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Simons Professors

The Simons Visiting Professorship is funded by a grant from the Simons Foundation, in support of MSRI’s scientific programs.

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Simons Professors 2022-23

Daniel Freed
Analytic and Geometric Aspects of Gauge Theory
Fall 2022
Michael Mandell
Floer Homotopy Theory
Fall 2022
Anna Cadoret
Diophantine Geometry
Spring 2023
Christopher Skinner
Algebraic Cycles, L-Values, and Euler Systems
Spring 2023

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Simons Professors 2021-22

Mario Bonk
The Analysis and Geometry of Random Spaces
Spring 2022
Sarah Koch
Complex Dynamics: From Special Families to Natural Generalizations in One and Several Variables
Spring 2022
Eero Saksman
The Analysis and Geometry of Random Spaces
Spring 2022
Dylan Thurston
Complex Dynamics: From Special Families to Natural Generalizations in One and Several Variables
Spring 2022
Percy A. Deift
Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems
Fall 2021
Philippe Di Francesco
Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems
Fall 2021
Pablo Ferrari
Universality and Integrability in Random Matrix Theory and Interacting Particle Systems
Fall 2021

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Simons Professors 2020-21

Martin Bridgeman
Random and Arithmetic Structures in Topology
Fall 2020
David Fisher
Random and Arithmetic Structures in Topology
Fall 2020
Tsachik Gelander
Random and Arithmetic Structures in Topology
Fall 2020
Julia Knight
Decidability, Definability and Computability in Number Theory
Fall 2020

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Simons Professors 2019-20

Clark Barwick
Higher Categories and Categorification
Spring 2020
David Ben-Zvi
Higher Categories and Categorification
Spring 2020
Terry Gannon
Quantum Symmetries
Spring 2020
Sorin Popa
Quantum Symmetries
Spring 2020
Sarah Witherspoon
Quantum Symmetries
Spring 2020
Colin Guillarmou
Microlocal Analysis
Fall 2019
Andras Vasy
Microlocal Analysis
Fall 2019
Vladimir Fock
Holomorphic Differentials in Mathematics and Physics
Fall 2019

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Simons Professors 2018-19

Lars Hesselholt
Derived Algebraic Geometry
Spring 2019
Valery Alexeev
Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces
Spring 2019
James McKernan
Birational Geometry and Moduli Spaces
Spring 2019
Gonzalo Contreras
Hamiltonian Systems, from Topology to Applications through Analysis
Fall 2018
James Meiss
Hamiltonian Systems, from Topology to Applications through Analysis
Fall 2018

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Simons Professors 2017-18

Tom Andrew Bridgeland FRS
Enumerative Geometry Beyond Numbers
Sheldon Katz
Enumerative Geometry Beyond Numbers
Raphael Rouquier
Group Representation Theory and Applications
Alexander Kleshchev
Group Representation Theory and Applications
Radha Kessar
Group Representation Theory and Applications
Martin Liebeck
Group Representation Theory and Applications
Vitali Milman
Geometric Functional Analysis and Applications
Federico Ardila
Geometric and Topological Combinatorics
Imre Barany
Geometric and Topological Combinatorics
Sylvie Corteel
Geometric and Topological Combinatorics
Igor Pak
Geometric and Topological Combinatorics

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Simons Professors 2016-17

Karen Vogtmann
Geometric Group Theory
Howard Masur
Geometric Group Theory
Alain Valette
Geometric Group Theory
Kasra Rafi
Geometric Group Theory
Philippe Michel
Analytic Number Theory
Tim Browning
Analytic Number Theory
Tamar Ziegler
Analytic Number Theory
Alexander Volberg
Harmonic Analysis
Guy David
Harmonic Analysis
Elias Stein
Harmonic Analysis

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Simons Professors 2015-16

Andrea Nahmod
New Challenges in PDE: Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems
Jeremy Quastel
New Challenges in PDE: Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems
Jonathan Mattingly
New Challenges in PDE: Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems
Luis Vega
New Challenges in PDE: Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems
Martin Hairer
New Challenges in PDE: Deterministic Dynamics and Randomness in High and Infinite Dimensional Systems
Olivier Biquard
Differential Geometry
Sun-Yung Alice Chang
Differential Geometry
Akito Futaki
Differential Geometry
Tom Ilmanen
Differential Geometry
Curtis McMullen
Differential Geometry
Natasa Sesum
Differential Geometry
Gang Tian
Differential Geometry
Jeff Viaclovsky
Differential Geometry

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Simons Professors 2014-15

Ngô Bảo Châu
Geometric Representation Theory
Thomas Hales
Geometric Representation Theory
Olivier Schiffmann
Geometric Representation Theory
Elena Mantovan
New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms
Stephen Kudla
New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms
Michael Rapoport
New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms
Michael Harris
New Geometric Methods in Number Theory and Automorphic Forms
Francois Labourie
Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures
Yves Benoist
Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures
David Dumas
Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures
Francis Bonahon
Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures
Alessandra Iozzi
Dynamics on Moduli Spaces of Geometric Structures
Elon Lindenstrauss
Geometric and Arithmetic Aspects of Homogeneous Dynamics
Hee Oh
Geometric and Arithmetic Aspects of Homogeneous Dynamics
Alex Eskin
Geometric and Arithmetic Aspects of Homogeneous Dynamics
Yves Benoist
Geometric and Arithmetic Aspects of Homogeneous Dynamics

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Simons Professors 2013-14

Piotr Chrusciel
Mathematical General Relativity
Charles Rezk
Algebraic Topology
Francois Loeser
Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory
Sergei Starchenko
Model Theory, Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory

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Simons Professors 2012-13

Craig Huneke
Commutative Algebra
Jerzy Weyman
Commutative Algebra
Frank-Olaf Schreyer
Commutative Algebra
Luchezar Avramov
Commutative Algebra
Alicia Dickenstein
Commutative Algebra
Bernhard Keller
Cluster Algebras
Idun, Reiten
Cluster Algebras
Toby Stafford
Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory
Michel Van den Bergh
Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory
$Bill Crawley-Boevey$

Bill Crawley-Boevey
Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry and Representation Theory

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Simons Professors 2011-12

Assaf Naor
Quantitative Geometry
Curtis McMullen
Random Spatial Processes
Peter Winkler
Random Spatial Processes

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Simons Professors 2010-11

Henryk Iwaniec
Arithmetic Statistics
Henrik Shahgholian
Free Boundary Problems, Theory and Applications
Percy Deift
Random Matrix Theory
Herbert Spohn
Random Matrix Theory
Plamen Stefanov
Inverse Problems and Applications

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Simons Professors 2009-10

Andreas Gathman
Tropical Geometry
Mark Gross
Tropical Geometry
Emmanuel Giroux
Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
Ko Honda
Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
Leonid Polterovich
Symplectic and Contact Geometry and Topology
Mikhail Khovanov
Homology Theory of Knots & Links
Catharina Stroppel
Homology Theory of Knots & Links

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Simons Professors 2008-09

Vitaly Bergelson
Ergodic Theory
Bernard Host
Ergodic Theory
Mariusz Lemanczyk
Ergodic Theory
Benjy Weiss
Ergodic Theory
Gerd Grubb
Singular Spaces
Dan Grieser
Singular Spaces
Miles Reid
Algebraic Geometry

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Simons Professors 2007-08

Mark Sapir
Geometric Group Theory
Zlil Sela
Geometric Group Theory
Masaki Kashiwara
Combinatorial Representation Theory
David Benson
Representation Theory of Finite Groups and Related Topics