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Clay Senior Scholar

The Clay Senior Scholar

The aim of the Clay Senior Scholar Program is to foster mathematical research and the exchange of ideas by providing support for senior mathematicians who will play a leading role as "senior scientist" in a topical program at an institute or university. Clay Senior Scholars will be in residence throughout the program and are expected to interact extensively with the other participants.

Clay Senior Scholars 2022-23

Clay Senior Scholars 2021-22

  • Nikolai Makarov

    Nikolai Makarov

    The Analysis and Geometry of Random Spaces
    Spring 2022
  • Mikhail Lyubich

    Mikhail Lyubich

    Complex Dynamics: From Special Families to Natural Generalizations in One and Several Variables
    Spring 2022
  • Alice Guionnet

    Alice Guionnet

    Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems
    Fall 2021
  • Herbert K. Spohn

    Herbert K. Spohn

    Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems
    Fall 2021


Clay Senior Scholars 2020-21

  • Uri Bader

    Uri Bader

    Random and Arithmetic Structures in Topology
    Fall 2020
  • François Loeser

    François Loeser

    Decidability, Definability and Computability in Number Theory
    Fall 2020


Clay Senior Scholars 2019–20

Clay Senior Scholars 2018–19

  • Dennis Gaitsgory

    Dennis Gaitsgory

    Derived Algebraic Geometry
    Spring 2019
  • Claire Voisin

    Claire Voisin

    Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces
    Spring 2019
  • Albert Fathi

    Albert Fathi

    Hamiltonian Systems, from Topology to Applications through Analysis
    Fall 2018


  • Clay Senior Scholars 2017–18

    • Hiraku Nakajima

      Hiraku Nakajima

      Enumerative Geometry Beyond Numbers
    • Gunter Malle

      Group Representation Theory and Applications
    • William Johnson

      William Johnson

      Geometric Functional Analysis and Applications
    • Francisco Santos

      Francisco Santos

      Geometric and Topological Combinatorics


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2016–17

    • David (Roger) Heath-Brown

      David (Roger) Heath-Brown

      Analytic Number Theory
    • Manjul Bhargava

      Manjul Bhargava

      Analytic Number Theory
    • Alexander Volberg

      Alexander Volberg

      Harmonic Analysis
    • Karen Vogtmann

      Karen Vogtmann

      Geometric Group Theory


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2015–16

    • Martin Hairer

      Martin Hairer

      New Challenges in PDE: Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems
    • Pierre Raphael

      Pierre Raphael

      New Challenges in PDE: Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems
    • Tobias Holck Colding

      Tobias Colding

      Differential Geometry


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2014–15

    • Joseph Bernstein

      Joseph Bernstein

      Geometric Representation Theory
    • Ngo Bao Chau

      Ngô Bảo Châu

      Geometric Representation Theory
    • Pierre Colmez

      Pierre Colmez

      New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms
    • Marc Burger

      Marc Burger

      Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures
    • Elon Lindenstrauss

      Elon Lindenstrauss

      Geometric and Arithmetic Aspects of Homogeneous Dynamics


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2013–14

    • Vincent Moncrief

      Vincent Moncrief

      Mathematical General Relativity
    • Cedric Villani

      Cedric Villani

      Optimal Transport: Geometry and Dynamics
    • Lars Hesselholt

      Lars Hesselholt

      Algebraic Topology
    • Ehud Hrushovski

      Ehud Hrushovski

      Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2012–13

    • Karen Smith

      Karen Smith

      Commutative Algebra
    • Claudio Procesi

      Claudio Procesi

      Commutative Algebra
    • Corrado DeConcini

      Corrado DeConcini

      Commutative Algebra
    • Bernhard Keller

      Bernhard Keller

      Cluster Algebras
    • Idun Reiten

      Idun Reiten

      Cluster Algebras
    • Andrei Zelevinsky

      Andrei Zelevinsky

      Cluster Algebras
    • Toby Stafford

      Toby Stafford

      Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory
    • Michel Van den Bergh

      Michel Van den Bergh

      Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2011–12

    • Keith Ball

      Keith Ball

      Quantitative Geometry
    • Tobias Colding

      Tobias Colding

      Quantitative Geometry
    • William Johnson

      William Johnson

      Quantitative Geometry
    • Richard Kenyon

      Richard Kenyon

      Random Spatial Processes
    • Gregory Lawler

      Gregory Lawler

      Random Spatial Processes
    •  Vladas Sidoravicius

      Vladas Sidoravicius

      Random Spatial Processes


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2010–11

    • Barry Mazur

      Barry Mazur

      Arithmetic Statistics
    • Henryk Iwaniec

      Henryk Iwaniec

      Arithmetic Statistics
    • Juan Luis Vazquez

      Juan Luis Vazquez

      Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications
    • Percy Deift

      Percy Deift

      Random Matrix Theory
    • Graeme Milton

      Graeme Milton

      Inverse Problems and Applications
    • James Propp

      Gunther Uhlmann

      Inverse Problems and Applications


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2009–10

    • Leonid Polterovich

      Leonid Polterovich

      Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
    • Grigory Mikhalkin

      Grigory Mikhalkin

      Tropical Geometry
    • Clifford Taubes

      Clifford Taubes

      Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
    • Ko Honda

      Ko Honda

      Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
    • Peter Ozsvath

      Peter Ozsvath

      Homology Theory of Knots & Links
    • Tomasz Mrowka

      Tomasz Mrowka

      Homology Theory of Knots & Links


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2008–09

    • Hillel Furstenberg

      Hillel Furstenberg

      Ergodic Theory
    • Tim Gowers

      Tim Gowers

      Ergodic Theory
    • Terry Tao

      Terry Tao

      Ergodic Theory
    • Werner Müller

      Werner Müller

      Singular Spaces
    • Chris Hacon

      Chris Hacon

      Algebraic Geometry
    • Rahul Pandharipande

      Rahul Pandharipande

      Algebraic Geometry
    • Claire Voisin

      Claire Voisin

      Algebraic Geometry


    • Clay Senior Scholars 2007–08

    • Curtis McMullen

      Curtis McMullen

      Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups
    • Alex Eskin

      Alex Eskin

      Teichmuller Theory and Kleinian Groups
    • Masaki Kashiwara

      Masaki Kashiwara

      Combinatorial Representation Theory