Microsoft Research Ltd 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 Microsoft-supported mathematicians and early-career researchers, together with the programmes they participated in, is provided below.
Visiting Fellows
2017-2018
Professor Mila Nikolova |
CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) |
Variational methods and effective algorithms for imaging and vision |
2013-2014
Professor Yannis G Kevrekidis |
Princeton University |
Mathematical Modelling and Analysis of Complex Fluids and Active Media in Evolving Domains |
Dr Dong Yang |
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
Mathematical Challenges in Quantum Information |
Professor Isabelle Gallagher |
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu |
Mathematics for the Fluid Earth |
Professor David O Siegmund |
Stanford University |
Inference for Change-Point and Related Processes |
2012-2013
Professor De Witt L Sumners |
Florida State University |
Topological Dynamics in the Physical and Biological Sciences |
Dr Todd Ringler |
Los Alamos National Laboratory |
Multiscale Numerics for the Atmosphere and Ocean |
Professor Ezra Getzler |
Northwestern University |
Grothendieck-Teichmüller Groups, Deformation and Operads |
Professor Epifanio G Virga |
Università degli Studi di Pavia |
Mathematics of Liquid Crystals |
2011-2012
Professor Peter Goos |
Universiteit Antwerpen |
Design and Analysis of Experiments |
Professor Andreas Kirsch |
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology |
Inverse Problems |
Professor Jeff Harvey |
University of Chicago |
The Mathematics and Applications of Branes in String and M-theory |
Professor Martin D Davis |
New York University |
Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing |
2010-2011
Professor Claire Voisin |
Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu |
Moduli Spaces |
Professor Franck Barthe |
Université de Toulouse |
Discrete Analysis |
2008-2009
Professor Franz Wegner |
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
Mathematics and Physics of Anderson Localization: 50 Years After |
Professor Jackson R Herring |
National Center for Atmospheric Research, Colorado |
The Nature of High Reynolds Number Turbulence |
2007-2008
Professor Laurence G Yaffe |
University of Washington |
Strong Fields, Integrability and Strings |
Professor Peter Lockhart |
Massey University, New Zealand |
Phylogenetics |
Professor Dennis Cook |
University of Minnesota |
Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data |
Professor Svante Janson |
University of Uppsala, Sweden |
Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics |
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Early-Career Researchers
2012-2013
Guanying Peng |
Purdue University |
Mathematics of Liquid Crystals |
2011-2012
Michael Crabb |
University of Manchester |
Inverse Problems |
Evgeniy Lebed |
Simon Fraser University, Canada |
Inverse Problems |
Xiaoyang Liu |
University of Greenwich |
Inverse Problems |
James Martin |
University College London |
Inverse Problems |
Martin Mueller-Holtz |
De Montfort University, Leicester |
Inverse Problems |
Jacob Loftus |
University of Bristol |
Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing |
David Bernhard |
University of Bristol |
Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing |
Christina Brzuska |
Technische Universität Darmstadt |
Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing |
Özgür Dagdelen |
Technische Universität Darmstadt |
Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing |
Gareth Davies |
University of Bristol |
Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing |
Aiman Elragig |
University of Exeter |
Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing |
Tomislav Petrovic |
University of Zagreb |
Semantics and Syntax: A Legacy of Alan Turing |
2010-2011
Tarig Abdelgadir |
University of Glasgow |
Moduli Spaces |
Yaim Cooper |
Princeton University |
Moduli Spaces |
Margherita Lelli-Chiesa |
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Moduli Spaces |
Agnieszka Bodzenta-Skibinska |
Uniwersytet Warszawski |
Moduli Spaces |
César Adrián Lozano Huerta |
University of Illinois at Chicago |
Moduli Spaces |
Andrew Morrison |
University of British Columbia |
Moduli Spaces |
2008-2009
Thomas Phoenix |
University of Birmingham |
Mathematics and Physics of Anderson Localization: 50 Years After |
Kuok Fai Chao |
University of Manchester |
Algebraic Lie Theory |
Nicholas Cooney |
University of Manchester |
Algebraic Lie Theory |
Richard Hoddinott |
University of Ken |
Discrete Integrable Systems |
2007-2008
Huaizhong Zhang |
University of Ulster |
Statistical Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data |
Michael Brough |
Queen Mary, University of London |
Combinatorics and Statistical Mechanics |