Curriculum vitae of Jean-François Le Gall

Education

• 1978-1982 : Student at the Ecole normale supérieure de Paris.

• 1982 : Thèse de troisième cycle (PhD) in probability theory "Local times and stochastic differential equations" under the supervision of Marc Yor.

• 1987 : Thèse de Doctorat d'Etat ès sciences mathématiques "Some properties of Brownian motion".

Positions held

• 1983-1988 : Chargé de Recherches CNRS at the Laboratoire de Probabilités (now LPMA) of University Paris VI.

• 1988-2006 : Professor at University Paris VI.

• 1997-2007 : Professor at the Department of mathematics (DMA) of the Ecole normale supérieure de Paris.
  • Directeur des études de mathématiques from 1997 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2007.

  • Director of the Magistère MMFAI (mathématiques et informatique) of ENS Paris from 2000 to 2004.

• Since 2006 : Professor at University Paris-Sud (Orsay).
  • Director of the Probability and Statistics Group in the Department of mathematics of University Paris-Sud Orsay since 2013.

Honors

• 1986 Rollo Davidson Prize .

• Cours Peccot du Collège de France, 1989.

• Junior member of the Institut universitaire de France from 1991 to 1996.

• 1997 Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability .

• Grand Prix Sophie Germain de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 2005.

• Prix Fermat de recherche en mathématiques 2005.

• Senior member of the Institut universitaire de France since 2007.

• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2008.

• Médaille d'argent du CNRS 2009.

• Member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2013.

• Plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul 2014.

Selected invitations

• Lecturer at the Ecole d'été de probabilités de Saint-Flour 1990.

• Invited lecturer in the first four World Congresses of the Bernoulli Society (Tachkent 1986, Uppsala 1990, Chapel Hill 1994, Vienna 1996).

• Invited lecture at the first European Congress of Mathematics, Paris 1992.

• Nachdiplom lecturer at ETH Zürich in 1997.

• Invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin 1998.

• Closing lecture at the Vilnius Conference on Probability Theory and Statistics, 1998.

• Invited lecturer at the first Latin-American Congress of Mathematics, Rio 2000.

• Special Invited Lecture at the European Congress of Statistics, Prague 2002.

• IMS Medallion Lecture at the Congress Stochastic Processes and Applications, Santa Barbara 2005.

• Lecturer at the first Cornell Summer School in Probability, 2005.

• Plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematics, Amsterdam 2008.

• 2010 Wald Memorial Lectures.

• Lévy Lecture at the Congress Stochastic Processes and Applications, Oaxaca 2011.

• Chung Lecture at the Seminar on Stochastic Processes, Lawrence 2012.

• Plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul 2014.

PhD students supervised

• Thierry Meyre Geometric properties of Brownian motion (1993)

• Wendelin Werner Some properties of planar Brownian motion (1993)

• Romain Abraham Random trees and super-Brownian motion (1993)

• Laurent Serlet Some properties of super-Brownian motion (1993)

• Sanjar Aspandiiarov Some properties of Markov chains and Brownian motion (1994)

• Jean-Stéphane Dhersin Super-Brownian motion, the Brownian snake and partial differential equations (1997)

• Jean-François Delmas Some properties of superprocesses (1997)

• Thomas Duquesne Random trees, Lévy processes and superprocesses (2001)

• Benoît Mselati Classification and probabilistic representation of the positive solutions of Delta u = u^2 in a domain (2002)

• Nathanaël Berestycki (joint supervision with Rick Durrett) Phase transition for the distance of a random walk and applications to genetic rearrangement problems. (2006)

• Mathieu Merle Limit theorems for the voter model and super-Brownian motion (2006)

• Mathilde Weill Random trees, conditioning and planar maps (2006)

• Laurent Ménard The uniform infinite quadrangulation (2009)

• Amandine Véber (joint supervision with Alison Etheridge) Limit theorems for spatial branching and coalescence processes (2009)

• Nicolas Curien Asymptotics of large random combinatorial objects (2011)

• Igor Kortchemski Conditioned Galton-Watson trees and non-crossing planar configurations (2012)

• Shen Lin Tree-indexed random walk and random walk on a tree (2014)

• Céline Abraham (started in 2012)