Marie-France Vignéras

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Marie-France Vignéras

Marie-France Vignéras (born July 29, 1946 in Caudéran ) is a French mathematician who deals with number theory and algebraic geometry.

Life

Vigneras grew up in Dakar in Senegal (her father Robert Vignéras was a captain and harbor pilot there, her mother was Janine Mocudé), where she also passed the Abitur (Baccalaureat), and studied at the University of Bordeaux , where she graduated in 1972 (Thèse de 3eme Cycle) with a thesis on number theory of quaternions (on which Adolf Hurwitz and Martin Eichler had already worked). Her dissertation (Doctorat d'Etat) from 1974 with Jacques Martinet in Bordeaux comes from the same environment . In 1980 her book Arithmetique des algebres de quaternions was published . From 1977 to 1983 she was professor and head of the mathematics faculty at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Jeunes Filles in Sèvres . After that, she was a professor at the University of Paris VII (Institute de Mathematiques de Jussieu), in which it retired of 2010.

Later she dealt among other things with representation theory in arithmetic in the area of ​​the Langlands conjectures and with -adic representations, where she expanded the proof of the local Langlands conjecture by Gérard Laumon and others, about which she gave a plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians 2000 in Barcelona .

In 2006/2007 she was visiting professor at Radcliffe College at Harvard University and she was visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn , at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bombay, at the Institute for Advanced Study and at the University of California, Berkeley .

In 1978 she proved the existence of non-isometric Riemann surfaces with an identical spectrum, with which she the Can you hear the shape of a drum? Solved Mark Kac's problem for hyperbolic surfaces.

Her PhD students include Jean-Loup Waldspurger and Jean-Francois Dat (Professor at the University of Paris VI).

She received the Albert Châtelet Medal in 1978, the CNRS silver medal in 1984 , a Humboldt Research Prize in 1985 and the Prize of the Académie des Sciences in Paris in 1997. In 2005 she was an Emmy Noether visiting professor at the University of Göttingen . In 2002 she was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Beijing (Modular representations of p-adic groups and of affine Hecke algebras).

In 2016/17 she was on the Abel Prize Committee .

literature

  • Mariana Cook (Ed.): Mathematicians: an outer view of the inner world , Princeton University Press 2009 (autobiographical entry)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Place of birth according to Annual Report, IAS 1984, p. 44, pdf
  2. ↑ Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Volume 800, Springer-Verlag, ISBN 0-387-09983-2 .
  3. ^ Vigneras: Correspondance locale de Langlands semi-simple pour GL (n, F) modulo , Inventiones Mathematicae, Volume 2001, pp. 197-223
  4. ^ Vigneras at Radcliffe College ( Memento from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Vigneras, Variétés Riemanniennes Isospectrales et non Isométriques, Annals of Mathematics, Series 2, Vol 112, 1980, pp 21-32
  6. ^ Abel Committee
personal data
SURNAME Vignéras, Marie-France
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guého, Marie-France (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Caudéran