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,...

IHES and Friends of IHES are delighted to announce the end of the Institute’s third fundraising campaign, “IHES, at the Avant-Garde of Science”. Launched in 2018 to mark the Institute’s 60th anniversary, the campaign allowed to raise €55m, thus...

IHES was sorry to learn that Nicola N. Khuri, brilliant scientist and dear friend to the Institute, passed away on August 4th, 2022, aged 89. A physicist with broad interests, Nicola Khuri succeeded in building the mathematical foundation of...

Hugo Duminil-Copin, a French mathematician specializing in probability theory, and a permanent professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES) since 2016, has been awarded the Fields medal on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians taking...

Barry Mazur, Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University, and a mathematician very close to IHES, has been awarded the Chern Medal, on the occasion of the International Congress of Mathematicians taking place in Helsinki. Barry Mazur’s research interests...