Christophe Breuil is a French

France

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 mathematician

Mathematician

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, who works in algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry

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 and number theory

Number theory

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Academic life

Breuil attended schools in Brive-la-Gaillarde

Brive-la-Gaillarde

Brive-la-Gaillarde is a commune of France. It is a sub-prefecture of the Corrèze department. The population of the urban area was 89,260 as of 1999. Although it is by far the biggest commune in Corrèze, the capital is Tulle.-History:...

 and Toulouse

Toulouse

Toulouse is a city in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern FranceIt lies on the banks of the River Garonne, 590 km away from Paris and half-way between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea...

 and studied from 1990 to 1992 at the Ecole Polytechnique

École Polytechnique

The École Polytechnique is a state-run institution of higher education and research in Palaiseau, Essonne, France, near Paris. Polytechnique is renowned for its four year undergraduate/graduate Master's program...

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In 1993, he obtained his DEA degree at the Paris-Sud 11 University

Paris-Sud 11 University

University of Paris-Sud or University of Paris-Sud or University of Paris XI is a French university distributed among several campuses in the southern suburb of Paris...

 located in Orsay

Orsay

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From 1993 to 1996 he conducted research at the Ecole Polytechnique and taught simultaneously at the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay.

In 1996, he received his PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique, supervised by Jean-Marc Fontaine with the thesis "Cohomologie log-cristalline et représentations galoisiennes p -adiques".

In 1997, he gave the Cours Peccot at the Collège de France

Collège de France

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In 2001 he obtained a habilitation degree entitled "Aspects entiers de la théorie de Hodge p-adique et applications" at Paris-Sud 11 University.

Since 2002 he has been at IHES as Director of Research with the CNRS.

In 2007/08 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University

Columbia University

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Awards

In 1993 he was awarded the Prix Gaston Julia at the Ecole Polytechnique

École Polytechnique

The École Polytechnique is a state-run institution of higher education and research in Palaiseau, Essonne, France, near Paris. Polytechnique is renowned for its four year undergraduate/graduate Master's program...

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In 2002 he received the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand of the French Academy of Sciences

French Academy of Sciences

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 and the 2006 Prix Dargelos Anciens Élèves of the Ecole Polytechnique.

Work

With Fred Diamond

Fred Diamond

Fred Diamond is an American mathematician, known for his role in proving the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. His research interest is in modular forms and Galois representations....

, Richard Taylor

Richard Taylor (mathematician)

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 and Brian Conrad

Brian Conrad

Brian Conrad , is an American mathematician and number theorist, working at Stanford University. Previously he was at the University of Michigan....

 in 1999, he proved the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, which previously had only been proved in a special case by Andrew Wiles

Andrew Wiles

Sir Andrew John Wiles KBE FRS is a British mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at Oxford University, specializing in number theory...

and Taylor. Then he worked on the p-adic Langlands conjecture.