alain Rouet

At the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, Rouet graduated in 1969 with an engineering degree and in 1974 with a doctorate in theoretical physics. He worked as a postdoc for the academic year 1975–1976 at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) in Munich and from 1976 to 1978 at CERN. From 1979 to 1981 he was a scientist at the CNRS at the CPT (Centre de Physique Theoretique) in Marseille-Luminy. At the same time, he acted in an advisory capacity for Aérospatiale and the French Atomic Energy Commission. From 1981 to 1982 he was Einstein Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study.{{cite web|title=C.V.|website=Alain Rouet homepage (alain-rouet.com)|url=http://www.alain-rouet.com/index.php?page=cv}}{{cite web|title=Alain Rouet|website=Institute for Advanced Studies|date=9 December 2019 |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/alain-rouet}} He then moved into industry and from 1983 to 1986 was the technical director of a Thomson Group company Vidéolor, which developed television tubes.

From 1986 to 2017 he was involved in the creation and development of Science & Tec, a kind of scientific think tank that provided scientific consulting services for industry. Clients included AREVA, Bosch, EADS, and TotalEnergies. Rouet was involved in the creation and support of Science & Tec subsidiaries in Germany and Italy. From 1996 to 2003 he created and developed Quantaflow, a company that designed, manufactured, and sold an innovative system of software and hardware that counted people at places like shopping centers and airports. The Quantaflow system provided distributed architecture and web services to managers and employees for analysis and certification of customer visits.{{cite web|title=Our Company|website=Quantaflow (quantaflow.com)|url=https://www.quantaflow.com/en/our-company/}}

Rouet is known for his collaborative development in the mid-1970s with Raymond Stora and Carlo Becchi of the BRST formalism{{cite journal|author1=Becchi, C.|author2=Rouet, A.|author3=Stora, R.|title=Renormalization of gauge theories|journal=Annals of Physics|date=June 1976|volume=98|issue=2|pages=287–321|doi=10.1016/0003-4916(76)90156-1|bibcode = 1976AnPhy..98..287B |url=http://www.numdam.org/item/RCP25_1975__22__A10_0/}} (independently done by Igor Tyutin). The formalism is a method for quantizing a field theory with a gauge symmetry. In addition to quantum field theory, Rouet also did research on dynamical systems.

He received, jointly with Stora, Becchi, and Tyutin, the 2009 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics.{{cite web|title=2009 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics Recipient: Alain Rouet|website=American Physical Society|url=https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Rouet&first_nm=Alain&year=2009}}

• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0370-2693(74)90058-6 |title=The abelian Higgs Kibble model, unitarity of the S-operator |year=1974 |last1=Becchi |first1=C. |last2=Rouet |first2=A. |last3=Stora |first3=R. |journal=Physics Letters B |volume=52 |issue=3 |pages=344–346 |bibcode=1974PhLB...52..344B }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01614158 |title=Renormalization of the abelian Higgs-Kibble model |year=1975 |last1=Becchi |first1=C. |last2=Rouet |first2=A. |last3=Stora |first3=R. |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=127–162 |bibcode=1975CMaPh..42..127B |s2cid=120552882 |url=http://www.numdam.org/item/RCP25_1975__22__A9_0/ }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0003-4916(76)90156-1 |title=Renormalization of gauge theories |year=1976 |last1=Becchi |first1=C. |last2=Rouet |first2=A. |last3=Stora |first3=R. |journal=Annals of Physics |volume=98 |issue=2 |pages=287–321 |bibcode=1976AnPhy..98..287B |url=http://www.numdam.org/item/RCP25_1975__22__A10_0/ }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(76)90552-6 |title=Supersymmetric BPHZ renormalization |year=1976 |last1=Piguet |first1=O. |last2=Rouet |first2=A. |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=108 |issue=2 |pages=265–274 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1007/BF01609414 |title=Pure massless electrodynamics in Veltman's gauge |year=1976 |last1=Rouet |first1=A. |journal=Communications in Mathematical Physics |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=89–96 |bibcode=1976CMaPh..48...89R |s2cid=123244702 |url=http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.cmp/1103899814 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0370-2693(78)90166-1 |title=Gauge unambiguous quantization of Yang-Mills theory around classical solutions |year=1978 |last1=Amati |first1=D. |last2=Rouet |first2=A. |journal=Physics Letters B |volume=73 |issue=1 |pages=39–41 |bibcode=1978PhLB...73...39A |url=https://cds.cern.ch/record/132686 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0370-2693(78)90651-2 |title=Callan—symanzik β(g) function in different topological sectors |year=1978 |last1=Rouet |first1=A. |journal=Physics Letters B |volume=78 |issue=5 |pages=608–610 |bibcode=1978PhLB...78..608R }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0370-1573(81)90066-1 |title=Symmetries in perturbative quantum field theory |year=1981 |last1=Piguet |first1=O. |last2=Rouet |first2=A. |journal=Physics Reports |volume=76 |issue=1 |pages=1–77 |bibcode=1981PhR....76....1P }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(81)90555-1 |title=Complex saddle points in the double well oscillator |year=1981 |last1=Richard |first1=J.L. |last2=Rouet |first2=A. |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=183 |issue=1–2 |pages=251–268 |bibcode=1981NuPhB.183..251R }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(81)90363-1 |title=Complex saddle points versus dilute-gas approximation in the double-well anharmonic oscillator |year=1981 |last1=Richard |first1=J.L. |last2=Rouet |first2=A. |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=185 |issue=1 |pages=47–60 |bibcode=1981NuPhB.185...47R }}
• {{cite book|doi=10.1007/978-94-009-8368-7_1 |chapter=Renormalizable Theories with Symmetry Breaking |title=Field Theory, Quantization and Statistical Physics |year=1981 |last1=Becchi |first1=C. |last2=Rouet |first2=A. |last3=Stora |first3=A. |pages=3–32 |arxiv=1607.05458 |isbn=978-94-009-8370-0 |s2cid=119204070 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1016/0550-3213(83)90109-8 |title=The CP1 model on the torus |year=1983 |last1=Richard |first1=Jean-Louis |last2=Rouet |first2=Alain |journal=Nuclear Physics B |volume=211 |issue=3 |pages=447–464 }}
• {{cite journal|doi=10.1142/S0219887808003338 |title=Theoretical Physics in Real Life |year=2008 |last1=Rouet |first1=Alain |journal=International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics |volume=05 |issue=8 |pages=1337–1343 |bibcode=2008IJGMM..05.1337R }}

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