Marie-France Vignéras

[5][6] Another highlight of her work is the establishment of the mod-l local Langlands correspondence for GL(n) in 2000.

She spent her childhood in Senegal, and did her high school studies at the lycée Van-Vollenhoven in Dakar.

She received the agrégation de mathématiques in 1969 and the doctorat d'Etat in 1974; her thesis was written under the direction of Jacques Martinet.

Vignéras served as Director of Mathematics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Sèvres from 1977 to 1983.

Her thesis students include Jean-Loup Waldspurger (directeur de recherches at the C.N.R.S.