Biography.
A specialist in probability theory, stochastic processes and partial differential equations, Jeremy Quastel has been at the University of Toronto since 1998.
A native of Canada, he studied at McGill then the Courant Institute where he completed his PhD in 1990 under the direction of Varadhan.
After a postdoc at MSRI, he was a faculty at UCDavis 1991-98 before returning to Canada. His research is on the large scale behaviour of interacting particle systems and stochastic partial differential equations, recently concentrating on the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang universality class, where he and collaborators discovered the first exact solutions of the KPZ equation, the polymer endpoint distribution, and, more recently the general solution of the model TASEP, and through it the KPZ fixed point and its connection to integrable partial differential equations.
He was a Sloan Fellow (1996-98), invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (session 2010, plenary 2026),
gave the Current Developments in Mathematics (2011) and St. Flour lectures (2012),
was plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics (2012), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2016) and
of the Royal Society (2021),
and won the CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (2018), the Jeffery-Williams Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society (2019), the Paul Levy Prize (2024), Polanyi Award (2026).
He was Chair of the Department of Mathematics 2017-2021.
Pre-arxiv preprints
ArXiv preprints
MathSciNet
KPZ survey article
Survey talk on the KPZ fixed point at SPA2019