The Man Who Bridges Worlds: Math, Vietnam, and Beyond

Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Tony Bui &amp; Lien-Hang Nguyen engages  Ngô Bảo Châu on his life and career on the role of math education and Vietnam's future.

Weatherhead East Asian Institute (located at the School of International and Public Affairs)

For non-Columbia affiliates, registration is required to access the Morningside campus. After registering you will receive an email with a QR code that must be presented along with a government-issued ID (your name must match exactly the name registered for the event) at either the 116th Street &amp; Broadway or 116th Street &amp; Amsterdam gates for entry. Please register using a unique email address (one email address per registrant) by 4:00pm on Oct. 29 for campus access.Names will be submitted for QR codes 1-2 days prior to the event. Registrants will receive an email from CU Guest Access with the QR code before or on the day of the event. NOTE: You cannot access campus using the QR code from Eventbrite.Speaker: Ngô Bảo Châu, 2010 Fields Medal Recipient, Chair, Francis and Rose Yuen Distinguished Service Professor, University of ChicagoCo-Moderators: Tony Bui, Artist in Residence, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Sundance Award-winning directorLien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia; Director, Weatherhead East Asian InstituteDirector of Vietnam Arts in Action (VAiA) Tony Bui and Weatherhead East Asian Institute Director Lien-Hang T. Nguyen will engage University of Chicago Mathematics Professor Ngô Bảo Châu, Fields Medal Prize Winner and public intellectual, on his life and career—which spans Hanoi to Paris to Chicago—in a riveting conversation on the role of math education and Vietnam's future.Speaker's Bio: Ngô Bảo Châu is a Vietnamese-French mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking contributions to number theory and representation theory. He is best known for proving the Fundamental Lemma, a central component of the Langlands Program that connects number theory and geometry. For this achievement, Ngô was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010, becoming the first Vietnamese mathematician to receive the honor. Born in Hanoi in 1972, Ngô completed his undergraduate studies at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Paris-Sud under Gérard Laumon. He has held professorships at the Université Paris-Sud and the University of Chicago, where he continues his research in automorphic forms, trace formulas, and arithmetic geometry.This event is hosted by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute.Refreshments will be served at the event.