Aisenstadt Chairs
The Chair allows us to welcome in each of the thematic programs (semestral or annual), two or three world-famous mathematicians for a one-week to a one-semester stay. The recipients of the Chair give a series of conferences on set subjects, chosen because of their relevance and impact, within the thematic program, the first of which, in compliance to the donor André Aisenstadt’s wish, must be accessible to a large public. They are also invited to write a monograph in the CRM Monographs Series being distributed by the American Mathematical Society.
These Chairs, which brought Terence Tao (UCLA, the youngest Fields medalist at the ICM 2006), Manjul Bhargava (Princeton, Plenary speaker ICM 2014) and K. Soundararajan (Stanford, Ramanujan Prize winner) are unique in Canada. Since 2002, six out of thirteen Fields medalists have occupied, or will occupy an Aisenstadt Chair (Lafforgue, Okounkov, Tao, Werner, Lindenstrauss, Bhargava); five of these Chairs were awarded their Fields medals within two years of their Aisenstadt Chairs, holding our Chairs at the summit of their careers.
Brief history
Dr. André Aisenstadt, a businessman and well known patron of the arts and sciences, held a doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Zurich. In 1991, he was given the high distinction of Grand Officier of the Ordre national du Québec. He always maintained a keen interest in the study of mathematics. For more than twenty years, he expressed his support for the Université de Montréal, creating the chair which carries his name. Dr. Aisenstadt deceased in December 2001.
Nicolas Bergeron (ENS)
Octobre 2020 – Théorie des nombres
Wieslawa Niziol (CNRS-Sorbonne Université)
Novembre-décembre 2020-Théorie des nombres
Éva Tardos (Université Cornell)
Janvier 2020 – Learning Games
Hiraku Nakajima (University of Tokyo)
Août 2019 – Variétés des carquois et théorie des représentations
Ciprian Manolescu (UCLA)
Septembre 2019 – Topologie en basses dimensions
Alice Guionnet (ENS Lyon)
mars 2019
Svetlana Jitomirskaya (UC Irvine)
12 – 16 novembre 2018
Mireille Bousquet-Mélou (CNRS – Université de Bordeaux)
5 octobre 2018
Michael Aizenman (Princeton University)
17 septembre – 16 novembre 2018
Robert Seiringer (IST Austria)
10 -14 september 2018
Claudia Klüppelberg (Technische Universität München)
24 août – 7 septembre 2017
Alexander J. McNeil (University of York)
13 septembre – 6 octobre 2017
Boris Adamczewski (ICJ, CNRS, & Université de Lyon)
Avril – Mai 2017
Vic Reiner (University of Minnesota)
Avril – Mai 2017
Nalini Anantharaman (Strasbourg)
22 – 26 août 2016
Yuval Peres (Microsoft Research)
2 – 6 septembre 2016
Scott Sheffield (MIT)
2 – 5 septembre 2016
Selim Esedoglu (University of Michigan)
4 janvier – 22 juillet 2016
Bertrand Eynard (CPT, CEA Saclay)
28 septembre – 6 novembre 2015
Nikita Nekrasov (IHES / SCGP)
14 – 18 septembre 2015
Pierre Colmez (CNRS & Paris VI Jussieu)
5, 12, 17, 19, 24, 26, 31 mars et 2, 8 avril 2015
Sophie Morel (Princeton)
23, 25 février, 5,17, 19 mars, 4, 8, 11, 13 mai 2015
Carl Pomerance (Dartmouth College)
8,11, 12 décembre 2014
Zeév Rudnick (Tel Aviv)
16, 17, 18 septembre 2014

André Aisenstadt