French mathematician, currently Professor at the Collège de France, IHÉS, The Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was an Invited Professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (2000). Link to Wikipedia biography
Alain Connes is a French mathematician. He is a professor at the Collège de France and a permanent member of the French Academy of Sciences. He is known for his work on noncommutative geometry, which has applications in physics and other areas of mathematics.