Jacques Blum

Jacques Blum (born December 27, 1950 in Strasbourg ) is a French mathematician who deals with numerical simulation of systems of partial differential equations and optimal control. He is a professor at the University of Nice (Sophia-Antipolis).

Blum studied from 1970 at the École normal supérieure and received his Maîtrise in both mathematics and physics in 1971 at the University of Paris VII , his DEA in numerical mathematics in 1972 at the University of Paris VI and his Agrégation in mathematics in 1973. He then did research for the CNRS at the Laboratoire d'Analyse Numérique at the University of Paris VI, from 1981 as Chargé de Recherches. In 1985 he completed his habilitation (Doctorat d´Etat) at the University of Paris VI with Jacques-Louis Lions (Sur quelquesproblemèmes d'analyse numérique et de controle optimal en physique des plasmas). In 1987 he became a professor at the University of Grenoble and since 2000 he has been a professor in Nice. From 1987 to 1999 he was also Maître de Conférences at the École polytechnique .

From 1987 to 1997 he was a consultant at the French nuclear research center in Cadarache . In particular, he has been working on numerical simulation of plasmas and magnetic fields in tokamaks and similar nuclear fusion projects since the 1970s , starting with the TFR 600 tokamak in Fontenay-aux-Roses and most recently on the ITER project in Cadarache. He also deals with other areas of scientific computing such as optimal shapes of missiles with regard to minimizing radar cross-sections and inverse problems with magnetic encephalograms .

In 1984 he received the bronze medal of the CNRS and in 1990 the Prix Blaise Pascal with Denis Serre . In 1998 he was one of the recipients of the Seymour Cray Prize for contributions to the comparison of observational data (satellites) with models of ocean currents.

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