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15 Facts About Yves Pomeau

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Yves Pomeau, born in 1942, is a French mathematician and physicist, emeritus research director at the CNRS and corresponding member of the French Academy of sciences.

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Yves Pomeau was one of the founders of the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

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Yves Pomeau is the son of literature professor Rene Pomeau.

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Yves Pomeau did his state thesis in plasma physics, almost without any adviser, at the University of Orsay-France in 1970.

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Yves Pomeau was a researcher at the CNRS from 1965 to 2006, ending his career as DR0 in the Physics Department of the Ecole Normale Superieure in 2006.

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Yves Pomeau was a lecturer in physics at the Ecole Polytechnique for two years, then a scientific expert with the Direction generale de l'armement until January 2007.

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Yves Pomeau was Professor, with tenure, part-time at the Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona, from 1990 to 2008.

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Yves Pomeau was a visiting professor at MIT in Applied Mathematics in 1986 and in Physics at UC San Diego in 1993.

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Yves Pomeau has written 3 books, and published around 400 scientific articles.

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Yves Pomeau's work has had a profound influence in several areas of physics, and in particular on the mechanics of continuous media.

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Yves Pomeau's work, nourished by the history of scientific laws, is imaginative and profound.

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Yves Pomeau combines a deep understanding of physical phenomena with varied and elegant mathematical descriptions.

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Yves Pomeau is one of the most recognized French theorists at the interface of physics and mechanics, and his pioneering work has opened up many avenues of research and has been a continuous source of inspiration for several generations of young experimental physicists and theorists worldwide.

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Yves Pomeau was a pioneer of lattice Boltzmann methods and played a historical role in the timeline of computational physics.

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Yves Pomeau analyzed the onset of BEC from the point of view of kinetic theory.