Emmanuel Trélat (born 24 December 1974) is a French mathematician.

Education and career

Emmanuel Trélat was admitted at École normale supérieure de Cachan (mathematics) in 1995 and obtained the

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in 1998. In 2000, he obtained a doctorate under the direction of Bernard Bonnard at the University of Burgundy at

Dijon Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eas ...

with thesis titled ''Étude asymptotique et transcendance de la fonction valeur en contrôle optimal; catégorie log-exp en géométrie sous-Riemannienne dans le cas Martinet'' (Asymptotic study and transcendence of the value function in optimal control; category log-exp in sub-Riemannian geometry in the Martinet case). In 2001 he was appointed an assistant professor at the

University of Paris-Sud Paris-Sud University (), also known as the University of Paris — XI (or as the Orsay Faculty of Sciences, University of Paris before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, ...

, where he obtained in 2005 his habilitation ''Contrôle en dimension finie et infinie'' (Control in finite and infinite dimension). In 2006 he was appointed a professor at the University of Orleans. Since 2011 he has been a professor at Sorbonne Université at the . From 2015 to 2019 he was the director of the . Since 2020, he is the director of the . Emmanuel Trélat's research focuses on

control theory Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control system, control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the applic ...

in finite and infinite dimensions, sub-Riemannian geometry, image analysis, domain optimization. He is also a specialist in numerical methods in optimal control, particularly in aerospace applications.

Honors and awards

* 2006 — SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize * 2010 — Prix Maurice-Audin * 2011 — elected a member of the

Institut universitaire de France The Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France), is a service of the French Ministry of Higher Education that annually distinguishes a small number of university professors for their research excellence, as evidenced by t ...

* 2012 — Felix Klein Prize * 2014 — Prix Blaise-Pascal * 2016 — Prix Madame Victor Noury * 2018 — Invited Speaker,

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...

at Rio de Janeiro * 2024 — elected a member of the

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...

Selected publications

* * with Bernard Bonnard and Ludovic Faubourg:

References

External links

homepage, Sorbonne Université
* * * (lecture in French, slides in English) {{DEFAULTSORT:Trelat, Emmanuel 1974 births Living people 21st-century French mathematicians École Normale Supérieure alumni University of Burgundy alumni Academic staff of Pierre and Marie Curie University