Emmanuel Trélat (born 24 December 1974) is a French mathematician.

Education and career

Emmanuel Trélat was admitted at

École normale supérieure de Cachan École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savoi ...

(mathematics) in 1995 and obtained the

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in 1998. In 2000, he obtained a doctorate under the direction of Bernard Bonnard at the

University of Burgundy The University of Burgundy (french: Université de Bourgogne, uB; formerly known as ''Université de Dijon'') is a public university located in Dijon, France. The University of Burgundy is situated on a large campus (more than 150 ha) in the east ...

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with thesis titled ''Étude asymptotique et transcendance de la fonction valeur en contrôle optimal; catégorie log-exp en géométrie sous-Riemannienne dans le cas Martinet'' (Asymptotic study and transcendence of the value function in optimal control; category log-exp in sub-Riemannian geometry in the Martinet case). In 2001 he was appointed an assistant professor at the

University of Paris-Sud Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

, where he obtained in 2005 his habilitation ''Contrôle en dimension finie et infinie'' (Control in finite and infinite dimension). In 2006 he was appointed a professor at the

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. Since 2011 he has been a professor at

Sorbonne Université Sorbonne University (french: Sorbonne Université; la Sorbonne: 'the Sorbonne') is a public research university located in Paris, France. The institution's legacy reaches back to 1257 when Sorbonne College was established by Robert de So ...

at the . From 2015 to 2019 he was the director of the . Since 2020, he is the director of the . Emmanuel Trélat's research focuses on

control theory Control theory is a field of mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system inputs to drive the system to a ...

in finite and infinite dimensions, sub-Riemannian geometry, image analysis, domain optimization. He is also a specialist in numerical methods in optimal control, particularly in aerospace applications.

Honors and awards

* 2006 — SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize * 2010 — Prix Maurice-Audin * 2011 — elected a member of the

Institut universitaire de France The Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France), is a service of the French Ministry of Higher Education that distinguishes each year a small number of university professors for their research excellence, as evidenced by t ...

* 2012 — Felix Klein Prize * 2014 — Prix Blaise-Pascal * 2016 — Prix Madame Victor Noury * 2018 — Invited Speaker,

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

at Rio de Janeiro

Selected publications

* * with Bernard Bonnard and Ludovic Faubourg:

References

External links

homepage, Sorbonne Université
* * * (lecture in French, slides in English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Trelat, Emmanuel 1974 births Living people 21st-century French mathematicians École Normale Supérieure alumni University of Burgundy alumni Academic staff of Pierre and Marie Curie University