Invited researchers

Frank Merle is studying the singularities of non-linear partial differential equations. He is a member at Université de Cergy-Pontoise of the CNRS "Analysis, geometry and modelization" lab (UMR 8088). His research themes arise out of hard analysis and have an important impact on mathematical physics.­­

Nader Masmoudi is a professor of mathematics at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the University of New York since 2008. He moved to France to study mathematics first at Ecole Normale Superieure, and later on at université Paris-Dauphine, where he obtained his PhD under the supervision of Pierre-Louis Lions, working on asymptotic problems in fluid mechanics.

Francis Brown is a Research Fellow at the All Souls College in Oxford University since September 2015. Before that he was a CNRS Researcher at IHES.

Dennis Gaitsgory is a professor of mathematics at Harvard University, known for his research on the geometric Langlands program. He studied at Tel Aviv University under Joseph Bernstein (1990-1996) and received his doctorate in 1997. Prior to his 2005 appointment at Harvard he was an associate professor at the University of Chicago from 2001–2005.

mathematician at Princeton University (USA). An analyst of partial differential equations, he works on general relativity. His current research is directed at the mathematical theory of black holes. He also works on the dynamical formation of trapped surfaces and singularities.

Samson Shatashvili is the director of the Hamilton Mathematical Institute at the Trinity College, Dublin where he holds the University Chair of Natural Philosophy (1847). He was holder of the Louis Michel Chair at IHES from 2003 to 2013.

Ali H. Chamseddine is Professor at the American University of Beirut, holder of the Louis Michel Chair since 2009.

Eliezer Rabinovici is Leon H. and Ada G. Miller professor at the Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and holds the Louis Michel Chair at IHES since September 2015. His area of research is theoretical high-energy physics, in particular quantum field theory and string theory.

Robert C. Penner is Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, Centre Distinguished Professor, Centre for the Quantum Geometry of Moduli Spaces, Aarhus University, Visiting Professor at Max-Planck Institut für Mathematik in Bonn and at University of Tokyo.