Gérard Laumon | |
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Born | 1952 (age 59–60) Lyon |
Nationality | France |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | Paris-Sud 11 University |
Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure Paris-Sud 11 University |
Doctoral advisor | Luc Illusie |
Doctoral students | Laurent Lafforgue Ngô Bảo Châu |
Known for | Works on Langlands program |
Notable awards | Clay Research Award (2004) |
Gérard Laumon (born 1952 in Lyon) is a French mathematician. He studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Paris-Sud 11 University, Orsay.
In 2004 Laumon and Ngô Bảo Châu received the Clay Research Award for the proof of the Langlands and Shelstad's Fundamental Lemma for unitary groups, a key component in the Langlands program in number theory.