Aline Bonami (née Nivat) is a French mathematician known for her expertise in

mathematical analysis Analysis is the branch of mathematics dealing with continuous functions, limit (mathematics), limits, and related theories, such as Derivative, differentiation, Integral, integration, measure (mathematics), measure, infinite sequences, series (m ...

. She is a professor emeritus at the

University of Orléans The University of Orléans (french: Université d'Orléans) is a French university, in the Academy of Orléans and Tours. As of July 2015 it is a member of the regional university association Leonardo da Vinci consolidated University. History ...

, and was president of the

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for 2012–2013.

Education and career

Bonami was a student at the

École normale supérieure de jeunes filles The ''École normale supérieure de jeunes filles'' (also, ''École normale supérieure de Sèvres'') was a French institute of higher education, in Sèvres, now a commune in the suburbs of Paris. The school educated girls only, especially as tea ...

from 1963 to 1967, when she became a researcher at the

Centre national de la recherche scientifique The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,63 ...

(CNRS). In 1970, she completed a doctorate at the

University of Paris-Sud Paris-Sud University (French: ''Université Paris-Sud''), also known as University of Paris — XI (or as Université d'Orsay before 1971), was a French research university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburbs of Paris, in ...

, under the supervision of

Yves Meyer Yves F. Meyer (; born 19 July 1939) is a French mathematician. He is among the progenitors of wavelet theory, having proposed the Meyer wavelet. Meyer was awarded the Abel Prize in 2017. Biography Born in Paris to a Jewish family, Yves Meyer ...

; her dissertation was ''Etude des coefficients de Fourier des fonctions de

L^p(G)

''. She joined the University of Orléans in 1973 and retired as a professor emeritus in 2006.

Awards and honors

The French Academy of Sciences gave Bonami their in 2001, for her results on Bergman and Szegő projections, on Hankel operators with several complex variables, and on inequalities for hypercontractivity. The

University of Gothenburg The University of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs universitet) is a university in Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg. Founded in 1891, the university is the third-oldest of the current Swedish universities and with 37,000 students and 6000 st ...

gave her an honorary doctorate in 2002. A conference on harmonic analysis was held in her honor in Orléans in 2014. She was awarded the 2020 Stefan Bergman Prize by the

American Mathematical Society The American Mathematical Society (AMS) is an association of professional mathematicians dedicated to the interests of mathematical research and scholarship, and serves the national and international community through its publications, meetings, ...

"for her highly influential contributions to several complex variables and analytic spaces. She is being especially recognized for her fundamental work on the Bergman and Szegő projections and their corresponding spaces of holomorphic functions."

Personal

Bonami is the sister of Georges Nivat, a specialist of Russian literature and history, and of French computer scientist

Maurice Nivat Maurice Paul Nivat (21 December 1937 – 21 September 2017) was a French computer scientist. His research in computer science spanned the areas of formal languages, programming language semantics, and discrete geometry. A 2006 citation for an ho ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bonami, Aline Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century French mathematicians Women mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Orléans 21st-century French mathematicians