Hugo Duminil-Copin
Awards & Honours
9
Awards Won
4
Honours
1
Rankings
4
Covers
2
Records
Hugo Duminil-Copin's achievements place him among the elite mathematicians of his generation. Winning the Fields Medal at age 37, the youngest possible for that cycle, he joined a lineage of French probability theorists stretching back to Wendelin Werner and Stanislas Smirnov. His resolution of the connective constant problem, which had stumped experts for decades, is often called a tour de force. The Loève Prize and Fermat Prize further underscore his dominance in probability and statistical physics. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 2023, one of the highest academic honors in France.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
Elected to French Academy of Sciences
One of the highest academic honors in France.
Plenary Speaker at ICM
Delivered a plenary lecture at ICM Helsinki before receiving the Fields Medal.
Invited Speaker at ICM
Gave an invited lecture at ICM Rio de Janeiro.
Permanent Professor at IHÉS
Appointed at age 28 to one of the world's most prestigious mathematics institutes.
Rankings & Lists
Top 10 Mathematicians Under 40
Magazine Covers
Le Monde
2022-07-05
Hugo Duminil-Copin, la médaille Fields française
La Recherche
2022-09-01
Les transitions de phase décryptées
Pour la Science
2022-10-01
Hugo Duminil-Copin : le probabiliste qui a conquis la médaille Fields
CNRS Le Journal
2022-07-15
Hugo Duminil-Copin, un mathématicien français médaillé Fields
Records & Feats
Solved the connective constant of the honeycomb lattice
Proved that the connective constant equals √(2+√2), a problem open for decades.
Part of a three-generation chain of Fields Medalists
His advisor Stanislas Smirnov (2010) and Smirnov's advisor Wendelin Werner (2006) also won the Fields Medal.