Laurent Lafforgue

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fields = Mathematics
workplaces = CNRS
alma_mater = Université de Paris-Sud
École Normale Supérieure
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known_for = Proof of Langlands conjectures
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awards = Clay Research Award (2000)
Fields Medal (2002)
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Laurent Lafforgue (born November 6, 1966, in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France) is a French mathematician.

He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. in the Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry team at the Université de Paris-Sud. Currently he is a research director of CNRS, detached as permanent professor of mathematics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (I.H.E.S.) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France.

In 2002 at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China he received the Fields Medal together with Vladimir Voevodsky. Lafforgue made outstanding contributions to Langlands' program in the fields of number theory and analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjectures for GL_"n" of a function field. The crucial contribution by Lafforgue to solve this question is the construction of compactifications of certain moduli stacks of shtukas. The monumental proof is the result of more than six years of concentrated efforts.

He received the Clay Research Award in 2000.

Recently, he has dedicated some of his time to discuss France's educational system, being a critic of what he calls "pedagogically correct".

References

*Lafforgue, L. [http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/documenta/xvol-icm/07/Lafforgue.MAN.html "Chtoucas de Drinfeld et applications."] [Drinfeld shtukas and applications] Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. II (Berlin, 1998). Doc. Math. 1998, Extra Vol. II, 563--570
* [Drinfeld shtukas, Arthur-Selberg trace formula and Langlands correspondence] Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. I (Beijing, 2002), 383--400, Higher Ed. Press, Beijing, 2002.
*Gérard Laumon, [http://arxiv.org/abs/math.NT/0212417 "The work of Laurent Lafforgue"] , Proceedings of the ICM, Beijing 2002, vol. 1, 91--97
*Gérard Laumon [http://arxiv.org/abs/math.AG/0003131 "La correspondance de Langlands sur les corps de fonctions (d'après Laurent Lafforgue)"] , Séminaire Bourbaki, 52e année, 1999-2000, no. 873

External links

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* [http://www.ihes.fr/~lafforgue/ official home page] (in French)
* Lafforgue and the education [http://www.esec-alberto-sampaio.rcts.pt/filosofia/buescu_lafforgue.htm L’Affaire Lafforgue] (in Portuguese)

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NAME= Lafforgue, Laurent
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=French mathematician and Fields Medallist
DATE OF BIRTH= November 6, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH= Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France
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