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Find out about the prolific activity and scientific advances at IHES in the Institute’s news and main events.

  • Reminiscences of Henri Epstein

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  • Tribute to Oscar E. Lanford III by Arthur Jaffe

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  • Representations, Probabiity, and Beyond: A Journey into Anatoly Vershik’s World

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  • Pierre Cartier

    In Memoriam: Pierre Cartier (1932-2024)

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  • In Memoriam: Henri Epstein (1932-2024)

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  • Hugo Duminil-Copin, Event Ambassador for the International Mathematical and Logical Games Championship

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Invitation programmes

Researchers come from all over the world to take part in the general IHES programme or in specific programmes. They are selected following an application or invited by the Scientific Council.

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Call for summer school proposals

Hosting a summer school each year is an important element of the Institute’s scientific policy. IHES is now calling for proposals for 2026.

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The IHES video channel

Since 2013, IHES has uploaded all of its conferences, lectures and public events onto its YouTube channel. View all the scientific events there.

Theoretical scientific research

The aim of the Foundation known as ‘Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques’ is to enable and encourage theoretical scientific research (…). [Its] activity consists mainly in providing the institute’s professors and researchers, both permanent and invited, with the resources required to undertake disinterested research.

Extract from the statutes of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, 1958.
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