Biography:Philibert Nang

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Philibert Nang

Philibert Nang (born 1967[1]) is a Gabonese mathematician known for his work in algebra (D-modules, Riemann–Hilbert correspondence).

Nang won the 2011 ICTP Ramanujan Prize for his research in mathematics, and because he conducted it in Gabon the ICTP declared: "It is hoped that his example will inspire other young African mathematicians working at the highest levels while based in Africa."[2] He was awarded the African Mathematics Millennium Science Initiative-Phillip Griffiths Prize in 2017.[3]

He obtained his Ph.D. from the Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1996 under the supervision of Louis Boutet de Monvel.[4]

Nang currently serves as president of the Gabon Mathematical Society.[5]

He has been a visiting member at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.[6] Currently he is employed as associate professor at University of Pretoria[7] in South Africa .

Selected publications

  • "On the classification of regular holonomic D-modules on skew-symmetric matrices", Journal of Algebra, Volume 356, Issue 1, 2012, pp. 115–132.
  • "D-modules associated to the determinantal singularities", Proc. Japan Acad. Ser. A Math. Sci., Volume 80, Number 5, 2004, pp. 74–78.
  • "D-modules associated to the group of similitudes", Publ. Res. I. Math. Sci., Volume 35, Number 2, 1999, pp. 223–247.

References

  1. Paulus Gerdes (2007). African Doctorates in Mathematics: A Catalogue. Research Center for Mathematics, Culture and Education, Maputo, Mozambique. p. 127. ISBN 978-1-4303-1867-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=wgiTQUcE21UC&pg=PA127. 
  2. "ICTP - Ramanujan Prize Winner 2011". ictp.it. http://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/prizes-awards/the-ramanujan-prize/the-ramanujan-prize-winners-(1)/ramanujan-prize-winner-2011.aspx. 
  3. "2017 AMMSI-Phillip Griffiths Prize Winner | African Mathematics Millennium science Initiative". http://ammsi.africa/news/2017-ammsi-phillip-griffiths-prize-winner. 
  4. "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Philibert Nang". ams.org. http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=56127. 
  5. "International Mathematical Union (IMU): Gabon (associate member)". mathunion.org. http://www.mathunion.org/index.php?id=2758&L=0&type=98. 
  6. Nang, Philibert (2014). "D-modules on G-representations". arXiv:1404.4212 [math.CV].
  7. "Professional profile". https://www.up.ac.za/mathematics-and-applied-mathematics/article/2838047/prof-p-philibert-nang.