Hugo Duminil-Copin

Hugo Duminil-Copin (born 26 August 1985) is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.

Biography The son of a middle school sports teacher and a former female dancer who became a primary school teacher, Duminil-Copin grew up in the outer suburbs of Paris, where he played a lot of sports as a child, and initially considered attending a sports-oriented high school to pursue his interest in handball. He decided to attend a school focused on mathematics and science, In 2016, he became permanent professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. Since 2019, he has been member of the Academia Europaea.

Since 2017, Duminil-Copin has been the principal investigator of the European Research Council – Starting Grant “Critical behavior of lattice models (CriBLam)”. He is a member of the Laboratory Alexander Grothendieck, a CNRS joint research unit with IHES.

Duminil-Copin was awarded the 2017 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for his work on Ising type models. Wendelin Werner credited Duminil-Copin with generalising the field of percolation theory, saying that "Everything is easier, streamlined. The results are stronger. … The whole understanding of these physical phenomena has been transformed."

Awards

2022 Fields Medal 2019 Dobrushin Prize 2017 Loève Prize 2017 Jacques Herbrand Prize 2017 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize 2016 Prize of the European Mathematical Society 2015 Early Career Award of the International Association of Mathematical Physics 2015 Peccot Lectures at the Collège de France 2013 Oberwolfach Prize 2012 Rollo Davidson Prize (with )

Selected publications Aizenman, Michael; Duminil-Copin, Hugo (2021), Marginal triviality of the scaling limits of critical 4D Ising and ϕ44 models. Ann. of Math. (2) 194 (2021), no. 1, 163–235.