Israel Gelfand Chair in mathematics
The Israel Gelfand Chair was created in 2014 in honour of the great mathematician. It symbolises scientific excellence and the sharing of knowledge, two of the Institute’s fundamental values. Israel Gelfand himself came to IHES more than ten times to carry out his research. Since 2024, Israel Gelfand Chair is supported by Squarepoint Foundation. More information.
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Dennis Gaitsgory, mathematician
Israel Gelfand Chair in mathematics, funded by Squarepoint Foundation
Dennis Gaitsgory is a professor of mathematics at Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, known for his research on the geometric Langlands program.
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Takeshi Saito, mathematician
Israel Gelfand Chair in mathematics, funded by Squarepoint Foundation
Takeshi Saito, professor of mathematics at the University of Tokyo, is an expert in arithmetic geometry, known especially for his fundamental contributions to ramification theory of local fields and I-adic sheaves, étale cohomology, and Galois representations.
Israel Gelfand Chair former holders
2020-2022 : Olivia Caramello, mathématicienne, Associate Professor at the University of Insubria (Italy)
2017-2019 : Sergiu Klainerman, mathematician, professor at Princeton University (United States)
2016-2018 : Francis Brown, mathematician, professor at All Souls College (United Kingdom)
2015-2018 : Samson Shatashvili, theoretical physicist, director of Hamilton Mathematics Institute, Dublin (Ireland)
2014-2017 : Spencer Bloch, mathematician, R.M. Hutchins emeritus professor at University of Chicago (United States)
