Attention all francophone Math students in the U.S.! You might be interested to know that one of the recent awardees of a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians (Seoul, August 2014), Artur Avila, is a Franco-Brazilian research scholar at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7, one of Middlebury’s partner universities; the city of Paris and the university just welcomed him back with fanfare: http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/sc/site.php?bc=accueil&np=pageActu&ref=6458. For more information on the prize and its importance to the field of mathematics in France, please click here: http://www.lemonde.fr/mathematiques/article/2014/09/01/artur-avila-les-maths-pour-dynamique_4479999_1650729.html. And, finally, for detailed information on the Mathematics Department at Paris 7, please visit their website: https://www.math.univ-paris-diderot.fr/.