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IHES news

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

  • visuel LSC 2024

    Life, Structure and Cognition (LSC) 2024: A Multitude of Times

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  • visuel Seed Seminar

    Matrix Models for Quantum Systems – Special Day of the Seed Seminar of Mathematics and Physics

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  • visuel conférence Albert Schwarz

    Physical Mathematics: Celebration of Albert Schwarz’s 70 Years in Science

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  • Hugo Duminil-Copin participates in University Paris-Saclay’s astrophysics summer school at the Haute-Provence Observatory

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  • Publication of the 2023 Annual Report

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  • Five-year Anniversary of the Gretchen and Barry Mazur Chair

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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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