CNRS Delegation at IHES

Delegation is a specific position offered to lecturers and university professors working in research at CNRS.

For 2025-2026, IHES, in partnership with INSMI and INP, is offering three 6-month delegations, two in in mathematics and one in physics.

Teacher-researchers are invited to submit their applications for CNRS delegations via the Galaxie application (the application deadline: Autumn 2024 tbc). You are also invited to contact an IHES researcher or to write to Emmanuel Ullmo, ullmo@ihes.fr, to express your interest in a research stay at IHES. Delegation can begin on September 1, 2025 or February 1, 2026. Selected applicants will be offered accommodation at the Institute’s residence, some being suitable for a family. Help with childcare is also available.

Delegations to CNRS are subject to an agreement between CNRS and the teacher-researcher’s home institution. Financial compensation is paid by CNRS to the home institution for the replacement of the teacher-researcher’s teaching duties. IHES will reimburse CNRS for the cost of delegations.

For more information (in French)

Invited researchers

All applications should be submitted on line and include the following documents:
– Application form­ ­duly completed­
– Curriculum-vitæ
– Publication list
– Short research project
– Recommendation letters (not required for Senior researchers)

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Welcoming researchers from African countries

Thanks to the support of the Simons Foundation, IHES funds the traveling and the visiting costs of researchers coming from Africa and selected by the Scientific Council.

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Contact
application­@ihes.fr

Summer school call for proposals

The IHES summer schools are typically organized by an external scientific organizing committee, with IHES providing administrative and financial support (i.e. most of the accommodation costs at the university dorms located nearby for participants, as well as travel and accommodation expenses for lecturers and organizers).

For the 2028 edition of its summer school in theoretical physics that will take place in July, IHES is inviting Letters of interest.

The Letter of Interest (approximately one page) should contain, at a minimum, a brief description of the proposed subject and the organizing committee. Additional details concerning the list of proposed speakers and of any extra funding the organizers may bring along are appreciated.

For full consideration, the Letter of Interest should reach us by May 1, 2026.

Successful groups will be invited to submit a more complete proposal (5 pages or so, with a more detailed list of speakers and a program) by June 12,  2026, for review and selection by the IHES Scientific Council.

The IHES physics faculty
Clément Delcamp, Sridip Pal, Julio Parra-Martinez, Slava Rychkov

Contact: summer-schools@ihes.fr

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Previous IHES summer schools

2026 – Cosmological Correlators (July 6-17)
2025 – Statistical Aspects of Nonlinear Physics (June 23-July 4)
2025 – Discrete Subgroups of Lie Groups (July 7-18th)
2024 – Symmetries and Anomalies: a Modern Take
2023 – Recent Advances in Algebraic K-theory
2022 – Summer School on the Langlands Program
2021 – Enumerative Geometry, Physics and Representation Theory

Contact

summer-schools@ihes.fr

Postdocs

Selected applicants will be welcomed to IHES as members of the Postdoctoral Institute.

These positions are funded thanks to IHES’ partnership with outside institutions or because they are part of a specific project (HUAWEI, SIMONS Foundation, ERC grant…).

All applications must be completed online and include the following:
– duly completed application form
– curriculum-vitae
– list of publications
– research summary
– 2 to 3 letters of recommendation

Postdoctoral positions funded by specific programmes

The Huawei Young Talents Program
Presentation of the positions funded by the Huawei Young Talents Programme (4 positions: 3 in Mathematics, 1 in Physics)

The Simons Foundation General Program
Presentation of the position funded by the Simons Foundation  (1 position in Physics)

The Simons Foundation program “Simons collaboration on Probabilistic paths to Quantum Field Theory”
Presentation of the Simons Foundation program: Simons collaboration on Probabilistic paths to Quantum Field Theory (1 position)

The ERC GravitaS
Postdoctoral offer financed by the ERC GravitaS (1 position)

Contact

postdoc-application@ihes.fr