Scientific conference celebrating the new Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Chair at IHES

Thanks to an exceptional donation to the Friends of IHES Endowment Fund made by Claire-Lise and Philippe Tondeur, and matched by Marilyn and Jim Simons through the Simons Foundation International, IHES is proud to announce the creation of a Permanent Professor’s Chair carrying the name of Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, who was the Director of the Institute from 1994 to 2013 and who is now Nicolaas Kuiper Honorary Professor at IHES. The first holder of the Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Chair is Dustin Clausen, who joined the Institute in April 2023.

To celebrate this new Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Chair, a scientific conference is organized by Dustin Clausen on Friday, January 26. The program of this conference is the following:

9am	Welcome coffee
9:30am	A word by Emmanuel Ullmo, Director of IHES
9:40am	Tomer Schlank, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Stable Homotopy Group, Higher Algebra and the Telescope Conjecture
10:45am	Coffee break
11:15am	Arthur-César le Bras, CNRS, Université de Strasbourg Stacks in the p-adic Hodge Theory of Rigid Analytic Spaces
12:15pm	Lunch break
1:30pm	Vincent Pilloni, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay Modularity of Abelian Surfaces
2:45pm	Peter Scholze, Max Planck Institute of Mathematics, Bonn Motives and Ring Stacks
3:45pm	Closing remarks by Dustin Clausen, holder of the Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Chair
4pm	Coffee & tea

Registrations for this conference are open to all and now available online here. Download here the poster of the conference.

A dedicated ceremony will then be held on Thursday, February 1st, at the Institute and online, to celebrate the inauguration of the Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Chair, with the online participation of the major donors who contributed to this Chair.