Pierre Colmez

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Pierre Colmez
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Born1962 (age 61–62)
NationalityFrench
Alma mater École Normale Supérieure and Grenoble University
Children Coralie Colmez
Awards Fermat Prize (2005)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions CNRS
Sorbonne University
Doctoral advisor John H. Coates
Jean-Marc Fontaine

Pierre Colmez (born 1962) is a French mathematician and directeur de recherche at the CNRS (IMJ-PRG) known for his work in number theory and p-adic analysis.

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Education

Colmez studied at École Normale Supérieure and obtained his doctorate from Grenoble University.

Research

He works on special values of L-functions and -adic representations of -adic groups at the meeting point of Fontaine's and Langlands' programs. His contributions include:

With Jean-Pierre Serre, he co-edited the Correspondance Grothendieck-Serre (2001). [15] [16]

Awards and honors

Colmez won the 2005 Fermat Prize for his contributions to the study of L-functions and p-adic Galois representations.

In 1998, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. [17]

Colmez has won the French Go championship four times. [18]

Personal life

Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps are the parents of Coralie Colmez. [19] [20] Violinist David Grimal is Colmez's first cousin.

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  3. ↑ Théorie d'Iwasawa des représentations de de Rham d'un corps local, Annals of Mathematics 148 (1998), 485–571
  4. ↑ Construction des représentations p-adiques semi-stables (avec J.-M. Fontaine), Inventiones mathematicae 140 (2000), 1–43 (avec Jean-Marc Fontaine)
  5. ↑ Espaces Vectoriels de dimension finie et représentations de de Rham, Astérisque 319 (2008), 117–186
  6. ↑ Représentations p-adiques surconvergentes, Inventiones mathematicae 133 (1998), 581–611 (avec Frédéric Cherbonnier)
  7. ↑ Représentations triangulines de dimension 2, Astérisque 319 (2008), 213–258
  8. ↑ Espaces de Banach de dimension finie, Journal Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu 1 (2002), 331–439
  9. ↑ Arthur-César Le Bras, Espaces de Banach–Colmez et faisceaux cohérents sur la courbe de Fargues–Fontaine, Duke Math. J. 167 (2018), 3455-3532
  10. ↑ Vytautas Paškūnas, The image of Colmez’s Montreal functor, Publications mathématiques de l'IHÉS 118 (2013), 1–191
  11. ↑ Représentations de et -modules, Astérisque 330 (2010), 281–509
  12. ↑ -adic vanishing cycles and syntomic cohomology, Inventiones mathematicae 208 (2017), 1-108 (with Wiesława Nizioł).
  13. ↑ Cohomologie -adique de la tour de Drinfeld, le cas de la dimension 1, Journal of the AMS 33 (2020), 311–362 (with Wiesława Nizioł and Gabriel Dospinescu).
  14. ↑ Cohomology of -adic Stein spaces, Inventiones mathematicae 219 (2020), 873–985 (with Wiesława Nizioł and Gabriel Dospinescu).
  15. ↑ Raynaud, Michel (October 2003). "Book Review: Correspondance Grothendieck-Serre " (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 50 (9): 1085–1086.
  16. ↑ Colmez, P.; Serre, J.-P., eds. (2004). Grothendieck-Serre Correspondence. American Mathematical Society; Société Mathématique de France. ISBN   978-0-8218-3424-4; bilingual edition{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  17. ↑ Colmez, Pierre (1998). "Représentations p-adiques d'un corps local". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. II. pp. 153–162.
  18. ↑ Open - Fédération Française de Go - Jeu de go
  19. ↑ "Allow me to explain, Your Honour". The Economist. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  20. ↑ Tsui, Diana (9 January 2018). "The Mathematician Who Moonlights As a Rock-Band Violinist". The Cut . Retrieved 2 October 2020.
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