Bernadette Perrin-Riou

Bernadette Perrin-Riou is a renowned mathematician specializing in number theory, algebraic geometry, and Iwasawa theory. She holds a professorship at the Université de Paris, having previously served at Université Pierre et Marie Curie. Her work focuses on p-adic L-functions, elliptic curves, and Galois cohomology. She earned her Thèse de 3ème cycle (1979) and Thèse d'État (1983) under G. Poitou and J. Coates, respectively. Notably, she received the 1999 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize and the 1998 Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet Prize, and was an invited speaker at the 1994 ICM. Her research bridges abstract algebraic structures with computational methods, influencing modern arithmetic geometry.

Her key contributions include foundational work on p-adic representations, Iwasawa theory for elliptic curves, and the Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture in the supersingular case. She has authored over 55 papers and contributed to seminal texts in the field. Her awards reflect her impactful contributions to the study of L-functions and their arithmetic implications.