Franck Barthe

Franck Barthe is a French mathematician.^[1] He was awarded the European Congress of Mathematics (ECM) prize in 2004.^[2] He is working as a professor of mathematics at Paul Sabatier University.

Franck Barthe
At the MFO, 2015
Alma mater	University of Marne-la-Vallée
Awards	EMS Prize 2004, Prix Jacques Herbrand 2005
Scientific career
Fields	Probability theory
Institutions	University of Toulouse
Thesis	(1997)
Doctoral advisors	Alain Pajor, Bernard Maurey
Website	http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~barthe

Work

Franck Barthe is known for his reverse form of the Brascamp-Lieb inequality.^[3] With Keith M. Ball, Shiri Artstein, and Assaf Naor, he solved Shannon's problem of the monotonic entropy increase of sums of random variables.^[4]

Awards

In 2004, he received the EMS Prize (prize presentation: isoperimetric inequalities, probability measures and convex geometry) for his leading role in the application of mass-theoretical transport techniques.^[2]

In 2005, he received the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand.