Laurent Berger

Laurent Berger is a mathematician at École normale supérieure de Lyon in the Unit of Pure and Applied Mathematics (UMPA). He earned his PhD at Université Paris 6 under Pierre Colmez, focusing on p-adic representations and differential equations. After postdoctoral work at Harvard University, he held a researcher position at CNRS (University of Orsay and IHES) and taught at École Polytechnique before joining ENS de Lyon in 2007. He was a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (2012-2017) and is currently a Distinguished University Professor.

His research centers on number theory and arithmetic geometry, with key interests in:

• Galois p-adic representations
• (Phi, Gamma)-modules
• p-adic Langlands program
• Nonarchimedean dynamical systems
• p-adic Fourier theory
• Lubin-Tate theory

His 15 most recent publications span themes like super-Hölder vectors, p-adic Fourier analysis, and decomposition of cyclotomic fields, reflecting his expertise in p-adic Hodge theory and Galois module theory. He has advised four doctoral students and maintains active collaborations with researchers like K. Ardakov and P. Colmez.

Awards and honors include a prestigious junior fellowship at the Institut Universitaire de France. His work is documented through 50+ publications since 2000, with MathSciNet, zbMATH, and Google Scholar profiles tracking his contributions to modern number theory.