Jean-François Le Gall

Jean-François Le Gall
Le Gall in 2011
Born15 November 1959 (1959-11-15) (age 65)
Morlaix
NationalityFrench
Alma materEcole normale supérieure
Pierre and Marie Curie University
AwardsRollo Davidson Prize (1986)
Loève Prize (1997)
Fermat Prize (2005)
Sophie Germain Prize (2005)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2019)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2021)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris-Sud in Orsay
Doctoral advisorMarc Yor
Doctoral studentsWendelin Werner

Jean-François Le Gall (born 15 November 1959) is a French mathematician working in areas of probability theory such as Brownian motion, Lévy processes, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equations, the Brownian snake, random trees, branching processes, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) under the supervision of Marc Yor.[1] He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to French academy of sciences, December 2013.

He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1986,[2] the Loève Prize in 1997,[2] and the Fermat Prize in 2005.[3] He was the thesis advisor of at least 11 students including Wendelin Werner.[1] For 2019 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.[4][5] and for 2021 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences.[6]

Books

  • Le Gall, Jean-François, Spatial branching processes, random snakes and partial differential equations. Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel (1999). 163 pp. ISBN 3-7643-6126-3
  • Le Gall, Jean-François, Brownian Motion, Martingales, and Stochastic Calculus. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2016). ISBN 978-3-319-31089-3

References

  1. ^ a b Jean-François Le Gall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  2. ^ a b Evans, Steven N.; Le Cam, Lucien. "Le Gall Receives Loève Prize". Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley. Archived from the original on 14 November 2003. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
  3. ^ Mathematics People: Colmez and Le Gall Awarded Fermat Prize, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 53, Number 2. 2006.
  4. ^ Wolf Prize 2019 - Jerusalem Post
  5. ^ "Wolf Prize 2019". Archived from the original on 20 March 2023. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
  6. ^ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2021