Jean-Loup Waldspurger
Encyclopedia
Jean-Loup Waldspurger is a French
mathematician
working on the Langlands program
and related areas.
Waldspurger attained his doctorate
at École normale supérieure
in 1980, under supervision of Marie-France Vignéras
. He was awarded the 2009 Clay Research Award
for his results in p-adic harmonic analysis
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....
working on the Langlands program
Langlands program
The Langlands program is a web of far-reaching and influential conjectures that relate Galois groups in algebraic number theory to automorphic forms and representation theory of algebraic groups over local fields and adeles. It was proposed by ....
and related areas.
Waldspurger attained his doctorate
Doctorate
A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder to teach in a specific field, A doctorate is an academic degree or professional degree that in most countries refers to a class of degrees which qualify the holder...
at École normale supérieure
École normale supérieure
An école normale supérieure or ENS is a type of publicly funded higher education in France. A portion of the student body who are French civil servants are called Normaliens....
in 1980, under supervision of Marie-France Vignéras
Marie-France Vignéras
Marie-France Vignéras is a French mathematician. She contributed to number theory and algebraic geometry.Vignéras graduated from the University of Bordeaux in 1972, and earned her doctorate in 1974. Her most important results include an extension of Gérard Laumon's proof of the local Langlands...
. He was awarded the 2009 Clay Research Award
Clay Research Award
The Clay Research Award is given annually by the Clay Mathematics Institute to mathematicians to recognize their achievement in mathematical research...
for his results in p-adic harmonic analysis
P-adic analysis
In mathematics, p-adic analysis is a branch of number theory that deals with the mathematical analysis of functions of p-adic numbers....
.