Fields Medal for members LERU Universities
01 September 2010
The medal, which is the world's most prestigious mathematics distinction, was presented to Ngô Bao Châu (Université Paris-Sud) for his proof of the "fundamental lemma." Long stated as a conjecture, the fundamental lemma is the cornerstone of a theory introduced in the late seventies establishing relations between two distinct fields of mathematics, arithmetics and group theory.
Stanislav Smirnov is a Russian mathematician working at the University of Geneva on complex analysis, dynamical systems and probability theory. He proved Cardy’s formula for critical site percolation on the triangular lattice and deduced conformal invariance.
Cédric Villani is a French mathematician and director of the Henri Poincaré Institute at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie.
Stanislav Smirnov
Ngô Bảo Châu
Cédric Villani