Erwin Bolthausen

Erwin Bolthausen (born 15 October 1945 in Rohr, Aargau) is a Swiss mathematician, specializing in probability theory, statistics, and stochastic models in mathematical physics.

Education and career Bolthausen received his doctorate in mathematics under Beno Eckmann in 1973 from ETH Zurich. Bolthausen's thesis was entitled Einfache Isomorphietypen in lokalisierten Kategorien und einfache Homotopietypen von Polyeder (Simple isomorphic types in localized categories and simple homotopy types of polyhedra). In 1978 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz and was then an associate professor of mathematics at the Goethe University Frankfurt for the academic year 1978–1979. From 1979 to 1990 he was a full professor at Technische Universität Berlin. Since 1990 he is a full professor at the University of Zurich, where he headed the Institut für Mathematik from 1998 to 2001. From 1995 to 2000 he was a member of the council of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach. He is since 2002 a member of the scientific advisory board of the École d'Eté de Probabilités de Saint-Flour and since 1994 a member of the Board of Trustees of the Swiss National Science Foundation. at the International Congress of Mathematicians and in 1996 in Budapest with talk Large deviations and perturbations of random walks and random surfaces at the European Congress of Mathematicians.

Selected publications Articles

Books as editor with Anton Bovier: with A. Sznitman: