Gilles Lebeau is a French mathematician born on 17 November 1954, professor at the

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(since 2001), member of the

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(since 2003) and member of the

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(since 2005).

School career and teaching

Gilles Lebeau is a former student of the

École normale supérieure 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 ...

(ENS) de la rue d'Ulm (class of S1974). Lebeau studied from 1974 to 1978 at the ENS with ''

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'' in 1976. There he graduated in 1978 with ''Thèse de troisième cycle'' and in 1983 with ''Thèse d'État'' under the supervision of

Louis Boutet de Monvel Louis Boutet de Monvel (22 June 1941 – 25 December 2014) was a French mathematician who worked on functional analysis. He was a student of Laurent Schwartz in Paris and was professor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University. He was married to ...

. Lebeau has been a professor at the University of Orsay and at the

École Polytechnique 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 ...

Scientific awards and honours

* BM France Award (1988) * Invited speaker at the

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in Kyoto (1990) * Silver medal of the

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(1992) * Servant Prize of the Academy of Sciences (1992) * Junior member of the Institut universitaire de France (1992–1997) *

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(Grand Prize of the Academy of Sciences) (2003)

References

External links

Mathematics Genealogy Project

sur le site de l'

Académie des Sciences The French Academy of Sciences (French: ''Académie des sciences'') is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French scientific research. It was at the ...

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