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Francis Brown (mathematician)

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Frances Brown
Born (1977-11-05) 5 November 1977 (age 46)
NationalityFranco-British
EducationEton College
University of Cambridge
École normale supérieure (Paris) / University of Bordeaux
AwardsÉlie Cartan Prize
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsAll Souls College, Oxford
Academic advisorsPierre Cartier
Websitehttps://www.asc.ox.ac.uk/person/professor-francis-brown

Francis Brown is a Franco-British mathematician who works on Arithmetic geometry and Quantum Field Theory.

Career

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Brown studied at the University of Cambridge and the École normale supérieure (Paris) and University of Bordeaux,[1] with Pierre Cartier, graduating in 2006 with a Ph.D.[2] He then spent time at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and Mittag-Leffler Institute. In 2007 he moved to Institut de mathématiques de Jussieu – Paris Rive Gauche where he won a European Research Council starter grant in 2010. In 2012, he moved to the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and was awarded a CNRS Bronze Medal and Élie Cartan Prize for his proof of two conjectures related to multiple zeta functions.[3][4] He had a Von Neumann Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study from 2014 to 2015 and is currently a senior research fellow at All Souls College, at the University of Oxford.

Brown's work is on the intersection of algebraic geometry and number theory. He has published on Tate Motives.[5] He also works on Zeta functions in quantum field theory.

Selected publications

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  • Multiple zeta values and periods of moduli spaces . Ann. Sci. Éc. Norm. Supér. (4) 42 (2009), no. 3, 371–489. ArXiv
  • Mixed Tate motives over . Ann. of Math. (2) 175 (2012), no. 2, 949–976. ArXiv
  • Dedekind zeta motives for totally real number fields. Invent. Math. 194 (2013), no. 2, 257–311. ArXiv
  • Motivic periods and . Proceedings of the ICM 2014. online

References

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  1. ^ "Professor Francis Brown". www.asc.ox.ac.uk. All Souls College. 2023. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  2. ^ Francis Brown at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ "Francis Brown". www.cnrs.fr. Centre national de la recherche scientifique. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  4. ^ "Prix Élie Carton (Mathématique)" (PDF). www.cnrs.fr. Académie des sciences. 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2023-05-27.
  5. ^ Brown, Francis (2012). "Mixed Tate motives over ". Annals of Mathematics. 172 (2): 949–976.
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