Alain-Sol Sznitman: Blaise Pascal Medal

Alain-Sol Sznitman has been a professor at the Department since 1991 and became emeritus in 2021. He received the 2022 Blaise Pascal Medal in recognition for his contributions to probability theory.

The prize committee writes: "He is one of the main players who have transformed probability theory into one of the most active and important branches of mainstream mathematics – both directly via their own work, but also by creating a sense of community. In this last decade, Sznitman has again crafted a deep subject. With the 'interlacement' questions, one looks at questions of the connectivity properties of 'the complement of a random structure' rather that of the random structure itself. This turned out to be a deep topic, with relations to many other currently active areas of probability theory (maxima of random fields), where again, the ideas that he developed turn out to be central."