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French Institute Director: Dr. Gallier

Dr. Jean H. Gallier, professor of computer and information science, has been named director of the French Institute for Culture and Technology (FICT) by Provost Robert L. Barchi and SAS Dean Samuel H. Preston. His appointment was effective July 1. Dr. Gallier succeeds Dr. Barry S. Cooperman, who had been FICT's director since 1993.

Dr. Gallier's appointment followed a University-wide search led by a committee composed of faculty from SAS, the School of Medicine and SEAS.

Dr. Gallier graduated in 1972 from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, one of the top French "Grandes Ecoles." In 1978, he received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from UCLA.

Dr. Gallier joined the Penn faculty in 1978 as an assistant professor in the department of computer and information science, where he rose to associate professor in 1984 and to professor in 1990. He was Graduate Chair of the department from 1988 to 1990. Since 1994, Dr. Gallier has a secondary appointment in the department of mathematics.

Dr. Gallier has worked in various areas, ranging from program correctness and automated theorem-proving, incremental compilation, typed lambda calculi and proof theory, to geometric modeling, computer graphics, and algebraic geometry. He is the author of over sixty original papers, and three books, Logic for Computer Science (1986), Curves and Surfaces in Geometric Modeling (1999) and Geometric Methods and Applications (2000). He serves on the editorial board of several professional journals, including Theoretical Computer Science since 1992 and the Journal of Symbolic Computation since 1988. Dr. Gallier was also honored for his teaching, receiving the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1983.

The French Institute for Culture and Technology was created in 1992. Its purpose is to strengthen and enhance relations among the University, the larger Delaware Valley Francophone community, and French and Francophone countries.


Almanac, Vol. 48, No. 2, September 4, 2001

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