Christophe Breuil
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Christophe Breuil is a French mathematician, who works in algebraic geometry and number theory.
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[edit] Academic life
Breuil visited schools in Brive-la-Gaillarde and Toulouse and studied with the military 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 South Paris.
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 held the Cours Peccot at the Collège de France.
In 2001 he qualified to assume a professorship with "Aspects entiers de la théorie de Hodge p-adique et applications" at Paris-Sud 11 University.
From 2002 he was at IHES and was Director of Research CNRS.
In 2007/08 he was a visiting professor at Columbia University.
[edit] 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.
[edit] Publications
With Fred Diamond, Richard Taylor and Brian Conrad 1999, he demonstrated the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture, which previously had only been proved for a special case by Andrew Wiles and Taylor. Then he worked on p-adic Langlands conjecture.
