Past Member
Percy A. Deift
Neil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Founders’ Circle Member
Affiliation
Mathematics
Field of Study
Integrable Systems, Random Matrix Theory
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Percy Deift is currently working on numerical algorithms applied to random data. The fluctuations in computation times for each algorithm have universality properties, sometimes described by random matrix theory. The work is part numerical/experimental and part analytical.
Dates at IAS
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School of Mathematics
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Degrees
Princeton University
Ph.D.
1977
Honors
1999-2000
Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
1998
George Polya Prize
