Raphaël Cerf

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Raphaël Cerf is a French mathematician.

Cerf studied at the École normal supérieure , where Gérard Ben Arous supervised his dissertation . He is a professor at the Statistical Modeling Laboratory of the Paris-South University in Orsay .

In 2000 he received the EMS Prize for important contributions to percolation theory (Wulff construction for percolation in three dimensions), the three-dimensional Ising model and genetic algorithms . For his work on genetic algorithms he received a prize from the Institut Henri Poincaré . He received the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1999. In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid ( On Ising droplets ).

Fonts

  • The Wulff Crystal in Ising and Percolation models. Springer, Lecturenotes in Mathematics 1878, Ecole d'Ete de probabilites de Saint-Flour, Volume 34, 2004
  • On Cramérs Theory in infinite dimensions. Societe Mathematique de France, 2007
  • Large deviations for three dimensional supercritical percolation. Societe Mathematique de France, 2000 (dissertation)

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SURNAME Cerf, Raphaël
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century