Philibert Nang

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.
2. "ICTP - Ramanujan Prize Winner 2011". ictp.it. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
3. "2017 AMMSI-Phillip Griffiths Prize Winner | African Mathematics Millennium science Initiative".
4. Philibert Nang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. "International Mathematical Union (IMU): Gabon (associate member)". mathunion.org. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
6. Nang, Philibert (2014). "D-modules on G-representations". arXiv:1404.4212 [math.CV].
7. "Professional profile".