Pierre Colmez (born 1962) is a French mathematician and directeur de recherche at the CNRS (IMJ-PRG) known for his work in number theory and p-adic analysis.

Education

Colmez studied at École Normale Supérieure and obtained his doctorate from Grenoble University.

Research

He works on special values of L-functions and p-adic representations of p-adic groups at the meeting point of Fontaine's and Langlands' programs. His contributions include: With Jean-Pierre Serre, he co-edited the Correspondance Grothendieck-Serre (2001).

Awards and honors

Colmez won the 2005 Fermat Prize for his contributions to the study of L-functions and p-adic Galois representations. In 1998, he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. Colmez has won the French Go championship four times.

Personal life

Pierre Colmez and Leila Schneps are the parents of Coralie Colmez. Violinist David Grimal is Colmez's first cousin.