ETH-ITS News
All stories by Giovanni Felder
The ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies has a new director
Rahul Pandharipande, professor of mathematics at ETH Zurich since 2011, takes office as the director of the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies on 1 June 2019.
The ETH-ITS welcomes returning Senior Fellow Gilles Brassard, four further Senior Fellows will join in the summer
Gilles Brassard, of the University of Montreal, is at the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies since the beginning of April. Ivan Cherednik, Nicolai Reshetikhin and Yakov Eliashberg will join the Institute as Senior Fellows in the course of the summer.
Gravitational waves, artificial intelligence and moonshine at the ITS Science Colloquium
Starting next week, there will be an intense sequence of general audience talks at the ITS Science Colloquium, by Rainer Weiss, Ranit Aharonov and Miranda Cheng, on subjects of interest across disciplines.
Programme on Modular Forms, Periods and Scattering Amplitudes at the ETH-ITS
Today is the starting day of the programme on topics at the boundary between mathematics and physics.
New Fellows at the ETH-ITS
Gerhard Huisken, Leonid Glazman and Ulrike Riess join the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies during the Spring Semester.
Series of lectures hosted by the ETH-ITS
The ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies hosts a series of lectures on collective dynamics, control and imaging, with the aim to establish contacts across disciplines and facilitate exchange of ideas between researchers interested in these subjects from different fields.
Jean-Michel Coron and Claire Voisin join the ETH-ITS
The Institute welcomes the two new Senior Fellows Jean-Michel Coron and Claire Voisin.
Two new Junior Fellows join the Institute in September
Shoham Letzter, of the University of Cambridge, and Will Sawin, of Princeton University, join the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies as Junior Fellows at the beginning of September.
Alexander Balatsky, Eitan Tadmor and Vadim Kaloshin join the ETH-ITS as Senior Fellows
Three new Senior Fellows join the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies this summer to stay for the coming academic year. Their research interests cover a broad spectrum in mathematics and physics with applications to material science, engineering and computer science.
Six Senior Fellows at the Institute
This semester there are six Senior Fellows staying at the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies. They cover a wide range of topics in mathematics, physics and computer science and contribute to various activities at the Institute and at ETH.
Two senior fellows and six junior fellows join the Insitute this summer
Cosmologist Robert Brandenberger and mathematician Walter Schachermayer will spend a year the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies as senior fellows from August 2015. They will be joined in September 2015 by six starting junior fellows: Alessandro Carlotto, Maria Colombo, Lavinia Heisenberg, Titus Lupu, Aline Ramires and Ran Tessler. In november another senior fellow, particle physicist Riccardo Barbieri, will also join.
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Henryk Iwaniec, Senior Fellow at the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies for the academic year 2014/2015, was awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2015.
Two Senior Fellows join the ETH-ITS in spring
Harvard condensed matter physicist Eugene Demler and returning Senior Fellow Terry Hwa will join the ETH Institute this coming month.
Two new Senior Fellows to join ETH-ITS in February, more to follow
Computer scientist Adi Shamir and mathematician Alex Lubotzky are the first new Senior Fellows joining the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies in 2015.
Salem Prize awarded to ETH-ITS Senior Fellow
Dmitry Chelkak, Senior Fellow at the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies is awarded the 2014 Salem prize
The annual report 2013-2014 is available
The annual report for 2013-2014 was published. It also contains an outlook of the coming academic year.
Three Senior Fellows and two Junior Fellows to join the Institute in Summer 2014
Five new scholars will join the Institute for Theoretical Studies in the Summer 2014. Gilles Brassard, a computer scientist working in quantum information science, number theorist Henryk Iwaniec and Dmitry Chelkak, a specialist in statistical mechanics and probability theory, will come as Senior Fellows to the ETH-ITS, together with the first two Junior Fellows Emily Clader, a researcher in geometry, and Zur Luria, working in combinatorics and probability theory.