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About François Lalonde
- François Lalonde (born 17 September 1955) is a Canadian mathematician, specializing in symplectic geometry and symplectic topology. Lalonde received from the Université de Montréal in 1976, at the age of 20, his bachelor's degree in physics and, after a year to complete the bachelor in mathematics in 1977, he received in 1979 his master's degree in logic and theoretical computer science (complexity theory and NP-completeness).
- In 1985 he received his doctorate (Doctorat d'Etat) in mathematics from the Université de Paris-Sud in Orsay becoming one of the rare candidates obtaining the Doctorat d'Etat before the age of thirty.
- He then was an NSERC University Research Fellow at Université du Québec à Montréal where he became full professor in 1991 until 2001.
- He is professor at the Université de Montréal since 2001, holding the Canada Research Chair in symplectic topology.He has held invited positions at many institutions, including the IHES (1983–1985), Harvard University (1989–1990), the Université de Strasbourg (1990), the University of Tel Aviv (1997 and 1999), the École Polytechnique (2001-2002), Stanford University (2005), the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2008), and the Université d'Aix-Marseille (2015).With Octav Cornea he developed a new homology (cluster homology), leading to a new universal Floer homology for pairs of Lagrangian submanifolds of a symplectic manifold.
- He has also collaborated with Dusa McDuff and Leonid Polterovich. He became Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1997, Fellow of the Fields Institute in 2001.
- From 2000 to 2001 he was a Killam Fellow.
- From 2004 to 2008 and from 2011 to 2013 he was the director of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM), the premier scientific institute in Canada founded in 1968.
- The members of his institute won the "Nobel Prize" in computer sciences (Turing Prize, Yoshua Bengio) in 2019 and the Wolf Prize in physics in 2018 (Gilles Brassard), considered as the most prestigious prize in physics after the Nobel, leading usually to the Nobel prize in physics.
- He (co)founded several institutions, namely the Institut des Sciences Mathématiques (McGill, Montréal, UQAM, Concordia, Laval, Sherbrooke universities), the first unified doctoral school in the world with 250 professors, the Centre interuniversitaire de recherches en géométrie différentielle et en topologie (CIRGET), the Institut transdisciplinaire de recherches en informatique quantique (INTRIQ) with Gilles Brassard and Michael Hilke, the Unité mixte internationale (UMI), a joint venture between the CNRS (France) and the Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM), and the journal Annales mathématiques du Québec (Springer). In 2005, he was the Stanford Distinguished Lecturer and the Andreas Floer Memorial Lecturer (UC Berkeley).
- In 2006 he was an Invited Speaker with talk Lagrangian submanifolds: from the local model to the cluster complex at the ICM in Madrid.
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