Scott Sheffield
Leighton Family Professor of Mathematics
Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Contact Information
Office: 2-249
Email: last name at math.mit.edu
Mailing address
Department of Mathematics
MIT, 2-249
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
Research Interests
Probability, mathematical physics, game theory
Events
MIT
Probability Seminar: Mondays, 4:15
Some current/former PhD advisees
Tom Alberts, Morris
Ang , Manan Bhatia,
Ewain Gwynne,
Nina Holden, Sungwook Kim, Oren Louidor, Ron Nissim, Minjae
Park, Joshua Pfeffer, Xin Sun, Sam Watson, Menglu Wang, Catherine Wolfram,
Pu Yu
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Visiting Professor at Institute for Advanced Study Princeton 2022-2023
Other
2022 Plenary ICM Talk: What
is a random surface?
plus
notes
for Proceedings of ICM with
slides,
code, animations (meant as a guide for people getting into the subject)
Notes/references from recent graduate topics course (also an overview
of current research directions)
Quanta Magazine article (a journalistic account of recent
research)
Jason
Miller's images (many cool pictures and animations)
Math
major in love
(a song I wrote as an undergraduate, which
illustrates how little my
life has changed since then...)
Nathan's blog
(includes tragic high school math talk on limitations of math and even more tragic
Faustian short story based on reconstruction conjecture)
Pandemics and paradox: surprising math in the simplest models
MIT Center for
Statistics
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