Gérard Laumon

Gérard Laumon
Born	1952 (age 71–72) Lyon, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	École Normale Supérieure Paris-Sud 11 University
Known for	Work on Langlands program
Awards	Clay Research Award (2004)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Paris-Sud 11 University
Doctoral advisor	Luc Illusie
Doctoral students	Laurent Lafforgue Ngô Bảo Châu Sophie Morel

Gérard Laumon (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.^[1]

In 1987, Vladimir Drinfeld and Laumon formulated the geometric Langlands conjecture for general linear groups ${\displaystyle GL(n,K)}$ over a function field ${\displaystyle K}$.^{[2]: 46 [3]}

In 2008, Laumon and Ngô Bảo Châu proved the fundamental lemma for unitary groups, a component in the Langlands program in number theory.^[4][5]

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.^[6]

• Laumon's CMI lecture
• Audio recording on a lecture at the Field Institute titled "On the fundamental lemma for unitary groups"