Denis Serre (born 1 November 1954) is a French mathematician who works as a professor at the

École normale supérieure de Lyon The École normale supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENS de Lyon, ENSL or Normale Sup' Lyon) is a French grande école located in the city of Lyon. It is one of the four prestigious écoles normales supérieures in France. The school is ...

, where he has chaired the mathematics department since 2012.Curriculum vitae
(in French), retrieved 2015-01-18. His research concerns

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, and

conservation law In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves over time. Exact conservation laws include conservation of energy, conservation of linear momentum, c ...

Education and career

Serre was born in

Nancy, France Nancy ; Lorraine Franconian: ''Nanzisch'' is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the northeastern Departments of France, French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was Lorraine and Barrois, an ...

; he is the nephew of mathematician Jean-Pierre Serre. He obtained his

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in 1977, and his doctorat de troisième cycle in 1978, before finishing a

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in 1982 from the University of Paris-Sud under the supervision of

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. 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 the Centre national de la recherche scientifique in Orsay from 1978 to 1983, and at the University of St. Etienne from 1983 to 1987, before returning to the ENS de Lyon in 1987.

Publications

Serre is the author of several books, including * ''Systems of Conservation Laws'' (2 vols., Cambridge University Press, 1999 & 2000). * ''Matrices: Theory and Applications'' (Springer,

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216, 2002; 2nd ed., 2010). * ''Multidimensional Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations: First-Order Systems and Applications'' (with Sylvie Benzoni-Gavage, Oxford University Press, 2007).

Awards and honors

From 1992 to 1997 Serre was a junior member of the

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. He became a knight of the

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in 2012. In 2014, he was elected as a

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of the

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"for contributions to hyperbolic conservation laws and mathematical exposition." On November 7–9, 2014, a conference on conservation laws was held in honor of his 60th birthday.Conference announcement
retrieved 2015-01-18. 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.

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