“Liberté aux professeurs associés!” Interview with Alexandre Aleksandrovich Kirillov

[摘要] This interview took place at the international conference“Representation Theory at the Crossroads of ModernMathematics”, held in Reims, 29 May – 2 June 2017, in honour of Professor Alexandre Alexandrovitch Kirillov. During the conference, he was awarded the degree of DoctorHonoris Causa of the University of Reims ChampagneArdenne. The conference was organised by A. Borodin(MIT Boston), A. Kirillov (University of New York inStony Brook), S. Morier-Genoud (Paris 6), A. Okounkov(University of Columbia), V. Ovsienko (CNRS, Reims),M. Pevzner (University of Reims), N. Rozhkovskaya(Kansas State University), M. Schlichenmaier (Luxembourg) and R. Yu (University Reims) and was supported by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, theNational Science Foundation, the CNRS, two ANR projects (SC3A and ACORT) and the University of Luxembourg.