 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome. This is now the beginning of our event, a glimpse into the Institute, the Hauts études scientifiques. I am Claire Lenz, Director of Communications and Development at IHES, and on behalf of the Institute, as well as the friends of IHES, I thank you for attending this event. The format chosen for this event is that of the webinar, meaning that all of you, for all of you watching, you can see the panelists, but you cannot see the rest of the audience, and you cannot speak directly during the event. That being said, feel free to ask your question and post your comments using the Q&A button as well as the chat button down your screen. Without further ado, we will now start our event with Mr. Michael Ordoblas, President and Chairman of the Friends of IHES. Thanks, Claire. Hello, everybody. Thanks for joining us today. This is our first virtual event ever for Friends of IHES, and it has the great advantage that you can join us from around the world, both coast of the US, Canada, France, the IHES itself, Europe, welcome to all of you. It's a great pleasure to host this event and a great opportunity for us to get together. So we're particularly honored today and grateful to the French Ambassador of the US, Philippe Etienne, who is with us today to introduce the event, Philippe. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone. Thank you, Claire and Mike. And thank you for giving me this opportunity to offer a few remarks at the opening of this event. It's both a pleasure and a great honor. Pleasure because I train myself as a mathematician and an honor because the Institute, the Old Institute Scientific, is one of the most prestigious research institutions in France, but also in the world. How many institutes can count among them, among their permanent professors, seven field medals? And indeed, France is renowned for the excellence of its research in mathematics. Even if some international rankings are not without their flaws, I am nevertheless pleased to see that according to the Shanghai ARWU ranking, Paris-Saclay University is ranked first in the field of mathematics in the world and ninth in physics. The IHES, a founding member of the University of Paris-Saclay, no doubt contributes to this very high rankings. The IHES also illustrates the strength of cooperation between our two countries. A quarter of the 2,000 researchers invited to the IHES over the past 10 years have come from the United States and of the Institute's eight chairs, five are held by professors based in the US. The IHES promotes and conducts theoretical scientific research, but I find it remarkable that the researchers who receive the Institute's support also know how to tackle the most concrete questions that arise in the real world. I would like to mention two examples. The American Association for the Advancement of Science Award for Scientific Diplomacy received last year, I think, by Professor Eliezer Rabinaviti and the work by Robert Clark Penner, which uses advanced math to help fight COVID-19. It is fascinating when even the most theoretical research has such a positive impact. I don't want to be too long and I leave the floor to the speakers to the discussions that I'm sure will be fascinating. The presentation that Slavka Ryskov is going to make a universality in physics, will I am sure give an image of the scientific excellence that the IHES stands for, but before leaving the floor, I would like to extend my warm greetings to, and my gratitude to several participants in the audience today, whom I know personally sometimes, especially to Emmanuel Ulmo, the IHES's director and his predecessor, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon. I was, I want also to express my sincere gratitude to the friends of IHES, and in particular, it's German, Professor Douglas, and our great friends, Jim and Marilyn Simons. Your support is really very, very much appreciated and admired in my country. Thank you, thank you so much. I really miss the time when this kind of meeting was held in person, allowing for discussions on the sidelines of the event itself, but those days will return. I'm sure, even if we still have to deal with this terrible pandemic for a while. Thank you all. I wish you all the best in enjoying these few moments of science. Thank you for your attention. Thank you very much, Mr. Ambassador. Thank you for your kind words, and I look forward to the day that we'll be able to get together in person. So now we have our virtual tour of the IHES, which is a short movie entitled, IHES, A Paradise Born of Franco-American Friendship, which will last about 10 minutes. Shall we begin?