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

  • visuel école d'été 2023 / 2023 summer school

    2023 IHES Summer School – Recent Advances in Algebraic K-theory

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  • visuel conférence centenaire René Thom

    1923-2023, the centenary of the birth of René Thom

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  • visuel conférence octobre 2023

    A Conference in Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry in Memory of Jan Nekovář

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  • Table ronde, 8 septembre 2023

    Back on the round table held on September 8, 2023

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  • Piet Lammers

    Piet Lammers is awarded the Claude-Antoine Peccot prize by Collège de France

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  • Marcel Boiteux

    Tribute to Marcel Boiteux

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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 2022.

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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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