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.
2024
Professor Sriram Ramaswamy |
Indian Institute of Science |
Anti-diffusive dynamics: from sub-cellular to astrophysical scales |
Professor Michael Thaddeus |
Columbia University |
New equivariant methods in algebraic and differential geometry |
2023
Professor Liliana Borcea |
University of Michigan |
Mathematical theory and applications of multiple wave scattering |
Professor Robert Scheichl |
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg |
The mathematical and statistaical foundation of future data-driven engineering |
Professor Peter Kuchment |
Texas A&M University |
Rich and Nonlinear Tomography – a multidisciplinary approach |
Professor Martin Ostoja-Starzewski |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Uncertainty quantification and stochastic modelling of materials |
Professor Iain Couzin |
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour |
Mathematics of movement: an interdisciplinary approach to mutual challenges in animal ecology and cell biology |
Professor Jean-François Joanny |
Collège de France |
New statistical physics in living matter: non-equilibrium states under adaptive control |
Professor Robert de Mello Koch |
Huzhou University & Uniververisty of Witwatersrand |
Black holes: bridges between number theory and holographic quantum information |
2022
Professor Steven Tobias |
University of Leeds |
Frontiers in dynamo theory: from the Earth to the stars |
Professor Roberto Camassa |
University of North Carolina |
Dispersive hydrodynamics: mathematics, simulation and expeeriments, with applications in nonlinear waves |
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 |