Jean-François Le Gall | |
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| Born | 15 November 1959 (1959-11-15) (age 66) |
| Alma mater | Ecole normale supérieure Pierre and Marie Curie University |
| Awards | Rollo Davidson Prize (1986) Loève Prize (1997) Fermat Prize (2005) Sophie Germain Prize (2005) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2019) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2021) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Paris-Sud in Orsay |
| Doctoral advisor | Marc Yor |
| Doctoral students | Wendelin Werner |
Jean-François Le Gall (born 15 November 1959) is a French mathematician working in areas ofprobability theory such asBrownian motion,Lévy processes,superprocesses and their connections withpartial differential equations, the Brownian snake, random trees,branching processes, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 fromPierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) under the supervision ofMarc Yor.[1] He is currently professor at theUniversity of Paris-Sud inOrsay and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to French academy of sciences, December 2013.
He was awarded theRollo Davidson Prize in 1986,[2] theLoève Prize in 1997,[2] and theFermat Prize in 2005.[3] He was the thesis advisor of at least 11 students includingWendelin Werner.[1] For 2019 he received theWolf Prize in Mathematics.[4][5] and for 2021 he was awarded theBBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences.[6]
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