Jean-Benoît Bost (born 27 July 1961, in

Neuilly-sur-Seine Neuilly-sur-Seine (; 'Neuilly-on-Seine'), also known simply as Neuilly, is an urban Communes of France, commune in the Hauts-de-Seine Departments of France, department just west of Paris in France. Immediately adjacent to the city, north of the ...

) is a French mathematician.

Early life and education

In 1977, Bost graduated from the

Lycée Louis-le-Grand The Lycée Louis-le-Grand (), also referred to simply as Louis-le-Grand or by its acronym LLG, is a public Lycée (French secondary school, also known as sixth form college) located on Rue Saint-Jacques (Paris), rue Saint-Jacques in central Par ...

and finished first in the

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, a national competition. Bost studied from 1979 to 1983 (qualifying in 1981 for the ''agrégation des mathématiques'') at the

École Normale Supérieure École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by Secondary education in France, secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing i ...

(ENS), where he was from 1984 to 1988 '' agrégé-préparateur'' (teacher) and worked under the direction of

Alain Connes Alain Connes (; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He was a professor at the , , Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awar ...

Career

From 1988, Bost was ''chargé de recherches'' and from 1993 ''directeur de recherches'' at

CNRS The French National Centre for Scientific Research (, , CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe. In 2016, it employed 31,637 staff, including 11,137 tenured researchers, 13,415 eng ...

. From 1993 to 2006, he was ''maître de conferences'' at the

École polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...

. He has been a professor at l'

Université Paris-Saclay Paris-Saclay University (, ) is a combined Research institute, technological research institute and Public university, public research university in Orsay, France. Paris-Saclay was established in 2019 after the merger of four technical ''grandes ...

(Paris XI) in

Orsay Orsay () is a Communes of France, commune in the Essonne Departments of France, department in Île-de-France in northern France. It is located in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France, from the Kilometre Zero, centre of Paris. A fortifie ...

since 1998.

Research

Bost deals with noncommutative geometry (partly in collaboration with

) with applications to quantum field theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic geometry. The eponymous Bost conjecture is a variant of the Baum–Connes conjecture.

Awards and honors

In 1990, he received the Prix Peccot-Vimont of the

Collège de France The (), formerly known as the or as the ''Collège impérial'' founded in 1530 by François I, is a higher education and research establishment () in France. It is located in Paris near La Sorbonne. The has been considered to be France's most ...

. In 2002, he received the Prix Élie Cartan of the

Académie des sciences The French Academy of Sciences (, ) is a learned society, founded in 1666 by Louis XIV at the suggestion of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, to encourage and protect the spirit of French Scientific method, scientific research. It was at the forefron ...

. In 1986 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress on Mathematical Physics in

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. In 2006, he was an invited speaker with talk ''Evaluation maps, slopes, and algebraicity criteria'' at the

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the IMU Abacus Medal (known before ...

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. From 2005 to 2015, Bost was a senior member of the

Institut Universitaire de France The Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France), is a service of the French Ministry of Higher Education that annually distinguishes a small number of university professors for their research excellence, as evidenced by t ...

. He was elected in 2012 a Fellow of 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, ...

and in 2016 a member of

Academia Europaea The Academia Europaea is a pan-European Academy of humanities, letters, law, and sciences. The Academia was founded in 1988 as a functioning Europe-wide Academy that encompasses all fields of scholarly inquiry. It acts as co-ordinator of Europe ...

Selected publications

* As editor with François Loeser and

Michel Raynaud Michel Raynaud (; 16 June 1938 – 10 March 2018 Décès de Michel Raynaud
So ...

: '' Courbes semi-stables et groupe fondamental en géométrie algébrique '' (Luminy, December 1998), Birkhäuser 2000 * '' Introduction to compact Riemann Surfaces, Jacobean and Abelian Varieties. '' In: Michel Waldschmidt, Claude Itzykson, Jean-Marc Luck, Pierre Moussa (eds.): '' Number Theory and Physics. '' Les Houches 1989, Springer 1992

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