Oded Schramm and the Schramm-Loewner evolution: In memoriam

摘要

Oded Schramm, the inventor of the stochastic Loewner evolution (SLE), died on 1 September 2008 in a tragic hiking accident in the Cascades Mountains. He was forty-six. He is survived by his wife and two children. Schramm left behind an impressive legacy of research in probability and stochastic processes, statistical mechanics, and discrete and computational geometry. He brought highly original mathematical insights to the study of critical phenomena in lattice models in statistical physics. Schrammwill be sorely missed by the mathematics and the statistical physics communities.