Role Mathematician Name Cedric Villani | Nationality French Fields Mathematics | |
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Institutions Institut Camille JordanInstitut Henri PoincareClaude Bernard University Lyon 1 Doctoral students Alessio FigalliClement Mouhot Parents Patrice Villani, Jacqueline Villani Books Hypocoercivity, Topics in Optimal Transportation, Birth of a Theorem: A Mathemat, Entropy Methods for the Bo, Nonlinear PDE’s and Applicatio Similar People Alessio Figalli, Pierre‑Louis Lions, John Charles Fields, Artur Avila, Luigi Ambrosio | ||
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Cédric Patrice Thierry Villani (born 5 October 1973) is a French mathematician working primarily on partial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010 and is the current director of Pierre and Marie Curie University's Institut Henri Poincaré.
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- Biography
- Work
- Diplomas titles and awards
- Extra academic distinctions
- Selected writings
- References

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Biography
After attending the Lycée Louis-le-Grand, Villani was admitted at the École normale supérieure in Paris and studied there from 1992 to 1996. He was later appointed an assistant professor in the same school. He received his doctorate at Paris Dauphine University in 1998, under the supervision of Pierre-Louis Lions, and became professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon in 2000. He is now professor at the University of Lyon. He has been the director of Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris since 2009.
Work

Villani has worked on the theory of partial differential equations involved in statistical mechanics, specifically the Boltzmann equation, where, with Laurent Desvillettes, he was the first to prove how quickly convergence occurs for initial values not near equilibrium. He has written with Giuseppe Toscani on this subject. With Clément Mouhot, he has worked on nonlinear Landau damping. He has worked on the theory of optimal transport and its applications to differential geometry, and with John Lott has defined a notion of bounded Ricci curvature for general measured length spaces.

Villani received the Fields Medal for his work on Landau damping and the Boltzmann equation. 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). He gave a TED talk at the 2016 conference in Vancouver.
Diplomas, titles and awards

Extra-academic distinctions
