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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IHES and Friends of IHES celebrate the end of a successful fundraising campaign

Friends of IHES | November 14, 2022

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...

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Tribute to Nicola N. Khuri (1933 – 2022)

Friends of IHES | August 10, 2022

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...

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Hugo Duminil-Copin has been awarded the Fields Medal

Friends of IHES | July 6, 2022

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...

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