Pisier, Gilles

Gilles Pisier is Emeritus Professor at the University of Paris VI, where he worked from 1981 to 2010. He is also a Distinguished Professor and holder of the Owen Chair in Mathematics at Texas A&M University. His international prizes include the Salem Prize in harmonic analysis (1979), the Ostrowski Prize (1997), and the Stefan Banach Medal (2001). He is a member of the Paris Academie des Sciences, a Foreign member of the Polish and Indian Academies of Science, and a Fellow of both the IMS and the AMS. He is also the author of several books, notably The Volume of Convex Bodies and Banach Space