Prof. Wendilin Werner (ENS-Paris and Orsay), will give a public lecture, titled:

"Locally Self-Interacting Walks"

Location: CWI, room L120 at 15.00 hours.

Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the Fields Medal. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and part-time at the École Normale Supérieure. He has received other awards, including the Fermat Prize in 2001, the Loève Prize in 2005, and the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize with his collaborators Gregory Lawler and Oded Schramm. He became a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2008. He has also been an actor, playing in the 1982 French film La Passante du Sans-Souci.