Biography:Fabrice Bethuel

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Short description: French mathematician
Fabrice Bethuel
Born (1963-06-07) 7 June 1963 (age 60)
NationalityFrance
AwardsFermat Prize (1999)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsParis VI University
Doctoral advisorJean-Michel Coron
Doctoral studentsTristan Rivière
Sylvia Serfaty

Fabrice Bethuel (born 7 June 1963) is a France mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris VI University.

Bethuel earned his doctorate at Paris-Sud 11 University in 1989, under supervision of Jean-Michel Coron. In 1998 Bethuel was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.[1] He won the 1999 Fermat Prize, jointly with Frédéric Hélein, for several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus. He also won the 2003 Mergier–Bourdeix Prize (fr) for his fundamental discoveries at the interface between analysis, topology, geometry, and physics.[2]

References

  1. Bethuel, Fabrice (1998). "Vortices in Ginzburg-Landau equations". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 11–19. https://www.elibm.org/ft/10011559000. 
  2. "Bethuel Receives Mergier-Bourdeix Prize". Notices of the AMS 50 (10): 1257. November 2003. http://www.ams.org/notices/200310/people.pdf. 

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