Hugo Duminil-Copin gives a talk in Brussels

Hugo Duminil-Copin, a permanent professor at IHES and Fields Medal 2022 laureate, went to Brussels on February 27, 2023 to present his research with the talk “From Coffee to Mathematics” at the Science and Cocktails scientific mediation event. Hugo Duminil-Copin’s presentation gathered more than three hundred science lovers in an emblematic Brussels performance hall, Atelier 210.

The same day, Hugo Duminil-Copin was received at the Residence of France by Ambassador François Sénémaud. This reception gathered some friends of IHES in Brussels : representatives of Belgian companies and national research agencies, as well as of the scientific and diplomatic world.

Furthermore, Hugo Duminil-Copin met the community of physicists and mathematicians of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and gave a seminar entitled “Marginal triviality of the scale limits of the critical Ising 4D and ϕ_4^4 models”.

While in Brussels, Hugo Duminil-Copin also participated in the Belgian radio and television of the French community program “Déclic” where he shared his vision of mathematics teaching methods and the beauty of this science.

In the photo, from left to right: Emmanuel Hermand, the Secretary General of the IHES, Hugo-Duminil Copin, permanent professor at IHES and Ambassador François Sénémaud. © French Embassy in Brussels.