Grégory Miermont (born 16 July 1979) is a French mathematician working on

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s and

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Biography

After high school, Miermont trained for two years at

Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles The ''classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles'' (CPGE) (English: Higher School Preparatory Classes), commonly called ''classes prépas'' or ''prépas'', are part of the French post-secondary education system. They consist of two years of stud ...

at the end of which he was admitted at 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 ...

in Paris. He studied there from 1998 to 2002, spending the 2001–2002 year as a visiting student in

Berkeley Berkeley most often refers to: *Berkeley, California, a city in the United States **University of California, Berkeley, a public university in Berkeley, California * George Berkeley (1685–1753), Anglo-Irish philosopher Berkeley may also refer ...

. He received his doctorate at

Pierre and Marie Curie University Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...

in 2003, under the supervision of Jean Bertoin. Then, he became a

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...

researcher in 2004 at University of Paris-Sud and

, and was promoted to the rank of professor in 2009. Since 2012 he is 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 ...

Work

Miermont has worked on the theory of

, more precisely on the geometry and scaling limits of random planar maps, and on fragmentation related to random trees.

Awards and honors

Diplomas, titles and awards

* 2003: PhD Thesis (advisor J. Bertoin) * 2008: Habilitation dissertation * 2007: Prize of the Fondation des Sciences Mathématiques de Paris * 2009:

Rollo Davidson Prize The Rollo Davidson Prize is a prize awarded annually to early-career probabilists by the Rollo Davidson trustees. It is named after English mathematician Rollo Davidson (1944–1970). Rollo Davidson Trust In 1970, Rollo Davidson, a Fellow-elec ...

* 2012: Prize of the European Mathematical Society * 2014: Doeblin Prize

* 2015: Medallion lecturer: ''Compact Brownian Surfaces''Medallion Lecture preview – July 2015, Oxford, UK; Grégory Miermont
Retrieved 12 June 2015.

Selected writings

* G. Miermont, Self-similar fragmentations derived from the stable tree. I. Splitting at heights, ''Probab. Theory Related Fields'', 127 (2003), pp. 423–454 . * B. Haas and G. Miermont, The genealogy of self-similar fragmentations with negative index as a continuum random tree, ''Electron. J. Probab.'', 9 (2004), pp. no. 4, 57–97 . * G. Miermont, Tessellations of random maps of arbitrary genus, ''Ann. Scient. Ec. Norm. Supér.'' 42, fascicule 5, 725–781 (2009)
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* G. Miermont, "The Brownian map is the scaling limit of uniform random plane quadrangulations". ''Acta Math.'' 210, 319–401 (2013) .

References

External links

Grégory Miermont's website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Miermont, Gregory 1979 births Living people Academic staff of the École Normale Supérieure Probability theorists 21st-century French mathematicians École Normale Supérieure alumni Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni Scientists from Paris