Eric Cancès

Eric Cancès, Oberwolfach 2013

Eric Cancès is a French applied mathematician and computer physicist .

Cancès studied from 1989 at the École Polytechnique and then from 1992 to 1995 at the École des Ponts and at the University of Paris VI . He graduated in 1995 and received his PhD in mathematics from the École des Ponts in 1998 (Molecular simulation and environmental effects: a mathematical and numerical perspective). In 2003 he completed his habilitation at the University of Paris-Dauphine (Contributions to the mathematical and numerical study of some models arising in molecular and multiscale simulations). He is a professor at the École des Ponts ParisTech . He also teaches at the University of Paris VI, the École Polytechnique and from 2000 to 2004 at the University of Paris-Dauphine.

He deals with multiscale modeling, greedy algorithms, shape optimization, molecular dynamics and areas of potential energy of molecules as well as laser processes in molecular dynamics, electronic structure calculation in solid state physics and quantum chemistry, numerical analysis of eigenvalue problems and continuum models of solutions.

In 2014 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Seoul (Mathematical models and numerical methods for electronic structure calculation). In 2009 he received the Blaise Pascal Prize and in 1992 the Le Rivot Prize of the Académie des Sciences. In 2013-14 he was Ordway Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota.

Fonts (selection)

• with Claude Le Bris, Yvon Maday: Méthodes Mathématiques en Chimie Quantique, Springer 2006
• SCF algorithms for Hartree-Fock electronic calculations, in Lecture Notes in Chemistry 74 (Springer 2000) 17-43.
• with M. Defranceschi, W. Kutzelnigg, C. Le Bris, Y. Maday: Computational quantum chemistry: a primer, in: Ph. Ciarlet, C. Le Bris (Eds.), Handbook of numerical analysis. Volume 10: special volume: computational chemistry, North-Holland, 2003, pp. 3-270.
• Integral equation approaches for continuum models, in: B. Mennucci, R. Cammi (Eds.), Continuum solvation models in Chemical Physics, From theory to applications, Wiley 2007, pp. 29-48.
• with C. Le Bris, P.-L. Lions: Molecular simulation and related topics: some open mathematical problems, Nonlinearity 21 (2008) T165-T176.
• with M. Lewin, G. Stoltz: The microscopic origin of the macroscopic dielectric permittivity of crystals, in: Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 82, Springer 2011
• with C. Le Bris: Mathematical modeling of point defects in materials science, M3AS 23 (2013) 1795-1859.
• Mathematical perspective on Quantum Monte Carlo methods, in: V. Bach, L. Delle Site (Ed.), Many-Electron Approaches in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics: A Multidisciplinary View, Springer 2014, pp. 393-409.
• Electronic structure calculations (solid state physics), in: Nicholas Higham (Ed.), Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics, Princeton University Press, 2015, pp. 847–851.
• Self-consistent field (SCF) algorithms, in: Björn Engquist (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Springer, 2015, pp. 1310-1316.

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