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University of Chicago

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5.04/23/2026

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Gregory F. Lawler is the George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Chicago, where he has been a faculty member since 2006, initially as Professor from 2006 to 2013. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia in 1976 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1979 under the supervision of Edward Nelson. Earlier in his career, Lawler served at Duke University from 1979 to 2001 in positions including Assistant Professor (1979–1985), Associate Professor (1985–1991), Professor (1991–2001), and A. Hollis Edens Professor of Mathematics (2001–2003), followed by a professorship at Cornell University from 2001 to 2006. His research centers on random walks and continuous analogues such as Brownian motion and diffusions, with a special emphasis on processes arising in statistical physics, including self-avoiding random walks, loop-erased random walks, uniform spanning trees, percolation, Schramm-Loewner evolution (SLE), Gaussian free field (GFF), and loop measures in two dimensions. He has also investigated applications of probability to complex analysis.