Prof. Dr. Tristan Rivière

Tristan Rivière has been Full Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich since february 2003.

Prof. T. Rivière was born on November 1967 in Brest, France. He studied mathematics at the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris. He received in 1993 his doctorate in mathematics from the University Paris VI with a dissertation on "Harmonic maps between manifolds" and achieved in 1997 his Habilitation at the Paris-Orsay University. In 1992 was appointed as Chargé de recherches at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France. He visited the Courant Institut of Mathematical Sciences, New-York University, as associate professor in 1999-2000, and joined the mathematics department of the ETH Zurich in 2001.

His research work concerns the analysis of partial differential equations arising in physics (liquid cristals, supraconductivity, Bose-Einstein condensation, micromagnetism, phase transitions in general...) and in geometry (harmonic map equations, Yang-Mills fields, minimal Manifolds,curvature flows...) with an emphasis on the study of blow-up phenomenons, energy quantization and singularity formation generated by the non-linearities of these equations.

In 1996 he received the Bronze Medal of the CNRS France. He was an invited speaker to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing in 2002 and was awarded the Stampacchia prize in 2003.