16 Facts About Hugo Duminil-Copin

Hugo Duminil-Copin was born on 26 August 1985 and is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory.

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.

Hugo Duminil-Copin decided to attend a school focused on mathematics and science, and enrolled at the Lycee Louis-le-Grand in Paris, then at the Ecole normale superieure and the University Paris-Sud.

Hugo Duminil-Copin decided to focus on math instead of physics, because he found the rigour of mathematical proof more satisfying, but developed an interest in percolation theory, which is used in mathematical physics to address issues in statistical mechanics.

In 2013, after his postdoctorate, Hugo Duminil-Copin was appointed assistant professor, then full professor in 2014 at the University of Geneva.

Hugo Duminil-Copin is a member of the Laboratory Alexander Grothendieck, a CNRS joint research unit with IHES.

Hugo Duminil-Copin's work focuses on the mathematical area of statistical physics.

Hugo Duminil-Copin uses ideas from probability theory to study the critical behavior of various models on networks.

Hugo Duminil-Copin's work focuses on identifying the critical point at which phase transitions occur, what happens at the critical point, and the behaviour of the system just above and below the critical point.

Hugo Duminil-Copin has been working on dependent percolation models whereby the state of an edge in one part of a lattice will affect the state of edges elsewhere, to shed light of Ising models, which are used to study phase transitions in ferromagnetic materials.

Hugo Duminil-Copin has shed more light on the nature of the phase transition at the critical point itself, and whether the transition will be continuous or discontinuous, under various circumstances, with a focus on Potts models.

Hugo Duminil-Copin is researching conformal invariance in dependent percolation models in two dimensions.

Hugo Duminil-Copin said that by proving the existence of these symmetries, a great deal of information about the models would be extracted.

Hugo Duminil-Copin was awarded the 2017 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize for his work on Ising type models.

Hugo Duminil-Copin was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022 for "solving longstanding problems in the probabilistic theory of phase transitions in statistical physics, especially in dimensions three and four".

Hugo Duminil-Copin's hobbies include sports, which he has stated helps him find inspiration when working.