In 2016, Cedric Villani (2010 Fields Medalist, former member of the national assembly of France) was one of the speakers at the Asian Science Camp organized by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore and the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India. Gonit Sora had the honour of interviewing Villani.
The interview questions for Gonit Sora were prepared by Manjil Saikia, Bishal Deb, Pankaj Mahanta and Salik M. Borbora, while the interview was taken by Bishal Deb and Salik M. Borbora. We also acknowledge the following people for helping us organize the interview Prof. G Mugesh, Dept. of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, IISc, Prof. Abha Misra, Dept. of Instrumentation and Applied Physics, IISc and the KVPY office bearers at IISc.
An English transcript is available at: gonitsora.com/interview-cedric-villani-2010-fields-medalist/
An Assamese transcript is available at: as.gonitsora.com/interview-cedric-villani-fields-medalist/
Gonit Sora acknowledges the help of the following people in typesetting the interview: Sanjeeda Bharati Das, Angshuman Deka, Parama Dutta, Mrinmoy Kshattry and Hridoyananda Saikia.
Watching with subtitles recommended as subtitles are annotated.