Tristan Rivière
Professor
Department of Mathematics
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Switzerland
Biography
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.
Research Interest
Analysis of partial differential equations arising in physics and in geometry
