Introduction of the Speaker: 

Professor Ben Arous is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He is also the ICM sectional speaker in 2002. He has received various international distinctions, including the senior Lady Davis Fellowship (Israel), the Rollo Davidson Prize (Imperial College, London), and the Montyon Prize (French Academy of Sciences).

He works on probability theory (stochastic analysis, large deviations, random media and random matrices) and its connections with other domains of mathematics (partial differential equations, dynamical systems), physics (statistical mechanics of disordered media), or industrial applications, like Data Science recently.  He is mainly interested in the time evolution of complex systems, and the universal aspects of their long time behavior.