Raphaël Alexis Marcel Rouquier (born 9 December 1969) is a French mathematician and a professor of mathematics at

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Education

Rouquier was born in

Étampes Étampes () is a Communes of France, commune in the functional area (France), metropolitan area of Paris, France. It is located south-southwest from the Kilometre zero#France, center of Paris (as the crow flies). Étampes is a Subprefectures in ...

, France. Rouquier studied at the

École Normale Supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

from 1988 to 1989 and from 1989 to 1990 for a

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in mathematics under the direction of Michel Broué, where he continued to study for his PhD. Rouquier spent the second year of his PhD study at the

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under the supervision of J. G. Thompson.

Career

He was hired by the

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in 1992 where he completed his PhD (1992) and

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(1998–1999). He was appointed director of research there in 2003. From 2005 to 2006 he was Professor of Representation Theory at the Department of Pure Mathematics at the

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before moving to the

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as the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics. In 2012, he moved to

Awards and honors

He was awarded the

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in 2006 and the

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in 2009 for contributions to

representation theory Representation theory is a branch of mathematics that studies abstract algebra, abstract algebraic structures by ''representing'' their element (set theory), elements as linear transformations of vector spaces, and studies Module (mathematics), ...

. He was awarded the Elie Cartan Prize in 2009. In 2012 he became a fellow of the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

. In 2015 he became a

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. He gave the

Peccot Lectures The Peccot Lecture (''Cours Peccot'' in French) is a semester-long mathematics course given at the Collège de France. Each course is given by a mathematician under 30 years old who has distinguished themselves by their promising work. The course c ...

at Collège de France in 2000, the Whittemore Lectures at Yale University in 2005, an Algebra Section lecture at the

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in 2006, the Albert Lectures at the University of Chicago in 2008, the Moursund Lectures at the University of Oregon in 2013, the Simons Lectures at MIT in 2013, the CBMS Lectures in 2014 and the Ellis Kolchin Memorial Lecture at Columbia University in 2016.

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Raphaël Rouquier
at Oxford
Raphaël Rouquier
at UCLA * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rouquier, Raphael 1969 births Living people École Normale Supérieure alumni People from Étampes 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Waynflete Professors of Pure Mathematics Whitehead Prize winners Academics of the University of Leeds Simons Investigator Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research