what you always wanted to know about me...
Born June 17th, 1946 in Nancy (Lorraine), a wonderful city in the east of France.
I am married, two children, Alexis (born in 1976, married to
EunHee Lee
on
November 8, 2008, son Louis born November 9th, 2010) and Hélène (1978-2004).
Studies :
Lycée Henri Poincaré, Nancy and at the University of Nancy (now
Université Henri Poincaré Nancy 1).
I was assistant, and then Attaché de Recherche (CNRS) one year (in 1971/72) at Université de Bordeaux, where my thesis supervisor was Jean Fresnel.
I was Chargé d'Enseignement at Orsay in 1972/73, then Maître de Conferences in
Paris 6 (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), where I am now Professor (Faculté de Mathématiques Pierre et Marie Curie, UFR 929). I gave courses at École Normale Supérieure (Paris), ENS Saint Cloud, ENSJF (Sèvres),...
Memberships
I am a member of
the
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
(UMR 7586),
group of Number Theory,
the
Faculté de Mathématiques Pierre et Marie Curie, UFR 929
the
SMF (Société Mathématique de France),
the
SMAI (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles)
,
the
EMS (European Mathematical Society),
the
ESMA (European Society for Mathematics and Art),
the
AMS (American Mathematical Society),
the
RMS
Ramanujan Mathematical Society,
LACS (Limouriens pour une Animation Culturelle Scientifique),
Oxygène (Lycée Jules Verne de Limours) of which I was president in 2008-2009,
Honorary Member of the Council for Mathematics Education, Nepal.
I have been
Président de la
Société Mathématique de France
from June 2001 to June 2004.
Vice-President of the
CIMPA (Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées)
from January 2005 to January 2009.
I am involved in the
Cooperation in Mathematics between France and several countries, including
Bhutan, Brazil, Cambodia,
India,
Iran, Iraq, Mali, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thaïland, Vietnam,
southern shore of the Mediterranean,...
Students, descendants, co-authors, citations
The list of my 20 research students and 61 descendants is available on the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
website.
The list of my 37
co-authors
is available on
the
MathSciNet website.
A list of 160
publications and 455
citations
by 223 authors is available from the MR Citation Database.
Editorial Boards
Acta Arithmetica.
Springer Verlag: Grundlehren der mathematischen Wissenschaften.
(World Scientific) Series on Number Theory and Its Applications.
Chamchuri Journal of Mathematics.
Annales des sciences mathématiques du Québec.
Boards and Councils :
Regional Scientific Officer (RSR Responsable Scientifique Régional)
for India and Central and West Asia of the
CIMPA
(Centre International de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées): 2009-2011.
Committee for the Developing Countries (CDC) of the
European Mathematical Society
(EMS)
Chennai Mathematical Institute Developement Committee -- Overseas Chapter
Trustees Board of Neishabour Mathematics House (Iran)
Scientific Council of the
RAGAAD/ANGAAD Network
(African Network for Geometry and Algebra Applied to Development).
Advisory Board of Afrika Matematika
(Springer Verlag)
Advisory committee for the MEXT-GCOE program, Education-and-Research Hub for Mathematics-for-Industry, Kyushu University (Japan).