Laurent Lafforgue
| Laurent Lafforgue | |
|---|---|
| Born |
6 November 1966 Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | CNRS |
| Alma mater |
Université de Paris-Sud École Normale Supérieure |
| Doctoral advisor | Gérard Laumon |
| Doctoral students | Ngô Đắc Tuấn |
| Known for | Proof of Langlands conjectures |
| Notable awards |
Clay Research Award (2000) Fields Medal (2002) |
Laurent Lafforgue (French: [lafɔʁɡ]; born 6 November 1966) is a French mathematician. He has made outstanding contributions to Langlands' program in the fields of number theory and analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism group 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.
In 2002 at the 24th International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing, China, he received the Fields Medal together with Vladimir Voevodsky.
He won 2 silver medals at International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in 1984 and 1985. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1986. In 1994 he received his Ph.D. under the direction of Gérard Laumon 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.
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