Cédric Villani
Cédric Villani | |
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Member of the National Assembly for Essonne's 5th constituency | |
In office 21 June 2017 – 21 June 2022 | |
Preceded by | Maud Olivier |
Succeeded by | Paul Midy |
Personal details | |
Born | Brive-la-Gaillarde, France[1] | 5 October 1973
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | EMS Prize (2008) Fermat Prize (2009) Henri Poincaré Prize (2009) Fields Medal (2010) Joseph L. Doob Prize (2014) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Institut Henri Poincaré, Sorbonne University University of Lyon Institut Camille-Jordan |
Thesis | Contribution à l'étude mathématique des équations de Boltzmann et de Landau en théorie cinétique des gaz et des plasmas (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Pierre-Louis Lions |
Doctoral students | Alessio Figalli Clément Mouhot |
Website | cedricvillani |
Political party | LREM (2017–2020) |
Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (French: [se.dʁik pa.tʁis tje.ʁi vi.la.ni]; born 5 October 1973) is a French politician and mathematician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010, and he was the director of Sorbonne University's Institut Henri Poincaré from 2009 to 2017. As of September 2022, he is a professor at Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques.
Villani has given two lectures at the Royal Institution, the first titled 'Birth of a Theorem'.[2] The English translation of his book Théorème vivant (Living Theorem) has the same title. In the book he describes the links between his research on kinetic theory and the one of the mathematician Carlo Cercignani: Villani, in fact, proved the so-called Cercignani's conjecture.
His second lecture at the Royal Institution is titled 'The Extraordinary Theorems of John Nash'.[3]
Villani was elected as the deputy for
He
Biography
After attending the
He has held various visiting positions at Georgia Tech (Fall 1999), the University of California, Berkeley (Spring 2004), and the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Spring 2009).[12]
On October 19, 2014, in the context of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy's inaugural Albertine festival, Villani appeared in conversation with the Nobel Prize winning mathematician John F. Nash, Jr.[13]
Several months later, on May 23, 2015, Nash, along with his wife, Alicia died in a car crash. Speaking at the Hay Festival, just days after Nash's death, Villani announced that Nash told Villani, in Norway on May 20, that he had found a 'replacement equation' for Einstein's theory of relativity.[14]
Mathematical work
Villani has worked on the theory of
Villani received the Fields Medal for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation.[11] He described the development of his theorem in his autobiographical book Théorème vivant (2012), published in English translation as Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure (2015).[17][18] He gave a TED talk at the 2016 conference in Vancouver.[19]
Political career
In 2017, it was announced that Villani had been selected as a candidate for
In 2019, Villani applied to be selected to lead the LREM candidate slate for
Other activities
- France China Foundation, former Member of the Strategic Committee[26]
Awards and honours
Diplomas, titles and awards
- 1998: PhD Thesis (advisor P.-L. Lions)
- 2000: Habilitation dissertation
- 2001: Louis Armand Prize of the Academy of Sciences
- 2003: Peccot-Vimont Prize and Cours Peccot of the Collège de France
- 2003: Plenary lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics (Lisbonne)
- 2004: Harold Grad lecturer
- 2004: Visiting Miller Professor, University of California Berkeley.
- 2006: Institut Universitaire de France
- 2006: Invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Madrid)[27]
- 2007: Grand Prix Jacques HerbrandFrench Academy of Sciences) (
- 2008: Prize of the European Mathematical Society
- 2009: Henri Poincaré Prize
- 2009: Fermat Prize
- 2010: Fields Medal
- 2013: Gibbs lecturer: On Disorder, Mixing and Equilibration[28]
- 2014: Joseph L. Doob Prize by the American Mathematical Society for his book Optimal Transport: Old and New (Springer Verlag 2009)[29]
Extra-academic distinctions
- 2009: Knight of the National Order of Merit (France)
- 2011: Knight of the Legion of Honor
- 2013: Member of the French Academy of Sciences[30]
- 2016: Ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
- 2022: Fellow of the International Science Council
In 2020, a new spider species of the family
Selected writings
- Limites hydrodynamiques de l'équation de Boltzmann, Séminaire Bourbaki, June 2001; Astérisque vol. 282, 2002.
- A Review of Mathematical Topics in Collisional Kinetic Theory, in Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, edited by .
- Topics in Optimal Transportation, volume 58 of ISBN 978-0-8218-3312-4.[33]
- Optimal transportation, dissipative PDE's and functional inequalities, pp. 53–89 in Optimal Transportation and Applications, edited by ISBN 978-3-540-40192-6.
