2015

The Institute for Theoretical Studies and the Pauli Center for Theoretical Physics of the ETH Zurich are hosting a three day mini-workshop on Double Field Theory, with particular emphasis on possible applications of Double Field Theory to cosmology.

This workshop focuses on new approaches to robustify financial modeling: robust finance (serious model uncertainty is quantified), stochastic portfolio theory and large financial markets (effects of large markets are quantified), robust calibration (classical calibration techniques are combined with econometric techniques).

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.

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.

Harvard condensed matter physicist Eugene Demler and returning Senior Fellow Terry Hwa will join the ETH Institute this coming month.

Computer scientist Adi Shamir and mathematician Alex Lubotzky are the first new Senior Fellows joining the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies in 2015.

Dmitry Chelkak, Senior Fellow at the ETH Institute for Theoretical Studies is awarded the 2014 Salem prize