Curriculum

Current position: Professor at Toulouse 3 University since 1991 (Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, UMR CNRS 5219)

Education : Habilitation (1990, Paul Sabatier University, reviewed by J. Ball, I. Ekeland, P. Marcellini),
Ph.D Thesis (1982, Paul Sabatier University)

Previous academic positions:

1988 -1991 : Maître de Conférences (associate Prof.), ENSEEIHT
1984-1988 : Assistant Professor, Université Paul Sabatier
1976-1984 : Professor in high schools

Invited professor for at least one month: S.I.S.S.A., Italy (1991), TU of Chemnitz, Germany (1998), TIFR, Bangalore, India (2002), Wayne State University, USA (2005), 2 months at INDAM, Roma (2006), TIFR, Bangalore, India (2007), Wuhan, China (2010), China (2012, Beijing, Chendu), Roma (2012).

Invited doctoral courses in Universities and Summer schools.

  1. Professor of the first course of the French-Indian Cyber-University in Science, FICUS project supported by the French and Indian ministries of education and research), October – December 2003 and October – December 2004.
    http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~raymond/FICUS.html
    http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/~raymond/book-ficus.pdf
  2. Professor in the Master of Applied Mathematics, ENIT Tunis, January 2002 and January 2003
  3. ‘First thematic programme of the IISc Mathematics on Scientific computation, Numerical Analysis and Applications’, ‘Control and stabilization of partial differential equations, numerical approximation of control problems’, July 4-15, 2005.
  4. INDAM (La Sapienza, Roma), doctoral course, 25h, March-April 2006, ‘Feedback control of the instationary incompressible Navier-Stokes equations’.
  5. CIMPA School, Optimizacion Dinamica, Tandil, Argentine, August 30 – September 10, 2010, organized by Pablo Lotito (UNICEN and CONICET).
  6. Trivandrum
  7. Bangalore

Topics of research : Partial differential equations, Numerical analysis and control theory, control of fluid flows (Navier-Stokes, boundary layer models). Analysis and control of fluid-structure models

Ph.D. advisor. 20 theses, 2 Habilitations, 5 postdocs, currently 1 thesis.

Publications: 85 papers in international journals, 15 proceedings of conference, 3 scientific popularizations.

Recent responsabilities and scientific activities.

  • Deputy chairman of UMR 5640, Math. For Industry and Physics (january 2001 – january 2004)
  • President of the Hiring committee in Applied Mathematics at Toulouse 3 University (March 2005 – August 2008)
  • Expert in the scientific committee at INRIA-Lorraine ‘Modelling, information and numerical systems’ in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 (until 2013)
  • Expert for ANR (2006, 2007), for CNRS (2007, evaluation committee), for DSPT1 (french Ministery of Education and Research, 2007), Fondecyt, FWF (Austrian, Sc. Foundation), ERC, Advanced Grants (2008), FCT (Portugal, 2009).
  • Expert for AERES (French research evaluation agency), Member of a committee in 2007, President of a committee in February 2011.
  • Deputy chairman of the Mathematics Institute of Toulouse, UMR 5219, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT), from January 2009 up to January 2011.
  • Co-director of a joint unit research in Applied Mathematics between France and India (CNRS and DST), since 2012.

Management of projects.

  • French coordinator of a CMCU-project ‘Active control of fluid flows’ with ENIT-Tunis (2002-2005)
  • French coordinator of a CEFIPRA-project (France-India) 3701 B, Control of systems of partial differential equations, 2008-2011.
  • Coordinator of a team within the ANR projects CORMORED (08-BLAN, 2008-2012, Control of fluid flows) and CISIFS 09-BLAN-0213-03 (2009-2013, Control and Identification of Fluid-Structure Interaction problems).
  • Coordinator of a team within the project ECOSEA (Estimation and Control of Aerodynamic Fluid Flows), supported by Aeronautic and Space Foundation (2011-2012).
  • Coordinator of a team within the European Research Group CONEDP (GDRE supported by CNRS and INDAM) Control of PDE.

Editorial activities.

  • Associate Editor for SIAM J. Control and Optimization since January 2008.
  • Associate Editor for ESAIM COCV since January 2009.
  • Associate Editor for Mathematics and its Applications (Annals of AOSR), since January 2009.
  • Associate Editor for MCRF (Mathematical Control and Related Fields) since July 2010, new journal of the AIMS (Jean-Michel Coron and Xu Zhang are the Editors in Chief).
  • Associate Editor with M. Thera of a special volume of Set-Valued and Variational Analysis,
    Vol. 18, N°3-4, 2010.

Industrial partnerships.

  • With CNES (French Space Agency, 1992-1995), with IFP (French Pretroleum Institute, 1996-1995), with ONERA-Toulouse and ONERA-Chatillon (several projects between 1998 and 2007). EADS Fundation (since 2010 up 2014)

Projects.

  • Project funded by EADS Fundation (since 2010 up 2014). ECOSEA (Estimation, Control and Stabilization of AErodynamic flows)
  • ANR Projects. CORMORED (08-BLAN, 2008-2012, (Contrôle Optimal et Robuste par Modèles d’Ordre Réduit d’Ecoulements Décollés) et CISIFS 09-BLAN-0213-03 (2009-2013, Contrôle et Identification de Système d’Interaction Fluide Structure)
  • Project funded by the network ‘RTRA Aéronautique et Espace’ (Project FloCon in 2013, Flow Control, Project CARPE 2014-2017, )

Miscelleaneous.

  • PEDR (bonus for research activity) since 1990 and PES (bonus for scientific excellence) renewed in 2012.
  • I have been awarded the SIAG/CST 2011 Best SICON Paper Prize.

Organization of workshops and conferences. Recent events

  • Co-organizer of a Summer School, Contrôle d’écoulements – Aspects théoriques et Numériques, Toulouse – 5-9 Septembre 2011. http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/Control-of-NSE/
  • Principal organizer of the workshop, Control of Fluid-Structure Systems and Inverse Problems, June 25-28, 2012. http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/TW2012/
  • Co-organizer of the IFCAM Kick-Off Meeting,Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis, November 19-21, 2012. http://math.unice.fr/~auroux/IFCAM2012/
  • Co-coordinator with Sylvain Ervedoza, of the ‘CIMI-Chair on PDE’ by E. Zuazua, Mars-July 2014. Co-organizer with Sylvain Ervedoza and Enrique Zuazua of the Workshop ‘New trends in Modeling, Control and Inverse Problems’ June 16-19, 2014, organized within the ‘CIMI-Chair on PDE’.