Vincent Lafforgue

Vincent Lafforgue
Born	January 20, 1974
Nationality	French
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Grenoble Alps University
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure
Doctoral advisor	Jean-Benoît Bost
Notable awards	EMS Prize (2000) CNRS Silver Medal (2015)

Vincent Lafforgue (born on the 20th of January, 1974) is a French mathematician. He is a CNRS "Directeur de Recherches" at the Institute Fourier in Grenoble. Lafforgue was awarded the 2000 EMS Prize for his contribution to the K-theory of operator algebras: the proof of the Baum–Connes conjecture for discrete co-compact subgroups of ${\displaystyle SL(3,\mathbb {R} )}$,${\displaystyle SL(3,\mathbb {C} )}$, ${\displaystyle SL(3,\mathbb {Q} _{p})}$ and some other locally compact group (and of more general objects).

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