CEREMADE
Chafaï Djalil
Full Professor
Biography
Djalil CHAFAÏ (شافعي جليل), PhD University of Toulouse (2002), mathematician, mainly specialized in probability and statistics, analysis, and mathematical physics. University professor since 2009, at Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée and then Paris-Dauphine - PSL. From September 2021 and until end of August 2031, at the disposal of the department of mathematics and applications of the École normale supérieure - PSL.
Honorary member of the Institut universitaire de France (IUF).
Agrégé de mathématiques.
Also worked as a teacher, researcher, or engeneer, full-time or part-time, for Université de Toulouse, Centre national de recherche en météorologie de Météo-France (CNRM), University of Oxford (UK), Institut national de recherche en agronomie et environnement (INRAE), and École polytechnique.
Publications
Articles
Boursier J., Chafaï D., Labbé C. (2023), Universal cutoff for Dyson Ornstein Uhlenbeck process, Probability Theory and Related Fields, vol. 185, p. 449–512 
Chafaï D., García-Zelada D., Jung P. (2022), At the edge of a one-dimensional jellium, Bernoulli, vol. 28, n°3, p. 1784-1809
Chafaï D., Saff E., Womersley R. (2022), On the solution of a Riesz equilibrium problem and integral identities for special functions, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, vol. 515, n°1, p. 126367
Bordenave C., Chafaï D., García-Zelada D. (2021), Convergence of the spectral radius of a random matrix through its characteristic polynomial, Probability Theory and Related Fields, p. 1-12
Chafaï D., Ferré G., Stoltz G. (2021), Coulomb gases under constraint: some theoretical and numerical results, SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, vol. 53, n°1, p. 181-220
Chafai D., García-Zelada D., Jung P. (2020), Macroscopic and edge behavior of a planar jellium, Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 61, n°3
Bonnefont M., Chafaï D., Herry R. (2020), On logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for the heat kernel on the Heisenberg group, Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse, vol. 29, n°2, p. 335-355
Chafaï D., Ferré G. (2019), Simulating Coulomb gases and log-gases with hybrid Monte Carlo algorithms, Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 174, p. 692–714
Bolley F., Chafaï D., Fontbona J. (2018), Dynamics of a planar Coulomb gas, Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 28, n°5, p. 3152-3183
Chafaï D., Hardy A., Maïda M. (2018), Concentration for Coulomb gases and Coulomb transport inequalities, Journal of Functional Analysis, vol. 275, n°6, p. 1447-1483
Chafaï D., Tikhomirov K. (2018), On the convergence of the extremal eigenvalues of empirical covariance matrices with dependence, Probability Theory and Related Fields, vol. 170, n°3-4, p. 847-889
Bordenave C., Caputo P., Chafaï D., Tikhomirov K. (2018), On the spectral radius of a random matrix: An upper bound without fourth moment, Annals of Probability, vol. 46, n°4, p. 2268-2286
Bordenave C., Caputo P., Chafaï D., Piras D. (2017), Spectrum of large random Markov chains: heavy-tailed weights on the oriented complete graph, Random Matrices: Theory and Applications, vol. 6, n°2, p. 1750006
Adamczak R., Chafaï D., Wolff P. (2016), Circular law for random matrices with exchangeable entries, Random Structures & Algorithms, vol. 48, n°3, p. 454-479
Adamczak R., Chafaï D. (2015), Circular law for random matrices with unconditional log-concave distribution, Communications in Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 17, n°4
Chafaï D. (2015), From Boltzmann to random matrices and beyond, Annales de la Faculté des Sciences de Toulouse, vol. 24, n°4, p. 641-689
Chafaï D., Gozlan N., Zitt P-A. (2014), First order global asymptotics for confined particles with singular pair repulsion, Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 24, n°6, p. 2371-2413
Chafaï D., Péché S. (2014), A note on the second order universality at the edge of Coulomb gases on the plane, Journal of Statistical Physics, vol. 156, n°2, p. 368-383
Chafaï D., Bordenave C., Caputo P. (2014), Spectrum of Markov generators on sparse random graphs, Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, vol. 67, n°4, p. 621-669
Ouvrages
Chafaï D., Zitt P-A. (2017), Probabilités - Préparation à l'agrégation interne Amazon Self Publishing, 163 p.
Chafaï D., Malrieu F. (2016), Recueil de Modèles Aléatoires Springer
Chafai D., Malrieu F. (2016), Recueil de modèles aléatoires, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, XIII, 398 p.
Chapitres d'ouvrage
Chafaï D., Lehec J. (2020), On Poincare and logarithmic Sobolev inequalities for a class of singular Gibbs measures, in Bo'az Klartag, Emanuel Milman, Geometric Aspects of Functional Analysis Israel Seminar (GAFA) 2017-2019 Volume I, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer, p. 219–246
Chafaï D. (2013), Introduction aux matrices aléatoires, in Sabbah, Claude, Aléatoire Editions de l'École Polytechnique, p. 87-120
Directions d'ouvrage
Bouchard B., Chafaï D. (2021), Covid-19 | Regards croisés sur la crise, Paris: Université Paris-Dauphine, 113 p.
Prépublications / Cahiers de recherche
Chafaï D., Saff E., Womersley R. (2022), Threshold condensation to singular support for a Riesz equilibrium problem, Paris, Cahier de recherche CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, 21 p.
Chafaï D., Dadoun B., Youssef P. (2022), Monotonicity of the logarithmic energy for random matrices, Paris, Cahier de recherche CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, 23 p.
Chafaï D. (2021), Aspects of Coulomb gases, Cahier de recherche CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, 26 p.