Guy Henniart (born 1953,

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) is a French mathematician at

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. He is known for his contributions to the

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, in particular his proof of the local Langlands conjecture for GL(''n'') over a ''p''-adic

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—independently from Michael Harris and Richard Taylor—in 2000. Henniart attained his doctorate from the

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in 1978, under supervision of Pierre Cartier with thesis ''Représentations du groupe de Weil d’un corps local''. He was a member of

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.. Henniart was an

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in 2006 at Madrid and gave a talk ''On the local Langlands and Jacquet-Langlands correspondences''.

Selected publications

* * * with Colin Bushnell:

References

External links

* *Henri Carayol:
Preuve de la conjecture de Langlands locale pour GL_n: travaux de Harris-Taylor et Henniart
', Séminaire Bourbaki 41, 1998–1999, pp. 191–243 (Exposé 857) 1953 births Living people École Normale Supérieure alumni 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians University of Paris alumni Academic staff of the University of Strasbourg Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Nicolas Bourbaki {{France-mathematician-stub