Fabrice Bethuel

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Fabrice Bethuel
Born (1963-06-07) 7 June 1963 (age 58)
Nationality French
Awards Fermat Prize (1999)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Paris VI University
Doctoral advisor Jean-Michel Coron
Doctoral students Tristan Rivière
Sylvia Serfaty

Fabrice Bethuel (born 7 June 1963) is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris VI University.

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Bethuel earned his doctorate at Paris-Sud 11 University in 1989, under supervision of Jean-Michel Coron. In 1998 Bethuel was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. [1] He won the 1999 Fermat Prize, jointly with Frédéric Hélein, for several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus. He also won the 2003 Mergier–Bourdeix Prize  [ fr ] for his fundamental discoveries at the interface between analysis, topology, geometry, and physics. [2]

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References

  1. Bethuel, Fabrice (1998). "Vortices in Ginzburg-Landau equations". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 11–19.
  2. "Bethuel Receives Mergier-Bourdeix Prize" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 50 (10): 1257. November 2003.