Laurent Clozel (born October 23, 1953 in Gap) is a French

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. His mathematical work is in the area of

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s, including major advances on the Langlands programme

Career and distinctions

Clozel was a student at the

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and later obtained a Ph.D. under

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He is currently a full professor at the

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in Orsay. He received the Prix

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of the French Academy for his work on base change for automorphic forms. He was an invited speaker at the 1986

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, 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

* * ''Motifs et formes automorphes: applications du principe de fonctorialité'' In: * * Appendix in : Jean-Pierre Labesse: ''Cohomologie, stabilisation et changement de base'', Astérisque, Nr.257, 1999 * ''The Sato–Tate Conjecture'', in

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, Wilfried Schmid, Shing-Tung Yau u.a. (éditeur): ''Current Developments in Mathematics'', American Mathematical Society, 2000 * Laurent Clozel et

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Nécrologie : André Weil (1906–1998)
», ''Gazette des mathématiciens'', vol. 78, 1998,

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