The Institut des hautes études scientifiques (IHÉS; English: Institute of Advanced Scientific Studies) is a French research institute supporting advanced research in mathematics and theoretical physics (also with a small theoretical biology group). It is located in Bures-sur-Yvette, just south of Paris. It is an independently governed research institute and a founding member of the University of Paris-Saclay.
The IHÉS was founded in 1958 by businessman and mathematical physicist Léon Motchane with the help of Robert Oppenheimer and Jean Dieudonné as a research centre in France, modeled on the renowned Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, United States.[1]
The strong personality of Alexander Grothendieck and the broad sweep of his revolutionizing theories were a dominating feature of the first ten years at the IHÉS.[2] René Thom received an invitation from IHÉS in 1963 and after his appointment remained there until his death in 2002.[3] Dennis Sullivan is remembered as one who had a special talent for encouraging fruitful exchanges among visitors and provoking a new and deeper insight into their ideas.
The IHÉS runs a highly regarded mathematical journal, Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS.
IHÉS celebrated its 40th anniversary in 1998[4] and its 50th in 2008.[5]
| Image | Name | Timespan |
|---|---|---|
| (1958–1971) | ||
| (1971–1985) | ||
| (1985–1994) | ||
| (1994–2013) | ||
| Emmanuel Ullmo[6] | (2013–present) | |
| Name | Nationality | Field | Year joined | Year left | Notes | Major awards | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander Grothendieck | Stateless | mathematician | 1958 | 1970 | Fields Medal (1966), Crafoord Prize (1988) | ||
| Jean Dieudonné | French | mathematician | 1958 | 1964 | |||
| Louis Michel | French | physicist | 1962 | 1992 | Emeritus 1992–1999 | Wigner Medal (1982) | |
| René Thom | French | mathematician | 1963 | 1990 | Emeritus 1990–2002 | Fields Medal (1958) | |
| David Ruelle | Belgian | physicist | 1964 | 2000 | Emeritus since 2000 | Henri Poincaré Prize (2006), Max Planck Medal (2014) | |
| Pierre Deligne | Belgian | mathematician | 1970 | 1984 | Fields Medal (1978), Crafoord Prize (1988), Abel Prize (2013) | ||
| Dennis Sullivan | American | mathematician | 1974 | 1997 | Wolf Prize (2010), Abel Prize (2022) | ||
| Jürg Fröhlich | Swiss | physicist | 1978 | 1982 | Max-Planck Medal (2001), Henri Poincaré Prize (2009) | ||
| Oscar Lanford III | American | physicist | 1982 | 1989 | |||
| Mikhaïl Gromov | Russian, French | mathematician | 1982 | 2015 | Emeritus since 2015 | Wolf Prize (1993), Abel Prize (2009) | |
| Jean Bourgain | Belgian | mathematician | 1985 | 1994 | Fields Medal (1994), Shaw Prize (2010), Crafoord Prize (2012) | ||
| Thibault Damour | French | physicist | 1989 | 2022 | Emeritus since 2022 | Albert Einstein Medal (1996), CNRS Gold Medal (2017) | |
| Maxim Kontsevich | Russian | mathematician | 1995 | current | Henri Poincaré Prize (1997), Fields Medal (1998), Crafoord Prize (2008), Shaw Prize (2012) | ||
| Laurent Lafforgue | French | mathematician | 2000 | 2021 | Fields Medal (2002) | ||
| Nikita Nekrasov | Russian | physicist | 2000 | 2013 | Hermann Weyl Prize (2004), Jacques Herbrand Prize (2004), Compositio Prize (2009) | ||
| Vasily Pestun | Russian | physicist | 2014 | 2023 | Hermann Weyl Prize (2016) | ||
| Hugo Duminil-Copin | French | mathematician | 2016 | current | Fields Medal (2022) | ||
| Slava Rychkov | Russian, Italian, French | physicist | 2017 | current | New Horizons in Physics Prize (2014), Mergier-Bourdeix Prize (2019) | ||
| Laure Saint-Raymond | French | mathematician | 2021 | current | |||
| Dustin Clausen | Canadian, American | mathematician | 2023 | current | |||
| Julio Parra-Martinez | Spanish | physicist | 2024 | current |
Alain Connes (Fields Medal 1982), has been holding the Léon Motchane Chair since 1979. Several CNRS researchers are also based at the IHES: Ahmed Abbes, Cédric Deffayet, Ofer Gabber, Fanny Kassel, and Christophe Soulé.[7]