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 de laVallée-Poussin chair owes its name to Charles de la Vallée Poussin, one of the greatest Belgian mathematicians. He was a professor at UCL from 1891 to 1962.
The different holders of the Chair are
| 2019 |
Alekseev ANTON, |
| 2018 | Bernard DACOROGNA, Professeur à l'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne en Suisse - lien |
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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" - lien
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| 2016 | Raman PARIMALA Emory University (Atlanta) "Arithmetic of Algebraic Groups" - lien |
| 2015 | Dror BAR-NATAN Toronto, Canada "Expansions" - lien |
| 2014 | Yves BENOIST Orsay "Discrete subgroups of SL(3,R)" - lien |
| 2013 | Yann BRENIER CNRS et Ecole Polytechnique France "Convexité cachée en équations aux dérivées partielles non-linéaires" - lien |
| 2012 | Kurt JOHANSSON KTH Stockholm "Random matrices and related models" - lien |
| 2011 | Ross STREET Macquarie University, Sydney "Monoidal categories in, and linking, geometry and algebra" - lien |
| 2010 | Pierre CARTIER CNRS - IHES Bures-sur-Yvette "Autour des théories de Galois pour les équations différentielles" |
| 2009 | Juan Luis VAZQUEZ Universidad Autónoma de Madrid "The theories of nonlinear diffusion" |
| 2008 | Robbert DIJKGRAAF Université d'Amsterdam "The quantum geometry of string theory" |
| 2007 | Ulrike TILLMANN Université d'Oxford "Topology of moduli spaces" |
| 2006 | Etienne GHYS Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Lyon "Le Groupe symplectique" |
| 2005 | Yakov ELIASHBERG Stanford university "Symplectic Field Theory and Applications" |
| 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" |
| 2003 | Perci DIACONIS Professor of mathematics and statisics, Stanford university |
| 2002 | Jacques TITS Professeur au Collège de France "Immeubles" |