François Loeser

François Loeser ( born August 25, 1958 in Mulhouse) is a French mathematician.

Loeser studied from 1978 to the Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS ). In 1983 he submitted his Thèse de troisieme a motorcycle and 1988 his Thèse d'Etat (both part of the doctoral procedure in France). 1985 to 1989 he was Chargé de Recherches at the CNRS at the Ecole Polytechnique. He became a professor at the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie ) and 2000 professor at the ENS in 1989.

Loeser deals with algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry, for example, he developed a theory of motivic integration in the late 1990s with the Belgian mathematician January Denef ( a concept that goes back to Maxim Kontsevich ).

1992 to 1997 he was a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. In 2007 he received the Freycinet Prize of the French Academy of Sciences. In 2008 he gave a plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam ( The Geometry behind non- archimedean integrals ).

His doctoral include Julien Sebag and ( with Denef ) Johannes Nicaise.

Writings

• With Jean -Benoît Bost, Michel Raynaud (editor): stables et groupe Courbes semi- fondamental s géométrie algébrique. Birkhäuser 2000 ( Luminy Conference 1998)
• Alan Adolphson, Francesco Baldassarri, Pierre Berthelot, Nicholas Katz: Geometric Aspects of Dwork Theory. Volume 1, de Gruyter 2004
• With J. Denef Germs of arcs on singular algebraic varieties and motivic integration, Inventiones Mathematicae, 135, 1999, 201-232
• With J. Denef motivic integration, quotient singularities and the McKay correspondence, Compositio Mathematicae, 131, 2002, 267-290