Jean-François Le Gall
Encyclopedia
Jean-François Le Gall is a French
mathematician
working in areas of probability theory
such as Brownian motion
, Lévy process
es, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equation
s, the Brownian snake, random trees, branching process
es, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 under the supervision of Marc Yor
. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France.
He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1986, the Loève Prize
in 1997, and the Fermat Prize
in 2005. He was the thesis advisor of at least 11 students including Wendelin Werner
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
working in areas of probability theory
Probability theory
Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with analysis of random phenomena. The central objects of probability theory are random variables, stochastic processes, and events: mathematical abstractions of non-deterministic events or measured quantities that may either be single...
such as Brownian motion
Wiener process
In mathematics, the Wiener process is a continuous-time stochastic process named in honor of Norbert Wiener. It is often called standard Brownian motion, after Robert Brown...
, Lévy process
Lévy process
In probability theory, a Lévy process, named after the French mathematician Paul Lévy, is any continuous-time stochastic process that starts at 0, admits càdlàg modification and has "stationary independent increments" — this phrase will be explained below...
es, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equation
Partial differential equation
In mathematics, partial differential equations are a type of differential equation, i.e., a relation involving an unknown function of several independent variables and their partial derivatives with respect to those variables...
s, the Brownian snake, random trees, branching process
Branching process
In probability theory, a branching process is a Markov process that models a population in which each individual in generation n produces some random number of individuals in generation n + 1, according to a fixed probability distribution that does not vary from individual to...
es, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 under the supervision of Marc Yor
Marc Yor
Marc Yor is a French mathematician well-known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance...
. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France.
He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1986, the Loève Prize
Loève Prize
The Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability was created in 1992 in honor of Michel Loève by his widow Line. The prize, awarded every two years, is intended to recognize outstanding contributions by researchers in mathematical probability who are under 45 years old...
in 1997, and the Fermat Prize
Fermat Prize
The Fermat prize of mathematical research rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive:* Statements of variational principles* Foundations of probability and analytic geometry* Number theory....
in 2005. He was the thesis advisor of at least 11 students including Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the...
.
Books
- Le Gall, Jean-François, Spatial branching processes, random snakes and partial differential equations. Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel (1999). 163 pp. ISBN 3-7643-6126-3