Michel Broué

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Michel Broué (2008)

Michel Broué (born October 28, 1946 in Paris ) is a French mathematician who deals with group theory (algebraic groups, finite groups, braid groups , reflection groups) and representation theory.

Life

Broué is the son of the Trotskyist historian Pierre Broué (1926-2005) and grew up with his grandparents in Privas in the Ardèche . He attended the Lycée Saint-Louis in Paris and studied from 1966 at the École normal supérieure de Saint-Cloud , graduating as Agrégé in mathematics in 1970. He received his doctorate in 1975 from the University of Paris under Claude Chevalley (and Jean-Pierre Serre ) ( Représentations des groupes finis ). From 1970 he conducted research for the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) and in 1980 became a professor at the University of Paris VII . From 1983 he was head of the mathematics faculty of the École normal supérieure de jeunes filles and from 1986 to 1993 the faculty of mathematics and computer science of the École normal supérieure (Rue d´Ulm). He was also Maitre de conferences at the École polytechnique from 1985 to 1997 . In 1994 he became a senior member of the Institut de France and went to the ENS de Saint Cloude as a professor. From 1999 to 2009 he was director of the Institut Henri Poincaré . Then he was at the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot).

He was visiting professor and visiting scholar at the universities of Chicago, Yale, Berkeley, Minnesota, Virginia, Sydney, Cambridge ( Gonville and Caius College , Churchill College ), in Oxford, at the MSRI , at the Isaac Newton Institute , in Birmingham, Heidelberg, Aarhus, Beijing, the ETH Zurich and the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne. In 2008 he was an Abel Lecturer in Oslo.

He is editor of the Journal of Algebra and co-editor of the Journal of Group Theory and the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra .

With Gunter Malle and Jean Michel , he follows the Spetses program on the structure of complex reflection groups, which arose from the assumptions of Broué in the early 1990s (on the Greek island after it was named).

In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berkeley (theory locale des blocs d´un groupe fini).

In 2012 he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society . He is an honorary doctor of the University of Birmingham . In 1986 he was awarded the Academie des Sciences prize. He was also accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Raphaël Rouquier was one of his PhD students .

He is also politically active in the left spectrum, initially with the Trotskyists (1970 to 1984 with the OCI, Organization communiste internationaliste), later in the Socialist Party (member 1986 to 1988). With Henri Cartan and Laurent Schwartz , he founded the Comité des Mathématiciens, which campaigned for persecuted mathematicians, for example Leonid Pljuschtsch (who was housed in psychiatry in the Soviet Union as a dissident), Sion Assidon in Morocco, Natan Scharanski and José Luis Massera . He campaigned for intellectuals in Czechoslovakia and Poland in the 1980s and was involved in campaigns against the new right in France ( Jean-Marie Le Pen ). He was involved in the presidential campaigns of Lionel Jospin and later Ségolène Royal .

The director Isabelle Broué and the journalist Caroline Broué are his daughters.

Fonts (selection)

  • Introduction to complex reflection groups and their braid groups , Springer Verlag 2010
  • with Jean Michel, Gunter Malle: Représentations unipotentes génériques et blocs des groupes réductifs finis , Société mathématique de France, 1993 (with appendix by George Lusztig )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ↑ In English Plyushch, in French Pliouchtch
  3. ↑ Born 1948. Mathematics professor in Morocco, he was imprisoned from 1972 to 1984 for his work for democracy in Morocco. Member of Transparency International
personal data
SURNAME Broué, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Broue, Michel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris