Benoît Perthame#
| Membership Number: | 4215 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | FRANCE |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~perthame |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2013 - present Director of the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions
- 1993 - present Professor (classe exceptionnelle) at UPMC
- 1998 - 2013 Head of team M3N and BANG at INRIA
- 1997 - 2007 On Duty at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Paris)
- 1988 - 1993 Professor University of Orleans
- 1983 - 1988 Assistant Professor at Ecole Normale Supérieure
Fields of Scholarship
- Mathematical modeling for biomedical applications
- Analysis of models for tumor growth
- Bacterial cell motion (kinetic to macroscopic)
- Models for evolution/selection
- Mean field models for neural networks
- Hyperbolic systems
- Compressible Euler equations
- Kinetic formultion and Kinetic schemes
- Kinetic equations
- Averaging lemmas
- Vlasov equations
- High frequency limits
- Optimal control and Hamilton-Jacobi equations
- Method of semi-relaxed limits
Honours and Awards
- 2015 Grand Prix INRIA - French Academy of Sciences
- 2014 Plenary Speaker at ICM Seoul
- 2013 Blaise Pascal Medal (EURASC)
- 2011 Invited Speaker at ICIAM (Vancouver)
- 2007-16 Senior Researcher at Institut Universitaire de France
- 1997 Prize Sacchi-Landriani (Academia Lombarda di Scienze e Lettere, Milan)
- 1994 Silver Medal CNRS
- 1989 Pecot Prize (Collège de France)
