Marc Yor

Marc Yor
Born	July 24, 1949 (1949-07-24) (age 62)
Nationality	France
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Paris VI University
Alma mater	Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan
Doctoral advisor	Pierre Priouret
Doctoral students	Fabrice Baudoin Jean Bertoin Jean-François Le Gall

Marc Yor (born July 24, 1949) is a French mathematician well-known for his work on stochastic processes, especially properties of semimartingales, Brownian motion and other Lévy processes, the Bessel processes, and their applications to mathematical finance.^[1] Since 1981 he is a professor^[2] at the Paris VI University in Paris, France.

He is a recipient of several awards, including the Humboldt Prize^{[citation needed]}, the Montyon Prize,^[3] and was awarded the Ordre National du Merite^[3] by the French Republic. He is a member^[3] of the French Academy of Sciences. His students include such notables names as Jean-Francois Le Gall^[4] and Jean Bertoin.^[5]

References

1. ^ Keynote speaker at a recent conference
2. ^ His webpage at the University of Paris
3. ^ ^{a b c} Official biography at the French Academy website
4. ^ Math genealogy
5. ^ Math genealogy

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