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Michael Aizenman is a mathematician and a physicist at Princeton University working in the fields of mathematical physics, statistical mechanics, functional analysis and probability theory.
The highlights of his work include: the triviality of a class of scalar quantum field theories in more than four dimensions; a description of the phase transition in the Ising model in three and more dimensions; the sharpness of the phase transition in percolation theory; a method for the study of spectral and dynamical localization for random Schrödinger operators; and insights concerning conformal invariance in two-dimensional percolation.
M. Aizenman has been awarded several honors. Among them is the Norbert Wiener Prize of the Amer. Math. Soc. and SIAM for "his outstanding contribution of original and non-perturbative mathematical methods in statistical mechanics by means of which he was able to solve several long open important problems concerning critical phenomena, phase transitions, and quantum field theory.", and the Dannie Heineman Prize in Mathematical Physics, awarded by the APS and the AIP.
He is also the recipient of the Brouwer Medal of the Dutch Math. Soc. and the Royal Dutch Acad. Sc., and of an honorary degree of the Université de Cergy-Pontoise. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1997, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Communications in Mathematical Physics since 2001. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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