Portrait
Dominique Bakry held his first research position at the CNRS at the University of Strasbourg, and since 1988 has been a professor at the University of Toulouse. Moreover, since 2004 he has been a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He was editor of the journal Potential Analysis. His research interests center on probability, analysis of Markov operators, differential geometry and orthonormal polynomials.Ivan Gentil held his first position at the University of Paris-Dauphine in 2003 and since 2010 has been a professor at the University of Lyon. His research interests center on analysis, probability, partial differential equations and functional inequalities such as logarithmic Sobolev inequalities. Michel Ledoux held his first research position at the CNRS, and since 1991 has been a professor at the University of Toulouse. Since 2010 he has been a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, having been a junior member from 1997 to 2002. He has been associate editor for various journals including the Annals of Probability and Probability Theory and Related Fields, and is currently chief editor of the Electronic Journal of Probability. His research interests center on probability theory and functional analysis, measure concentration, diffusion operators and functional inequalities, random matrices, probability in Banach spaces.MARC YOR has been Professor at the Laboratoire de Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, since 1981, and a member of the Académie des Sciences de Paris since 2003. His research interests - which are well illustrated in the present book - bear upon properties of Brownian functionals, either for pure or applied purposes. Recently, Marc Yor has also been working on the interface between number theory and random matrices.ROGER MANSUY has been teaching mathematics at the Lycée Louis le Grand, Paris, since 2006. He has been working with Marc Yor - who was the supervisor of Roger Mansuy's PhD thesis - in recent years. Prior to the present volume he and Marc Yor collaborated in publishing volume 1873 of the series Lecture Notes in Mathematics entitled "Random Times and Enlargements of Filtration in a Brownian setting".
