Sébastien Boucksom (born 26 August 1976 in

Roubaix Roubaix ( , ; ; ; ) is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial Communes of France, commune in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, depar ...

) is a French mathematician. Boucksom studied at the

École normale supérieure de Lyon École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

from 1996 to 1999, when he qualified with his

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in mathematics. He received his doctorate in 2002 from the Institut Fourier of the

Université Grenoble Alpes The (, ''Grenoble Alps University'', abbr. UGA) is a ''grand établissement'' in Grenoble, France. Founded in 1339, it is the third largest university in France with about 60,000 students and over 3,000 researchers. Established as the Univer ...

with thesis ''Cônes positifs des variétés complexes compactes'' under the supervision of

Jean-Pierre Demailly Jean-Pierre Demailly (25 September 1957 – 17 March 2022) was a French mathematician who worked in complex geometry. He was a professor at Université Grenoble Alpes and a permanent member of the French Academy of Sciences. Early life and educ ...

. As a postdoc Boucksom studied with

Simon Donaldson Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth function, smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähl ...

Imperial College London Imperial College London, also known as Imperial, is a Public university, public research university in London, England. Its history began with Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, who envisioned a Al ...

. From 2003 he did research for the

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at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu of the CNRS and the

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VI. Since 2010 he has been a part-time professor 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 ...

and since 2014 a directeur de recherche of the CNRS at the Center de Mathématiques

Laurent Schwartz Laurent-Moïse Schwartz (; 5 March 1915 – 4 July 2002) was a French mathematician. He pioneered the theory of Distribution (mathematics), distributions, which gives a well-defined meaning to objects such as the Dirac delta function. He was awar ...

of the École Polytechnique. Boucksom's research deals with

algebraic geometry Algebraic geometry is a branch of mathematics which uses abstract algebraic techniques, mainly from commutative algebra, to solve geometry, geometrical problems. Classically, it studies zero of a function, zeros of multivariate polynomials; th ...

, geometry of ''p''-adic

algebraic varieties Algebraic varieties are the central objects of study in algebraic geometry, a sub-field of mathematics. Classically, an algebraic variety is defined as the set of solutions of a system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers. ...

, and

Kähler manifold In mathematics and especially differential geometry, a Kähler manifold is a manifold with three mutually compatible structures: a complex structure, a Riemannian structure, and a symplectic structure. The concept was first studied by Jan Arnol ...

s. Ideas introduced by Boucksom and collaborators

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and Jonsson using non-Archimedean geometry to study Kähler manifolds have been very influential in the study of

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. In 2014 the

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awarded him the

Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet The Prix Paul Doistau–Émile Blutet is a biennial prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences in the fields of mathematics and physical sciences since 1954. Each recipient receives 3000 euros. The prize is also awarded quadrennially in biolo ...

. The laudation cited his work on positive fluxes in compact

s with application to characterization of pseudo-effective cones, as well as his work on the Monge-Ampère equation with application to the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics with minimal singularities. With

and Nyström, he proved a version of the Fekete problem in pluripotential theory. (An algorithmic version of the Fekete problem is problem number 7 of

Smale's problems Smale's problems is a list of eighteen unsolved problems in mathematics proposed by Steve Smale in 1998 and republished in 1999. Smale composed this list in reply to a request from Vladimir Arnold, then vice-president of the International Mathemat ...

.) In 2018 Boucksom was an Invited Speaker with talk ''Variational and non-Archimedean aspects of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture'' at the

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in Rio de Janeiro.

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