| Gérard Laumon | |
| Birth Place: | Lyon, France |
| Nationality: | French |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Paris-Sud 11 University |
| Alma Mater: | École Normale Supérieure Paris-Sud 11 University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Luc Illusie |
| Doctoral Students: | Laurent Lafforgue Ngô Bảo Châu Sophie Morel |
| Known For: | Work on Langlands program |
| Awards: | Clay Research Award (2004) |
Gérard Laumon (in French lomɔ̃/; born 1952) is a French mathematician working in number theory and the Langlands program.
Laumon studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Paris-Sud 11 University, Orsay.
In 1987, Vladimir Drinfeld and Laumon formulated the geometric Langlands conjecture for general linear groups
GL(n,K)
K
In 2008, Laumon and Ngô Bảo Châu proved the fundamental lemma for unitary groups, a component in the Langlands program in number theory.[3]
He was awarded the Silver Medal of the CNRS in 1987, the E. Dechelle prize of the French Academy of the Sciences in 1992, and the Clay Research Award in 2004.[4] Laumon and Ngô received the Clay Research Award for the proof of the fundamental lemma for unitary groups, a component in the Langlands program in number theory, in 2004.[4]
In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[5]
. Frenkel . Edward . Frontiers in Number Theory, Physics, and Geometry II . Lectures on the Langlands Program and Conformal Field Theory . Edward Frenkel . 2007 . Springer . 387–533 . 10.1007/978-3-540-30308-4_11 . 2005hep.th...12172F . hep-th/0512172 . 978-3-540-30307-7 . 119611071 .