de la Vallée Poussin Chair

Since its creation in 2001, The de la Vallée Poussin chair has been entrusted each year to a leading mathematical personality. It is held in the form of an international conference of 4 days in Louvain-la-Neuve in the audience of the same name. An inaugural lesson is given on the first day and is followed on the other days by 3 more in-depth presentations on the subject.

The Chair de la Vallée-Poussin owes its name to Charles de la Vallée Poussin, one of the greatest Belgian mathematicians. He was a professor at UCLouvain from 1891 to 1962.

The different recipients of the Chair are

2022	Ieke MOERDIJK Utrecht University
2020/21	Guido DE PHILIPPIS New York University "PDE constrained inclusions" Poster
2019	Alekseev ANTON, Professeur à l'Université de Genève "Low dimensional topology, Lie theory and number theory : from Duflo isomorphism to multiple zeta values" Poster - Invitation
2018	Bernard DACOROGNA, Professeur à l'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne en Suisse Poster - Invitation
2017	George JANELIDZE, Professeur à la University of Cape Town et académicien de la Georgian National Academy of Sciences "From Galois theory to commutative Hopf algebras and finite topological spaces" Poster - Invitation
2016	Raman PARIMALA Emory University (Atlanta) "Arithmetic of Algebraic Groups" Invitation
2015	Dror BAR-NATAN Toronto, Canada "Expansions" Invitation
2014	Yves BENOIST Orsay "Discrete subgroups of SL(3,R)" Invitation
2013	Yann BRENIER CNRS et Ecole Polytechnique France "Convexité cachée en équations aux dérivées partielles non-linéaires" Poster - Invitation
2012	Kurt JOHANSSON KTH Stockholm "Random matrices and related models" Poster - Invitation
2011	Ross STREET Macquarie University, Sydney "Monoidal categories in, and linking, geometry and algebra" Invitation
2010	Pierre CARTIER CNRS - IHES Bures-sur-Yvette "Autour des théories de Galois pour les équations différentielles" Poster - Invitation
2009	Juan Luis VAZQUEZ Universidad Autónoma de Madrid "The theories of nonlinear diffusion" Invitation
2008	Robbert DIJKGRAAF Université d'Amsterdam "The quantum geometry of string theory" Poster - Invitation
2007	Ulrike TILLMANN Université d'Oxford "Topology of moduli spaces" Invitation
2006	Etienne GHYS Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Lyon "Le Groupe symplectique" Invitation
2005	Yakov ELIASHBERG Stanford university "Symplectic Field Theory and Applications" Invitation
2004	Haïm BREZIS University Pierre et Marie Curie, Rutgers University "L'équation de Ginzburg-Landau : une source étonnante de nouvelles idées en Analyse et en Topologie" Invitation
2003	Perci DIACONIS Professor of mathematics and statisics, Stanford university
2002	Jacques TITS Professeur au Collège de France "Immeubles" Invitation