also won the Morris L. Levinson Prize of the Weizmann Institute.[4] He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010,[5] speaking about "random planar metrics".[pub 5]

Selected publications

  1. ↑ Schramm, Oded (2011), Benjamini, Itai; Häggström, Olle, eds., Selected works of Oded Schramm, Selected Works in Probability and Statistics, New York: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9675-6, ISBN 978-1-4419-9674-9, MR 2885266.
  2. ↑ Austin, Tim; Benjamini, Itai (2006), For what number of cars must self organization occur in the Biham–Middleton–Levine traffic model from any possible starting configuration?, arXiv:math/0607759
  3. ↑ Benjamini, Itai; Cao, Jianguo (1996), "A new isoperimetric comparison theorem for surfaces of variable curvature", Duke Mathematical Journal 85 (2): 359–396, doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-96-08515-4, MR 1417620.
  4. ↑ Benjamini, Itai; Schramm, Oded (2001), "Recurrence of distributional limits of finite planar graphs", Electronic Journal of Probability 6, MR 1873300.
  5. ↑ Benjamini, Itai (2010), "Random planar metrics", Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians IV, Hindustan Book Agency, New Delhi, pp. 2177–2187, MR 2827966.

References

  1. ↑ "Prof. Itai Benjamini", Honors and Awards, Weizmann Wonder Wander: News, Features and Discoveries from the Weizmann Institute (Weizmann Institute), retrieved 2015-11-01; The Faculty of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute, retrieved 2015-11-01.
  2. ↑ Itai Benjamini at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ "Holroyd and Benjamini Awarded Rollo Davidson Prizes" (PDF), Mathematics People, Notices of the AMS 51 (6), June–July 2004: 661.
  4. ↑ Honors and Prizes to Faculty Members, Department of Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science, retrieved 2015-11-01.
  5. ↑ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2015-11-01.

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