Friday, 25 November 2016 Acad. Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon guest at our University

University of Primorska and the Slovenian Business & Research Association, Brussels

are pleased to invite you to the lecture entitled

MODERN GEOMETRY, FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL,
FROM SMOOTH TO ROUGH, FROM STATIC TO DYNAMIC

by Acad. Prof. Dr. Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (CNRS – IHÉS)

Lecture will be held in the BURJA 1 lecture room, UP FHŠ, Koper
on Thursday, 1 December 2016 at 3 pm.

Professor Jean-Pierre Bourguignon was the Director of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) from 1994 till 2013. This international research institute located near Paris, France, was built as the European counterpart of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He was also the first ERC Panel Chair in Mathematics, for Starting Grants.

A mathematician by training, he spent his whole career as a fellow of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). He held a Professor position at École polytechnique from 1986 to 2012. From 1990 to 1992, he was President of the Société Mathématique de France and President of the European Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1998. He is a former member of the Board of the EuroScience organisation (2002-2006) and served on EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) committees since 2004. Since 2014 he is President of the European Research Council.

Professor Bourguignon received the Prix Paul Langevin in 1987 and the Prix du Rayonnement Français in Mathematical Sciences and Physics from the Académie des Sciences de Paris in 1997. He is a foreign member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was elected honorary member of the London Mathematical Society and has been the secretary of the mathematics section of the Academia Europaea. In 2008, he was made Doctor Honoris Causa of Keio University, Japan, and, in 2011, Doctor Honoris Causa of Nankai University, China.

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