László Erdős receives Leonard Eisenbud Prize
On 5 January 2017, together with Hong-Tzer Yau, László Erdős was awarded the Leonard Eisenbud Prize for Mathematics and Physics by the American Mathematical Society (AMS) for their breakthrough results in proving the universality of eigenvalue statistics of Wigner random matrices.
1 February, 2017
In 2006, AMS founded the Leonard Eisenbud Prize, presented every three years. It is dedicated to the memory of outstanding mathematician Leonard Eisenbud (1913–2004), who earned his PhD degree under the supervision of Eugene Wigner at Princeton in 1948 and excelled in the description of nucleus structure.
The universality previously mentioned was forecast in Eugene Wigner’s 1955 study on the behaviour of heavy nuclei. Mathematically speaking, the problem is that the eigenvalue statistics of large matrices asymptotically behave in the same way in the sense that asymptotics depend exclusively on the symmetry properties of matrices. Erdős and Yau have proven the above in a series of studies since 2009, both universally and for fine properties as well.
László Erdős Source: mta.huLászló Erdős graduated in 1990 as a mathematician at Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, under the supervision of Domokos Szász. He earned his PhD at Princeton University, supervised by Elliott Lieb. He published the results of his degree thesis on the mathematical models of Brown movement in leading journals, in collaboration with D. Q. Tuyen. His PhD thesis discussed the problem of Lieb–Thirring inequalities, which in his pioneering studies he continued to expand for the presence of magnetic fields. With H. T. Yau, he reached a breakthrough with the deduction of the linear quantum Boltzmann Equation. He also excelled in proving and understanding the properties of several equations of quantum-statistical physics, such as the linear and non-linear Schrödinger Equation and the Hatree and Gross–Pitaevsky Equations. He has been a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria, leading the Erdos Group since 2013. He is also in constant contact with Hungarian schools of mathematical statistical physics and analysis.
In May 2016, László Erdős was elected as external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences during the 187th General Assembly. Earlier, he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2015, as well as a member of Academia Europaea.