Gérard Ben Arous
Gérard Ben Arous (born June 26, 1957 ) is a French mathematician who mainly deals with stochastics and differential geometry .
Life
Ben Arous studied at the École normal supérieure (ENS, graduation with the Maitrise 1978), at the University of Paris-Süd in Orsay (diploma in statistics 1979) and the University of Paris VI (mathematics diploma 1980). In 1981 he was with Robert Azencott at the University of Paris VII doctorate . In 1982/83 he was a post-doc at the University of Colorado with Daniel Stroock . In 1987 he completed his habilitation (These d'Etat) and became Maitre de Conferences at the ENS. In 1988 he became a professor at the University of Paris-South, where he was director of the Mathematics Laboratory from 1992 to 1994. From 1994 to 1997 he was Professor and Director of the Laboratory for Mathematics and Computer Science at ENS. From 1997 to 2007 he was professor of applied probability theory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne , where he founded the Bernoulli Institute in 2001. From 2002 he was a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University .
He deals with probability theory and the theory of large deviations and also with applications, for example, to spin glasses , diffusion and transport in disordered media and the aging processes of glass.
In 1993 he received the Rollo Davidson Prize . In 1996 he gave a plenary lecture at the 2nd European Congress of Mathematicians ( Large deviations as a common probabilistic tool for some problems of analysis, geometry and physics ) and in 2002 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Beijing ( Aging and Spin Glass Dynamics ). He was editor of the Journal of the European Mathematical Society . In 2015 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2020 to the National Academy of Sciences .
He was a member of Bourbaki .
His doctoral students include Raphaël Cerf , Jiři Černý , Sandrine Péché and Alice Guionnet .
Web links
- Homepage
- Literature by and about Gérard Ben Arous in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maurice Mashaal Bourbaki , AMS 2006, p. 17, the members are quoted at a meeting in 1995
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ben Arous, Gerard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1957 |