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.
They will join Terry Hwa, the first Senior Fellow, who will then spend the Fall at his home university, to come back in the Spring 2015. Two more Senior Fellows will come in January 2015: mathematician Alex Lubotzky and computer scientist Adi Shamir. A third Junior Fellow working on mathematical aspects of General Relativity, Alessandro Carlotto, who just got his PhD from Stanford University, postponed his stay and will come in September 2015 after spending a year at Imperial College.
Gilles Brassard, professor of computer science at Université de Montréal, is a researcher in quantum information science. He was among the founders of this discipline, having coauthored some of the fundamental papers in the subject. For example in his 1984 paper with C. H. Bennett he introduced the first quantum cryptography protocol and in 1993, Brassard and collaborators discovered the principle of quantum teleportation. His present research interests are at the boundary between quantum physics and computer science. He joins the ETH-ITS as a Senior Fellow in June 2014 and will stay until the end of the year.
Henryk Iwaniec, New Jersey State Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University, is a specialist in analytic number theory. He is well-known for his development of analytic tools to obtain deep results in the theory of automorphic forms and number theory, in particular on the distribution of prime numbers among the natural numbers. He will stay at the Institute for Theoretical Studies for one year from August 2014 and will give a course at ETH in the Spring Semester 2015.
Dmitry Chelkak, senior research fellow at the Steklov Institute of the Russian Academy of Science and the Chebyshev Laboratory of the St. Petersburg State University, works on complex analysis, probability theory and statistical mechanics. His recent research is about the critical behaviour of the Ising model of magnetic surfaces. He and his collaborators proved that the correlations in the Ising model exhibit conformal invariance in the scaling limit. He will spend a year at the ETH-ITS starting in September 2014.
Emily Clader received her PhD in mathematics in May 2014 at the University of Michigan with a thesis on the Landau-Ginzburg/Calabi-Yau correspondence under the supervision of Yongbin Ruan.
She works on mathematical questions of geometry with close connections with physics, such as mirror symmetry and the theory of Gromov-Witten invariants. She will come as a Junior Fellow
in September 2014.
Zur Luria is about to receive his PhD from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He works in combinatorics and probability theory, particularly on higher dimensional versions of combinatorial notions. With his advisor Nathan Linial he gave an upper bound on the number of higher dimensional permutations. He will also start his Junior Fellowship in September 2014.