1. Jean-Michel Bismut was born on 26 February 1948 and is a French mathematician who has been a professor at the Universite Paris-Sud since 1981.
10 Facts About Jean-Michel Bismut
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Jean-Michel Bismut received in 1973 his Docteur d'Etat in Mathematics, from the Universite Paris-VI, a thesis entitled Analyse convexe et probabilites.
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Jean-Michel Bismut established his celebrated integration by parts for the Brownian motion on manifolds.
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Jean-Michel Bismut-Freed developed the theory of Quillen metrics on the smooth determinant line bundle associated with a family of Dirac operators.
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Jean-Michel Bismut-Gillet-Soule gave a curvature theorem for the Quillen metric on the holomorphic determinant of a direct image by a holomorphic proper submersion.
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Jean-Michel Bismut gave a natural construction of a Hodge theory whose corresponding Laplacian is a hypoelliptic operator acting on the total space of the cotangent bundle of a Riemannian manifold.
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Jean-Michel Bismut was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the summer of 1984.
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Jean-Michel Bismut was elected as a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 1991.
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Jean-Michel Bismut was a member of the Fields Medal Committee for ICM 1990.
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Jean-Michel Bismut was an editor of Inventiones Mathematicae from 1989 until 1996 and managing editor from 1996 until 2008.