Jeremy Quastel

Jeremy Daniel Quastel FRS, FRSC is a Canadian mathematician specializing in probability theory, stochastic processes, partial differential equations. He served as head of the mathematics department at the University of Toronto from 2017 until 2021.^[1] He grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario.

Jeremy Quastel
Quastel at Nançay Radio Observatory in 2012
Born	December 20, 1963 (1963-12-20) (age 61) Canada
Alma mater	New York University
Children	2
Awards	Jeffery–Williams Prize 2019
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Toronto UC Davis
Thesis	Diffusion of colour in the simple exclusion process (1990)
Doctoral advisor	S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan

Career

Quastel earned his PhD at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University in 1990; the advisory was S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. He was a postdoctoral student at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, then a faculty member at University of California, Davis for the next six years;^[2] returned to Canada in 1998.^[3]

Research

Jeremy Quastel is recognized as one of the top probabilists in the world in the fields of hydrodynamic theory, stochastic partial differential equations, and integrable probability.^[2] In particular, his research is on the large scale behaviour of interacting particle systems and stochastic partial differential equations.^[3] Together with Konstantin Matetski and Daniel Remenik, Quastel gave an exact formulation of the KPZ fixed point in terms of its transition probabilities.^[4]

Awards, distinctions, and recognitions

• Fellow of the Royal Society (2021)^[5]
• CMS Jeffery–Williams Prize (2019)^[6]
• CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2018)^[2]
• Royal Society of Canada Fellow (2016)^[7]
• Killam Research Fellowship (2013) for his research of stochastic processes and partial differential equations used to describe natural processes of change and evolution^[8]
• invited speaker at the Current Developments in Mathematics (2011)^[9]
• invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (2010)
• Sloan Fellow (1996–98)^[3]

Family

Jeremy Quastel is the grandson of biochemist Juda Hirsch Quastel.