{"id":1226,"date":"2018-11-06T08:41:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T08:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/friendsofihes.ihes.fr\/?page_id=1226"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:22:21","slug":"about-ihes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/index.php\/about-ihes\/","title":{"rendered":"About IHES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1234 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/friendsofihes.ihes.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CdeC_Carre-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CdeC_Carre-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CdeC_Carre-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CdeC_Carre-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CdeC_Carre-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/CdeC_Carre.jpg 945w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ihes.fr\/en\/\">Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES)<\/a> is an international research institute in mathematics and theoretical physics located in Bures-sur-Yvette, just outside Paris.<\/p>\n<p>It was funded in 1958 by Leon Motchane, a businessman with a special passion for mathematics who dreamed of providing the best mathematicians and theoretical physicists with a place where they could carry on curiosity-driven research.<\/p>\n<p>Hosting every year more than 200 researchers from all over the world, and counting 8 Fields medalists out of the 13 permanent professors hired so far in mathematics, IHES is today a world leading research center.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 1em; clear: left;\">\n<p>IHES was determined by NGOsource to be equivalent to a U.S. public charity or government instrumentality.<\/p>\n<div><script type=\"text\/javascript\" id=\"ngos-ed-on-file-widget-script-17336c1f-917d-492b-bc53-225c95e103da\"><\/p>\n<p> (function() {<\/p>\n<p> function async_load()<\/p>\n<p> { var s = document.createElement('script'); s.type = 'text\/javascript'; s.async = true; var theUrl = 'http:\/\/www.ngosource.org\/sites\/default\/files\/ngos_ed_on_file_widget.js'; s.src = theUrl + ( theUrl.indexOf(\"?\") >= 0 ? \"&\" : \"?\") + 'ref=' + encodeURIComponent(window.location.href); var embedder = document.getElementById('ngos-ed-on-file-widget-script-17336c1f-917d-492b-bc53-225c95e103da'); embedder.parentNode.insertBefore(s, embedder); }<\/p>\n<p> if (window.attachEvent)<\/p>\n<p> window.attachEvent('onload', async_load);<\/p>\n<p> else<\/p>\n<p> window.addEventListener('load', async_load, false);<\/p>\n<p> })();<\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/div>\n<p>For more information, please contact Richard Kruel, Deputy Director of Development and Communications at IHES,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:richard.kruel@ihes.fr\">by email<\/a>\u00a0or give him a call at +33 6 83 32 01 62.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES) is an international research institute in mathematics and theoretical physics located in Bures-sur-Yvette, just outside Paris. It was funded in 1958 by Leon Motchane, a businessman with a special passion for mathematics who dreamed of providing the best mathematicians and theoretical physicists with a place where they could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1226\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendsofihes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}