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Hugo Duminil-Copin

Mathematician, Fields Medal

Hugo Duminil-Copin is a French mathematician, member of the Presidential Science Council, and member of the Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2022.


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Spoken Languages: French, English

 

Hugo Duminil-Copin is a professor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Geneva and a permanent professor at the Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies (Bures-sur-Yvette).

 

Hugo Duminil-Copin received the Fields Medal in 2022 for his work on models of interacting particles, primarily his research on random phenomena in 3 and 4 dimensions, especially on the Ising model in the context of developing a quantum field theory applicable to particles.

 

He addresses various themes, such as ‘Can we predict everything?’, ‘Does chance really exist?’, or ‘The role of error in learning science’.

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