Arnaud Beauville

Arnaud Beauville (* 1947 in Bologne ) is a French mathematician who deals with complex algebraic geometry.

Beauville studied from 1966 to the Ecole Normale Superieure and was founded in 1977 by Jean- Louis Verdier at the University of Paris VII ( Denis Diderot ) PhD ( Variétés de Prym et applications, partially published in Prym Varieties and the Schottky problem, Inventiones Mathematicae, vol 41, 1977, p.149). He was a professor at the University of Angers and at the University of Paris-Sud XI in Orsay and is currently a professor at the University of Nice, " Sophia Antipolis " ( Laboratoire J.-A. Dieudonné CNRS ).

Beauville deals among other things with the Schottky problem, that is the characterization of Jacobian varieties among abelian varieties, algebraic surfaces, compounds of algebraic geometry to conformal field theory.

In 1986 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (International Congress of Mathematicians ICM) in Berkeley ( Geometric access to Schottkyproblem ). In 2013 he was awarded the Prix Ampere. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He is a member of Bourbaki.

His doctoral include Claire Voisin and Olivier Debarre.

Writings

• Complex algebraic surfaces, Cambridge University Press 1996
• Le problème de la conjecture de Novikov et Schottky. Séminaire Bourbaki, Nr.675, 1986/87