Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
Jean -Pierre Bourguignon ( born July 21, 1947 in Lyon ) is a French mathematician who with differential geometry and their applications in mathematical physics ( " Global Analysis " ) were employed.
Bourguignon studied from 1966 at the École polytechnique among others, Gustave Choquet and Laurent Schwartz. During the 1968 riots Bourguignon and the Civil Yves Bamberger were Speaker of the students at the École polytechnique, which successfully pushed for a reform of the outdated teaching curriculum. 1972/1973 he was in the United States. He received his doctorate in 1974 at the University of Paris with Marcel Berger on the structure of the space of equivalence classes of Riemannian metrics on manifolds ( Sur l' espace d'une of the structures riemanniennes "best " variété ). In 1980 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is currently Directeur de Recherche CNRS, professor at the École polytechnique (the Centre de Mathématiques in 1990 he directed until 1994 ) and at the IHES in Bures -sur -Yvette, near Paris, which he is Director since 1994.
It deals among others with differential geometric estimates of the eigenvalues of the Laplace -Beltrami operator on manifolds, the geometry of Kähler manifolds and Finsler geometries. In addition, he is concerned with mathematical aspects of general relativity and Yang-Mills theory.
He is since 1996 member of the Academia Europaea since 2002 and of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences. 1990 to 1992 he was President of the French Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1998 and of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). 1994-2001 he was the scientific advisory board of the Mathematical Research Institute Oberwolfach, 1997-2004 Scientific Advisory Board of the Erwin Schrödinger Institute for Mathematical Physics in Vienna and since 2001 in which the Bernoulli Institute of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
In 1977 he was awarded the Bronze Medal of the CNRS in 1987 and the Prix Paul Langevin of the French Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he received the Rayonnement - Francais price. The Keio University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2008.
He turned and mathematical educational films, and for " Tambour - que tu dis " he received in 1987 a prize on the Palaiseau International Science Film Festival. Another film of his is "The New Shepherd's Lamp".
Writings
- Analytical problems Arising from geometry: examples from Yang-Mills theory, annual report German mathematician club 1985