Jean Bertoin (born 1961) is a French mathematician, specializing in probability theory.
Education and career
Bertoin received in 1987 his doctorate from
University of Paris VI under
Marc Yor with ''Étude des processus de Dirichlet''. Bertoin taught and did research there and is now a professor at the
University of Zurich.
In 1996 he received the
Rollo Davidson Prize. In 2002 he was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Some aspects of additive coalescents'' at the
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 ...
in
Beijing. In 2012 he was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Coagulation with limited aggregations'' at the
European Congress of Mathematicians in
Kraków. He is a corresponding member of the
Mexican Academy of Sciences.
His research deals with
Lévy processes,
Brownian motion,
branching processes, random fragmentation, and coalescence processes.
His doctoral students include
Grégory Miermont
Grégory Miermont (born 16 July 1979) is a French mathematician working on probability, random trees and random maps.
Biography
After high school, Miermont trained for two years at Classe préparatoire aux grandes écoles at the end of which he ...
.
Selected publications
''Lévy processes'' Cambridge University Press 1996.
Cambridge University Press 2006.
* ''Subordinators: Examples and Applications'', in: Jean Bertoin, Fabio Martinelli, Yuval Peres, ''Lectures on Probability Theory and Statistics'', Ecole d’Eté de Probailités de Saint-Flour XXVII - 1997, ''Lectures Notes in Mathematics'' 1717, Springer 1999, pp. 1–91.
* with Jean-François Le Gall: "The Bolthausen–Sznitman coalescent and the genealogy of continuous-state branching processes." Probability theory and related fields 117, no. 2 (2000): 249–266.
* with Marc Yor: "Exponential functionals of Lévy processes." Probability Surveys 2 (2005): 191–212.
References
External links
Prof. Dr. Jean Bertoin, Universität ZürichBertoin, Jean — Idref
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20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
University of Paris alumni
Academic staff of the University of Paris
Academic staff of the University of Zurich
1961 births
Living people
Probability Theory and Related Fields editors