Luc Illusie

Luc Illusie
Illusie in September 2014, while lecturing at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette, France.
Born1940 (age 8485)
NationalityFrench
AwardsÉmile Picard Medal (2012)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Paris-Sud
Doctoral advisorAlexander Grothendieck
Doctoral studentsGérard Laumon

Luc Illusie (French: [ilyzi]; born 1940) is a French mathematician, specializing in algebraic geometry. His most important work concerns the theory of the cotangent complex and deformations, crystalline cohomology and the De Rham–Witt complex, and logarithmic geometry. In 2012, he was awarded the Émile Picard Medal of the French Academy of Sciences.