Ngô Bảo Châu

Ngô Bảo Châu, also cited B.C. Ng or Ng BC, ( born June 28, 1972 in Hanoi ) is a Vietnamese- French mathematician who deals with number theory and automorphic forms. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010, his proof of Fundamentallemmas in the Langlands program was honored by Time magazine in 2009 as one of the ten most important discoveries of the year.

Life

Ngô Bảo Châu is the son of Ngo Huy Can, a physicist at the National Vietnam Institute of Mechanics. His mathematical talents were early, at age 15 he went to a special high school math support class of the State University of Vietnam. He won two gold medals on the mathematics Olympiads.

Ngô Bảo Châu came in 1990 at the invitation and with a scholarship of the French educational authorities to France and studied 1992-1995 at the Ecole Normale Superieure ( and the University of Paris VI). In 1997 he received his doctorate with Gérard Laumon at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay (Le Lemme fondamentale de Jacquet et Ye). After that, he was Chargé de Recherches at the CNRS at the University of Paris -Nord. After his habilitation in 2004 he was a professor at the University of Paris-Sud in Orsay. From 2006 he was also at the Institute for Advanced Study. In 2010 he accepted a professorship at the University of Chicago. In addition, he has a Vietnamese professor title since 2005 and is since 2011 Scientific Director of the newly established Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics.

In 2004 he received the Clay Research Award with Laumon. In 2006 he was invited speaker at the ICM ( Fibration de Hitchin et structure de la formule de endoscopique trace). In 2007 he received the Oberwolfach Prize for his proof of fundamental lemma conjecture ( erected by Robert Langlands and Diana Shelstad 1979 ), which is important in the Langlands program ( to stabilize the trace formula ). Previously, he had proven with Laumon a special case ( unitary groups ), for which both received the Clay Research Award. In 2007 he was awarded the Sophie Germain prize. In 2010 he received the Fields Medal and gave a plenary lecture at the ICM in Hyderabad ( India) ( Endoscopy of automorphic forms). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He is married and has three children.

Writings

  • Ngo Le Lemme fondamentale pour les algebres de Lie, 2008, Preprint
  • Laumon, Ngo Le Lemme fondamentale pour les groupes unit aires, 2004, Preprint
  • Ngô Fibration de Hitchin et Endoscopy, 2004, Preprint, published in Inventiones Mathematicae 2006
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