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.­­

Ray Goldstein is the Schlumberger Professor of Complex Physical Systems in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University of Cambridge. He holds the Schlumberger Chair in 2017. His research interests span from statistical physics to nonlinear dynamics and geophysics, with particular emphasis on biological physics, both theoretical and experimental.

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.

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.

Spencer J. Bloch is R.M. Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Mathematics Department of the University of Chicago.

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 Asociate in mathematical and theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology, 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.