Ulrich Stuhler is a German

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change. History On ...

. He currently is a professor at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

. He is known for his contributions to the Langlands program. In 1993, he—along with

Gérard Laumon Gérard Laumon (; born 1952) is a French mathematician, best known for his results in number theory, for which he was awarded the Clay Research Award. Life and work Laumon studied at the École Normale Supérieure and Paris-Sud 11 University, Or ...

and

Michael Rapoport Michael Rapoport (born 2 October 1948) is an Austrian mathematician. Career Rapoport received his PhD from Paris-Sud 11 University in 1976, under the supervision of Pierre Deligne. He held a chair for arithmetic algebraic geometry at the Univ ...

—proved the

local Langlands conjectures In mathematics, the local Langlands conjectures, introduced by , are part of the Langlands program. They describe a correspondence between the complex representations of a reductive algebraic group ''G'' over a local field ''F'', and representation ...

for the general linear group GL_''n''(''K'') for positive characteristic local fields ''K''. An alumnus of the

, Stuhler earned his doctorate under supervision of

Martin Kneser Martin Kneser (21 January 1928 – 16 February 2004) was a German mathematician. His father Hellmuth Kneser and grandfather Adolf Kneser were also mathematicians. He obtained his PhD in 1950 from Humboldt University of Berlin with the disser ...

in 1970.

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