Aisenstadt Chairs

The Aisenstadt Chair allows us to welcome, in each of the thematic programs, world-famous mathematicians for a one-week to a one-semester stay. The recipients of the Chair give a series of lectures on preselected topics, chosen because of their relevance and impact within the thematic program, the first of which, in compliance with the donor André Aisenstadt’s wish, must be accessible to a wide audience. They are also invited to write a monograph in the CRM Monographs Series published by the American Mathematical Society.

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.

Stéphane Jaffard (Université Paris-Est Créteil)
October 2023

Panagiota Daskalopoulos (Columbia University)
Spring 2024

Simon Brendle (Columbia University)
Spring 2024

Ruth Charney (Brandeis University)
June 2023

Zlil Sela (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
May 2023

Lauren Williams (Harvard University)
October 2022

Rei Inoue (Chiba University)
September 2022

Duncan Haldane (Princeton University)
August 2022

Gustav Lehrer (University of Sydney)
June 2022

Isabelle Gallagher (École Normale Supérieure & Université Paris Cité)
May 2022

Bernard Derrida (École Normale Supérieure)
March – May 2022

László Lovász (Microsoft Research)
May 2003

Endre Szemerédi (Rutgers University)
May 2003

Edward Frenkel (University of California, Berkeley)
May 2002

Laurent Lafforgue (Institut des hautes études scientifiques)
May 2002

George Lusztig (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
May 2002

Michael S. Waterman (University of Southern California)
March – April 2001

Arthur T. Winfree (University of Arizona)
September 2000

Duong H. Phong (Columbia University)
May 2000

Roman Jackiw (MIT)
March & June 2000

Joel S. Feldman (University of British Columbia)
August 1999

Frans Oort (Universiteit Utrecht)
May 1999

David Cox (University of Oxford)
May 1998

Peter Hall (Australian National University)
October 1997

Efim Zelmanov (Yale University)
May 1997

László Babai (The University of Chicago)
November 1996

Ioannis Karatzas (Columbia University)
May 1996

Yves Meyer (CEREMADE Université Paris Dauphine)
March 1996

Blaine Lawson (SUNY – Stony Brook)
May 1995

Robert L. Bryant (Duke University)
October 1994

David P. Ruelle (Inst. des Hautes Études Scientifiques)
September – November 1993

Eugene Dynkin (Cornell University)
January 1993

James Arthur (University of Toronto)
April 1992

Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (University of California at Berkeley)
January 1991

Jerrold E. Marchden (Cornell University)
October 1989 & January 1990

Yuri Manin (Steklov Institute)
June 1988

Robert P. Langlands (Institute for Advanced Study)
April – June 1988

Ronald Graham (AT&T Bell Labs)
April 1987

Philip Holmes (Cornell University)
April – May 1986

Gérard M. Debreu (University of California at Berkeley)
May 1985

Laurent Schwartz (École Polytechnique de Palaiseau)
April & August 1982

Gian-Carlo Rota (MIT)
April 1979

Tyrrell Rockafellar (University of Washington)
February – March 1978

Yuval Ne’eman (Tel-Aviv University)
June 1977

Jacques-Louis Lions (Collège de France)
January & May 1976

Donald E. Knuth (Stanford University)
November 1975

Marcos Moshinsky (UNAM)
October – December 1973

Sybren de  Groot (University of Amsterdam)
June 1973

Robert Hermann (Rutgers University)
January – May 1972

Eduardo Zarantonello (University of Wisconsin Madison)
October – December 1971

Mark Kac (The Rockefeller University)
June – July 1970

André Aisenstadt