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e interview with Jean-Pierre Bourguignon
A highlight of the 8ECM will be an open live interview with Professor
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, one of the most influential European
contemporary mathematicians who, among other things, served as
the second President of the European Mathematical Society and the
President of the European Research Council, and left a huge impact on
the prestigious IHES - Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, as its
director for 19 years.
The interview will be conducted by Professor Günter Ziegler, a prominent
mathematician, who currently serves as the President of the Freie
Universität Berlin, one of the best European Institutions of higher
education.
The event will be chaired by Professor Maria J. Esteban, the Chair of
the 8ECM Scientific Committee, and will be broadcasted live with open
access. The interview is scheduled on the last day of the Congress, on
Friday, 25 June 2021 at 4 pm, followed by the Closing Ceremony.
JEAN-PIERRE BOURGUIGNON
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician, whose main
research area is differential geometry. His work has focused on the Ricci
curvature and its relation to both global analysis and general relativity.
He co-authored the monographs “A Spinorial Approach to Riemannian
and Conformal Geometry” (EMS, 2015) and “Mathematics, a Beautiful
Elsewhere” (Thames and Hudson, 2012), a book on the intersection of
Mathematics and Art, published along an exhibition at the Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Professor Bourguignon has been affiliated with the Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) for most of his career, which, in his
words, “has given me a great freedom to pursue my research”. He is now
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A highlight of the 8ECM will be an open live interview with Professor
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, one of the most influential European
contemporary mathematicians who, among other things, served as
the second President of the European Mathematical Society and the
President of the European Research Council, and left a huge impact on
the prestigious IHES - Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, as its
director for 19 years.
The interview will be conducted by Professor Günter Ziegler, a prominent
mathematician, who currently serves as the President of the Freie
Universität Berlin, one of the best European Institutions of higher
education.
The event will be chaired by Professor Maria J. Esteban, the Chair of
the 8ECM Scientific Committee, and will be broadcasted live with open
access. The interview is scheduled on the last day of the Congress, on
Friday, 25 June 2021 at 4 pm, followed by the Closing Ceremony.
JEAN-PIERRE BOURGUIGNON
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is a French mathematician, whose main
research area is differential geometry. His work has focused on the Ricci
curvature and its relation to both global analysis and general relativity.
He co-authored the monographs “A Spinorial Approach to Riemannian
and Conformal Geometry” (EMS, 2015) and “Mathematics, a Beautiful
Elsewhere” (Thames and Hudson, 2012), a book on the intersection of
Mathematics and Art, published along an exhibition at the Fondation
Cartier pour l’art contemporain.
Professor Bourguignon has been affiliated with the Centre National de
la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) for most of his career, which, in his
words, “has given me a great freedom to pursue my research”. He is now
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