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9 July 2016 Scientific activity
Machine learning

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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30 June 2016 Scientific activity
Hugo Duminil-Copin is awarded the European Mathematical Society Prize

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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21 May 2016 Supporting IHES
IHES celebrates the closure of the 5 million-euro challenge gift from the Simons Foundation

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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20 May 2016 Supporting IHES
BNP Paribas announces a 1 m€ gift to IHES and is the first to contribute to the Director’s Chair

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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3 May 2016 Scientific activity
Thibault Damour is one of the winners of the “Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics”

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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21 April 2016 Amis de l'IHES
21 avril 2016 – Stanislas DEHAENE

Stanislas DEHAENE (Professeur au Collège de France et Directeur de l’Unité INSERM-CEA-Paris-Sud de Neuro-imagerie Cognitive)
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21 April 2016 Scientific activity
Permanent professor Thibault Damour received two international distinctions

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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20 March 2016 Comics
Le Mystère du Monde Quantique

A scientific graphic novel (in French) to understand quantum physics.
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11 February 2016 Scientific activity
Gravitational waves and black hole coalescence

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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15 January 2016 Event
Cellular and Molecular Biotechnology

In December 2015 a meeting was held at the IHES to explore the consequences of the newest developments in cellular and molecular biotechnology, comprising 29 invited speakers from seven countries and attended by about a hundred participants.
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9 December 2015 Supporting IHES
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques to receive the largest gift in the Institute’s 57-year history

IHES confirmed receipt of an unrestricted grant to the upcoming Capital Campaign of €7.5 million. The €7.5 million pledge is the largest gift ever received at the Institute.
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30 November 2015 Event
Topos à l’IHES

The "Topos à l’IHES" conference, organised by O. Caramello, P. Cartier, A. Connes, S. Dugowson and A. Khelif thanks to a L’Oréal-Unesco For Women in Science fellowship, took place from 23 to 27 November 2015.
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