François Loeser
| François Loeser | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Born |
25 August 1958 Mulhouse |
| Nationality | France |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University Ecole Normale Supérieure |
| Alma mater | École Normale Supérieure |
| Doctoral advisor | Bernard Teissier |
| Known for | Motivic Integration |
| Notable awards |
Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet Prize (2007) CNRS Silver Medal (2011) |
François Loeser (born August 25, 1958) is a French mathematician. He is Professor of Mathematics at the Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University in Paris. From 2000 to 2010 he was Professor at École Normale Supérieure. Since 2015, he is a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.
He was awarded the CNRS Silver Medal in 2011 and the Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 2007. He was awarded an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant in 2010 and has been a Plenary Speaker at the European Congress of Mathematics in Amsterdam in 2008. In 2015 he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to algebraic and arithmetic geometry and to model theory".[1]
He is a specialist of algebraic geometry and is best known for his work on motivic integration, part of it in collaboration with Jan Denef.
References
- ↑ 2016 Class of the Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2015-11-16.