Jean-Michel Coron

Jean-Michel Coron (born August 8, 1956 in Paris ) is a French mathematician who deals with partial differential equations .

Coron 2009

Coron graduated from the École polytechnique in 1978 (where he had been studying since 1975) and from the École des Mines in 1981, where he then did research at the Center for Automation and Computer Science until 1983. In 1982 he received his doctorate from Haïm Brezis at the University of Paris VI (Solutions périodiques non triviales d'une équation des ondes). From 1983 he was Maître de Conférences at the École Polytechnique and from 1987 professor at the University of Paris-South (since 1990 with full professor). From 1992 to 1996 he was seconded to the CNRS at the CMLA, of which he was director in 1995/96. From 2008 he is professor at the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie) at the Jacques Louis Lions Laboratory. He is also a member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Coron deals with nonlinear functional analysis and the control theory of (nonlinear) partial differential equations .

In 1987 he held the Cours Peccot at the Collège de France , in 1995 he received the Prix Jaffé of the French Academy of Sciences and in 1993 he received the Fermat Prize. In 2000 he received the Catalan Prize from the Belgian Academy of Sciences and in 2002 the Dargelos Prize from the École Polytechnique. In 2010 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Hyderabad ( On the controllability of nonlinear differential equations ) and in 1990 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Kyōto ( Harmonic maps with values ​​into spheres ).

He is married to Claire Voisin , with whom he has five children.

His doctoral students include Frédéric Hélein and Fabrice Béthuel .

Fonts

• Control and nonlinearity (= Mathematical Surveys and Monographs. 136). American Mathematical Society, Providence RI 2007, ISBN 978-0-8218-3668-2 .
• Scholarpedia article by Coron on the control of partial differential equations .

Web links

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