On 6 April, the 95^thanniversary of Xiamen University, Cédric Villani,French mathematician, the 2010 Fields Medal winner, professor oftheUniversity 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 geometryandmathematical physics. He was awarded theFields Medalin 2010.