Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

IHÉS main building

The Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS; English: Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies) is a French research institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics (also with a small theoretical biology group). It is located in Bures-sur-Yvette, just south of Paris. It is an independently governed research institute and a founding member of the University of Paris-Saclay.

History

The IHÉS was founded in 1958 by businessman and mathematical physicist Léon Motchane with the help of Robert Oppenheimer and Jean Dieudonné as a research centre in France, modeled on the renowned Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, United States.<ref name="50th anniversary">Template:Cite web</ref>

The strong personality of Alexander Grothendieck and the broad sweep of his revolutionizing theories were a dominating feature of the first ten years at the IHÉS.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> René Thom received an invitation from IHÉS in 1963 and after his appointment remained there until his death in 2002.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Dennis Sullivan is remembered as one who had a special talent for encouraging fruitful exchanges among visitors and provoking a new and deeper insight into their ideas.Template:Citation needed

The IHÉS runs a highly regarded mathematical journal, Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS.

IHÉS celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1998<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and its 50th in 2008.<ref name="50th anniversary" /><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Directors

Image	Name	Timespan
	Léon Motchane	(1958–1971)
	Nicolaas Kuiper	(1971–1985)
	Marcel Berger	(1985–1994)
	Jean-Pierre Bourguignon	(1994–2013)
	Emmanuel Ullmo<ref name="IHES 2022">Template:Cite web</ref>	(2013–present)

List of IHES permanent professors

Name	Nationality	Field	Year joined	Year left	Notes	Major awards
Alexander Grothendieck	Stateless	mathematician	1958	1970		Fields Medal (1966), Crafoord Prize (1988)
Jean Dieudonné	French	mathematician	1958	1964
Louis Michel	French	physicist	1962	1992	Emeritus 1992–1999	Wigner Medal (1982)
René Thom	French	mathematician	1963	1990	Emeritus 1990–2002	Fields Medal (1958)
David Ruelle	Belgian	physicist	1964	2000	Emeritus since 2000	Henri Poincaré Prize (2006), Max Planck Medal (2014)
Pierre Deligne	Belgian	mathematician	1970	1984		Fields Medal (1978), Crafoord Prize (1988), Abel Prize (2013)
Dennis Sullivan	American	mathematician	1974	1997		Wolf Prize (2010), Abel Prize (2022)
Jürg Fröhlich	Swiss	physicist	1978	1982		Max-Planck Medal (2001), Henri Poincaré Prize (2009)
Oscar Lanford III	American	physicist	1982	1989
Mikhaïl Gromov	Russian, French	mathematician	1982	2015	Emeritus since 2015	Wolf Prize (1993), Abel Prize (2009)
Jean Bourgain	Belgian	mathematician	1985	1994		Fields Medal (1994), Shaw Prize (2010), Crafoord Prize (2012)
Thibault Damour	French	physicist	1989	2022	Emeritus since 2022	Albert Einstein Medal (1996), CNRS Gold Medal (2017)
Maxim Kontsevich	Russian, French	mathematician	1995	current		Henri Poincaré Prize (1997), Fields Medal (1998), Crafoord Prize (2008), Shaw Prize (2012)
Laurent Lafforgue	French	mathematician	2000	2021		Fields Medal (2002)
Nikita Nekrasov	Russian	physicist	2000	2013		Hermann Weyl Prize (2004), Jacques Herbrand Prize (2004), Compositio Prize (2009)
Vasily Pestun	Russian	physicist	2014	2023		Hermann Weyl Prize (2016)
Hugo Duminil-Copin	French	mathematician	2016	current		Fields Medal (2022)
Slava Rychkov	Russian, Italian, French	physicist	2017	current		New Horizons in Physics Prize (2014), Mergier-Bourdeix Prize (2019)
Laure Saint-Raymond	French	mathematician	2021	current
Dustin Clausen	Canadian, American	mathematician	2023	current
Julio Parra-Martinez	Spanish	physicist	2024	current
Hong Wang	Chinese	mathematician	2025<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>	current		Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize (2022)

Scientists associated with the IHES

Alain Connes (Fields Medal 1982) has held the Léon Motchane Chair since 1979. Several CNRS researchers are also based at the IHES: Ahmed Abbes, Thierry Baudineau, Ofer Gabber, Fanny Kassel and Christophe Soulé in mathematics and Clément Delcamp in physics. Yilin Wang is a junior professor.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

• Official website