Time：16:00-17:00, Wednesday, October 22 2025
Venue：E13-105
Host：Ivan Fesenko, ITS
Speaker: Laurent Lafforgue, Lagrange Center and Huawei Research Center
Biography：Laurent Lafforgue was awarded the Fields Medal of the International Math Union in 2002. He has conducted fundamental research in areas of the Langlands program, in topos theory and its applications to AI. Before 2021 he worked at IHES, the famous math research centre in Paris. Since 2021 he works at Huawei Technologies France.
Title：On Grothendieck's vision
Abstract：The talk intended for a general audience will be to give an idea of the core groundbreaking new points of view brought to mathematics by one of the most creative and most fascinating mathematicians of all time, Alexandre Grothendieck (1928-2014). These new points of view go beyond mathematics as Grothendieck was looking for the natural sources of our human intuitions, which are pre-mathematical.
