Awards
Fields medals
One figure gives an idea of IHES’ rank: of the twelve past or current permanent professors in mathematics at IHES, eight have been awarded the Fields medal, the highest distinction in mathematics. The majority were at IHES at the time of their award.
- René Thom (1958)
- Alexander Grothendieck (1966)
- Pierre Deligne (1978)
- Alain Connes (1982)
- Jean Bourgain (1994)
- Maxim Kontsevich (1998)
- Laurent Lafforgue (2002)
- Hugo Duminil-Copin (2022)
Permanent professors’ awards
Thibault Damour
- Fondation Singer-Polignac laureate (1978)
- CNRS Bronze Medal (1980)
- Paul Langevin Theoretical Physics Prize, Société française de physique (1984)
- Mergier-Bourdeix Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (1990)
- First Award of the Gravity Research Foundation, USA (1994)
- Einstein Medal (1996)
- Cecil F. Powell Medal, European Physical Society (2005)
- Amaldi Prize, Societa Italiana de Relativita Generale e Fisica della Gravitazione (2010)
- Lodewijk Woltjer Lecture, European Astronomical Society (2016)
- Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016)
- Gruber Cosmology Prize (2016)
- CNRS Gold Medal (2017)
- Tullio Levi-Civita Prize for mathematical and mechanical sciences (2017)
- Académie des Sciences de Paris, member (1999)
- Academia Europaea, member (2010)
- Max-Planck Institut Albert Einstein, member of Fachbeirat (2013)
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign honorary member (2016)
Hugo Duminil-Copin
- Vacheron Constantin Prize (2012)
- Rollo Davidson Prize (with Vincent Beffara) (2012)
- Oberwolfach Prize (2013)
- Early Career Award of the International Association of Mathematical Physics (2015)
- Prize of the European Mathematical Society (2016)
- New Horizons Prize in Mathematics, Breakthrough Foundation (2016)
- Line and Michel Loève International Prize in Probability (2017)
- Grand Prix Jacques Herbrand, Académie des sciences de Paris (2017)
- ERC Starting Grant “Critical Behavior of Lattice Models” (CriBLaM) (2017)
- Conférencier invité ICM Rio (2018)
- Dobrushin Prize (2019)
- Academia Europea, member
Maxim Kontsevich
- Otto Hahn Medal (1992)
- Paris Prize, First European Mathematical Congress (1992)
- Henri Poincaré Prize, Fondation Daniel Iagolnitzer (1997)
- Fields Medal (1998)
- Crafoord Prize (2008)
- Shaw Prize (2012)
- Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012)
- Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark (2014)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Universität Wien (2015)
- Academia Europaea, member (2000)
- Académie des sciences de Paris, member (2002)
- National Academy of Sciences, foreign member (2015)
- London Mathematical Society, honorary member (2016)
- ERC Synergy Grant “Recursive and Exact New Quantum Theory” (ReNewQuantum)
Vasily Pestun
- Gold Medal, 28th International Physics Olympiad (1997)
- Centennial Fellowship, Princeton University (2003-2008)
- Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University (2007-2008)
- Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows (2008-2011)
- ERC Starting Grant “Quantum Algebraic Structures in Fields Theories” (QUASIFT) (2015)
- Hermann Weyl Prize, ICGTMP (2016)
Slava Rychkov
- New Horizons in Physics Prize (2014)
- Institut universitaire de France, junior member (2012-2017)
- Laureate of the Mergier-Bourdeix Grand Prize, 2019
Director’ awards
Emmanuel Ullmo
- Guest speaker, ICM Beijing (2002)
- Élie Cartan Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (2006)
- Institut universitaire de France, junior member (2003-2008)
- Academia Europaea (2015)
Other awards
Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques
- Seki Takakazu Prize (2007)
- Marcel Grossmann Institutional Award (2009)
Other professors’ awards
Ahmed Abbes
- CNRS Bronze Medal (2005)
- Distinguished Ordway visitor, the School of Mathematics of the University of Minnesota (2016)
Cédric Deffayet
- CNRS Bronze Medal (2007)
- Thibaud Prize (2010)
- ERC Starting Grant “New paradigms for InfraRed modification of Gravity” (NIRG) (2013)
Bertrand Eynard
- Guest speaker, ICM (2014)
- André Aisenstadt Chair (2015)
- ERC Synergie “Recursive and Exact New Quantum Theory” (ReNewQuantum) (2018)
- Laureate of the Claude Berthault Prize (2019)
Ofer Gabber
- Erdös Prize in mathematics, Israel Mathematical Union (1981)
- Thérèse Gautier Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (2011)
Fanny Kassel
- CNRS Bronze Medal (2015)
- ERC Starting Grant “Discrete Groups and Geometric Structures” (DiGGeS) (2016)
- Guest speaker, ICM Rio (2018)
Frank Merle
- Bôcher Prize, American Mathematical Society (2005)
- CNRS Silver Medal (2005)
- ERC Advanced Grant “Blow-Up, Dispersion and Solitions” (Blowdisol) (2011)
- Plenary Guest Speaker, ICM (2014)
- Ampère Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (2018)
Alexander Goncharov
- Gold Medal, 18th International Mathematical Olympiad (1976)
- Prize of the European Mathematical Society, 1st European Congress of Mathematics (1992)
Thierry Coquand
- Kurt Gödel Centenary Research Prize (2008)
