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Christopher Hoffman receives AMS Centennial Fellowship

Grant and Award Announcement

American Mathematical Society

Christopher Hoffman

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Providence, RI---Christopher Hoffman of the University of Washington has been awarded the prestigious AMS Centennial Fellowship for the 2008-2009 academic year. The fellowship is presented annually to outstanding mathematicians who have held the doctoral degree for between three and twelve years. The primary selection criterion is excellence in research achievement. The stipend for the 2008-2009 Centennial Fellowship is US$70,000, plus an expense allowance of US$7,000. Fellows also receive a complimentary one-year AMS membership.

Christopher Hoffman has done work in ergodic theory, probability theory, and combinatorics. Currently his work focuses on probabilistic models from statistical physics.

He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1992 and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1996 under the supervision of Don Ornstein. After postdoctoral positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University Maryland, in 1999 Hoffman joined the faculty at the University of Washington, where he is currently an associate professor.

He plans to use the fellowship to continue his work on stochastic growth processes by attending the program on discrete probability at the Institut Mittag-Leffler as well as the program on probabilistic methods in mathematical physics at the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques in Montreal.

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