Marie-France Vignéras

Who is Marie-France Vignéras?

Marie-France Vignéras is a French mathematician. She is a member of the Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu in Paris. She is known for her proof in 1978 of the existence of non-isometric Riemann surfaces with identical spectra; such surfaces show that one cannot hear the shape of a hyperbolic drum. Another highlight of her work is the establishment of the mod-l local Langlands correspondence for GL in 2000. Her current work concerns the p-adic Langlands program.

Vignéras is the author of 70 research articles and four books, two of them written with co-authors. She received the Médaille Albert Chatelet in 1978, the Médaille d'argent of the C.N.R.S. in 1984, the Prix von Humboldt in 1985 and the Prix de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris in 1997. Vignéras has made numerous invited visits to foreign universities and institutes, including the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn, the University of California at Berkeley, the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research in Mumbai, the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University.