Professor Ngo Bao Chau visits Nghe An.

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of December 14th, Professor of Mathematics Ngo Bao Chau arrived in Nghe An as part of a visit and working program at Vinh University.

According to the program, on the afternoon of December 14th, Professor Ngo Bao Chau will give a talk and interact with lecturers and students of Vinh University; teachers from the Departments of Education and Training of Nghe An and Ha Tinh provinces; and students from Vinh University High School for the Gifted and Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted.

On the morning of December 15th, Professor Ngo Bao Chau will give a lecture and interact with all faculty, students, and postgraduate students of the Faculty of Mathematics Education, Vinh University. In the afternoon of the same day, Professor Ngo Bao Chau will visit the birthplace of President Ho Chi Minh in Kim Lien, Nam Dan, and the birthplace of the world-renowned cultural figure Nguyen Du in Tien Dien, Nghi Xuan, Ha Tinh.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau.

Professor Ngo Bao Chau was born on June 28, 1972, in Hanoi into a traditional intellectual family. He is the son of Dr. Ngo Huy Can, a specialist in fluid mechanics, currently working at the Vietnam Institute of Mechanics. His mother is Associate Professor and Doctor of Pharmacy Tran Luu Van Hien, who works at the Central Traditional Medicine Hospital. He is a relative of Ngo Thuc Lanh, a mathematics professor who wrote the first book on algebra.

He won two gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Australia in 1988 and in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1989, and was also the first Vietnamese person to win two gold medals at the International Mathematical Olympiad.

Ngo Bao Chau defended his doctoral thesis in 1997, became a research fellow at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in 1998, obtained his Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR) degree in 2003, and was subsequently appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Paris XI in 2004.

Also in that year, he was awarded the Clay Research Prize by the Clay Mathematics Institute along with Professor Gérard Laumon for proving the Fundamental Lemma for Unitary Groups. In 2005, at the age of 33, Ngo Bao Chau was granted the title of Professor by the Vietnamese government.

In 2007, he worked simultaneously at the University of Paris XI, Orsay, France, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, USA. In 2008, he published a proof of the Fundamental Lemma for Lie algebras, also known as the Langlands Fundamental Lemma. At the end of 2009, this work was selected by Time magazine as one of the 10 most significant scientific discoveries of 2009.

For his scientific contributions, Professor Ngo Bao Chau was invited to present a paper at the plenary session of the 2010 World Congress of Mathematicians held in India on August 19, 2010. At the opening ceremony, the professor was awarded the Fields Medal.

Since September 1, 2010, he has been a professor in the Department of Mathematics, University of Chicago.

On September 4, 2010, the Hanoi City Emulation and Commendation Council (as part of the city's Patriotic Emulation Congress program for the 2010-2015 period) selected Ngo Bao Chau to be included in the first list of Outstanding Citizens of Hanoi in 2010.

On March 9, 2011, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Ministry of Education and Training announced the Decision to establish the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics and the decision to appoint Mr. Ngo Bao Chau as the Institute's Scientific Director.

In April 2011, French President Nicolas Sarkozy decided to award him the Legion of Honour of the French State, and he officially received the award in France on January 27, 2012, at the Élysée Palace. A month later, Professor Ngo Bao Chau, along with five others, was awarded the distinguished service professorships by the University of Chicago.

In 2012, he was an honorary fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Baonghean.vn will update the content of Professor Ngo Bao Chau's work program in Nghe An.

N.Khoa