Prof Jean Bourgain from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton receives the 2010 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences for his profound work in mathematical analysis and its applications across various disciplines. He presents new results on expander graphs and spectral gaps and their relevant applications.
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Abstract
New results on expander graphs and spectral gaps in SL^2 and SU(d) will be presented and applications to hyperbolic lattice point counting, prime sieving, geometry and computer science.
About the speaker
Jean Bourgain has been a Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton since 1994. He obtained his PhD from the Free University of Brussels in 1977. He was a Professor of Mathematics at the Free University of Brussel from 1981 to 1985, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne from 1985 to 2006 and at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, France from 1985 to 1995. He is a Foreign Member of the Academics of Science of France, Poland and Sweden.
Prof Bourgain’s work was noteworthy for the versatility it displayed in applying ideas from wide-ranging mathematical disciplines to the solution of diverse problems. He received the Fields Medal in 1994, and the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences in 2010.
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