NM Rothschild & Sons

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 Distinguished Visiting Fellows, together with the programmes they participated in, is provided below.

2023

Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modelling of materials
Professor Liliana Borcea	University of Michigan	Mathematical theory and applications of multiple wave scattering
Professor Valdimir Sharafutdinov	Sobolev Institute of Mathematics	Rich and Nonlinear Tomography – a multidisciplinary approach
Professor Iain Couzin	Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour	Mathematics of movement: an interdisciplinary approach to mutual challenges in animal ecology and cell biology

2022

Professor Roberto Camassa	University of North Carolina	Dispersive hydrodynamics: mathematics, simulation and experiments, with applications in nonlinear waves
Professor Steven Tobias	University of Leeds	Frontiers in dynamo theory: from the Earth to the stars
Professor Stanislav Molchanov	University of North Carolina	Fractional differential equations
Professor Rupert Klein	Freie Universität Berlin	Mathematical aspects of turbulence: where do we stand?
Professor Pierre-Emmanuel Jabin	Pennsylvania State University	Frontiers in kinetic theory: connecting microscopic to macroscopic scales
Professor Jeff Harvey	University of Chicago	New connections in number theory and physics

2021

Professor Bernhard Keller	Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu-Paris	Cluster algebras and representation theory
Professor Helmut Bölcskei	ETH Zürich	Mathematics of deep learning
Professor Nalini Joshi	Sydney	Applicable Resurgent Asymptotics: Towards a Universal Theory

2020

Professor Robert Guralnick	University of Southern California	Groups, representations and applications: new perspectives
Professor Spencer Bloch	University of Chicago	K-theory, algebraic cycles and motivic homotopy theory

2018-2019

Professor Mark Ablowitz	University of Colorado	Complex analysis: techniques, applications and computations
Professor Chus Sanz-Serna	Universidad Carlos III de Madrid	Geometry, compatibility and structure preservation in computational differential equations
Professor Ronald DeVore	Texas A&M University	Approximation, sampling and compression in data science
Professor Graeme Milton	University of Utah	The mathematical design of new materials
Professor Eddie Anderson	University of Sydney	The mathematics of energy systems
Professor Lars Hesselholt	Nagoya University	Homotopy haressing higher structures
Professor Martin Hairer	Imperial College London	Scaling limits, rough paths,quantum field theory

2017-2018

Professor Andrew Stuart	Caltech	Uncertainty quantification for complex systems: theory and methodologies
Professor Peter Bühlmann	ETH Zürich	Statistical Scalability
Dr Elizabeth Hunke	Los Alamos National Laboratory	Mathematics of Sea Ice Phenomena
Professor Alain Goriely	Oxford	Growth Form and Self-Organisation
Professor Joachim Weickert	Saarland University	Variational Methods and Effective Algorithms for Imaging and Vision

2016-2017

Professor Cynthia Dwork	Microsoft Research	Data Linkage and Anonymisation
Professor Peter Bickel	Berkeley	Theoretical Foundations for Statistical Network Analysis
Professor Gerd Gigerenzer	Max Planck Institute for Human Development	Probability and Statistics in Forensic Science
Professor Richard Evan Schwartz	Brown University	Non-Positive Curvature Group Actions and Cohomology
Professor Stefaan Vaes	KU Leuven	Operator Algebras: Subfactors and their Applications
Professor Cameron Gordon	University of Texas at Austin	Homology Theories in Low Dimensional Topology

2015-2016

Professor Yannis Kevrekidis	Princeton	Stochastic Dynamical Systems in Biology: Numerical Methods and Applications
Dr Neil Ribe	CNRS	Melt in the Mantle
Professor Charlie Elliott	Warwick	Coupling Geometric PDEs with Physics for Cell Morphology, Motility and Pattern Formation
Professor Hugh Woodin	Harvard	Mathematical, Foundational and Computational Aspects of the Higher Infinite

2014-2015

Professor Hans Follmer	Humboldt University of Berlin	Systemic Risk: Mathematical Modelling and Interdisciplinary Approaches
Professor Stanislas Liebler	Rockefeller University	Understanding Microbial Communities: Function, Structure and Dynamics
Professor Leonid Pastur	Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering, Kharkiv	Periodic and Ergodic Spectral Problems
Professor Gregory Miermont	ENS – Lyon	Random Geometry

2013-2014

Professor Alexander Holevo	Russian Academy of Sciences	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

2007-2008

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

2006-2007

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

2005-2006

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

2004-2005

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

2003 – 2004

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

2002 – 2003

Professor James R Rice	Harvard University	Granular and Particle-Laden Flows
Professor Peter Sarnak	Courant Institute, NYU	Random Matrix Approaches in Number Theory

2001 – 2002

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

2000 – 2001

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

1999 – 2000

Professor Richard P Stanley	MIT	Symmetric Functions and Macdonald Polynomials
Professor Luis Caffarelli	Princeton University	Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations

1998 – 1999

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

1996 – 1997

Professor Tony Perry	University of Melbourne	Turbulence
Professor Katepalli Sreenivasan	Yale University	Mathematics and Applications of Fractals

1995 – 1996

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

1993 – 1994

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

1992 – 1993

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

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