IHES Annual Report 2021 | 2928 | IHES Annual Report 2021

JEAN PIERRE BOURGUIGNON has assumed the interim presidency of the European Research Council (ERC) until 31 August 2021, when he came back to the Institute as honorary professor.

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Jean-Pierre BOURGUIGNON Mathematics, Honorary Professor and former Director of IHES from 1994 to 2013, Nicolaas Kuiper Chair since 2013.

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CNRS Bronze Medal (1977) Prix Paul Langevin, Académie des sciences de Paris (1987) Prix des Sciences Physiques et Mathématiques, Comité du Rayonnement Français (1997) Doctor Honoris Causa, Keio University, Japan (2008) Doctor Honoris Causa, Nankai University, China (P.R.) (2011) Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom Academia Europaea, member Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, foreign member Portuguese Academy of Sciences, foreign member London Mathematical Society, honorary member (2006) Deutsche Mathematiker Vereinigung, honorary member Polish Mathematical Society, honorary member

Editor of: Birkhäuser Monographs in Mathematics Journal of Mathematics and Music

Alain CONNES Mathematics, Léon Motchane Chair since 1979 and Professor Emeritus since 2017.

This year, the research activity of ALAIN CONNES has focused mainly on three topics, and articles are to be published soon: Prolate Spheroidal Operator and Zeta, Tolerance Relations and Operator Systems and Spectral Triples and Zeta-Cycles.

SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

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Prix Aimé Berthé, Académie des sciences de Paris (1975) Prix Peccot, Collège de France (1976) CNRS Silver Medal (1977) Prix Ampère, Académie des sciences de Paris (1980) Fields Medal (1982) Clay Research Award (2000) Crafoord Prize (2001) CNRS Gold Medal (2004) Doctor Honoris Causa, Queen's University, Canada (1979) Doctor Honoris Causa, Roma Tor Vergata, Italy (1997) Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Oslo, Norway (1999) Doctor Honoris Causa, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium (2010) Doctor Honoris Causa, Fudan University, China (P.R.) (2017) Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, foreign member Académie des sciences de Paris, member American Academy of Art & Sciences, honorary foreign member Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, foreign associate member Royal Society of Canada, foreign member National Academy of Sciences, USA, foreign associate member Russian Academy of Sciences, foreign associate member Royal Academy of Science of Belgium, associate member

Editor quondam of: Communications in Mathematical Physics Advances in Mathematics Journal of Functional Analysis Journal of Operator Theory Journal of Ergodic Theory K theory Letters in Mathematical Physics Les Publications mathématiques de l IHES Journal of Noncommutative Geometry