Rothschild Visiting Professors

NM Rothschild & Sons have generously granted the Isaac Newton Institute an endowment to support visits from pre-eminent mathematicians around the world. These mathematicians give keynote seminars at the Institute and give lectures around the UK. A listing of all Rothschild-supported mathematicians, together with the programmes they participated in, is provided below.

2013-2014
Professor Peter Shor*	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Mathematical Challenges in Quantum Information
Professor David Ruelle*	Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques	Mathematics for the Fluid Earth
Professor Luis Caffarelli*	The University of Texas at Austin	Free Boundary Problems and Related Topics
2012-2013
Professor Sir Michael Berry*	University of Bristol	Topological Dynamics in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Professor Max Gunzburger*	Florida State University	Multiscale Numerics for the Atmosphere and Ocean
Professor Don Zagier*	MPI Bonn	Grothendieck-Teichmüller Groups, Deformation and Operads
Professor Tom Lubensky*	University of Pennsylvania	Mathematics of Liquid Crystals
Professor Peter Constantin*	Princeton University	Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Complex Fluids and Active Media in Evolving Domains
2011-2012
Professor Gunther Uhlmann*	University of California Irvine and University of Washington	Inverse Problems
Professor John Stufken*	University of Georgia	Design and Analysis of Experiments
Professor Andrew Strominger	Harvard	The Mathematics and Applications of Branes in String and M-theory
Professor Shafi Goldwasser*	MIT	Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing
2010-2011
Professor Giuseppe Toscani	University of Pavia	Partial Differential Equations in Kinetic Theories
Professor Tim Palmer	European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts	Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to Climate Modelling and Prediction
Professor Mudumbai Narasimhan*	Ramanujan Mathematical Society	Moduli Spaces
Professor Avi Wigderson*	Institute for Advanced Study	Discrete Analysis
2009-2010
Professor Pierre Deligne	Institute for Advanced Study	Non-Abelian Fundamental Groups in Arithmetic Geometry
Professor Doug Lin*	University of California, Santa Cruz	Dynamics of Discs and Planets
Professor Bruce Hajek*	University of Illinois	Stochastic Processes in Communication Sciences
2008-2009
Professor Jürg Fröhlich	ETH, Zurich	Mathematics and Physics of Anderson Localization: 50 Years After
Professor Katepalli Sreenivasan	ICTP, Italy	The Nature of High Reynolds Number Turbulence
Professor Laurent Lafforgue	IHES	Algebraic Lie Theory
Professor Johannes J Duistermaat	University of Utrecht	Discrete Integrable Systems
2007-2008
Professor David Gross	UCSB	Strong Fields, Integrability and Strings
Professor Andreas Dress	Chinese Academy of Science (CAS)	Phylogenetics
Professor David Donoho	Stanford University	Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data
Professor Carsten Thomassen	Technical University of Denmark	Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics
2006-2007
Professor Elizabeth A Thompson	Washington University	Stochastic Computation in the Biological Sciences
Professor Alain Connes	IHES	Noncommutative Geometry
Professor Michael Aizenman	Princeton	Analysis on Graphs and its Applications
Professor Percy Deift	Courant Institute, NYU	Highly Oscillatory Problems: Computation, Theory and Applications
2005-2006
Professor Martin Golubitsky	University of Houston	Pattern Formation in Large Domains
Professor Vincent Moncrief	Yale University	Global Problems in Mathematical Relativity
Professor Deepak Dhar	Tata Institute of Fundamental Research	Principles of the Dynamics of Non-Equilibrium Systems
Professor Stephen Cook	University of Toronto	Logic and Algorithms
2004-2005
Professor Charles H Bennett	IBM Research	Quantum Information Science
Professor Robert Rosner	University of Chicago	Magnetohydrodynamics of Stellar Interiors
Professor Stanley R Pliska	University of Illinois at Chicago	Developments in Quantitative Finance
2003-2004
Professor James R Rice	Harvard University	Granular and Particle-Laden Flows
Professor Peter Sarnak	Courant Institute, NYU	Random Matrix Approaches in Number Theory
2002-2003
Professor William G Dwyer	University of Notre Dame	New Contexts for Stable Homotopy Theory
Professor Joel Smoller	University of Michigan	Nonlinear Hyperbolic Waves in Phase Dynamics and Astrophysics
Professor Franco Brezzi	University of Pavia	Computational Challenges in Partial Differential Equations
2001-2002
Professor Aleksei B Shabat	LD Landau Institute	Integrable Systems
Professor Hans Othmer	University of Minnesota	From Individual to Collective Behaviour in Biological Systems
Professor Ashoke Sen	Harish-Chandra Research Institute	M-theory
2000-2001
Professor Richard P Stanley	MIT	Symmetric Functions and Macdonald Polynomials
Professor Luis Caffarelli	Princeton University	Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
1999-2000
Professor Alan Guth	MIT	Structure Formation in the Universe
Professor Richard D James	University of Minnesota	Mathematical Developments in Solid Mechanics and Materials Sciences
Professor Hillel Furstenberg	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Ergodic Theory, Geometric Rigidity and Number Theory
Professor Tiruppattur Ramakrishnan	Indian Institute of Science	Strongly Correlated Electron Systems
1998-1999
Professor Tony Perry	University of Melbourne	Turbulence
Professor Katepalli Sreenivasan	Yale University	Turbulence
Professor Katepalli Sreenivasan	Yale University	Mathematics and Applications of Fractals
1996-1997
Professor Brian Hoskins	University of Reading	Mathematics of Atmosphere and Ocean Dynamics
Professor Ashoke Sen	Mehta Research Institute	Non-Perturbative Aspects of Quantum Field Theory
1995-1996
Professor Dana Scott	Carnegie Mellon University	Semantics of Computation
Professor Jack Hale	Georgia Institute of Technology	From Finite to Infinite Dimensional Dynamical Systems
Professor L Gary Leal	University of California	Dynamics of Complex Fluids
Professor Gustavus Simmons	Sandia National Laboratories	Computer Security, Cryptology and Coding Theory
1993-1994
Professor David Mumford	Harvard University	Computer Vision
Professor Shing-Tung Yau	Harvard University	Geometry and Gravity
Professor James Hartle	University of California	Geometry and Gravity
1992-1993
Professor Vladimir Arnold	Moscow University	Dynamo Theory
Professor Robion Kirby	University of California	Low-Dimensional Topology and Quantum Field Theory
Professor Kazuya Kato	University of Tokyo	L-Functions and Arithmetic

*denotes Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellow