Villani’s main research interests are in kinetic theory (Boltzmann and Vlasov equations and their variants), and optimal transport and its applications, a field in which he has written the two reference books: Topics in Optimal Transportation (2003) Optimal Transport, old and new (2008).
Since receiving the prestigious award, Villani has served as a spokesperson for the french mathematical community in media and political circles. Villani has received several national and international prizes for my research, in particular the Fields Medal, awarded at the 2010 International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (India), by the President of India. Since 2009, Villani has served as director of the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris this 80-year old national institute, dedicated to welcoming visiting researchers, is at the heart of french mathematics. He has occupied visiting professor positions in Atlanta, Berkeley and Princeton. In 1998, Villani defended his PhD on the mathematical theory of the Boltzmann equation, building on strong influences from his advisor Pierre-Louis Lions (Paris, France) and fellow mathematicians Yann Brenier (Nice, France), Eric Carlen (Rutgers, USA) and Michel Ledoux (Toulouse, France).įrom 2000 to 2010, Villani was professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, and now at the Université de Lyon. Villani was born in 1973 in France and studied mathematics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, from 1992 to 1996 and spent four more years as assistant professor there. His book, Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), was originally published as Théorème vivant (Grasset, 2012) in France. In addition to sharing insights on his tale of how his prize-winning theorem came to be, Villani shared his insights on math and science education in France, the United States, and worldwide and about his time as a Young Leader.įrench mathematician Cédric Villani is Director of the Institut Henri Poincaré and 2010 recipient of the Fields Medal. 2012 Cédric Villani, French mathematician and recipient of the 2010 Fields Medal for his work on differential equations, joined the French-American Foundation upon a recent trip to New York to promote his book Birth of a Theorem (Théorème Vivant), recently last week in English.
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