Invited researchers

Mathematician Alexis Vasseur studies the equations governing fluids to understand how complex phenomena such as shocks, turbulence, and singularities emerge and evolve.

Carlos E. Kenig, an internationally renowned mathematician, is recognized for his pioneering contributions to harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, particularly in the study of nonlinear dispersive equations.

Theoretical physicist Emanuel Katz explores the connections between quantum field theory, particle physics, and condensed matter, developing new tools to understand strongly correlated quantum systems.

Jesse Thaler, a theoretical physicist at MIT and holder of the Schlumberger Chair at IHES, works at the intersection of quantum field theory and artificial intelligence, developing new approaches to uncover the mysteries of fundamental physics.

Mathematician Kenji Nakanishi studies nonlinear wave equations to understand how phenomena such as solitons, scattering, and blow-up emerge and evolve.

Mathematician Yu Deng studies how microscopic interactions between particles give rise to the macroscopic laws governing gases, fluids, and waves, research that earned him the 2026 Fields Medal.

Yves Barral works in biology, guided by the question of the links between mathematics and biology, and why these links remain confused and little explored.

Clément Mouhot is a professor of mathematics at the University of Cambridge. He is interested in the mathematical analysis of the foundations of statistical mechanics, at the interface of partial differential equations, probabilities, and functional inequalities.

Robert C. Penner is Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Richard Evan Schwartz, a mathematics professor at Brown University, explores geometry and dynamics, drawing in particular on computational experimentation, while investigating fascinating mathematical problems arising from paper geometry and origami.

Mathematician Antoine Song explores deep connections between geometry, probability, analysis, and random matrices, while investigating what makes mathematical problems both challenging and fascinating.

Mathematician Toshiyuki Kobayashi studies the symmetries underlying mathematical structures, at the intersection of geometry, Lie theory, and harmonic analysis.

Dennis Gaitsgory is a professor of mathematics at Max-Planck-Institute for Mathematics, Bonn, known for his research on the geometric Langlands program.

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.

Anton Kapustin is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He is interested in quantum field theory in general, with applications to particle physics and condensed matter theory.

Dam Thanh Son is a Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago. He is interested in a wide range of problems in theoretical physics, including the fractional quantum Hall effect, physics of the quark/gluon plasma, gauge/gravity duality, physics of cold atom, and other topics.