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Who I Am & Where I Live

  • Name: Cédric Villani
  • City: Paris
  • Country: France

My Life & Work

  • Bio: I was born in 1973 in France. I studied mathematics in École Normale Supérieure in Paris, from 1992 to 1996, and spent four more years as assistant professor there.

    In 1998 I defended my PhD on the mathematical theory of the Boltzmann equation. Besides my advisor Pierre-Louis Lions (Paris, France), I was much influenced by Yann Brenier (Nice, France), Eric Carlen (Rutgers, USA) and Michel Ledoux (Toulouse, France).

    From 2000 to 2010 I was professor at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and now at the Université de Lyon. I occupied visiting professor positions in Atlanta, Berkeley and Princeton.

    Since 2009 I've been director of the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris; this 80-year old national institute, dedicated to welcoming visiting researchers, is at the heart of French mathematics.

    I received several national and international prizes for my research, in particular the Fields Medal,a warded at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (India), by the President of India. Since then I've served as a spokesperson for the French mathematical community in media and political circles.

    My main research interests are in kinetic theory (Boltzmann and Vlasov equations and their variants), and optimal transport and its applications, a field in which I wrote the two reference books: Topics in Optimal Transportation (2003); Optimal Transport, old and new (2008). More generally, I am fond of subjects which combine several (if not all) of the following themes:

    Evolution partial differential equations
    Fluid mechanics
    Statistical mechanics
    Probability theory
    Smooth and nonsmooth “metric” Riemannian geometry
    Functional inequalities with geometric content.

    I belong to the editorial boards of Inventiones Mathematicae, the Journal of Functional Analysis (JFA), the Journal of Mathematical Physics (JMP) and the *Journal of Statistical Physics (JSP). I also serve as an administrator for several associations, in particular the pro-European Think-Tank EuropaNova. I am President of the Scientific Board of the Pan African institute AIMS-Senegal.

Contact Information

  • Email: cedric.villani@assemblee-nationale.fr

My Media & Markets

  • ▶ Book Purchases: http://www.amazon.com/Cédric-Villani/e/B001JP0BIG/
  • ▶ Twitter: villanicedric
  • ▶ Website: http://cedricvillani.org
  • ▶ Website 2: http://www.cedricvillani.paris

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    The Extraordinary Theorems of John Nash - with Cédric Villani
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    The Fields Medal (with Cédric Villani) - Numberphile
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