Yuri F. Bilu

Curriculum Vitae

September 4, 2009

Personal

Date and Place of Birth August 29, 1964, Minsk, U.S.S.R.
Citizenship Israeli, French
Address A2X, Université Bordeaux I
351, cours de la Libération
33 405 Talence cedex, FRANCE
E-mail yuri@math.u-bordeaux1.fr
Web Site http://www.math.u-bordeaux1.fr/~yuri/

Degrees

B. Sc. & M. Sc. Byelorussian State University, Minsk, 1986
Advisor Prof. V.G. Sprindzhuk
Thesis Effective Analysis of a Class of Diophantine Equations
Ph. D. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, 1994
Advisor Prof. D. Berend
Thesis Effective Analysis of Integral Points on Algebraic Curves
Habilitation University of Basel, 2000
Thesis    Diophantine Analysis and Additive Theory

Employment History

Since 2000 Professor, A2X, Université Bordeaux I
1998 - 2000 Assistant (Privat-Dozent since June 2000)
Mathematisches Institut, Universität Basel
1996 - 1997 Researcher
Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik, ETH Zürich
1995 - 1996 Researcher
Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik, Bonn
1994 - 1995 Researcher
Mathematisches Institut, Universität Göttingen
1993 - 1994 Researcher
Mathématiques Stochastiques, Université Bordeaux 2
1990 - 1993 Assistant
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel
1986 - 1990 Programmer, "Belgosproject", Minsk

Short visits

June 1994 Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia
Venice, Italy
October - December 1995 Department of Mathematics
Macquarie University, NSW, Australia
April - May 1996 Institut für Mathematik
Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, Austria
May - October 1996 Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
December 1996 Fakultät für Mathematik
Universität Bielefeld, Germany
October 1997 - March 1998
(and many times later)
Institut für Mathematik
Technische Universität Graz, Austria
January - February 2002 Mathematisches Institut
Universität Basel, Switzerland
April - March 2002 Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics
Vienna, Austria
September 2002 Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
May - June 2003 Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Morelia, Mexico
October - November 2004 Forschungsinstitut für Mathematik
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
February-March 2005 Department of Mathematics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
April-May 2005 Mathematisches Institut
Universität Basel, Switzerland
June-July 2005 Centro di Ricerca Matematica "Ennio De Giorgi"
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
April 2006 Centre de recherches mathématiques,
Université de Montréal, Canada
November 2006 Institut für Mathematik
Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
February-March 2007 Dipartimento di Matematica,
Università di Pisa, Italy
February-March 2008 Department of Mathematics
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel
October-December 2008 Centre de recherches mathématiques,
Université de Montréal, Canada
February-March 2009 Hausdorff Center for Mathematics,
Universität Bonn, Germany
August 2009 Instituto de Matemáticas, UNAM, Morelia, Mexico

Selected Conference Talks

September 1989 Number Theory School, Minsk
June 1993 "Additive Number Theory", CIRM, Marseille
July 1993 "Arithmetic Of Elliptic Curves", Crete
September 1993 "Diophantische Approximationen", Oberwolfach
September 1995 The annual DMV meeting, Ulm
February 1996 "Combinatorial Number Theory"
DIMACS, Rutgers Univ., NJ, USA
July 1996 "Algebra", IMPA, Rio de Janeiro
July 1997 "Number Theory" (in honor of Andrzej Schinzel)
Zakopane, Poland
September 1997 "Analytic Number Theory", CIRM, Marseille
May 1998 "Diophantine Approximations", CIRM, Marseille
September 1998 "Diophantine Analysis and Algebraic Number Theory", Graz
October 1998 "Numbers, Information and Complexity"
(in honor of Rudolf Ahlswede), Bielefeld
July 1999 "Paul Erdös and his Mathematics", Budapest
September 1999 "Number Theory and Diophantine Geometry"
(in honor of Alan Baker), Zürich
April 2000 "Diophantische Approximationen", Oberwolfach
July 2001 First joint AMS-SMF meeting, Lyon
October 2001 "Constructive Methods in Diophantine Equations", Debrecen
May 2002 "Diophantine Approximations", Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna
May 2002 "Diophantine Approximations", CIRM, Marseille
September 2002 "Explicit algebraic number theory", Lorentz Center, Leiden
November 2002 Séminaire Bourbaki, IHP, Paris
July 2003 Journées Arithmétiques, Graz (plenary talk)
July 2003 "Explicit number theory", Oberwolfach (mini-course)
August 2003 "Diophantine approximations" (in honor of Robert Tijdeman)
Lorentz Center, Leiden
October 2003 "Diophantine problems" (in honor of Wolfgang Schmidt)
Erwin Schrödinger Institute, Vienna
June 2004 "Diophantine geometry", Euler Institute, Sankt-Petersburg
June 2005 "Diophantine geometry", SNS Pisa (2 talks)
February 2006 Colloquium Di Giorgi, SNS Pisa
September 2006 "Diophantine approximations", CIRM, Marseille
November 2006 Séminaire Bourbaki, IHP, Paris
April 2007 "Diophantine approximations", Oberwolfach, Geermany
October 2007 "Diophantine approximations", CIRM, Marseille
October 2007 "Explicit Methods in Number Theory" (dedicated to H. Cohen), Bordeaux
December 2007 "Additive Combinatorics", IAS, Princeton
June 2009 "Diophantine Geometry Into the Millenium (dedicated to Gisbert Wüstholz)", ETH Zürich
June 2009 "École doctorale de géométrie diophantienne", Rennes (minicourse)
August 2009 "EMALCA", Zacatecas, Mexico (minicourse)

Professional Service

A Selection of Courses Taught

Ben-Gurion University
(1990-1993)
Discrete Mathematics
Differential Equations
Mathematical Logic and Set Theory
Partial Differential Equations
University of Graz (1996) Selected topics in Number Theory
University of Basel
(1998-2000)
Functional analysis
Higher Arithmetic 1 & 2
Probability and Statistics 1 & 2
University of Bordeaux 1
(since 2000)
Algebra
Groups, Integration, Probability
Advanced Number Theory
Diophantine Analysis on Algebraic Curves
Cyclotomic Fields
Diophantine Approximations
Analytic Number Theory

Awards

1993 Wolf Scholarship, Israel
1993 Bourse Chateaubriand du Gouvernement Français, France
1997 Lise Meitner Postdoctoral Fellowship, Austria
since 2001 Prime d'encadrement et de recherche, France

Languages

Russian, Hebrew, English, German, French.