Benoit Perthame
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Benoit Perthame | |
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 Perthame at Oberwolfach, 2006 | |
| Born | 23 June 1959 |
| Alma mater | Paris Dauphine University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Pierre-et-Marie Curie University |
| Thesis | Sur quelques problèmes de contrôle optimal et de théories cinétiques et leur approximation numérique (1987) |
| Doctoral advisor | Pierre-Louis Lions |
| Doctoral students | Chiara Simeoni |
Benoit Perthame (born 23 June 1959 in France) is a French mathematician, who deals with non-linear partial differential equations and their applications in biology. He is a professor at Pierre-et-Marie Curie University and at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, which he directs.
Perthame studied at the École normale supérieure (ENS) and in 1983, he became an assistant. In 1987, under the supervision of Pierre-Louis Lions, he obtained his habilitation thesis.[1][2] His thesis focuses on non-linear partial differential equations in optimal control theory, hydrodynamics and kinetic theory.
In 1988, he was professor at the University of Orléans, and since 1993, he has been professor at the University of Paris VI and the Institut universitaire de France. From 1997 to 2007, he was in the Department of Mathematics and Applications of the ENS (DMA/ENS)[3] and simultaneously heads the Multi-model and Numerical Methods Project (M3N)[4] of the Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA). Since 1989, he has been the scientific advisor to this organization and since 1998 has headed the BANG Group (Numerical Analysis of Non-linear Models for Biology and Geophysics).[5]
His research interests include mathematical modeling of chemotaxis and movement and self-organization of cells and bacteria, neural networks, tumor growth and chemotherapy, population growth and evolution.
