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Residence
  
Paris, France

Role
  
Mathematician

Name
  
Cedric Villani


Nationality
  
French

Fields
  
Mathematics

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Born
  
5 October 1973 (age 50) Brive-la-Gaillarde, France (
1973-10-05
)

Institutions
  
Institut Camille JordanInstitut Henri PoincareClaude Bernard University Lyon 1

Alma mater
  
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Dauphine University

Doctoral students
  
Alessio FigalliClement Mouhot

Awards
  
Fields Medal, Fermat Prize

Parents
  
Patrice Villani, Jacqueline Villani

Education
  
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Dauphine University

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

Doctoral advisor
  
Pierre-Louis Lions

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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

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

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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.

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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

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  • 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)
  • 2007: Jacques Herbrand Prize (French 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
  • 2014: Joseph L. Doob Prize by the American Mathematical Society for his book Optimal Transport: Old and New (Springer Verlag 2009)

    • Extra-academic distinctions

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  • 2009: Knight of the National Order of Merit (France)
  • 2011: Knight of the Legion of Honor
  • 2013: Member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • 2016: Ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

    • 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 S. Friedlander and D. Serre, vol. 1, Elsevier, 2002, ISBN 978-0-444-50330-5. doi:10.1016/S1874-5792(02)80004-0.
  • Topics in Optimal Transportation, volume 58 of Graduate Studies in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8218-3312-4.
  • Optimal transportation, dissipative PDE's and functional inequalities, pp. 53–89 in Optimal Transportation and Applications, edited by L. A. Caffarelli and S. Salsa, volume 1813 of Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Springer, 2003, 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, doi:10.1007/s00220-002-0777-1.
  • 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, doi:10.1007/s00222-004-0389-9.
  • Mathematics of Granular Materials, Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 124, #2–4 (July/August 2006), pp. 781–822, doi:10.1007/s10955-006-9038-6.
  • 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, #950 of Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, 2009, ISBN 978-0-8218-4498-4.
  • Clément Mouhot; Cédric Villani (2009). "On Landau damping". arXiv:0904.2760 [math.AP]. 
  • Théorème vivant, Bernard Grasset, Paris 2012
  • Les Coulisses de la création, Flammarion, Paris 2015 (with composer and pianist Karol Beffa)
  • Freedom in Mathematics, Springer India, 2016 (with Pierre Cartier, Jean Dhombres, Gerhard Heinzmann), ISBN 978-81-322-2786-1.
  • Translation from the French language edition: Mathématiques en liberté, La Ville Brûle, Montreuil 2012, ISBN 978-23-601-2026-0.

    • References

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