Hélène Frankowska, or Halina Frankowska is a Polish and French mathematician known for her research in
control theory
Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control system, control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the applic ...
and
set-valued analysis. She is a director of research at the
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, and works in the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu of
Pierre and Marie Curie University.
Education
Frankowska completed her undergraduate studies in 1979 at the
University of Warsaw, in the Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics. After a year of studies at the
International School for Advanced Studies in
Trieste
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, Italy, she completed her
doctorate of the third cycle in 1983 and her
state doctorate in mathematics in 1984 at
Paris Dauphine University. Her dissertation, jointly supervised by
Czesław Olech and , was ''Nonsmooth Analysis and its Applications to Viability and Control''.
Contributions and recognition
With Aubin, Frankowska wrote ''Set-Valued Analysis'' (Birkhäuser, 1990, reprinted 2009).
She was an
invited speaker at the 2010
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 IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...
, in the section on control theory and optimization.
She is a
SIAM Fellow, in the 2024 class of fellows, elected "for fundamental and pioneering contributions to optimal control theory and differential inclusions, both deterministic, stochastic, and in Wasserstein spaces".
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century French women mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Polish women mathematicians
20th-century Polish mathematicians
21st-century Polish mathematicians
University of Warsaw alumni
Paris Dauphine University alumni
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics