Since this is an event unlikely to occur that frequently, let me point out that Université Paris-Dauphine got a nominal mention in Nature of two weeks ago, through an article covering the recent Abel Prize of Yves Meyer and his work on wavelets through a collection of French institutions, including Paris-Dauphine where he was a professor in the maths department (CEREMADE) from 1985 till 1996. (Except for including a somewhat distantly related picture of an oscilloscope and a mention of the Higgs boson, the Nature article is quite nice!)
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Paris-Dauphine in Nature
Posted in Statistics with tags Abel Prize, bois de Boulogne, France, Higgs boson, La Défense, Nature, Paris, Université Paris Dauphine, wavelets, Yves Meyer on April 25, 2017 by xi'anAbel Prize goes to Yves Meyer
Posted in Books, pictures, University life with tags Abel Prisen, Abel Prize, École Normale de Cachan, Gauss Prize, mathematics, Norway, prizes, wavelets, Yves Meyer on March 21, 2017 by xi'an
Just heard the great news that the Abel Prize for 2017 goes to Yves Meyer! Yves Meyer is an emeritus professor at École Normale de Cachan and has produced fundamental contributions to number theory, operator theory and harmonic analysis. He is one of the originators of the theory of wavelets and multiresolution analysis. Among other recognitions and prizes, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1970 (Nice), in 1983 (Warsaw), and in 1990 (Kyoto), and was awarded the Gauß Prize in 2010. Congratulations and total respect to Yves Meyer!!!
an even more senseless taxi-ride
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Travel, University life with tags A Beautiful Mind, Abel Prize, car accident, John Nash, New Jersey, Nobel Prize, Norway, Princeton University, seat-belt, taxi on May 24, 2015 by xi'an
I was (exceptionally) working in (and for) my garden when my daughter shouted down from her window that John Nash had just died. I thus completed my tree trimming and went to check about this sad item of news. What I read made the news even sadder as he and his wife had died in a taxi crash in New Jersey, apparently for not wearing seat-belts, a strategy you would think far from minimax… Since Nash was in Norway a few days earlier to receive the 2015 Abel Prize, it may even be that the couple was on its way home back from the airport. A senseless death for a Beautiful Mind.
