NM Rothschild & Sons have generously granted the Isaac Newton Institute an endowment to support visits from pre-eminent mathematicians around the world. Rothschild Visiting Professors give keynote seminars at the Institute as part of our Monday Seminars series and give lectures around the UK. Names of potential candidates must be approved by both the Institute Management Committee and the General Board of Cambridge University; the person nominated is then formally appointed to a full Professorship at the University of Cambridge for one month. A listing of all Rothschild Visiting Professors is provided below (in programme order.)
Name |
Programme |
Institution |
| Professor VI Arnold | Dynamo Theory | Moscow University |
| Professor R Kirby | Low-Dimensional Topology and Quantum Field Theory | University of California |
| Professor K Kato | L-Functions and Arithmetic | University of Tokyo |
| Professor D Mumford | Computer Vision | Harvard University |
| Professor S-T Yau | Geometry and Gravity | Harvard University |
| Professor JB Hartle | Geometry and Gravity | University of California |
| Professor D Scott | Semantics of Computation | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Professor JR Hale | From Finite to Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Professor LG Leal | Dynamics of Complex Fluids | University of California |
| Dr G Simmons | Computer Security, Cryptology and Coding Theory | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Professor BJ Hoskins | Mathematics of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics | University of Reading |
| Professor A Sen | Non-Perturbative Aspects of Quantum Field Theory | Mehta Research Institute |
| Professor T Perry | Turbulence | University of Melbourne |
| Professor KR Sreenivasan | Turbulence | Yale University |
| Professor KR Sreenivasan | Mathematics and Applications of Fractals | Yale University |
| Professor A Guth | Structure Formation in the Universe | MIT |
| Professor D James | Developments in Solid Mechanics and Materials Sciences | University of Minnesota |
| Professor H Furstenberg | Ergodic Theory, Geometric Rigidity and Number Theory | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Professor TV Ramakrishnan | Strongly Correlated Electron Systems | Indian Institute of Science |
| Professor R Stanley | Symmetric Functions and Macdonald Polynomials | MIT |
| Professor L Caffarelli | Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations | Princeton University |
| Professor A Shabat | Integrable Systems | LD Landau Institute |
| Professor H Othmer | From Individual to Collective Behaviour in Biological Systems | University of Minnesota |
| Professor A Sen | M-Theory | Harish-Chandra Research Inst. |
| Professor WG Dwyer | New Contexts for Stable Homotopy Theory | University of Notre |
| Professor JA Smoller | Nonlinear Hyperbolic Waves in Phase Dynamics and Astrophysics | University of Michigan |
| Professor F Brezzi | Computational Challenges in Partial Differential Equations | University of Pavia |
| Professor J Rice | Granular and Particle-Laden Flows | Harvard University |
| Professor P Sarnak | Random Matrix Approaches in Number Theory | Courant Institute, NYU |
| Professor CH Bennett | Quantum Information Science | IBM Research |
| Professor R Rosner | Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors | University of Chicago |
| Professor S Pliska | Developments in Quantitative Finance | University of Illionis at Chicago |
| Professor M Golubitsky | Pattern Formation in Large Domains | University of Houston |
| Professor VE Moncrief | Global Problems in Mathematical Relativity | Yale University |
| Professor D Dhar | Principles of the Dynamics of Non-Equilibrium Systems | Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
| Professor S Cook | Logic and Algorithms | University of Toronto |
| Professor EA Thompson | Stochastic Computation in the Biological Sciences | Washington University |
| Professor A Connes | Noncommutative Geometry | IHES |
| Professor M Aizenman | Analysis on Graphs and its Applications | Princeton |
| Professor P Deift | Highly Oscillatory Problems: Computation, Theory and Applications | Courant Institute, NYU |
| Professor D Gross | Strong Fields, Integrability and Strings | UCSB |
| Professor A Dress | Phylogenetics | Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) |
| Professor D Donoho | Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data | Stanford University |
| Professor C Thomassen | Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics | Technical University of Denmark |
| Professor J Frohlich | Mathematics and Physics of Anderson Localization: 50 Years After | ETH, Zurich |
| Professor K Sreenivasan | The Nature of High Reynolds Number Turbulence | ICTP, Italy |
| Professor L Lafforgue | Algebraic Lie Theory | IHES |
| Professor JJ Duistermaat | Discrete Integrable Systems | University of Utrecht |
| Professor P Deligne | Non-Abelian Fundamental Groups in Arithmetic Geometry | Institute for Advanced Study |
| Professor D Lin* | Dynamics of Discs and Planets | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Professor B Hajek* | Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences | University of Illinois |
| Professor G Toscani | Partial Differential Equations in Kinetic Theories | University of Pavia |
| Professor G Uhlmann* | Inverse Problems | University of Washington |