Gilles Pisier
Distinguished Professor
A.G. and M.E. Owen Chair of Mathematics

Personal

• Born november 18, 1950, in Nouméa.
• Significant other: Cécile Delesalle.

Education

• Baccalauréat Lycée Buffon, Paris 1967.
• Math.Sup, Math. Spé at Lycée Louis le Grand (Paris) 67-69.
• Ecole Polytechnique (Paris) 69-72.
• DEA de mathématiques pures, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI, 1972
• Ph.D. Université Paris VII, 1977 (adviser : Laurent Schwartz).

Research Interests

• Functional Analysis, Probability, Harmonic Analysis, Operator theory, C*-algebras.
• Vita and list of publications (pdf).
• List of publications from MathSciNet
• Preprints available on arXiv
• Description of my work (French) (ps) (pdf)

OstrowskiPrize
Ostrowski Prize 1997
Salem Prize
Stefan Banach Medal
Académie des Sciences de Paris
Polish Academy of Science
Concentration Week on Approximation Properties of Discrete Groups and Operator Spaces

Minicourse on Similarity Problems (TAMU July 2005)

• Minicourse 2005

Lecture Notes

• Banach Lecture Notes, revised 07
• Topics Course version from Sept. 1, 2009