- Programming Languages Software Adward by ACM SIGPLAN (2013)
Nader Masmoudi
- Gold Medal, International Mathematical Olympiad (1992)
- Sloan Research Fellowship (2001-2003)
- Best scientific paper, Annales Henri Poincarré (2011)
- Fellowship, National Science Foundation (2012)
- Clay Senior Scholar, Fields Institute (2014)
- Chair of the Fondation sciences mathématique de Paris (2015-2017)
- Fermat Prize (2017)
- SIAM Activity Group Prize on Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (2019)
- Kuwait Adwards (2019)
Olivia Caramello
- AILA Prize (2011)
- L’Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship for Women in Science (2014)
- “Rita Levi Montalcini” position of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (since 2017)
Dennis Gaitsgory
- Chevalley Prize, Lie Theory (2018)
Eliezer Rabinovici
- 2019 AAAS Award for Science Diplomacy (2019)
Joseph Ayoub
- Prize for the best thesis in mathematics, E.A.D.S. Foundation (2006)
- Peccot Lectures, Collège de France (june 2009)
- Guest speaker ICM (2014)
- K-theory Prize (2014)
Emeriti professors’ awards
Jean Pierre Bourguignon
- CNRS Bronze Medal (1977)
- Paul Langevin Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (1987)
- Physical Sciences and Mathematics Prize, Comité du Rayonnement Français (1997)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Keio University, Japan (2008)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Nankai University, China (2011)
- Academia Europaea, member
- Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences, foreign member
- London Mathematical Society, honorary member (2006)
Alain Connes
- Aimé Berthé Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (1975)
- Peccot Prize, Collège de France (1976)
- CNRS Silver Medal (1977)
- Ampère Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (1980)
- Fields Medal (1982)
- Clay Research Award (2000)
- Crafoord Prize (2001)
- CNRS Gold Medal (2004)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Kingston University, Canada (1979)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy (1997)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Oslo University, Norway (1999)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Free University of Brussels, Belgium (2010)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Shanghai Fudan University, China (2017)
- Institut de France, member
- Académie des sciences de Paris, member
- Russian Academy of Sciences, foreign member
- National Academy of Sciences, foreign associate member
- Science class of the Royal Academy of Belgium, associate member
- Norwegian Academy of Sciences, foreign associate member
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign honorary member
- Royal Society of Canada, foreign member
- Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, foreign member
Mikhail Gromov
- Moscow Mathematical Society Prize (1971)
- Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, American Mathematical Society (1981)
- Élie Cartan Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (1984)
- Prize of the Paris Insurance Union (1989)
- Wolf Prize (1993)
- Leroy P. Steele Prize, American Mathematical Society (1997)
- Lobachevsky Medal (1997)
- Balzan Prize (1999)
- Kyoto Prize (2002)
- Frederic Esser Nemmers Prize (2004)
- János Bolyai Prize, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (2005)
- Abel Prize (2009)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Geneva, Switzerland (1992)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, Tel-Aviv University, Israel (2009)
- Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland (2009)
- Académie des sciences de Paris, member
- Academia Europaea, member
- National Academy of Sciences, foreign associate member
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign honorary member
- Moscow Mathematical Society, honorary member
- London Mathematical Society, honorary member (2009)
- Norwegian Academy of Sciences, foreign member (2009)
- Royal Society, foreign member (2011)
- Russian Academy of Sciences, foreign member (2011)
David Ruelle
- Boris Bregel Award, New York Academy of Sciences (1974)
- Albert 1er de Monaco Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (1979)
- Dannie Heineman Prize, APS-AIP (1985)
- Boltzmann Medal, IUPAP (1986)
- Holweck Medal, Société française de physique and Institute of Physics (1995)
- Ludwig Boltzmann Forschungspreis, Land Steiemark and Graz University (1995)
- Matteucci Medals, National Academy of Sciences, Italy (2004)
- Henri Poincaré Prize, Fondation Daniel Iagolnitzer (2006)
- Peano Prize, Italy (2010)
- Max Planck Medal, German Physical Society (2014)
- Académie des sciences de Paris, member
- Academia Europaea, member
- National Academy of Sciences, foreign associate member
- American Academy of Art and Sciences, foreign member
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, foreign member
Christophe Soulé
- J. Ponti Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (1985)
- Ampère Prize, Académie des sciences de Paris (1993)
- Académie des sciences de Paris, member