Sylvie Roelly (born 1960) is a French mathematician specializing in probability theory, including the study of particle systems, Gibbs measure, diffusion, and branching processes. She is a professor of mathematics in the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Potsdam in Germany.

Education and career

Roelly was born in 1960 in Paris,[1] and studied mathematics from 1979 to 1984 at the École normale supérieure de jeunes filles in Paris.[1] She earned a diploma in mathematics in 1980 through the Paris Diderot University, and an agrégation in 1982.[2] She completed her Ph.D. in 1984 through Pierre and Marie Curie University, with the dissertation Processus de diffusion à valeurs mesures multiplicatifs supervised by Nicole El Karoui.[2][3] She also earned her habilitation in 1991 through Pierre and Marie Curie University.[2]

After a year of lecturing at the École normale supérieure, she became a researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1985. She came to Germany as a Humboldt Fellow at Bielefeld University from 1990 to 1994, and was a researcher at the Weierstrass Institute in Berlin from 2001 to 2003, before taking her professorship at Potsdam in 2003.[2]

At Potsdam, she was head of the Institute of Mathematics from 2011 to 2015, and vice-dean of the Faculty of Science from 2016 to 2019.[1] Along with her research interest in probability, she has organized in Potsdam several events concerning the history of Jewish mathematicians.[4][5]

Recognition

In 2007, Roelly and Michèle Thieullen won the Itô Prize of the Bernoulli Society for their work on Brownian diffusion.[6] She was named mathematician of the month for April 2015 by the German Mathematical Society.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Prof. Dr. Sylvie Roelly", Invited speakers for Days of Ukraine in Berlin and Brandenburg, September 2021, retrieved 2021-11-09
  2. ^ a b c d Curriculum vitae (PDF), 2018, retrieved 2021-11-09
  3. ^ Sylvie Roelly at the Mathematics Genealogy Project; note that this lists the Ph.D. as being through Paris Diderot University, but her curriculum vitae lists Pierre and Marie Curie University, consistent with other students of El Karoui.
  4. ^ a b Sylvie Roelly (in German), German Mathematical Society, retrieved 2021-11-09
  5. ^ a b Eröffnung der Ausstellung zu Jüdischen Mathematikern in Potsdam [Opening of the exhibition on Jewish mathematicians in Potsdam] (in German), German Mathematical Society, April 2015, retrieved 2021-11-09
  6. ^ Itô Prize – Previous Prize Recipients, Bernoulli Society, retrieved 2021-11-09

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