Gérard Laumon

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Gérard Laumon

Gérard Laumon (French: [lomɔ̃]; born 1952) is a French mathematician working in number theory and the Langlands program.

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Gérard Laumon
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Born1952 (age 7273)
NationalityFrench
Alma materÉcole Normale Supérieure
Paris-Sud 11 University
Known forWork on Langlands program
AwardsClay Research Award (2004)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsParis-Sud 11 University
Doctoral advisorLuc Illusie
Doctoral studentsLaurent Lafforgue
Ngô Bảo Châu
Sophie Morel
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Education

Laumon studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Paris-Sud 11 University, Orsay.[1]

Work

In 1987, Vladimir Drinfeld and Laumon formulated the geometric Langlands conjecture for general linear groups over a function field .[2]:46[3]

In 2008, Laumon and Ngô Bảo Châu proved the fundamental lemma for unitary groups, a component in the Langlands program in number theory.[4][5]

Awards

He was awarded the Silver Medal of the CNRS in 1987, the E. Dechelle prize of the French Academy of the Sciences in 1992, and the Clay Research Award in 2004.[4] Laumon and Ngô received the Clay Research Award for the proof of the fundamental lemma for unitary groups, a component in the Langlands program in number theory, in 2004.[4]

In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

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