Laurent Clozel

Laurent Clozel (born 23 October 1953 in Gap, France) is a French mathematician and professor at Paris-Saclay University. His mathematical work is in the area of automorphic forms, including the Langlands program.

Career and distinctions

Clozel was a student at the École normale supérieure and later obtained a Ph.D. under Michel Duflo and Paul Gérardin.^[1]

He received the

Together with Richard Taylor, Nicholas Shepherd-Barron, and Michael Harris he proved the Sato–Tate conjecture.^[2]

Selected publications

• Arthur, James; Clozel, Laurent (1989). Simple algebras, base change, and the advanced theory of the trace formula. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press.
  OCLC 18325674
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• Motifs et formes automorphes: applications du principe de fonctorialité In: Clozel, Laurent (1990). Automorphic forms, Shimura varieties, and L-functions : proceedings of a conference held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, July 6-16, 1988. Boston: Academic Press.
  OCLC 20637660
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• Bergeron, Nicolas; Clozel, Laurent (2005). Spectre automorphe des variétés hyperboliques et applications topologiques (in French). Paris: Société mathématique de France.
  OCLC 70784273
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• The Sato–Tate Conjecture, in Barry Mazur, Wilfried Schmid, Shing-Tung Yau (ed.): Current Developments in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, 2000
• Laurent Clozel and Luc Illusie, « Nécrologie : André Weil (1906–1998) », Gazette des mathématiciens, vol. 78, 1998, p. 88–91

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