Raphaël Cerf

Raphaël Cerf is a French mathematician.

Cerf studied at the Ecole Normale Superieure, where Gérard Ben Arous supervised his dissertation. He is a professor at the Laboratory for statistical modeling of the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay.

In 2000 he was awarded the EMS Award for important contributions to the percolation theory ( Wulff construction for percolation in three dimensions ), the three-dimensional Ising model and genetic algorithms. For his work on genetic algorithms, he received a prize from the Institut Henri Poincaré. 1999 he was awarded the Rollo Davidson prize. In 2006 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid (On Ising droplets ).

Writings

• The Wulff Crystal in Ising and percolation models. Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1878, Ecole d' Ete de probabilites de Saint -Flour, Volume 34, 2004
• On Cramer's theory in infinite dimensions. Mathematique Societe de France, 2007
• Large Deviations for three dimensional supercritical percolation. Mathematique Societe de France, 2000 ( dissertation)