Sébastien Boucksom, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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French mathematician
Date of Birth: 26-Aug-1976
Place of Birth: Roubaix, Hauts-de-France, France
Profession: mathematician
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Sébastien Boucksom
- Sébastien Boucksom (born 26 August 1976 in Roubaix) is a French mathematician.Boucksom studied at the École normale supérieure de Lyon from 1996 to 1999, when he qualified with his agrégation in mathematics.
- He received his doctorate in 2002 from the Institut Fourier of the Université Grenoble Alpes with thesis Cônes positifs des variétés complexes compactes under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Demailly.
- As a postdoc Boucksom studied with Simon Donaldson at Imperial College London.
- From 2003 he did research for the CNRS at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu of the CNRS and the University of Paris VI.
- Since 2010 he has been a part-time professor at the École Polytechnique and since 2014 a directeur de recherche of the CNRS at the Center de Mathématiques Laurent Schwartz of the École Polytechnique.Boucksom's research deals with algebraic geometry, geometry of p-adic algebraic varieties, and Kähler manifolds. In 2014 the French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Prix Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet.
- The laudation cited his work on positive fluxes in compact Kähler manifolds with application to characterization of pseudo-effective cones, as well as his work on the Monge-Ampère equation with application to the existence of Kähler-Einstein metrics with minimal singularities.
- With Berman and Nyström, he proved a version of the Fekete problem in pluripotential theory.
- (An algorithmic version of the Fekete problem is problem number 7 of Smale's problems.) In 2018 Boucksom was an Invited Speaker with talk Variational and non-Archimedean aspects of the Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro.
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