From May 31–June 1, 2019, the Institute for Advanced Study hosted a remembrance in honor of Jean Bourgain, Professor in the School of Mathematics for twenty-four years. The public event brought together colleagues, friends, and collaborators to commemorate Bourgain's life and work.
Speakers included:
Robbert Dijkgraaf, "Introductory Remarks"
Peter Sarnak and Avi Wigderson, "A Deterministic Sample of Bourgain’s Work"
Gigliola Staffilani, "Jean Bourgain’s Work in the Study of Dispersive Equations"
Vitali Milman, "Jean Bourgain’s Impact on Asymptotic Geometric Analysis; Selected Topics"
Elon Lindenstrauss, "Around Bourgain’s Discretized Sum-Product Theorem and Its Many Applications"
Larry Guth, "Bourgain’s Work on Restriction and Decoupling"
Svetlana Jitomirskaya, "Jean Bourgain's Work on Ergodic Schrodinger Operators and Relatic Topics"
Watch the videos in the window above, or on the IAS YouTube channel.
