Biography:Laurent Clozel

Short description: French mathematician

Laurent Clozel (born October 23, 1953 in Gap) is a French mathematician. His mathematical work is in the area of automorphic forms, including major advances on the Langlands programme

Career and distinctions

Clozel was a student at the École normale supérieure and later obtained a Ph.D. under Michel Duflo He is currently a full professor at the Université Paris-Sud in Orsay.

He received the Prix Élie Cartan of the French Academy for his work on base change for automorphic forms. He was an invited speaker at the 1986 International congress of mathematicians in Berkeley , talking about "Base change for GL(n)".

Together with Richard Taylor, Nicholas Shepherd-Barron and Michael Harris he proved the Sato–Tate conjecture.

Selected publications

• With James Arthur: Simple algebras, base change and the advanced theory of the trace formula, Annals of Mathematical Studies, Princeton University Press, 1989
• Motifs et formes automorphes: applications du principe de fonctorialité in James Milne, ed. : Automorphic forms, Shimura Varieties and L-Functions, Proc. Conf. Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor 1988, 2 Bände, Academic Press, 1990
• With Nicolas Bergeron : Spectre automorphe des variétés hyperboliques et applications topologique, Société mathématique de France, 2005
• Appendix in : Jean-Pierre Labesse: Cohomologie, stabilisation et changement de base, Astérisque, Nr.257, 1999
• The Sato–Tate Conjecture, in Barry Mazur, Wilfried Schmid, Shing-Tung Yau u.a. (éditeur): Current Developments in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 2000
• Laurent Clozel et Luc Illusie, « Nécrologie : André Weil (1906–1998) », Gazette des mathématiciens, vol. 78, 1998, p. 88–91