I am "Directeur de Recherche" at INRIA Saclay - Île-de-France and member of the Tropical team joint with CMAP, Ecole polytechnique, IP Paris, CNRS

My address:  CMAP Ecole Polytechnique Route de Saclay 91128 Palaiseau Cedex France tél: +33 1 69 33 46 39 fax: +33 1 69 33 46 46 e-mail: marianne.akian@inria.fr

• My research themes:
• Deterministic and stochastic optimal control problems by the dynamic programming method:
  • ergodic control,
  • portfolio selection,
  • numerical analysis and algorithms: policy iterations, multigrid methods;
• Max-plus or tropical algebras;
• Idempotent measures and large deviations;
• Perturbations of eigenvalues;
• Monotone nonexpansive maps and nonlinear Perron-Frobenius theory;