Paul Baird

Professeur

Département de Mathématiques
Université de Brest
6, Avenue Victor Le Gorgeu
B.P. 809
29285 BREST Cedex
FRANCE

E-mail: Paul.Baird@univ-brest.fr
Office: H103
Office Phone: (0)2 98 01 67 20
Fax: (0)2 98 01 61 28

Research Interests

Harmonic Maps
Differential Geometry and Topology
Geometric flows
More recently, combinatorial structures; I am particularly interested in the question of how geometry and dynamics emerge from a relational universe.

Research Papers

Selected Publications

Doctoral Students

Jean-Marie Burel completed his thesis in September 2000, entitled Structures géométriques sur les variétés et applications harmoniques. He obtained a postdoctoral fellowship as part of the European EDGE program to continue his research at the University of Lund in Sweden and currently holds a position at the University of Dundee.

Dantouma Kamissoko completed his thesis in October 2001, entitled Applications semi-conformes, l'optique géométrique et les applications harmoniques. He obtained a post of ATER at the University of Bretagne Occidentale, then at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie at Brest. He now has a post of Maître Assistant at Bamako, Mali.

Laurent Danielo completed his thesis in March 2004, entitled Structures conformes, harmonicité et métriques d'Einstein. He obtained a post of ATER at the University of Bretagne Occidentale for two years and currently teaches in the Academy of Versailles.

Seddik Ouakkas completed his thesis in June 2008 under the joint direction of myself and Ali Fardoun (Brest), entitled Applications biharmoniques : déformations conformes et théorèmes de Liouville. He is now Maître de Conférences at the University of Saida in Algeria.

Mohammad Wehbe completed his thesis in November 2009, entitled Aspects twistoriels des applications semi-conformes. He subsequently obtained a post at the IUFM at Rennes and now has posts at the Université Libanaise and the Hariri Canadian University in Lebanon.

Conference July 2008

Conformal Geometry: invariant theory and the variational method

Conference May 2005

Analytic Aspects of Problems in Riemannian Geometry

The book : Analytic aspects of problems in Riemannian geometry: Elliptic PDEs, solitons and computer imaging based on themes of the conference has been published by the Société Mathématique de France, see here for details.

Conference July 2002

Harmonic maps, minimal surfaces and geometric flows

A book based on certain themes of the conference is published by Birkhauser.Click here for their publicity.

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