Background
Lafforgue, Laurent was born on November 6, 1966 in Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Lafforgue, Laurent was born on November 6, 1966 in Hauts-de-Seine, France.
Graduate, Ecole Normale Superieure de la rue d'Ulm, 1986.
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 The crucial contribution by Lafforgue to solve this question is the construction of compactifications of certain moduli stacks of shtukas. The monumental proof is the result of more than six years of concentrated efforts.
He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1986.
In 1994 he received his Doctor of Philosophy under the direction of Gérard Laumon in the Arithmetic and Algebraic Geometry team at the Université de Paris-Sud. Currently he is a research director of National Center for Scientific Research, detached as permanent professor of mathematics at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) in Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
On 22 May 2011 Lafforgue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Notre Dame.
Lafforgue is a critic of what he calls the "pedagogically correct" in France"s educational system. In 2005, he was forced to resign from the Haut conseil de l"éducation after he expressed these views in a private letter that he sent to Bruno Racine, president of the HCE, that later was made public.
Member of Institute France Academy of Sciences (elected member 2003).
