Jean-Bernard Lasserre's short course
Organizer
Speaker
Jean-Bernard Lasserre
Time
Tuesday, July 1, 2025 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Venue
A3-3-301
Online
Zoom 537 192 5549
(BIMSA)
Speaker Intro
Jean Bernard Lasserre is a leading mathematician and SIAM Fellow, affiliated with LAAS-CNRS, the Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), and the Institute of Mathematics at the University of Toulouse. His research spans optimization, probability, statistics, and dynamical systems, with particular emphasis on applications in machine learning, data analysis, inverse problems, and nonlinear partial differential equations. He is especially known for his pioneering contributions to the duality between moment problems and positive polynomials, as well as for advancing the use of the Christoffel function in data science and its connections to diverse mathematical fields.
He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM 2018) and has received numerous prestigious international awards, including the John von Neumann Theory Prize, the Lagrange Prize, the Khachiyan Prize, and the Grand Prize of the INRIA–French Academy of Sciences. He currently holds the Chair in “Polynomial Optimization” at ANITI, one of France’s national institutes for artificial intelligence. His recent international activities include leadership roles in the EU-funded POEMA and TENORS networks, as well as the DESCARTES project (CNRS@CREATE, Singapore).