Presentation

Born on April1947 in Draguignan (Var).

Education and professional career

  • 1966-1970 : Student at the École normale supérieure
  • 1970-1974 : Trainee, then attaché, then chargé at CNRS
  • 1975 : Cooperation in Kingston, Canada
  • 1976-1980 : Senior lecturer, then professor at Paris-VI
  • 1981-1984 : Director of Research, CNRS
  • 1979- : Professor of the " Léon Motchane " chair at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques de Bures-sur-Yvette
  • 1984-2017 : Professor at the Collège de France, Chair of Analysis and Geometry
  • 2003- : Professor at Vanderbilt University, USA

Editorial activities

  • 1978-1998 : Inventiones Mathematicae
  • 1981-1993 : Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems
  • Journal of Functional Analysis
  • Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • Journal of Operator Theory
  • Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences
  • Letters in Mathematical Physics
  • K-theory
  • Selecta Mathematica
  • IHES Mathematical Publications
  • Advances in Mathematics
  • Journal of Noncommutative Geometry

Conferences

  • 1974 : Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Vancouver, USA
  • 1978 : Plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki, Finland
  • 1986 : Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berkeley, USA

Awards and honors

  • 1975 : Aimé Berthé Prize from the French Academy of Sciences
  • 1976 : Peccot-Vimont Prize, Collège de France
  • 1977 : CNRS Silver Medal
  • 1979 : Honorary doctorate from Kingston University, Canada
  • 1980 : Prix Ampère from the French Academy of Sciences
  • 1980 : Foreign Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences
  • 1980 : Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • 1982 : Fields Medal
  • 1983 : Member of the French Academy of Sciences
  • 1990 : Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1993 : Associate Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences
  • 1996 : Foreign Member of the Royal Canadian Academy
  • 1997 : Associate Foreign Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA
  • 1997 : Honorary doctorate from the University of Rome " Tor Vergata ", Italy
  • 1999 : Honorary doctorate from the University of Oslo, Norway
  • 2000 : Clay Prize
  • 2001 : Crafoord Prize
  • 2004 : CNRS Gold Medal
  • 2009 : Honorary doctorate from Odense University, Denmark
  • 2010 : Honorary doctorate from the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium