Jean-Michel Coron (born August 8, 1956) is a French

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. He first studied at

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, where he worked on his PhD thesis advised by

Haïm Brezis Haïm Brezis (born 1 June 1944) is a French mathematician, who mainly works in functional analysis and partial differential equations. Biography Born in Riom-ès-Montagnes, Cantal, France. Brezis is the son of a Romanian immigrant father, who c ...

. Since 1992, he has studied the

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s, and which includes both control and stabilization. His results concern partial differential equations related to

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, with emphasis on nonlinear phenomena, and part of them found applications to control channels. He had previously worked in the field of non-linear functional analysis, where he also obtained significant results. Jean-Michel Coron was awarded numerous prizes, like the

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in 1993, the Jaffé prize in 1995 by the

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, and the Dargelos prize in 2002. He was invited at the 1990

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(Kyoto) in the section Partial Differential Equations, and he was also invited as a plenary speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians, Hyderabad, India. He is now a Professor at the University Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris, and a Senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. Jean-Michel Coron is the husband of

Claire Voisin Claire Voisin (born 4 March 1962) is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and holds the chair of Algebraic Geometry at the Collège de France. Work She is noted for ...

who was also plenary speaker at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians and who is the 2016 recipient of the

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of the

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, the highest scientific research award in France. They have five children.''Curriculum Vitae''
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Notable publications

* Haïm Brezis and Jean-Michel Coron. ''Multiple solutions of H-systems and Rellich's conjecture.'' Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 37 (1984), no. 2, 149–187. * Jean-Michel Coron. ''Topologie et cas limite des injections de Sobolev.'' C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 299 (1984), no. 7, 209–212. * H. Brezis and J.-M. Coron. ''Convergence of solutions of H-systems or how to blow bubbles.'' Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 89 (1985), no. 1, 21–56. * Haïm Brezis, Jean-Michel Coron, and Elliott H. Lieb. ''Harmonic maps with defects.'' Comm. Math. Phys. 107 (1986), no. 4, 649–705. * A. Bahri and J.-M. Coron. ''On a nonlinear elliptic equation involving the critical Sobolev exponent: the effect of the topology of the domain.'' Comm. Pure Appl. Math. 41 (1988), no. 3, 253–294. * A. Bahri and J.-M. Coron. ''The scalar-curvature problem on the standard three-dimensional sphere.'' J. Funct. Anal. 95 (1991), no. 1, 106–172. * Jean-Michel Coron. ''Global asymptotic stabilization for controllable systems without drift.'' Math. Control Signals Systems 5 (1992), no. 3, 295–312. * Jean-Michel Coron, Brigitte d'Andréa-Novel, and Georges Bastin. ''A strict Lyapunov function for boundary control of hyperbolic systems of conservation laws.'' IEEE Trans. Autom. Control 52 (2007), no. 1, 2–11.

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* :fr:Institut universitaire de France Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) * * 1956 births Living people French mathematicians University of Paris alumni PDE theorists {{France-mathematician-stub