!!Viviane Baladi - Biography
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Viviane Baladi (born May 23, 1963) is a mathematician who works as a director of research, classe exceptionnelle,  at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France.  Her research concerns dynamical systems, ergodic theory and mathematical physics. She is a French and Swiss citizen.\\
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Baladi has master degrees in mathematics and computer science from the university of Geneva. She obtained her Ph.D. also from the university of Geneva with a dissertation on the use of zeta functions in dynamical systems. She worked at CNRS beginning in 1990, with a leave of absence from 1993 to 1999 when she taught at ETH Zurich and the University of Geneva. She also spent a year as a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 2012–2013.\\
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She has been an invited speaker, a great honor,  at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2014, speaking in the section on "Dynamical Systems and Ordinary Differential Equations".\\ \\