CIRM and the University of Aix-Marseille have created a research chair in the name of Jean Morlet (1931-2007), the French geophysicist who pioneered wavelet analysis.
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The Jean-Morlet Chair is a scientific collaboration between CIRM (CNRS-SMF) and Aix-Marseille University (AMU), with financial support from the City of Marseille. Two international calls for tenders are launched each year to recruit researchers with an international reputation in their field. Over a period of one semester for each Chair, a researcher from a foreign institution comes in residence to CIRM to propose a complete scientific program in collaboration with a local project leader.
To find out more: the Morlet Chair WEBSITE.
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The Chair Morlet has been hosted by the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques(CIRM, Luminy, France) since its creation in 2013. The Chair is named in honour of Jean Morlet (1931-2007). He was an engineer at the French oil company Elf (now Total) and, together with the physicist Alex Grossman, conducted pioneering work in wavelet analysis. This theory has since become a building block of modern mathematics. It was at CIRM that they met on several occasions, and the center then played host to some of the key conferences in this field.
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Appointments to the Jean-Morlet Chair are made to worldclass researchers based outside France and who work in collabo ration with local project leaders in order to conduct original and ambitious scientific programs.The Chair is supported financially by CIRM, Aix-Marseille Université and the City of Marseille.
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A key feature of the Chair is that it does not focus solely on the research themes developed by Jean Morlet. The idea is to support the freedom of pioneers in mathematical sciences and to nurture the enthusiasm that comes from opening new avenues of research.
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CIRM : a beacon for international cooperation Situated at the heart of the Parc des Calanques, an area of outstanding natural beauty, CIRM is one of the largest conference centers dedicated to mathematical and related sciences in the world, with close to 3500 visitors per year. Jointly supervised by SMF (the French Mathematical Society) and CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), CIRM has been a hub for international research in mathematics since 1981. CIRM’s raison d’être is to be a venue that fosters exchanges, pioneering research in mathematics in interaction with other sciences and the dissemination of knowledge to the younger scientific community.
