Laurent Clozel


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

Selected publications