On 6 April, the 95^th anniversary of Xiamen University, Cédric Villani, French mathematician, the 2010 Fields Medal winner, professor of the University of Lyon, was invited to give a lecture on “Of Planets, Stars, and Eternity”.   

    Profile: Cédric Villani(born 5 October 1973) is a French mathematician working primarily onpartial differential equations, Riemannian geometry and mathematical physics. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010.