Philippe Baron (1932-2009). Points de suspension

Obituary: Hans-Walter Bandemer (1932-2009)

Professor Hans-Walter Bandemer died on 15th November 2009, aged 77 in his home-town Halle (Saale). He was one of the most creative statisticians of the former German Democratic Republic (G.D.R.), as well as the reunified Germany. He can be considered as the father of the theory of optimal experimental design for Germany, and later, starting in the 1980s, he was one of the most active and popula...

Directeur de Thèse: M. Philippe Jorrand

Genèse de la psychiatrie. Les premiers écrits de Philippe Pinel

cannot tell, just by looking at it, what the status of the work is. Comparison with the Latin and with earlier translations reveals that it can lay claim only to being a "version", and a very idiosyncratic one at that. Certainly it makes reasonably smooth reading, but if we are interested in what Harvey said or meant, it will still be necessary to go back to the Latin; and going back to the Lat...

Jean-Philippe VERT Mines ParisTech/Institut Curie Directeur de thèse

Sujet de la thèse: Algorithmes d'apprentissage et logiciels pour la statistique, avec applicationsà la bioinformatique — Learning algorithms and statistical software, with applications to bioinformatics Thèse présentée et soutenuè a Paris le 20 novembre 2012 devant le jury composé de:

de Travail du Centre d ’ Economie de la Sorbonne On the continuous representation of quasi - concave mappings by their upper level sets Philippe BICH 2009

we provide a continuous representation of quasi-concave mappings by their upper level sets. A possible motivation is the extension to quasi-concave mappings of a result by Ulam and Hyers, which states that every approximately convex mapping can be approximated by a convex mapping. Keyword: quasi-concave, upper level set AMS classification: 47N10