| Citation | Srinivasa Varadhan has been a central figure in the development of probablity theory during the last thirty years. His work with Stroock on the Martingale formulation for Markov Processes has changed fundamentally how they are viewed and this is essential for the study of Markov processes with complex state spaces. His work with Donsker on the Theory of Large Deviations has laid the foundations of an important area of research that has widespread applications. His recent work on Hydrodynamic scaling uses these ideas to answer some of the difficult questions concerning the approach to equilibrium of large systems with slow modes. |