Chirurgie des grassmanniennes

The AMS has endeavored to publish and make available this succinct and quite elegant research monograph written by Field's Medalist and eminent researcher, Laurent Lafforgue. Lafforgue was the invited 2001-2002 Aisenstadt Chair at CRM. While acting in this capacity, he presented a seminar and a series of lectures. His material served as the cornerstone for this monograph. In the book, he addresses an important recurrent theme of modern mathematics: the various compactifications of
moduli spaces, which have a large number of applications.