Sylvie Méléard facts for kids
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Sylvie Méléard
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Méléard, 2016
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| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | Pierre and Marie Curie University |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | École Polytechnique Paris Nanterre University |
| Doctoral advisor | Nicole El Karoui |
Sylvie Méléard is a mathematician from France. She studies how likely things are to happen (this is called probability theory). She also looks at things that change randomly over time, like the path of a tiny particle. She helps lead a science magazine called Stochastic Processes and Their Applications.
Her Journey in Math
Sylvie grew up in Picardy, France. Her parents were both high school biology teachers. Even when she was just ten years old, she knew she wanted to be a mathematician!
She went to high school at Lycée Janson-de-Sailly. From 1977 to 1981, she studied at a special school called the École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses. People there knew her for knitting during her classes!
After finishing her studies in 1981, she earned her doctorate degree in 1984. She completed this at Pierre and Marie Curie University with her advisor, Nicole El Karoui.
Sylvie started working at the University of Le Mans. Later, in 1989, she moved to Pierre and Marie Curie University. She became a professor at Paris Nanterre University in 1992. Then, in 2006, she joined the École Polytechnique, another famous French school.
What She's Known For
Sylvie Méléard has written important books about math. With Vincent Bansaye, she wrote Stochastic Models for Structured Populations: Scaling Limits and Long Time Behavior in 2015. This book talks about how math can help us understand groups of living things.
She also wrote Modèles aléatoires en ecologie et evolution, which means 'Random models in ecology and evolution', in 2016. This book uses math to explain things in nature and how living things change over time.
Since 2018, she has been the main editor for the science magazine Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. This means she helps decide which articles get published. She is also an important member of the Bernoulli Society, a group for people who study probability and statistics.
Awards and Honors
In September 2018, a special meeting was held to celebrate Sylvie Méléard's 60th birthday. It took place at the Institut Henri Poincaré and focused on how populations change.
In 2021, she was chosen to be a member of the Academia Europaea. This is a group of top scientists and scholars from across Europe.
