Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques and Friends of IHES visit the Bay Area

Friends of IHES | April 12, 2023

IHES and Friends of IHES spent a week in the Bay Area meeting with friends, visitors and supporters, visiting local companies and organizing several events that gathered outstanding personalities. Emmanuel Ullmo, Director General of IHES, currently spends a 3-month...

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Alex Gerko makes a generous gift of £1m
to the new ‘Friends of IHES’ endowment

Friends of IHES | March 21, 2023

Alex Gerko, founder of the algorithmic trading firm XTX Markets, has just made a £1m gift to Friends of IHES that will contribute to its newly created endowment fund in the US. This is the first donation that Alex...

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Friends of IHES goes to California

Friends of IHES | March 13, 2023

Friends of IHES will take part in a series of events on March 30 and 31, in San Francisco, California. On Thursday, March 30, Friends of IHES will host an exclusive dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel in San...

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Baroness Ingrid Daubechies is awarded the Wolf Prize

Friends of IHES | February 9, 2023

Mathematician and theoretical physicist, Baroness Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University, has been awarded the 2023 Wolf Prize of the Wolf Foundation. This award acknowledges her work in...

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Nikita Nekrasov has been awarded the 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics

Friends of IHES | November 15, 2022

Nikita Nekrasov, theoretical physicist, for many years associated with IHES, has been awarded the 2023 Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics. This award acknowledges Nekrasov’s “elegant application of powerful mathematical techniques to extract exact results for quantum field theories,...

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