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Curriculum vitae
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was born on August 20, 1935 in Ghent (Belgium). My elementary and
high-school studies took place in Mons (Belgium) where I also studied
Civil Engineering for two years. In 1955 I obtained the diploma of
"Candidat Ingénieur Civil" at the "Faculté Polytechnique" of Mons. The
same year I passed complementary examinations for the diplomas of
"Candidat en Sciences Mathématiques" and "Candidat en Sciences
Physiques" at the Free University of Brussels. I then studied in
Brussels, where I graduated in Physics in 1957 and obtained in 1959 a
PhD in Physics. This PhD had been prepared in Zurich with Res Jost.
After one year of military service in the Belgian infantry (1959-1960)
I spent two years at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zurich
as Research Assistant and then also Privatdozent. I spent the next two
years (1962-1964) as Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in
Princeton, NJ, and have returned there to spend the academic year
1970-1971. I am Professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes
Scientifiques of Bures-sur-Yvette, France, since 1964, honorary since
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I am married since 1960 with Janine, born Lardinois,
and we have three children : Nicolas (born 1961), Anne (born
1963), and Denise (born 1968). In 1984 I have acquired the French
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Books and monographs:
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- Statistical Mechanics, Rigorous Results (Benjamin, New York,
1969).
- Thermodynamic Formalism (Addison-Wesley, Reading (Mass.),
1978).
- Elements of Differentiable Dynamics and Bifurcation Theory
(Academic Press, Boston, 1989).
- Chaotic Evolution and Strange Attractors (Lecture notes
by S. Isola. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1989).
- Chance and Chaos (Princeton University Press, Princeton,
1991).
- Dynamical zeta functions for piecewise monotone maps of
the interval (CRM, American Mathematical Society, Providence
RI, 1994).
- Turbulence, Strange Attractors, and Chaos (Reprinted papers.
World Scientific, Singapore, 1995).
- The Mathematician's Brain (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2007).
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Académies :
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- Académie des Sciences de Paris (Member, 1985).
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Foreign Honorary
Member, 1992).
- Academia Europaea (Member, 1993).
- National Academy of Sciences (Foreign Associate, 2002).
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (membre étranger, 2003).
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| Honorary degrees : |
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- Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland
(1977).
- Université de Mons-Hainaut, Belgium (1994).
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| Awards : |
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"Boris Pregel Award for Research in Chemical Physics", New York Academy of Sciences (1974).
"Prix Albert Ier de Monaco", Académie des Sciences de Paris (1979).
"Dannie Heineman prize for Mathematical Physics", American Physical Society and American Institute of Physics (1985).
"Boltzmann medal", IUPAP (1986).
"Holweck medal", Société Française de Physique and Institute of Physics (1993).
"Ludwig Boltzmann-Forschungspreis", Land Steiermark and Universität Graz (1995).
"Matteucci medal", Accademia nazionale delle Science (2004).
"Henri Poincaré prize", International Association of Mathematical Physics (2006).
"Premio Peano", Associazione Subalpina Mathesis (2009).
"Max Planck Medal", Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (2014).
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| Special lectures (selection): |
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Lezioni Lincee 1987 (Rome).
Josiah Willard Gibbs lecture 1988 (AMS, Atlanta).
Claude Bernard lecture 1989 (Royal Society, Londres).
Chaire André Aisenstadt 1993 (Montréal).
Lezioni Fermiane 1995 (Lincei, Pise)
Lezioni Leonardesche 1995 (Milano).
Pauli lectures 1996 (Zurich).
Johann Bernoulli Lecture 1999 (Groningen)
Jürgen Moser Prize lecture 2003 (SIAM, Snowbird UT)
Moshe Flato Lecture 2007 (Beer-Sheva)
Lezioni Enriques 2009 (Milano).
Schrödinger Lecture 2010 (Zurich). Peano lecture 2010 (Torino)
Bernouilli Lecture 2013 (Lausanne)
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Over the years I have been a visiting professor in a number of
universities in the United States (UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, Duke,
Caltech, UA Tucson), and elsewhere (ETH Zürich, Roma, U de Montréal,
etc.). I have also visited the IMPA (Rio de Janeiro) a number of times.
I am currently a regular visitor at Rutgers, as Distinguished Visiting
Professor.
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