Jean-François Le Gall (born 15 November 1959) is a French mathematician working in areas of
probability theory
Probability theory or probability calculus is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expre ...
such as
Brownian motion
Brownian motion is the random motion of particles suspended in a medium (a liquid or a gas). The traditional mathematical formulation of Brownian motion is that of the Wiener process, which is often called Brownian motion, even in mathematical ...
,
Lévy process
In probability theory, a Lévy process, named after the French mathematician Paul Lévy, is a stochastic process with independent, stationary increments: it represents the motion of a point whose successive displacements are random, in which disp ...
es,
superprocess
An (\xi,d,\beta)-superprocess, X(t,dx), within mathematics probability theory is a stochastic process on \mathbb \times \mathbb^d that is usually constructed as a special limit of near-critical branching diffusions.
Informally, it can be seen a ...
es and their connections with
partial differential equation
In mathematics, a partial differential equation (PDE) is an equation which involves a multivariable function and one or more of its partial derivatives.
The function is often thought of as an "unknown" that solves the equation, similar to ho ...
s, the Brownian snake, random trees,
branching process
In probability theory, a branching process is a type of mathematical object known as a stochastic process, which consists of collections of random variables indexed by some set, usually natural or non-negative real numbers. The original purpose of ...
es, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University ( , UPMC), also known as Paris VI, was a public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussieu Campus in the Latin Quarter of the 5th arrondissement of Paris, ...
(Paris VI) under the supervision of
Marc Yor
Marc Yor (24 July 1949 – 9 January 2014) was a French mathematician well known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applicat ...
.
[.] He is currently professor at the
University of Paris-Sud
Paris-Sud University (), also known as the University of Paris — XI (or as the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, ...
in
Orsay
Orsay () is a Communes of France, commune in the Essonne Departments of France, department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris.
A fortifie ...
and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to French academy of sciences, December 2013.
He was awarded the
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-e ...
in 1986,
the
Loève Prize
The Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability (known as the Loève Prize) is an American mathematical award. It is awarded every two years, and is intended to recognize outstanding contributions by researchers in mathematical pr ...
in 1997,
and the
Fermat Prize
The Fermat prize of mathematics, mathematical research biennially rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive:
* Statements of variational principles
* Foundations of probability and analytic geo ...
in 2005. He was the thesis advisor of at least 11 students including
Wendelin Werner
Wendelin Werner (born 23 September 1968) is a German-born French mathematician working on random processes such as self-avoiding random walks, Brownian motion, Schramm–Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematic ...
.
For 2019 he received the
Wolf Prize in Mathematics
The Wolf Prize in Mathematics is awarded almost annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics and Arts. ...
. and for 2021 he was awarded the
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
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in Basic Sciences.
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2021
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Books
*Le Gall, Jean-François, ''Spatial branching processes, random snakes and partial differential equations''. Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel (1999). 163 pp.
*Le Gall, Jean-François, ''Brownian Motion, Martingales, and Stochastic Calculus''. Graduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2016).
References
External links
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20th-century French mathematicians
21st-century French mathematicians
Academic staff of Paris-Sud University
French probability theorists
École Normale Supérieure alumni
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Living people
1959 births
People from Morlaix
Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni
Probability Theory and Related Fields editors
Wolf Prize in Mathematics laureates