Author Description

Mathematics and physics, a tale of two cultures -- Nonlinear elasticity, microstructures and mathematics -- Cambridge and Z|rich, probability and Stochastik -- Beauty and reality in mathematics d-modules, groups, sheaves -- Wavelets at your service -- The road to parameterized complexity and beyond -- Mathematical modeling in ecology, genetics and cancer research -- Mathematics, insurance, finance -- Probabilist for all seasons -- Methodology and insight in statistics, financial crisis, high-dimensional challenges Addictive" combinatorics, a prime obsession -- Elliptic curves, millennium problem -- From probability to statistics martingales. Percolation, bootstrap and beyond -- Qantum information, quantum computation -- Dealing with high-dimensional data wavelets, PCA, RMT -- From accidental statistician to interdisciplinary statistician who combines theory with practice -- Boltzmann equation, partial differential equations and the computer -- Mathematical logic, common-sense logic -- Control theory, computational fluid dynamics, mathematical finance -- Convexity, optimization, risk -- Pearl of hyperbolic manifolds -- Seventy years of mathematics -- From Putnam to CAT scan -- Logic, mathematics, computer science -- HongkongPrincetonHarvard, a path of several complex variables -- From Khler geometry to quantum cohomology -- Diophantine geometry from ergodic theory to o-minimal theory -- Sapere aude! (dare to know!) -- From lyéce to langlands, l'express femme 100 -- Ambassador of mathematics extraordinaire -- Probabilistic tour de force -- Courant in hong kong shock waves, nonlinear waves -- Manifolds, cosmos, China -- Number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry -- Bridges Bayesians build.