Frédéric Hélein

Frédéric Hélein (born 22 April 1963) is a French mathematician. He is university professor at Paris Diderot University.

Hélein earned his doctorate at École polytechnique under supervision of Jean-Michel Coron. In 1998 Hélein was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin.^[1] He won the 1999 Fermat Prize, jointly with Fabrice Bethuel, for several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus.

Notable publications[edit]

Research articles

• Frédéric Hélein. Régularité des applications faiblement harmoniques entre une surface et une variété riemannienne. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math. 312 (1991), no. 8, 591–596.
• Fabrice Bethuel, Haïm Brezis, and Frédéric Hélein. Asymptotics for the minimization of a Ginzburg-Landau functional. Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 1 (1993), no. 2, 123–148.

Books

• Fabrice Bethuel, Haïm Brezis, and Frédéric Hélein. Ginzburg-Landau vortices. Progress in Nonlinear Differential Equations and their Applications, 13. Birkhäuser Boston, Inc., Boston, MA, 1994. xxviii+159 pp. ISBN 0-8176-3723-0
• Frédéric Hélein. Constant mean curvature surfaces, harmonic maps and integrable systems. Notes taken by Roger Moser. Lectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2001. 122 pp. ISBN 3-7643-6576-5
• Frédéric Hélein. Harmonic maps, conservation laws and moving frames. Translated from the 1996 French original. With a foreword by James Eells. Second edition. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 150. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002. xxvi+264 pp. ISBN 0-521-81160-0

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Website at Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu
• Frédéric Hélein at the Mathematics Genealogy Project

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