Fabrice Bethuel

Fabrice Bethuel
Born (1963-06-07) 7 June 1963 (age 61)
NationalityFrench
AwardsFermat Prize (1999)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsParis VI University
Doctoral advisorJean-Michel Coron
Doctoral studentsTristan Rivière
Sylvia Serfaty

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

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]

  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.