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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

Member
School of Mathematics
Fall
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School of Mathematics
Spring
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School of Mathematics
Spring
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School of Mathematics
Spring
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School of Mathematics
Fall
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School of Mathematics
Spring
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School of Mathematics
Spring
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School of Mathematics
Fall

Degrees

Princeton University
Ph.D.
1977

Honors

1999-2000
Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
1998
George Polya Prize