Nicolas Bergeron is a French mathematician born on 19 December 1975, who works in
Pierre and Marie Curie University
Pierre and Marie Curie University (french: link=no, Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, UPMC), also known as Paris 6, was a public university, public research university in Paris, France, from 1971 to 2017. The university was located on the Jussi ...
in Paris.
Early career
Bergeron obtained his PhD at
École normale supérieure de Lyon
The École normale supérieure de Lyon (also known as ENS de Lyon, ENSL or Normale Sup' Lyon) is a French grande école located in the city of Lyon. It is one of the four prestigious écoles normales supérieures in France. The school is ...
in the year 2000 under the supervision of
Jean-Pierre Otal. His thesis was titled ''Cycles géodésiques dans les variétés hyperboliques'' ("geodesic cycles in hyperbolic varieties").
Work
Bergeron's main interests are concerned with the geometry and topology of locally symmetric spaces and arithmetic groups, as well as their
cohomology
In mathematics, specifically in homology theory and algebraic topology, cohomology is a general term for a sequence of abelian groups, usually one associated with a topological space, often defined from a cochain complex. Cohomology can be viewe ...
.
Some of his publications show an interest in
Oulipo
Oulipo (, short for french: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: ''"workshop of potential literature"'', stylized ''OuLiPo'') is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians who seek to create works ...
, referencing
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris by
Georges Perec
Georges Perec (; 7 March 1936 – 3 March 1982) was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holoc ...
. He has also written a (non-mathematical) article about
Jacques Roubaud
Jacques Roubaud (; born 5 December 1932 in Caluire-et-Cuire, RhĂ´ne) is a French poet, writer and mathematician
Life and career
Jacques Roubaud taught Mathematics at University of Paris X Nanterre and Poetry at EHESS. A member of the Oulipo gr ...
.
He is currently membre of the Ă©ditorial board of the journal
Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS
''Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS'' is a peer-reviewed mathematical journal. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, with the help of the Centre National de la Recherche ...
.
Publications
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* Nicolas Bourbaki Seminar 2013–2014 no. 1078 ''Toute variété de dimension 3 compacte et asphérique est virtuellement de
Haken'' ("Every 3-Dimensional Compact Ashperical Variety is Virtually Haken") (following
Ian Agol
Ian Agol (born May 13, 1970) is an American mathematician who deals primarily with the topology of three-dimensional manifolds.
Education and career
Agol graduated with B.S. in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1992 and ...
,
Daniel Wise)
* He edited a few articles for the site ''Images des mathématiques'' du CNRS.
* ''Comprendre les espaces de dimension 3'' dans ''La Recherche'' n°496 (February 2015) page 54.
* ''Le spectre des surfaces hyperboliques'' ("The Spectrum of Hyperbolic Surfaces") (EDP Sciences – Collection : Savoirs Actuels – September 2011)
* With 14 co-authors, ''Uniformisation des surfaces de Riemann'' ("Uniformization of Riemann Surfaces").
Awards and Prizes
* He won the ''MĂ©daille de bronze du CNRS'' in 2007
* He was a junior member of
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 distinguishes each year a small number of university professors for their research excellence, as evidenced by t ...
from 2010 until 2015
* He was an invited speaker at the 2018
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 Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
in Rio with a talk on "Hodge theory and cycle theory of locally symmetric spaces"
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References
External links
CV and Publication List
20th-century French mathematicians
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1975 births
Living people
Academic staff of Pierre and Marie Curie University
ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon alumni
Mathematics journal editors
21st-century French mathematicians