Henri Berestycki

Henri Berestycki (b. March 25, 1951 in Paris) is a French mathematician who obtained his PhD from Université Paris VI – Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 1975. His Dissertation was titled Contributions à l'étude des problèmes elliptiques non linéaires, and his doctoral advisor was Haim Brezis He was the L.E. Dickson Instructor in Mathematics at the University of Chicago from 1975–77, after which he returned to France to continue his research. His research interests include equation theory and the mathematical models of the financial markets, mathematical models in biology and in ecology, phenomena of invasion and dynamics of population growth, and modelling in social sciences.

He moved to an appointment as Professor at Univ. Paris XIII (1983–1985), and undertook many overlapping appointments at various universities. He worked at the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), and became a Professor of Mathematics in 1988 at Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI (1988–2001 of (“exceptional class” since 1993), and became Professor at Ecole normale supérieure, Paris (1994–1999), and part time professor Ecole Polytechnique (1987–1999). He is currently the Directeur d'études (professor) at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), since 2001. He is also a visiting Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, and is also co-director of the Stevanovich Center of Financial Mathematics in Chicago.

Services

• National Committee of French universities (1992 – 1995).
• Since 2002 director of Centre d'analyse et mathématique sociales (CAMS), CNRS – EHESS.
• Vice-president, EHESS (2004 – 2006).
• Member of the thesis prize committee of the universities of Paris (since 2006).

Awards

• Prize Carrière (1988)
• Prix Sophie Germain of the French Academy of Sciences (2004),
• Humboldt Prize in Germany (2004)
• French Legion of Honor in 2010.
• American Mathematical Society Fellowship (2012).

Articles

• Henri Berestycki, Jean-Michel Roquejoffre, Luca Rossi THE PERIODIC PATCH MODEL FOR POPULATION DYNAMICS WITH FRACTIONAL DIFFUSION
• Henri Berestycki, François Hamel Generalized Transition Waves and Their Properties
• Berestycki, Henri, Constantin, Peter, and Ryzhik, Lenya Non-planar fronts in Boussinesq reactive flows
• Henri Berestycki, Luca Rossi Reaction-diffusion equations for population dynamics with forced speed I – The case of the whole space
• Henri Berestycki, Luca Rossi Reaction-diffusion equations for population dynamics with forced speed II – cylindrical-type domains