An interview of Sylvia Serfaty, invited speaker at ICIAM 2019
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An interview of Isabelle Gallagher, invited speaker at ICIAM 2019
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An interview of Claude Le Bris, invited speaker at ICIAM 2019
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My research field lies at the intersection of modelling, analysis and scientific computing.
About ICIAM 2019 in Valencia, Spain
The 9th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2019) will be held in Valencia, Spain, on 15th-19th July 2019.
It will serve as a showcase for the most recent advances in industrial and applied mathematics, covering interdisciplinary topics relating mathematics and other disciplines and demonstrating the applicability of this discipline to science, engineering and industry.
During the Opening ceremony the 2019 ICIAM Prizes will be awarded:
2019/2020: a Mathematics Year
On March 14th, 2019 at Université Paris-Descartes, the French Minister for National Education and Youth Jean-Michel Blanquer and the CEO of the CNRS Antoine Petit signed a letter of intent regarding the launching of Mathematics Year in 2019/2020.
About the works of Jean-François Le Gall, laureate of the 2019 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
The Wolf Prize for Mathematics, the third most prestigious distinction in Mathematics after the Abel Prize and the Fields Medal, has been awarded in 2019 jointly to Jean-Francois Le Gall from the University Paris Sud "for his profound and elegant works on stochastic processes", and to Gregory Lawler from Chicago University.
Inverse Problems in Nonimaging Optics
In a recent work, Quentin Mérigot, Jocelyn Meyron and Boris Thibert developed an algorithm which enables to conceive and to build a whole series of optical components, lenses or mirrors, capable of transferring light radiation in an optimal and precise way. Their work is based on new numerical methods which prove very efficient to solve certain optimal transport problems.
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An interview of Jean-François Le Gall, laureate of the 2019 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
Jean-François Le Gall is a Professor at Université Paris-Sud. He is laureate, together with Gregory Lawler, Professor at Chicago University, of the 2019 Wolf Prize in Mathematics.
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Simple groups of Morley rank 3 are algebraic
Model theory is a branch of mathematical logic. Its modern history dates back to 1962. There is a way of measuring the size of the objects of model theory. At the end of the 1970s, the mathematicians Cherlin and Zilber made a conjecture concerning this size issue. While the logicians' community was starting to doubt the veracity of the conjecture, Olivier Frécon recently proved that the conjecture is true in an important particular case.
Sums of Gál type and applications
In 1949, the Hungarian mathematician István Sándor Gál, then research associate (attaché de recherche) at the CNRS, publishes the demonstration of a conjecture dating back to the 1930s, concerning the maximum size of a quantity of arithmetic nature belonging to a large family whose elements are now called "sums of Gál type". Not until the works of Lewko et Radziwiłł in 2017 was this result specified in the particular case considered by Gál.