Nicolas Monod
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Nicolas Monod is a professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and known for work on bounded cohomology, ergodic theory, geometry (CAT(0) spaces), locally compact groups and amenability.[1]
He was born in Montreux, Switzerland.[2] He obtained his Ph.D. from ETH Zurich in 2001 with thesis "Continuous Bounded Cohomology of Locally Compact Groups" written under the direction of Marc Burger.[3]
Monod is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[4] He has been awarded the Gauss Lectureship and the Berwick Prize, and was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.[5] He was one of the youngest Advanced Investigator awardees in the history of the European Research Council[6]
Monod was the president of the Swiss Mathematical Society from 2014 to 2015[7] and is the director of the Bernoulli Center at EPFL.
References
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- ^ "Nicolas Monod | short bio". egg.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
- ^ Nicolas Monod at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2017-11-16.
- ^ ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, retrieved 2017-11-16.
- ^ “ERC Advanced” at only 36 years of age, retrieved 2018-06-24.
- ^ Society, The Swiss Mathematical. "Organisation » Past Presidents | The Swiss Mathematical Society". www.math.ch. Retrieved 2017-09-26.