Jean-François Le Gall

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{{Short description|French mathematician}}

{{Infobox scientist

| name = Jean-François Le Gall

| image = Jean-Francois Le Gall.jpg

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| caption = Le Gall in 2011

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|15 November 1959}}

| birth_place = Morlaix

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| nationality = French

| fields = Mathematics

| workplaces = University of Paris-Sud in Orsay

| alma_mater = Ecole normale supérieure
Pierre and Marie Curie University

| doctoral_advisor = Marc Yor

| doctoral_students = Wendelin Werner

| known_for =

| awards = Rollo Davidson Prize (1986)
Loève Prize (1997)
Fermat Prize (2005)
Sophie Germain Prize (2005)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2019)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2021)

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Jean-François Le Gall (born 15 November 1959) is a French mathematician working in areas of probability theory such as Brownian motion, Lévy processes, superprocesses and their connections with partial differential equations, the Brownian snake, random trees, branching processes, stochastic coalescence and random planar maps. He received his Ph.D. in 1982 from Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris VI) under the supervision of Marc Yor.{{mathgenealogy|id=80792}}. He is currently professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay and is a senior member of the Institut universitaire de France. He was elected to French academy of sciences, December 2013.

He was awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize in 1986, the Loève Prize in 1997,{{cite web |url=https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/administration/newsletter98.3/loeve.html |title=Le Gall Receives Loève Prize |first=Steven N. |last=Evans |first2=Lucien |last2=Le Cam |publisher=Statistics Department, University of California, Berkeley |access-date=15 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031114183534/https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/administration/newsletter98.3/loeve.html |archive-date=14 November 2003 }} and the Fermat Prize in 2005.[https://www.ams.org/notices/200602/people.pdf Mathematics People: Colmez and Le Gall Awarded Fermat Prize], Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Volume 53, Number 2. 2006. He was the thesis advisor of at least 11 students including Wendelin Werner. For 2019 he received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics.[https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Wolf-Prize-laureates-announced-577584 Wolf Prize 2019 - Jerusalem Post]{{Cite web |url=https://wolffund.org.il/2019/01/22/jean-francois-le-gall/ |title=Wolf Prize 2019 |access-date=24 February 2022 |archive-date=20 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320185051/https://wolffund.org.il/2019/01/22/jean-francois-le-gall/ |url-status=dead }} and for 2021 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences.[https://www.frontiersofknowledgeawards-fbbva.es/noticias/the-frontiers-of-knowledge-award-goes-to-charles-fefferman-and-jean-francois-le-gall-for-their-fundamental-contributions-in-two-mathematical-fields-with-multiple-ramifications/ BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2021]