Jean-Pierre Bourguignon

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is the Nicolaas Kuiper Honorary Professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, where he was director from 1994 to 2013. His research interests are in differential geometry, in particular its relations with partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He was president of the Societe Mathematique de France (1990-1992) and of the European Mathematical Society (1995-1998). He received the Paul Langevin prize from the Academie...See more

Jean-Pierre Bourguignon is the Nicolaas Kuiper Honorary Professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France, where he was director from 1994 to 2013. His research interests are in differential geometry, in particular its relations with partial differential equations and mathematical physics. He was president of the Societe Mathematique de France (1990-1992) and of the European Mathematical Society (1995-1998). He received the Paul Langevin prize from the Academie des Sciences de Paris in 1987 and the Physical Sciences and Mathematics Prize from the Comite du Rayonnement Francais in 1997. See less