Lane P. Hughston

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Lane P. Hughston (born 24 December 1951) is an American mathematician.

Lane P. Hughston was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, and raised in Dallas, Texas, where he attended J. J. Pershing Elementary School, Benjamin Franklin Junior High School, and Hillcrest High School.^{[citation needed]} He is the son of Edward Wallace Hughston and Joan Palmer Hughston.^{[citation needed]} In 1969 took first place in the nationwide Westinghouse Science Talent Search.^[1][2] He holds a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar and a student of Roger Penrose.^[3] While he was a student at Oxford he was based at Magdalen College.^{[citation needed]}

After completing his doctorate he held a Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford, and then was Darby Fellow and Tutor in Applied Mathematics at Lincoln College, Oxford.^{[citation needed]}

Later, Hughston worked as a financial engineer at Robert Fleming & Co. Limited, London, and at Merrill Lynch, London, and then as Professor of Mathematics at King's College London, Imperial College London, Brunel University London and, more recently, Goldsmiths, University of London.^[4]

He has held visiting appointments at the University of Texas at Austin, King's College London, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, and University College London.^{[citation needed]}

He has carried out work in general relativity, cosmology, twistor theory, quantum mechanics, quantum information, statistical mechanics, mathematical finance, and music theory.^{[citation needed]} Hughston served for sixteen years as Editor-in-Chief at International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance over the period 2007 to 2022,^[5] the final year being as co-Editor-in-Chief alongside M. R. Grasselli.

• Schrödinger–HJW theorem
• Westinghouse Science Talent Search