Martin T. Barlow


Martin Thomas Barlow FRS Royal [Society of Canada|FRSC] is a British mathematician who is professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia in Canada since 1992.

History

Barlow is the son of Andrew Dalmahoy Barlow and his wife Yvonne. He is thus the grandson of Alan Barlow, and his wife Nora (née Darwin), through whom he is a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. He is the nephew of Horace Barlow. In 1994 he married Colleen McLaughlin.
He was educated Sussex House School, St Paul's School, London, Trinity College, Cambridge ; University College of Swansea.
Barlow worked as a research fellow of the University of Liverpool 1978–1980. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1979–1992. He worked in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge 1981–1985 and was a Royal Society University Research Fellow 1985–1992.

Work

His mathematical interests include probability, Brownian motion and fractal sets.
His doctoral students include Steven N. Evans.

Recognition

He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1984. He was elected a Fellow of the [Royal Society of Canada] in 1998. He was elected a Fellow of the [Royal Society] in 2005. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.