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Franck Barthe

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Franck Barthe
At the MFO, 2015
Alma materUniversity of Marne-la-Vallée
AwardsEMS Prize 2004,
Prix Jacques Herbrand 2005
Scientific career
FieldsProbability theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Toulouse
Thesis (1997)
Doctoral advisorsAlain Pajor,
Bernard Maurey
Websitehttp://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~barthe

Franck Barthe is a French mathematician.[1] He was awarded the European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) prize in 2004.[2] He is working as a professor of mathematics at Paul Sabatier University.

Work

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Franck Barthe is known for his reverse form of the Brascamp-Lieb inequality.[3] With Keith M. Ball, Shiri Artstein, and Assaf Naor, he solved Shannon's problem of the monotonic entropy increase of sums of random variables.[4]

Awards

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In 2004, he received the EMS Prize (prize presentation: isoperimetric inequalities, probability measures and convex geometry) for his leading role in the application of mass-theoretical transport techniques.[2]

In 2005, he received the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand.

References

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  1. ^ "Franck Barthe's Home Page". www.math.univ-toulouse.fr. Retrieved 2017-03-29.
  2. ^ a b "EMS Prize 2004". www.math.kth.se. Retrieved 26 November 2017.
  3. ^ Barthe, Franck (1998), "On a reverse form of the Brascamp-Lieb inequality.", Inventiones Mathematicae, 134 (2): 335–361, arXiv:math/9705210, Bibcode:1998InMat.134..335B, doi:10.1007/s002220050267.
  4. ^ Artstein, Shiri; Barthe, Franck; Naor, Assaf (2004), "Solution of Shannon's problem on the monotonicity of entropy.", Journal of the American Mathematical Society, 17 (4): 975–982, doi:10.1090/S0894-0347-04-00459-X