IHES
An extract from the exhibition "The Scientific Heritage of IHES" that was conceived and produced by Anne-Sandrine Paumier (IHES) on the occasion of the 2016 European Heritage Days.
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Event
The trimester on nonlinear waves ended with a two-week summer school, alternating mini-lectures, aimed at presenting active research topics, with more traditional presentations of research work.
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In the media
Lieu unique au monde, l'Institut, créé en 1958, abrite l'élite des mathématiques et de la physique fondamentale. Avec tableaux noirs et craies. PAR Cyrille Vanlerberghe
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Scientific activity
Between September 2015 and February 2016 Francis Bach held the Schlumberger Chair and worked on the topics of machine learning, optimisation and optimal transport. Here he writes about machine learning whose main aim is to find meaningful patterns in the large amount of data that we currently have at our disposal.
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Scientific activity
Hugo Duminil-Copin, who will become a permanent professor at IHES in September 2016, is among the laureates of the 2016 European Mathematical Society Prize.
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Supporting IHES
The ceremony of completion of the 5m€ Challenge Gift from the Simons Foundation took place on May 20 in presence of Jim and Marilyn Simons, co-founders of the Simons Foundation.
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Supporting IHES
As IHES prepares to launch a third international fundraising campaign, BNP Paribas' commitment once again proves the importance of IHES's scientific mission for French companies.
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Scientific activity
The "Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics" recognises the scientists and engineers who have contributed to the historic detection of gravitational waves.
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Amis de l'IHES
Stanislas DEHAENE (Professeur au Collège de France et Directeur de l’Unité INSERM-CEA-Paris-Sud de Neuro-imagerie Cognitive)
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Scientific activity
On 20 April 2016 Thibault Damour was elected Foreign Honorary Member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also awarded the 2016 Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture for his "outstanding career on theoretical implications of general relativity and in particular on the prediction of the newly-observed gravitational wave signal of coalescing binary black holes" on 12 April 2016 by the European Astronomical Society.
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Comics
A scientific graphic novel (in French) to understand quantum physics.
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Scientific activity
IHES salutes the first observation of gravitational waves emitted by a black hole binary system by the two US LIGO interferometers from the LIGO/Virgo international network.
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