Organisation of the Institute for Theoretical Studies
The Institute for Theoretical Studies occupies a special position within the structure of ETH Zurich. It is independent of the individual Departments and is under the direct control of the Vice-President of Research. The ITS is managed by a director, a coordinator and an administrative assistant and benefits from an internal and an external Scientific Advisory Committee.
Director
Svitlana Mayboroda
The director of the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies is Svitlana Mayboroda, a professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich. Prof. Mayboroda's work lies at the interface between partial differential equations, analysis, and geometric measure theory, and has enjoyed wide ranging applications in condensed matter physics, cold atoms systems, research and engineering of organic and nonorganic semiconductor materials and devices. She is the founder and the Director of the external page Simons Collaboration on Localization of Waves and the Simons Initiative on Geometry of Flows.
Coordinator
ETH Zürich / Institute for Theoretical Studies / Building SEW
ETH Zürich / Institute for Theoretical Studies / Building SEW
Scheuchzerstrasse 70
8006
Zürich
Schweiz
Administrator
ETH Zürich / Institute for Theoretical Studies / Building SEW
ETH Zürich / Institute for Theoretical Studies / Building SEW
Scheuchzerstrasse 70
8006
Zürich
Schweiz
Scientific Advisory Committee
The Institute for Theoretical Studies has a Scientific Advisory Committee. It is composed of ETH internal and international researchers.
The internal members are:
Paul Biran (Professor, Dept. of Mathematics)
Research interests: symplectic topology and algebraic geometry
Rasmus Kyng (Asst. Professor, Department of Computer Science)
Research interests: fast algorithms for graph problems and convex optimization, on probability and discrepancy theory, fine-grained complexity theory, and applications in machine learning
Marina Marinkovic (Asst. Professor, Department of Physics)
Research interests: fast algorithms for graph problems and convex optimization, on probability and discrepancy theory, fine-grained complexity theory, and applications in machine learning
Alexandre Refregier (Professor, Dept. of Physics / Institute for Particle Physics and Astrophysics)
Research interests: fundamentalquestions in cosmology from measurements of the large-scale structure of the universe
Renato Renner (Professor, Dept. of Physics / Head of Institute for Theoretical Physics)
Research interests: Quantum Information Science, Quantum Thermodynamics, and the Foundations of Quantum Physics
Tanja Stalder (Professor, Dept.of Biosystems Science and Engineering)
Research interests: examining core questions in the life sciences through an evolutionary perspective, in particular in macroevolution, epidemiology, developmental biology and immunology
Vera Traub (Asst. Professor, Dept. of Computer Science)
Research interests: combinatorial optimization and approximation algorithms, traveling salesman problem, vehicle routing, connectivity augmentation, and Steiner trees
The international members are:
Carlo Beenakker (Dept. of Physics, Universityof Leiden, The Netherlands)
Research interests: nanophysics, condensed matter theory and quantum physics, with a specific focus on quantum computing
Venkatesan Guruswami (Dept. of Computer Science, University of California Berkeley, USA)
Research interests: various areas of theoretical computer science and related mathematics, including error-correction, approximate optimization, randomness in computing, and computational complexity. Professor Guruswami is the Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing
Peter Sarnak (Dept. of Mathematics, Princeton University, USA)
Research interests: number theory, the theory of zeta functions and automorphic forms, combinatorics, mathematical physics, and the questions in analysis motivated by number theory
David Spergel (Astrophysics, Simons Foundation, USA)
Research interests: cosmic microwave background, physics of dark matter and dark energy, astrophysical fluiddynamics
Professor Spergel is the President of the Simons Foundation.
Eva Tardos (Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University, USA)
Research interests: algorithms and games on networks and simple auctions, designing algorithms and games that provide provably close-to-optimal results
Anna Wienhard (Director, MaxPlanck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Germany)
Research interests: differential geometry, symmetries and their actions on topological and geometric spaces
The Advisory Board offers guidance and expertise to the Director. Members generally serve a twice renewable period of two years.
Board of Patrons
Martin Haefner, Walter Haefner Foundation
Dr. Max Rössler
Prof. Ralph Eichler
The board of patrons include the sponsors of the institute and former ETH president Ralph Eichler, on whose initiative the institute was founded.