La conférence Emmy Noether 2020 sera assurée par Marie-France Vignéras, professeure émérite de l’Université Paris Diderot, membre de l’IMJ, lors du prochain Congrès de l’Union Mathématique Internationale à Saint-Péterbourg.
Marie-France Vignéras a fait ses études à Bordeaux où elle a obtenu un doctorat sous la direction de Jacques Martinet en 1972 : “Corps de quaternions sur un corps de nombres algébriques”. Elle a fait sa carrière à Paris 7. Elle est déjà titulaire de nombreuses distinctions et prix : Médaille Albert Châtelet en 1978, médaille d’argent du CNRS en 1984, Prix Humboldt en 1985, Prix Petit d’Ormoy, Carrière, Thébault en 1997.
Marie-France Vignéras has been a leading number theorist for over four decades. Early career highlights include her 1978 proof of the existence of non-isometric closed hyperbolic surfaces with the same spectrum, as a consequence of her number-theoretic results. This answered negatively the question of Mark Kac, popularly posed as “Can one hear the shape of a drum?”, for hyperbolic surfaces. Much of her later work has centered around representation theory in arithmetics, with many deep contributions, from her proof of a mod-l local Langlands correspondence for GL(n) compatible with the complex local Langlands correspondence, to her recent work classifying mod p representations of p-adic reductive groups. Through her work she has had a profound influence on development of the Langlands program and the representation theory of p-adic groups. She has also had a huge influence on the mathematical community, e.g., through mentoring, where notable PhD students include Jean-Loup Waldspurger and Jean-François Dat.
ICM Emmy Noether Committee
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat avait également été honorée par cette distinction en 2006.