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Talks, conferences, prizes, articles and other material about Jean Bourgain and his work. If you know of something that belongs here, please contact the maintainers.
Talks and videos
Talks from Honoring the Life and Work of Jean Bourgain, held at the Institute for Advanced Study on 31 May and 1 June 2019:
- Robbert Dijkgraaf, Introductory remarks (YouTube)
- Peter Sarnak and Avi Wigderson, A deterministic sample of Bourgain’s work (YouTube)
- Gigliola Staffilani, The lasting influence of Jean Bourgain’s work in the study of dispersive equations (YouTube)
- Vitali Milman, Jean Bourgain’s impact on asymptotic geometric analysis: selected topics (YouTube)
- Elon Lindenstrauss, Around Bourgain’s discretized sum product theorem and its many applications (YouTube)
- Larry Guth, Bourgain’s work on restriction and decoupling (YouTube)
- Svetlana Jitomirskaya, Jean Bourgain’s work on ergodic Schrödinger operators and related topics (YouTube)
Jean Bourgain himself:
- Expansion in linear groups and applications, a lecture for the eightieth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study, 2010 (YouTube)
- Remarks by Jean Bourgain at the conference held in his honour in May 2016 (YouTube)
The Institute for Advanced Study keeps all its videos related to Jean Bourgain in one place.
Conferences
- Analysis and Beyond: Celebrating Jean Bourgain’s Work and Impact, Institute for Advanced Study, May 2016
- Honoring the Life and Work of Jean Bourgain, Institute for Advanced Study, 31 May and 1 June 2019
Prizes
- Fields Medal, 1994, International Mathematical Union
- Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, 2010, IAS announcement and Hong Kong Laureate Forum
- Crafoord Prize in Mathematics, 2012, shared with Terence Tao, Crafoord Prize and IAS announcement
- Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, 2017, Breakthrough Prize and IAS announcement
- Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, 2018, IAS announcement
Articles on his work
The Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society devoted part of volume 58, number 2 (2021) to his work:
- Peter Sarnak, An appreciation of Jean Bourgain’s work, pp. 151–153
- Terence Tao, Exploring the toolkit of Jean Bourgain, pp. 155–171 (arXiv)
- Carlos Kenig, On the work of Jean Bourgain in nonlinear dispersive equations, pp. 173–189
- Ciprian Demeter, Bourgain’s work in Fourier restriction, pp. 191–204
- Keith Ball, The legacy of Jean Bourgain in geometric functional analysis, pp. 205–223
Semyon Dyatlov, Svetlana Jitomirskaya and Zeév Rudnick, Introduction to the special issue in memory of Jean Bourgain, Journal of Mathematical Physics 63 (2022), 050401.
Obituaries and biographies
- Jean Bourgain, pioneering mathematician, dies at 64, Institute for Advanced Study
- Jean Bourgain dies aged 64, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, where he was a permanent professor from 1985 to 1995
- Erica Klarreich, Jean Bourgain (1954–2018), Nature 566 (2019)
- Biography in the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- Jean Bourgain on Wikipedia
- Member page of the Academia Europaea, with his curriculum vitae
Reference pages
- Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Author profile in zbMATH Open