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Paris, August 19, 2002 |
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Laurent Lafforgue, a French mathematician and tenured professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHÉS) and a CNRS Research Director, has been recognized for his work on the Langlands Program. He made his contribution to proving the Langlands correspondence between 1990 and 2000 when he was a CNRS chargé de recherche. He has been awarded the 2002 Fields Medal at age 35. Vladimir Voevodsky (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA) has also been recognized for his work on number theory and algebraic geometry. The so-called Langlands correspondence owes its name to Canadian mathematician Robert P. Langlands who, in 1967, in a famous letter to French mathematician André Weil, put forward a set of ideas and conjectures at the crossroads of number theory and analysis and the theory of group representations. This correspondence was to become a research program in and of itself and became the basis for a number of works in fundamental mathematics. Various conjectures in the Langlands correspondence have been solved, but the recent contribution from Laurent Lafforgue is one of the most spectacular. For his demonstration, which he completed in 2000, Laurent Lafforgue built on the work of Ukrainian mathematician Vladimir Drinfeld (1990 Fields Medalist). Laurent Lafforgue joined the
CNRS in 1990 at the Orsay "Laboratoire de mathématiques"
(jointly-run CNRS and Université de Paris-Sud research laboratory).
In 2000 he became a tenured professor at IHÉS. CNRS Press
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