Jean Jacques MOREAU
Born: 31 th. July 1923, Blaye, France

Principal degrees:

Agrégé de Mathématiques
Docteur ès Sciences Mathématiques, University of Paris

Principal positions:
Researcher at CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), Paris.
Professor of Mathematical Methods of Physics, Université de Poitiers, France.
Invited Scientist, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Canada.
Professor of General Mechanics, Université Montpellier II, France.

Currently:
Emeritus Professor at Université Montpellier II and a member of LMGC (Laboratory of Mechanics and Civil Engineering), Université Montpellier II ­ CNRS, Montpellier.

Founded in 1971, with C. Castaing and M. Valadier, the "Groupe d'Analyse Convexe" in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Montpellier. This group later evolved, under the direction of H. Attouch, to become the present Laboratoire ACSIOM, home of "Journal of Convex Analysis".

Research subjects:
Fluid Dynamics.
Convex Analysis.
Nonsmooth Mechanics and related numerical methods.
Granular Media.

Some typical publications:

Bilan dynamique d'un écoulement rotationnel,
J. Math. Pures Appl. (9) vol. 31, 1952, pp. 355­375; vol 32, 1953, pp. 1­78.

Proximité et dualité dans un espace hilbertien,
Bull. Soc. Math. de France, vol. 93, 1965, pp. 273-299.

Fonctionnelles convexes,
Lecture Notes, Séminaire sur les Equations aux Dérivées Partielles,
Collège de France, Paris, 1967 (multigraph 108 pages). Printed 2d. edition, Laboratoire Lagrange, Rome, 2003.

On unilateral constraints, friction and plasticity,
in: (G. Capriz \& G. Stampacchia, eds.), New variational techniques in mathematical
physics, C.I.M.E. II. ciclo 1973, Edizioni Cremonese, Roma, 1974, pp. 171­322.

Evolution problem associated with a moving convex set in a Hilbert space,
J. Diff. Equ., vol. 26, 1977, pp. 347­374.

An expression of classical dynamics,
in: (H. Attouch, J.-P. Aubin, F. Clarke & I. Ekeland, eds.) Analyse Non Lineaire, Gauthier-Villars, Paris, 1989, pp.1- 48 (also available as : Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Analyse non linéaire, vol.6, 1989, suppl., pp. 1­48).

Unilateral contact and dry friction in finite freedom dynamics,
in: (J. J. Moreau & P. D. Panagiotopoulos, eds.) Nonsmooth Mechanics and Applications, CISM Courses and Lectures, n° 302, Springer-Verlag, Wien, New York, 1988, pp. 1­82.

An introduction to unilateral dynamics,
in: (M. Frémond & F. Maceri, eds.) Novel approaches in Civil Engineering, Springer-Verlag, to appear, 2003.

Books:
Mécanique Générale, Masson & Cie., Paris, vol. 1 (1968), vol. 2 (1971).

Nonsmooth Mechanics and Applications (ed. with P. D. Panagiotopoulos), CISM Courses and Lectures, n° 302, Springer-Verlag, Wien, 1988.

Topics in Nonsmooth Mechanics, (ed. with P. D. Panagiotopoulos and G. Strang), Birkhäuser, Basel, 1988.

Contact Mechanics, (ed. with M. Raous and M. Jean), Plenum Press, New York, 1995.