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).
Honors
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)