Christophe Breuil

Christophe Breuil
Nationality	France
Fields	Mathematician
Institutions	IHES
Alma mater	Ecole Polytechnique
Doctoral advisor	Jean-Marc Fontaine
Doctoral students	Xavier Caruso

Christophe Breuil is a French mathematician, who works in algebraic geometry and number theory.

Academic life

Breuil attended schools in Brive-la-Gaillarde and Toulouse and studied from 1990 to 1992 at the Ecole Polytechnique.

In 1993, he obtained his DEA degree at the Paris-Sud 11 University located in Orsay.

From 1993 to 1996 he conducted research at the Ecole Polytechnique and taught simultaneously at the University of Paris-Sud, Orsay.

In 1996, he received his PhD from the Ecole Polytechnique, supervised by Jean-Marc Fontaine with the thesis "Cohomologie log-cristalline et représentations galoisiennes p -adiques".

In 1997, he gave the Cours Peccot at the Collège de France.

In 2001 he obtained a habilitation degree entitled "Aspects entiers de la théorie de Hodge p-adique et applications" at Paris-Sud 11 University.

Since 2002 he has been at IHES as Director of Research with the CNRS.

In 2007/08 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University.

Awards

In 1993 he was awarded the Prix Gaston Julia at the Ecole Polytechnique.

In 2002 he received the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand of the French Academy of Sciences and the 2006 Prix Dargelos Anciens Élèves of the Ecole Polytechnique.

Work

With Fred Diamond, Richard Taylor and Brian Conrad in 1999, he proved the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, which previously had only been proved in a special case by Andrew Wiles and Taylor. Then he worked on the p-adic Langlands conjecture.

References

• Christophe Breuil's homepage
• Christophe Breuil at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.

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