Professor Ngo Bao Chau arrives in Nghe An

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

According to the program, on the afternoon of December 14, Professor Ngo Bao Chau will have a talk and exchange with lecturers and students of Vinh University; teachers of the two departments of education and training of Nghe An and Ha Tinh; students of Vinh University High School for the Gifted and Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted.

On the morning of December 15, Professor Ngo Bao Chau will lecture and interact with all lecturers, students, and postgraduates of the Faculty of Mathematics Education, Vinh University. In the afternoon of the same day, Professor Ngo Bao Chau will visit President Ho Chi Minh's hometown in Kim Lien, Nam Dan and visit the hometown of the world cultural celebrity 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 doctor of fluid mechanics, currently working at the Vietnam Institute of Mechanics. His mother is Associate Professor, Doctor of Pharmacy Tran Luu Van Hien, working at the Central Hospital of Traditional Medicine. He is the nephew of Ngo Thuc Lanh, a Mathematics Professor who wrote the first book on Algebra.

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

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

Also in this year, he was awarded the Clay Research Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute together with Professor Gérard Laumon for proving the Fundamental Lemma for Unita groups. In 2005, at the age of 33, Ngo Bao Chau was specially awarded 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, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. In 2008, he published a proof of the Fundamental Lemma for Lie algebras, also known as the Fundamental Langlands Lemma. At the end of 2009, this work was voted by Time magazine as one of the 10 most outstanding scientific discoveries of 2009.

With his scientific works, Professor Ngo Bao Chau was invited to read a report 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 Reward Council (in the city's Patriotic Emulation Congress program for the period 2010 - 2015) selected Ngo Bao Chau into the list of Outstanding Capital Citizens for the first time, 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 Scientific Director of the Institute.

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

In 2012 he was made a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

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

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