Position
Directeur de recherche at CEA
Scientific publications
Research subjects
At present: Statisical physics, Mathematical physics
- Combinatorics
- Random maps
- Arctic curves
In the more or less distant past :
Renormalization of rigid membranes (fluid and polymerized)
Self-avoiding membrane theory: renormalization of a non-local theory
Folding of regular and random lattices: link with the coloring of these networks
The meander problem: folding of a self-avoiding chain
Compact loop gases on random lattices
Lorentzian gravitation and semi-random lattices
Hard objects on random lattices
More recently (since 2001):
Combinatorial methods for the enumeration of maps
And even more recently (since 2017):
Calculation of arctic curves in avoiding path/tiling models
Resume
I was born on September 12, 1964 in Châteauroux (Indre), France.
Here are some details of my studies up to the thesis:
1982: baccalauréat série C (with distinction)
1982-84: mathématiques supérieures/ mathématiques spéciales at lycée Louis-le-Grand Paris
1984: Ecole Normale Supérieure (rue d’Ulm, option physics)
1984-86:
licence de physique de l’université Paris VI (with distinction)
maîtrise de physique fondamentale de l’université Paris VI (with distinction)
D.E.A. de physique théorique de l’université Paris VI (with distinction, 1st)
My thesis at the IPhT from 1986 to 1989:
university: Paris VI
supervisor: F. David
subject: Statistical physics and critical properties of membranes
defended: June 25, 1989
My Post-doc in Santa Barbara from July 1989 to October 1990:
location: Materials Department, College of Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
director: P. Pincus
I have been a researcher at CEA’s Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT) since July 1989.
My habilitation:
university: Paris VI
subject: Statistical physics of constrained models on regular and random layttices: from foldings to meanders
defended: May 10, 2004
Thesis supervision:
2001/2004 : supervision with Philippe Di Francesco of the PhD thesis of Jérémie Bouttier
2023- : supervision with Jérémie Bouttier and Guillaume Chapuy of the PhD thesis of Hugo Manet