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20 October 2017 Event
Conference announcement: “Quantum Gravity: Physics and Philosophy”

The conference aims at bringing together physicists working on a quantum theory of gravity and philosophers interested its related conceptual issues.
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18 October 2017 Event
Post-docs Welcome Day on October 19th at IHES

All postdocs in mathematics and theoretical physics working in the Paris region are warmly invited to participate and everybody is welcome.
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17 October 2017 IHES
Gravitational waves from binary neutron stars detected

IHES congratulates the LIGO/Virgo project team which announced, on October 16th, the first observation of a gravitational wave signal from the merging of a system of two neutron stars.
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10 October 2017 IHES
Interview with Eleonora Di Nezza

On the occasion of the Ada Lovelace Day, an international day dedicated to women working in science, technology, engineering and maths celebrated on October 10 this year, we are publishing an interview with Eleonora Di Nezza.
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27 September 2017 Scientific activity
Thibault Damour awarded France’s highest scientific distinction.

Thibault Damour receives the 2017 CNRS Gold Medal for his key contributions to the discovery of gravitational waves.
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27 September 2017 IHES
Gravitational waves and black holes coalescence

IHES is glad that several lines of theoretical research that were initiated or accomplished at the Institute contributed to the discovery of gravitational waves by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration.
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13 September 2017 Scientific activity
Hugo Duminil-Copin receives three new International Awards

Hugo Duminil-Copin just received the Loève Prize (Berkeley, USA) and the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand from the French Academy of Sciences. The European Research Council also awarded him a prestigious ERC Starting Grant.
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12 September 2017 Scientific activity
New International Mathematics Journal

Ahmed Abbes is co-editor-in-chief of a new international mathematics journal with a very high-level board of editors.
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25 August 2017 Event
Induction days for the Paris-Saclay master’s students at IHES

Taking place over three days, the Paris-Saclay master's students induction will include seminars, mini-courses and informal discussions.
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8 August 2017 Scientific activity
Hugo Duminil-Copin awarded the Loève Prize and the Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand

These two international prizes recognize once again the importance and the quality of his work.
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7 July 2017 Scientific activity
Œuvres mathématiques, Volume 1 by René Thom published by the French Mathematical Society

The French Mathematical Society just published the first volume of René Thom’s complete mathematical works as part of the series Documents mathématiques. This volume contains the articles that were published before 1960.
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23 May 2017 IHES
Some of Grothendieck’s archives published online by the University of Montpellier

The archives consist of some of Alexandre Grothendieck's handwritten and typed notes as well as of some of his letters. It contains his works for the period 1949 - 1991 and some sor far unpublished manuscripts.
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