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applications submitted for invited
researchers visit
applications submitted for postdocs visit
selected applications
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EXTERNAL MEMBERS Robert Bryant,
mathematician, American Professor at Duke University (USA),
member since 2013
Curtis Callan, theoretical physicist, American
Professor of physics at Princeton University (USA), member since 2016
Benoît Douçot, physicist, French Research Director, Laboratoire de
Physique Théorique et Hautes Energies, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
(France), member since 2016
Bertrand Duplantier, physicist, French Professor at Institut de Physique Théorique, CEA-Saclay (France),
member since 2009
Hélène Esnault, mathematician, French
Professor at Free University of Berlin (Germany), member since 2015
Hermann Nicolai, physicist, German Director of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Germany),
member since 2016
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EX OFFICIO MEMBERS
Thibault Damour, physicist, French
Permanent Professor
Hugo Duminil-Copin, mathematician, French Permanent Professor
Fanny Kassel, mathematician, French
CNRS Research Director at IHES
Maxim Kontsevich, mathematician, French-Russian
Permanent Professor
Laurent Lafforgue, mathematician, French Permanent Professor
Vasily Pestun, physicist, Russian Permanent Professor
Slava Rychkov, physicist, French-Italian-Russian
Permanent Professor
Emmanuel Ullmo, mathematician, French
IHES Director
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INVITED MEMBERS Ahmed Abbes,
mathematician, French-Tunisian CNRS Research Director at IHES
Cédric Deffayet, physicist, French CNRS Research Director at IHES, Institut
d'Astrophysique de Paris
Ofer Gabber, mathematician, French-Israeli
CNRS Research Director at IHES
Frank Merle, mathematician, French
Université de Cergy-Pontoise - IHES Analysis Chair
Christophe Soulé, mathematician, French
Emeritus member, former CNRS Research Director at IHES
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GOVERNANCE
Scientific Council
Members of the Scientific Council met on 21-22 June and on 13-14 December 2020 to discuss the Institute s scientific policy and select future invited researchers.
This year, 878 applications were considered by the Scientific Council (1,049 in 2019): 272 for visits (95 were accepted) and 606 for postdoc positions (11 were accepted).
It should be noted that this year, due to the current health situation, the meetings were held by videoconference. 2018 2019 2020
applications reviewed by the scientific council since 2018
