Alain Connes

(2012–2020) – the Ohio State University, Columbus

(2003–2011) – Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

Connes was an invited professor at the Conservatoire national des arts et métierscode: fra promoted to code: fr (2000).

(1984–2017) – the Collège de Francecode: fra promoted to code: fr , Paris

Connes was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982, the Crafoord Prize in 2001 and the gold medal of the French National Centre for Scientific Research in 2004. He was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 1974 at Vancouver and in 1986 at Berkeley, and a plenary speaker at the ICM in 1978 at Helsinki. He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Royal Danish and Norwegian Academies of Science and Letters, and the Russian and US National Academies of Sciences.

(1981–1984) – the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris

(1979 – present) – the Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies, Bures-sur-Yvette, France

(1975) – Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada

(1973) – doctorate from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France

(1970–1974) – appointment at the French National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris

Connes studies operator algebras. In his early work on von Neumann algebras in the 1970s, he succeeded in obtaining the almost complete classification of injective factors. He also formulated the Connes embedding problem. Following this, he made contributions in operator K-theory and index theory, which culminated in the Baum–Connes conjecture. He also introduced cyclic cohomology in the early 1980s as a first step in the study of noncommutative differential geometry. He was a member of Nicolas Bourbaki.

(1966–1970) – Bachelor's degree from the École Normale Supérieure (now part of Paris Sciences et Lettres University).

Alain Connes (French: [alɛ̃ kɔn]; born 1 April 1947) is a French mathematician, and a theoretical physicist, known for his contributions to the study of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. He is a professor at the Collège de Francecode: fra promoted to code: fr , Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiquescode: fra promoted to code: fr , Ohio State University and Vanderbilt University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982.