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.
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.