Emmanuel Trélat

Emmanuel Trélat (born 24 December 1974) is a French mathematician.

Emmanuel Trélat
Born	(1974-12-24) 24 December 1974 (age 50)
Nationality	French
Alma mater	University of Burgundy École normale supérieure de Cachan
Scientific career
Fields	Control theory
Institutions	Sorbonne Université
Thesis	Etude asymptotique et transcendance de la fonction valeur en contrôle optimal (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Bernard Bonnard

Education and career

Emmanuel Trélat was admitted at École normale supérieure de Cachan (mathematics) in 1995 and obtained the agrégation in 1998. In 2000, he obtained a doctorate under the direction of Bernard Bonnard at the University of Burgundy at Dijon with thesis titled Étude asymptotique et transcendance de la fonction valeur en contrôle optimal; catégorie log-exp en géométrie sous-Riemannienne dans le cas Martinet (Asymptotic study and transcendence of the value function in optimal control; category log-exp in sub-Riemannian geometry in the Martinet case).^[1] In 2001 he was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Paris-Sud, where he obtained in 2005 his habilitation Contrôle en dimension finie et infinie (Control in finite and infinite dimension). In 2006 he was appointed a professor at the University of Orleans. Since 2011 he has been a professor at Sorbonne Université at the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions [fr]. From 2015 to 2019 he was the director of the Fondation sciences mathématiques de Paris [fr]. Since 2020, he is the director of the Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions [fr].

Emmanuel Trélat's research focuses on control theory in finite and infinite dimensions, sub-Riemannian geometry, image analysis, domain optimization. He is also a specialist in numerical methods in optimal control, particularly in aerospace applications.^[2]

Honors and awards

• 2006 — SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize
• 2010 — Prix Maurice-Audin
• 2011 — elected a member of the Institut universitaire de France
• 2012 — Felix Klein Prize^[3]
• 2014 — Prix Blaise-Pascal^[4]
• 2016 — Prix Madame Victor Noury^[5]
• 2018 — Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians at Rio de Janeiro
• 2024 — elected a member of the Academia Europaea

Selected publications

• Contrôle optimal: theorie et applications. Paris: Vuibert. 2005. ISBN 978-2-7117-2219-8; 250 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) SUDOC 129684163
• with Bernard Bonnard and Ludovic Faubourg: Mécanique céleste et contrôle de systèmes spatiaux. Mathématiques et applications, 51. Springer Verlag. 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-28373-7; xiv + 276 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) SUDOC 094211973