Prominent mathematician accepts appointment at UChicago |  |
Theo bảng tin ngày 25/ 01/ 2010 của trường UChicago, nhà toán học Ngô Bảo Châu sẽ chính thức nhậm chức GS toán học ở trường Đại học Chicago kể từ tháng 9 sắp tới.
GS Ngô Bảo Châu sinh năm 1972 ở Hà Nội, đậu bằng Tiến Sĩ toán học tại Pháp năm 1997 do trường Đại học Paris-Sud đào tạo, hiện đang là thành viên cùa viện nghiên cứu Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.
Anh Châu đã từng được trao nhận nhiều giải thưởng giá trị về toán học như Oberwolfach Prize năm 2007, Prix Sophie Germain de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris năm 2007 và giải Clay Research Award năm 2004.
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January 25, 2010
Mathematician Ngô Bao Châu, who made one of Time magazine’s top 10 scientific discoveries of 2009, has accepted a faculty appointment at the University of Chicago. Ngô will become a professor of mathematics, effective Sept. 1, 2010.
"This is one of the great mathematicians of our time, very clearly,” said Robert Fefferman, Dean of the Physical Sciences Division and the Max Mason Distinguished Service Professor in Mathematics. “I expect really great things from this young man."
Ngô, 37, came to Time’s attention for decisive advances he recently made in two central areas of modern mathematics: number theory and representation theory. "He proved a basic result, a matching conjecture called 'the fundamental lemma,' so named because it represents the central gate for progress in the Langlands program," said Peter Constantin, the Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor in Mathematics and Chairman of the Mathematics Department.
Time described the Langlands program as "an ambitious and revolutionary theory" that connects two major branches of mathematics. Named for Robert Langlands, a mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., the Langlands program consists of a conjectural set of general correspondences between algebraic and geometric objects, Constantin explained. "The proof by Ngô opens dramatically new avenues for the geometric Langlands program," he said.
Langlands tried to prove the fundamental lemma during the 1970s. In later years, the University of Chicago’s Robert Kottwitz and three colleagues from other institutions developed approaches to the problem. Constantin said Ngô "added numerous striking ideas" to their work in "a 200-page masterpiece."
In addition to Kottwitz, the William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor in Mathematics, Ngô said he had learned a lot from Vladimir Drinfeld, the Harry Pratt Judson Distinguished Service Professor in Mathematics, as well as a host of other UChicago mathematicians whose specialties are closely allied with his: Alexander Beilinson, the David and Mary Winton Green University Professor in Mathematics; Spencer Bloch, the R.M. Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Mathematics; and professors Victor Ginzburg, Kazuya Kato and Madhav Nori.
The opportunity to work more closely with colleagues at UChicago "certainly has a lot to do with my decision to come to Chicago," Ngô said.
"People are addressing some of the most fundamental questions in mathematics at the Department of Mathematics of Chicago. I have been having a mathematical conversation with Bob Kottwitz for many years. I count on the pleasure of pursing this conversation with him for the years to come."
A native of Hanoi, North Vietnam, Ngô received his doctoral degree from Université Paris-Sud in 1997. Currently a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., Ngô received the Oberwolfach Prize in 2007, the Prix Sophie Germain de l’Académie des Sciences de Paris in 2007 and the Clay Research Award in 2004.
"With the hire of Ngô, the recent arrival of Kato, the presence of Beilinson and Drinfeld and our other stellar faculty, the Department of Mathematics is pursuing its historical leading role in the country," Constantin said.
"We are not a large department, so we cannot cover all aspects of mathematics. But what we do, we try to do at the highest level, bar none: The department is committed to uncompromised intellectual leadership. The most important thing for us is the fact that strength builds strength, and by that I mean attracting even better undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty members, and maintaining a deeply fulfilling mathematical activity."
Added Fefferman: "The standards are extremely high, and we are really quite proud of the quality of the Mathematics Department. Very, very proud, and Ngô is a personification of this."
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Copied and edited by Dr Nguyễn Văn Bích, January 27th 2010
Ngô Bảo Châu, né en 1972, est le premier mathématicien vietnamien à avoir reçu le Clay Research Award, en 2004. Ses travaux portent sur le programme de Langlands.
Ngô Bảo Châu est né dans une famille d'intellectuels de Hanoi. Son père, Ngô Huy Cẩn, est un physicien. A l'âge de 15 ans, il est admis en classe de mathématiques au lycée spécialisé de l'Université nationale du Vietnam. Pendant cette période, Châu participera aux 29èmes et 30èmes Olympiades internationales de mathématiques, et y recevra deux médailles d'or. Il poursuit ses études de mathématiques à l'École normale supérieure, puis obtient son doctorat à l'Université de Paris-Sud en 1997, sous la direction de Gérard Laumon.
Il devient membre du CNRS à l'Université Paris 13 de 1998 à 2005. Il y soutient son habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) en 2003.
En 2004, Ngô Bảo Châu et Gérard Laumon ont reçu le Clay Research Award pour leur preuve du lemme fondamental pour les groupes unitaires. En 2008, Châu a annoncé une preuve du lemme fondamental pour les algèbres de Lie.
Avec ces succès, Châu est devenu le plus jeune professeur au Vietnam. Il travaille actuellement à l'Institute for Advanced Study de Princeton.
(wikipédia)
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Ngô Bảo Châu was born in 1972 to an intellectual family in Hanoi, Vietnam. His father, professor Ngô Huy Cẩn, was a physicist at the Vietnam National Institute of Mechanics.
At the age of 15, he was admitted into a Mathematics specializing class of the Vietnam National University High school. At grade 11 and 12, Châu participated respectively in the 29th and 30th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and became the first Vietnamese student who got two gold medals at IMO, of which the first one was won with a perfect score (42/42).
After high school, Ngô was offered by the French government a scholarship for undergraduate study at the Paris VI University but he chose to study in the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure where he obtained a PhD in 1997 under the supervision of Gérard Laumon. He became member of CNRS at the Paris 13 University, where he stayed from 1998 to 2005. He defended there his HDR degree in 2003. He became Professor at Paris-Sud 11 University in 2005 . In 2004 Ngô and Laumon were awarded the Clay Research Award for their achievement in solving the fundamental lemma proposed by Robert Langlands in case of unitary groups. In 2005 Ngô received the title professor in Vietnam and thus became the youngest professor ever in Vietnam at the age of 33.
Ngô eventually succeeded in formulating the proof for the general case of Langlands's lemma in 2008, a result which was praised by the number theorist Peter Sarnak: "It's as if people were working on the far side of the river waiting for someone to throw this bridge across. And now all of sudden everyone's work on the other side of the river has been proven." Ngô's success was selected by Time as one of the Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2009.
Currently, Ngô is invited to work at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey.
Ngô has accepted a professorship at the University of Chicago.
(wikipedia)
