Tom Hutchcroft

Israeli mathematician

Tom Hutchcroft

Citizenship| United Kingdom
Alma mater|

* Cambridge University
* University of British Columbia

Known for|

* Percolation theory

Awards|

* Rollo Davidson Prize (2019)

* EMS Prize (2024)

Scientific career
Institutions|

* Cambridge University
* California Institute of Technology
* Microsoft Research

Doctoral advisor| Omer Angel, Assaf Nachmias

Tom Hutchcroft is a British mathematician whose research is in probability theory. His work on percolation theory won him the Rollo Davidson Prize in 2019 and the 2024 EMS Prize given by the European Mathematical Society. He is a professor at California Institute of Technology.[1]

## Biography

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Hutchcroft received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2013. Next he completed a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 2017. During his graudate studies he had internships with the Microsoft Research theory group. After his graduate studies Hutchcroft had a postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Cambridge from 2017 to 2021. He then joined the Caltech faculty in 2021.[1]

## Research

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Hutchcroft is known for his work on percolation theory in non-Euclidean geometries and for his proof of Schramm’s locality conjecture.

## Awards and honors

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* Rollo Davidson Prize (2019)[2]

* EMS Prize (2024)[3]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Tom Hutchcroft Wins the 2024 European Mathematical Society Prize". Pathway forward. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
2. ^ "Rollo Davidson Awards 1976 - 2020". Statistics Library, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
3. ^ "The EMS Prizes 2024: Tom Hutchcroft". European Mathematical Society. Retrieved 23 April 2025.

## External links

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* Home page