Two Prosperous Scientists from France will join the Community of Vilnius University

Vilnius University will honour two outstanding personalities – professor OTMAR SEUL (the Paris Nanterre University) and professor MARIE-CLAUDE VIANO (Lille University of Science and Technology) by awarding them with a degree of Doctor Honoris Causa.

Professor of law Otmar Seul will be awarded for the outstanding work in fields of implementation of new legal education methods, improvement of legal studies programmes, development of an open comparative approach to different legal traditions and cultural diversity, solving the issues of European integration and harmonisation of national law as well as for his close collaboration with Vilnius University.
Professor of mathematics Marie-Claude Viano will be honoured by the University for her outstanding research achievements in the fields of limit theorems of probability theory, long memory time series and statistical inference as well as for her close collaboration with Vilnius University.

The official ceremony will take place at 15.00 on May 16, 2017 at the University Church of St. Johns’.