Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (2007)

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (born July 21, 1947 in Lyon ) is a French mathematician who deals with differential geometry and its applications in mathematical physics (" global analysis ").

Life

Bourguignon studied from 1966 at the École polytechnique with Gustave Choquet and Laurent Schwartz, among others . During the 1968 riots, Bourguignon and civil engineer Yves Bamberger were spokespersons for students at the École polytechnique, who successfully pushed for a reform of the outdated teaching curriculum. 1972/1973 he was in the USA. He obtained his doctorate in 1974 at the University of Paris under Marcel Berger on the structure of the space of the equivalence classes of Riemannian metrics on manifolds (Sur l'espace des structures riemanniennes d'une “best” variété). In 1980 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study . He is currently Directeur de Recherche of the CNRS , professor at the École polytechnique (whose Center de mathématiques he headed from 1990 to 1994) and at the IHES in Bures-sur-Yvette near Paris, of which he was director from 1994 to 2013. Since 2014 he has been President of the European Research Council and Chairman of the Scientific Council for an initial four years .

Among other things, he deals with differential geometric estimations of the eigenvalues of the Laplace-Beltrami operator on manifolds , the geometry of Kähler manifolds and Finsler geometries . In addition, he deals with mathematical aspects of general relativity and Yang-Mills theory .

He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1995 and of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences since 2002 . From 1990 to 1992 he was President of the French Mathematicians' Association ( Société Mathématique de France ) and from 1995 to 1998 of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). From 1994 to 2001 he was on the scientific advisory board of the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach , from 1997 to 2004 on the scientific advisory board of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna and since 2001 in that of the Bernoulli Institute of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne .

In 1977 he received the bronze medal of the CNRS and in 1987 the Prix Langevin of the French Academy of Sciences . In 1997 he received the Rayonnement Francais Prize. In 2005 he became an honorary member of the London Mathematical Society . The Keiō University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2008 , the German Mathematicians Association (DMV) honorary membership in 2017.

He also made mathematical educational films, and in 1987 he won a prize at the Palaiseau International Science Film Festival for “Tambour - que dis tu?”. Another of his films is "The New Shepherds Lamp".

Fonts

with Haïm Brezis : Remarks on the Euler equation . In: Journal of Functional Analysis . tape 15 , no. 4 , April 1974, p. 341-363 , doi : 10.1016 / 0022-1236 (74) 90027-5 .
Les variétés de dimension 4 à signature non nulle dont la courbure est harmonique sont d'Einstein. In: Invent. Math. 63, No. 2, 1981, pp. 263-286.
with Blaine Lawson : Stability and isolation phenomena for Yang-Mills fields. In: Comm. Math. Phys. 79, No. 2, 1981, pp. 189-230.
with Paul Gauduchon : Spineurs, opérateurs de Dirac et variations de métriques. In: Comm. Math. Phys. 144, No. 3, 1992, pp. 581-599.
Analytical problems arising from geometry: examples from Yang-Mills theory . In: German Mathematicians Association (ed.): Annual report of the German Mathematicians Association . tape 87 , issue 2. Teubner, 1985, ISSN 0012-0456 , p. 67-89 ( math.uni-bielefeld.de ).

Web links

Homepage
Interview, CIM 2001
Conférence en l'honneur de Jean-Pierre Bourguignon , 2013, (English).

Individual evidence

↑ Interview by Bourguignon 2001, also in the memoirs of Laurent Schwartz.
^ Directory of members: Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. Academia Europaea, accessed August 30, 2017 .
^ Conferment of Honorary Degree of Doctor (2000-2009) , Keiō University
^ High awards from the DMV for the mathematicians Gerd Faltings and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. DMV press release dated February 3, 2017 at the Science Information Service .

personal data
SURNAME	Bourguignon, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH	Lyon

[1] Interview by Bourguignon 2001, also in the memoirs of Laurent Schwartz.

[2] Directory of members: Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. Academia Europaea, accessed August 30, 2017 .

[3] Conferment of Honorary Degree of Doctor (2000-2009) , Keiō University

[4] High awards from the DMV for the mathematicians Gerd Faltings and Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. DMV press release dated February 3, 2017 at the Science Information Service .