Jean-Loup Waldspurger

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Jean-Loup Waldspurger (* 1953 ) is a French mathematician who deals with number theory and modular forms.

Waldspurger studied from 1972 at the École normal supérieure and received his doctorate in 1980 with Marie-France Vignéras . He is Research Director at the CNRS at the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris. In 2009 he received the Clay Research Award for his work on p-adic harmonic analysis and especially on the fundamental lemma (proven by Ngô Bao Châu ) and the transfer conjecture in the Langlands program . He also received the CNRS silver medal and the Prix ​​Mergier-Bourdeix in 1996 . In 1994 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Zurich (Comparaison d'integrales orbitales pour des groupes p-adiques) and 1983 in Warsaw (Correspondances de Shimura) and 2014 in Seoul (Stabilization of the geometric side of the twisted trace formula). In 2017 he was elected to the Académie des sciences .

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