Franck Barthe
Professeur
de Mathématiques
Adresse: Equipe de Statistique et
Probabilités
Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT) CNRS
UMR
5219
Université Paul-Sabatier
31062 Toulouse cedex 9, FRANCE
E-mail: franck.LASTNAME AT
math.univ-toulouse.fr
Bureau: 230 bâtiment 1R1
Tel: +33 5 61 55 82 06
Fax:+33 5 61 55 60 89
Enseignement:
Recherche:
Main research interests:
- Geometry of convex bodies, Brunn-Minkowski theory,
extremal
problems, volumes of sections and projections.
- Convolution inequalities, Prékopa-Leindler type
inequalities, applications of mass transport and semigroup
interpolation.
- Geometry in Gauss space.
- Isoperimetric inequalities for measures, functional
versions,
comparison theorems for products.
- Concentration of measure, Sobolev inequalities,
hypercontractivity, Hardy type criteria.
- Entropy produced by convolution, rate of convergence in
the
entropic central limit theorem.
- Probabilistic study of optimization problems.
Publication
list from MathSciNet.
Postgraduate students:
Sacha Sodin (Jan.-March 2006), Zhengliang Zhang (PostDoc, Sept
2006-Feb.2007),
Nolwen Huet
(PHD Sept. 2006-Dec. 2009), Chiara Bianchini (Sept.-Dec. 2007),
Pawel Wolff
(PostDoc, Sept. 2007-Feb 2008), David Alonso-Guttierez (Jan.-March
2008), Yohann de Castro
(PHD, Sept. 2008-Dec. 2011), Julie Champion (PHD
started in 2009), Manuel Weberndorfer (Feb.-May 2012), Benoît Huou (PHD started in 2012).
Professional
activities:
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