Timothée Bonnefoi
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Timothée Bonnefoi
Department of Mathematics
Universiteit Antwerpen
1 Middelheimlaan
2020 Antwerp, Belgium

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I am in the final year of my PhD at the Universiteit of Antwerpen under the supervision of Wendy Lowen and Arne Mertens. Have a look at CV (pdf) or my Research statement.

For my thesis I have developped a formal theory of toposes in some sufficiently nice 2-categories.

My research interests center around category theory and include topos theory, formal category theory as well as the links with logic and type theory. My long term goal is to apply toposes to physics and complex systems.

Bric Bouchet (Queyras)

Published

A priori bounds for rough differential equations with a non-linear damping term, joint work with Ajay Chandra, Augustin Moinat, and Hendrik Weber. Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 318 p58-93, May 2022

Abstract: We consider a rough differential equation with a non-linear damping drift term: dY(t) = -|Y|^{m-1} Y(t) dt + σ(Y(t)) dX(t), where X is a branched rough path of arbitrary regularity α>0, m>1 and where σ is smooth and satisfies an m and α-dependent growth property. We show a strong a priori bound for Y, which includes the "coming down from infinity" property, i.e. the bound on Y(t) for a fixed t>0 holds uniformly over all choices of initial datum Y(0). The method of proof builds on recent work by Chandra, Moinat and Weber on a priori bounds for the φ^4 SPDE in arbitrary subcritical dimension. A key new ingredient is an extension of the algebraic framework which permits to derive an estimate on higher order conditions of a coherent controlled rough path in terms of the regularity condition at lowest level.

  @Article{BCMW2022,
          author = {Bonnefoi, Timothée and Chandra, Ajay and Moinat, Augustin and Weber, Hendrik},
          title = {A priori bounds for rough differential equations with a non-linear damping term},
          issn = {0022-0396},
          pages = {58--93},
          volume = {318},
          date = {2022-05},
          doi = {10.1016/j.jde.2022.02.006},
          journaltitle = {Journal of Differential Equations},
  }
 

Research positions held

Dec. 2022 - now
PhD student at Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium, under the supervision of Wendy Lowen, and Arne Mertens. DeHousse scholarship holder.

Research stays

Feb. - July 2022
Internship at University of San Diego, San Diego, United States, under the supervision of and Micheal Shulman.
Sep. 2021 - Jan. 2022
Internship at Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Como, Italy, under the supervision of and Olivia Caramello.
Apr. - July 2021
Master 2 of Mathematics Internship at FMF, Univerza v Ljubljani, (Remote) Ljubljana, Slovenia, under the supervision of and Alex Simpson.
May - July 2020
Master 1 of Physics Internship at Université de Tours, (Remote) Tours, France, under the supervision of and Romain Gicquaud.
June - July 2019
Master 1 of Mathematics Internship at University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom, under the supervision of and Hendrik Weber.
June - July 2018
Bachelor 3 of Mathematics at LAPP Annecy, Université Savoie-MontBlanc, Annecy, France, under the supervision of Stéphane Jézequel, and Francesco Costanza.

Education

Fall 2026 (Expected)
Doctor of Science: Mathematics at Universiteit Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.
2022
Diplôme de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon at ENS Lyon, Lyon, France.
2021
Master Mathématiques avancées at ENS Lyon, Lyon, France.
2020
Master 1 Sciences de la Matière (Materials science) at ENS Lyon, Lyon, France.
2018
Bachelor of Sciences: Physics at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France.

Universiteit Antwerpen

Fall 2024/2025
Teaching assistant for Number Theory given to students of Bachelor 3 of Mathematics, taught by Julian Lyczak
Spring 2024/ 2025/2026
Teaching assistant for Algebra III: Fields given to students of Bachelor 2 of Mathematics, taught by Julian Lyczak
Fall 2023
Teaching assistant for Fields and Galois Theory given to students of Bachelor 3 of Mathematics, taught by Karim Johannes Becher
Spring 2023
Teaching assistant for Algebra III: Fields given to students of Bachelor 2 of Mathematics, taught by Ignacio Barros