Denis Serre (born 1 November 1954) is a French mathematician who works as a professor at theÉcole normale supérieure de Lyon, where he has chaired the mathematics department since 2012.[1] His research concernspartial differential equations,hydrodynamics, andconservation laws.
Serre was born inNancy, France;[1] he is the nephew of mathematicianJean-Pierre Serre.[2] He obtained hisagrégation in 1977, and his doctorat de troisième cycle in 1978, before finishing aD.Sc. in 1982 from theUniversity of Paris-Sud under the supervision ofRoger Temam.[1][3] He worked as a student teacher at the ENS de St-Cloud (a precursor institution to the ENS de Lyon) from 1974 to 1978, at theCentre national de la recherche scientifique in Orsay from 1978 to 1983, and at theUniversity of St. Etienne from 1983 to 1987, before returning to the ENS de Lyon in 1987.[1]
Serre is the author of several books, including
From 1992 to 1997 Serre was a junior member of theInstitut Universitaire de France.[1] He became a knight of theOrdre des Palmes Académiques in 2012.[1] In 2014, he was elected as afellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society "for contributions tohyperbolic conservation laws and mathematical exposition."[7] On November 7–9, 2014, a conference on conservation laws was held in honor of his 60th birthday.[8] He received the Blaise Pascal Prize in 1990, the Institut Henri Poincaré Prize in 2000 and the Jacques-Louis Lions Prize of the Académie des Sciences in 2017.