- Cercignani's conjecture is sometimes true and always almost true, Communications in Mathematical Physics, vol. 234, No. 3 (March 2003), pp. 455–490, .
- On the trend to global equilibrium for spatially inhomogeneous kinetic systems: the Boltzmann equation (with Laurent Desvillettes), Inventiones Mathematicae, vol. 159, #2 (2005), pp. 245–316, .
- Mathematics of Granular Materials, Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 124, #2–4 (July/August 2006), pp. 781–822, .
- Optimal transport, old and new, volume 338 of Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften, Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-71049-3.
- Ricci curvature for metric-measure spaces via optimal transport (with John Lott), Annals of Mathematics vol. 169, No. 3 (2009), pp. 903–991.
- Hypocoercivity, volume 202, No. 950 of Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4498-4.
- Clément Mouhot; Cédric Villani (2009). "On Landau damping". Acta Mathematica. 207: 29–201. S2CID 115179279.
- Théorème vivant, Bernard Grasset, Paris 2012[34]
- Les Coulisses de la création, Flammarion, Paris 2015 (with composer and pianist Karol Beffa)
- Freedom in Mathematics, Springer India, 2016 (with ISBN 978-23-601-2026-0.
- Birth of a Theorem, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2015; translated by Malcolm DeBevoise.
- De mémoire vive, Une histoire de l'aventure numérique, Philippe Dewost, Cédric Villani, Éditions Première Partie, 2022, ISBN 978-2-36526-252-1.
References
- ^ Sylvain Guilbaud; Antoine Walraet. "Cédric Villani", Encyclopædia Universalis.
- ^ Villani, Cédric (22 April 2015). "Birth of a Theorem". The Royal Institution. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021 – via YouTube.
- ^ Villani, Cédric (2 November 2016). "The Extraordinary Theorems of John Nash". The Royal Institution. Archived from the original on 15 December 2021 – via YouTube.
- ABC News Online, 12 May 2017.
- ^ "Macron loses majority as defectors form new party". BBC News. 19 May 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- ^ "Macron's party loses outright majority in French parliament". www.thelocal.fr. 19 May 2020. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
- ^ Derestiat, Anthony (23 May 2022). "Legislative: in Ulis, Cédric Villani defends his new label Nupes". Liberation. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
- French Government(in French). Retrieved 24 September 2022.
- ^ Villani, Cédric. "Biography". Archived from the original on 11 April 2019. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
- ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project – Cédric Villani. Accessed on line 20 August 2010.
- ^ a b c "Fields Medal – Cédric Villani". Archived from the original on 29 August 2010. Retrieved 20 August 2010.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae (Cédric Villani)" (PDF). cedricvillani.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ^ Albertine Books (26 September 2014). "Festival Albertine". Albertine Books.
- ^ Kaye, Yasmin (30 May 2015). "A Beautiful Mind's John Nash 'replaced' Einstein's theory of relativity just before his death". International Business Times.
- S2CID 14883238.
- arXiv:math/0412127.
- ^ Ashbacher, Charles (7 May 2015). "Review of Birth of a Theorem by Cédric Villani". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
- doi:10.1038/519031a. (See Michael Harris.)
- ^ "Cédric Villani: What's so sexy about math?". TED. 6 June 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
- ^ "France's Macron announces gender equal list of political outsiders". BBC News. 11 May 2017. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
- ^ "Communiqué de presse – Liste des investis aux élections législatives | En Marche !". En Marche !. Retrieved 11 May 2017.
- ^ "Cédric Villani : "L'idée, c'est d'avoir des compétences variées"". Libération. 15 June 2017. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
- ^ l'Intérieur, Ministère de. "Elections législatives 2017". elections.interieur.gouv.fr. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ Cosnard, Denis (10 July 2019). "Elections municipales à Paris: Benjamin Griveaux choisi pour représenter LRM". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ^ à 19h11, Par R. Bx Le 4 septembre 2019; À 23h06, Modifié Le 4 Septembre 2019 (4 September 2019). "Municipales : Cédric Villani officialise sa candidature à la mairie de Paris". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 September 2019.
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- ISBN 978-3-03719-022-7.
- ^ Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectures – No. 86, January 2013, San Diego, CA; Cédric Villani Accessed on line 20 May 2015.
- ^ Joseph L. Doob Prize – Most Recent Prize: 2014 Accessed on line 20 May 2015.
- ^ Cédric Villani, new member of the French Academy of Science Accessed on line 20 May 2015.
- ^ "Newly discovered neon-green spider named after the 'Lady Gaga of mathematics'". Live Science. 29 January 2020.
- PMID 32021555.
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- ^ Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (15 December 2013). "Review of Théorème Vivant by Cédric Villani". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.