



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.
Rothschild Distinguished Visiting Fellows
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 |
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 |
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 | |
Professor Graeme Milton | University of Utah | |
Professor Eddie Anderson | University of Sydney | |
Nagoya University | Homotopy haressing higher structures | |
Professor Martin Hairer | Imperial College London | Scaling limits, rough paths,quantum field theory |
Professor Andrew Stuart | Caltech | Uncertainty quantification for complex systems: theory and methodologies |
Professor Peter Bühlmann | ETH Zürich | Statistical Scalability |
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 |
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 | |
Professor Richard Evan Schwartz | Brown University | |
Professor Stefaan Vaes | KU Leuven | |
Professor Cameron Gordon | University of Texas at Austin |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Professor James R Rice | Harvard University | Granular and Particle-Laden Flows |
Professor Peter Sarnak | Courant Institute, NYU | Random Matrix Approaches in Number Theory |
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 |
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 |
Professor Richard P Stanley | MIT | Symmetric Functions and Macdonald Polynomials |
Professor Luis Caffarelli | Princeton University | Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations |
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 |
Professor Tony Perry | University of Melbourne | Turbulence |
Professor Katepalli Sreenivasan | Yale University | Mathematics and Applications of Fractals |
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 |
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 |
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 |