IHES news

Thibault Damour Receives Two Prestigious Distinctions in July 2025

A Look Back at the First IHES Summer School of 2025

The first IHES summer school of 2025, Statistical Aspects of Nonlinear Physics, took place from June 23 to July 4.

IHES Trust UK launched on the 12th of June at the Residence of France in London

Conference by Elsa Vennat on Wednesday June 18th 2025

Join us on June 18th 2025 for the new Amis de l'IHES conference presented by Elsa Vennat

Appointments of the new IHES Secretary General and Director of Communication and Development

Claire Lenz, Director of Development and Communications, is appointed Secretary General of IHES, effective June 1, 2025. Kristina Lutsik, Deputy Director of Development and Communications, succeeds Claire Lenz in her duties, effective June 1, 2025.

Professor Kenji Fukaya, recipient of the 2025 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences

IHES extends its warmest congratulations to Professor Kenji Fukaya, recipient of the 2025 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences.

Hong Wang joins IHES as Permanent Professor of Mathematics

IHES is delighted to announce that Hong Wang will join the Institute as a Permanent Professor of Mathematics, effective September 1, 2025.

Visit from high school students from the Académie de Versailles

On Saturday May 24, IHES welcomed over 60 high school students from the Académie de Versailles for a morning of immersive discovery at the heart of fundamental research.

Looking Back on the Friends of IHES Events in San Francisco and New York

During the week of April 28, Friends of IHES held two events in San Francisco and New York City, in the presence of Emmanuel Ullmo, Director of IHES, Claire Lenz, Director of Communications and Development, and Richard Kruel, Deputy Director of Communications and Development.

2025 Huawei-IHES Workshop on Causality in the Era of AI: From Theory to Practice

On May 26, the Institute will host a joint workshop with Huawei, as a part of the IHES-Huawei partnership.

Mathematics for and by Large Language Models – 2025 Edition

On May 22, François Charton, Michael Douglas, Amaury Hayat and Yiannis Vlassopoulos are organizing a one-day conference at IHES on mathematics and large language models (LLM).

Tribute to Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and Cécile DeWitt-Morette

On April 24, a garden pavilion, in honor of Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat and Cécile DeWitt-Morette, two major figures of physics and mathematics who have marked the history of the Institute, was inaugurated in the Bois-Marie park of IHES.