Scott Sheffield

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Scott Sheffield
Born	(1973-10-20) October 20, 1973 (age 51)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Stanford University
Children	4
Awards	Loève Prize (2011) Rollo Davidson Prize (2006) Clay Research Award (2017) Henri Poincaré Prize (2024)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	MIT
Thesis	Random surfaces: large deviations and gradient Gibbs measure classifications (2003)
Doctoral advisor	Amir Dembo
Doctoral students	Ewain Gwynne, Nina Holden, Xin Sun
Website	math.mit.edu/~sheffield/

Scott Sheffield (born October 20, 1973) is a professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[1] His primary research field is theoretical probability.