Laurent Lafforgue

French mathematician · France · On the map · Academics · Born 1966 · age 60

Laurent Lafforgue is a French mathematician. He has made outstanding contributions to Langlands' program in the fields of number theory and analysis, and in particular proved the Langlands conjectures for the automorphism group of a function field.

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2014Officer of the Legion of HonourAward2002Fields medalAward2001Jacques Herbrand PrizeAward2000Clay Research AwardAward1995Cours PeccotAwardPeccot-Vimont PrizeAward1984Concours généralAward1966Born6 November 1966

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Officer of the Legion of Honour2014

Fields medal2002

Jacques Herbrand Prize2001

Clay Research Award2000

Peccot-Vimont Prize1995

Cours Peccot1995

Concours général1984

Honorary Doctorate from the University of Notre Dame

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The crucial contribution by Lafforgue to solve this question is the construction of compactifications of certain moduli stacks of shtukas. The proof was the result of more than six years of concentrated efforts.

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France