Emmanuel Trélat

Emmanuel Trélat is a French mathematician.

Education and career

Emmanuel Trélat was admitted at École normale supérieure de Cachan in 1995 and obtained the agrégation in 1998. In 2000, he obtained a doctorate under the direction of Bernard Bonnard at the University of Burgundy at Dijon with thesis titled Étude asymptotique et transcendance de la fonction valeur en contrôle optimal; catégorie log-exp en géométrie sous-Riemannienne dans le cas Martinet. In 2001 he was appointed an assistant professor at the University of Paris-Sud, where he obtained in 2005 his habilitation Contrôle en dimension finie et infinie. In 2006 he was appointed a professor at the University of Orleans. Since 2011 he has been a professor at Sorbonne Université at the. From 2015 to 2019 he was the director of the. Since 2020, he is the director of the.
Emmanuel Trélat's research focuses on control theory in finite and infinite dimensions, sub-Riemannian geometry, image analysis, domain optimization. He is also a specialist in numerical methods in optimal control, particularly in aerospace applications.

Honors and awards

2006 — SIAM Outstanding Paper Prize
2010 — Prix Maurice-Audin
2011 — elected a member of the Institut universitaire de France
2012 — Felix Klein Prize
2014 — Prix Blaise-Pascal
2016 — Prix Madame Victor Noury
2018 — Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians at Rio de Janeiro
2024 — elected a member of the Academia Europaea

Selected publications

with Bernard Bonnard and Ludovic Faubourg: