12/03/2014 - 12:00am

Professor Michael Cranston of the UC Irvine Department of Mathematics and his collaborator, Professor Francis Comets from Université Paris Diderot, were awarded the Ito Prize 2015 for their paper titled "Overlaps and pathwise localization in the Anderson polymer model" (SPA 123 (2013), 2446-2471).

The Itô Prize honors the memory and celebrates the legacy of Professor Kiyosi Itô and his vast and seminal contributions to probability theory. It is awarded every two years and recognizes significant contributions to the advancement of the theory or applications of stochastic processes over the corresponding period.

Past winners of the Ito Prize can be found here: http://www.elsevier.com/physical-sciences/statistics-and-probability/ito...