Bernard Chazelle

Bernard Chazelle

Bernard Chazelle (* 1955 in Paris ) is a French - American computer scientist and mathematician . He has been a professor at Princeton University since 1989 and is primarily concerned with algorithmic geometry .

Career

Bernard Chazelle began his academic training in his hometown, where he received a diploma in applied mathematics from the École des mines de Paris in 1977 . He then moved to Yale University in the United States , where he received his Ph.D. in 1980 from David P. Dobkin in the computer science department. PhD (Dissertation Computational Geometry and Convexity ). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University for two years before assuming a position as assistant professor of computer science at Brown University in 1982 . He held this for three years before he returned to his home country for a year in 1985 and worked in the same position at the École normal supérieure .

In 1986, Chazelle finally accepted the call from Princeton University , where he received a full professorship for computer science in 1989, which was expanded to include mathematics in 2002 and which he still holds today (Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics) .

Scientific work

Chazelle mainly deals with algorithms and algorithmic geometry , both in the context of theoretical computer science and the practical application of these. Further focal points are discrepancy and complexity and graph theory , for example he deals with spanning trees or the problem of museum guards . To date, he has published a total of three books and around 250 specialist articles and book chapters and is also involved in the publication of numerous specialist journals.

Chazelle was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1994 before joining the Association for Computing Machinery in 1995. In 2001 he was involved in a Séminaire Nicolas Bourbaki . He was then elected to the European Academy of Sciences (2002) and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2004).

Books

• Advances in Discrete and Computational Geometry. Contemporary Mathematics , Volume 223, Providence, 1998, ISBN 978-0-8218-0674-6 . (with Jacob E. Goodman & Richard Pollack )
• The Discrepancy Method: Randomness and Complexity. Cambridge University Press , 2000, ISBN 978-0-521-00357-5 .
• L'Algorithmique et les Sciences. Leçon Inaugurale, Collège de France, Fayard , 2013, ISBN 978-2213672014 .

Personal

His son Damien Chazelle is an Oscar-winning director and screenwriter. In the film Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench (2009) Bernard Chazelle played a small role. He is also active as a composer and essayist .

Web links

• Profile on Princeton University website
• Curriculum Vitae on the Princeton University website (pdf format, English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bernard Chazelle in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter C. (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed December 23, 2017 .