A symposium specific to a tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot will take place at the Ecole Polytechnique on the 17th and 18th of March 2011. Entrance is free but upon registration :

http://events.polytechnique.fr/accueil/hommage-a-benoit-mandelbrot/

Title of the event is “Universalities and fractals”. You can find the absolutely fascinating program at the previous address.
Here are just a few presentations :

• Heinz-Otto Peitgen. University of Bremen and Florida Atlantic University « The Mandelbrot Set: Revitalizing Iteration Theory and Popularizing Mathematics »
• Luciano Pietronero, Universita La Sapienza, Rome « Fractal Cosmology »
• Laurent Calvet, HEC Paris et National Bureau of Economic Research (USA) « Risque extrême et régularité fractale en finance » (Extreme risk and fractal regularity in finance)
• Jens Feder, Physics of Geological Process, Université d’Oslo, “Fractals flow and Fracture”
• Peter Jones, Yale University « Product Formulas for Measures and Applications to Analysis »

By the way of this blog, I much thank the organizing committee as it seems to me that Mandelbrot was one of the greatest genius of the XXth century. I have been much awaiting this kind of tribute in France. That’s why I will deeply regret for a long time the fact that there is no way I can come on the Friday.

Here is a reminder of the few articles I wrote about Mandelbrot:

• Tribute to Benoit Mandelbrot

• Benoit Mandelbrot: Yes, he can save the world !

• Controls vs Chaos, a simple illustration

• Video : The Secret Life of Chaos (BBC 2010)