Institut Henri Poincaré

The Institute Henri Poincaré (IHP ) is a central French institute for mathematics and theoretical physics in Paris. It is as École internal the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie ) attached. Seat is the Rue Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris 11.

The Institute houses a library with 2009, about 35,000 books and 255 journals and seminar rooms. It is also home to several French mathematical and physical societies such as the Société Mathématique de France ( SMF), the French Physical Society (SFP ), the French statistical society ( SFDs ), the Fondation Sciences Mathématiques de Paris ( FSMP ) and the French Society of Applied and industrial Mathematics ( SMAI ). The IHP organizes regular workshops, seminars and conferences. Mainly are organized every year under the auspices of the Centre Émile Borel ( CEB) three trimesters in specific areas. At the IHP also known Bourbaki seminars are held and the winners of the French Academy of Sciences stop here their price lectures.

The Institute publishes the journal Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré ( AIHP ) in three series: A ( Theoretical and Mathematical Physics ), B ( Probability and Statistics ), C ( Nonlinear Analysis). In 1964, the first split into A, B, followed in 1983 by C. Line A is published in cooperation with Acta Physica Helvetica Birkhäuser Verlag, 2000 after both magazines merged, since it is called Annales Henri Poincaré.

The Institute was founded in 1928 with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, and named after Henri Poincaré. The driving forces were the leading French mathematician Émile Borel ( the founding director of IHP ), Jacques Hadamard and Émile Picard and the American mathematician George David Birkhoff, who worked in the field of dynamical systems, which has been revolutionized by Poincaré. One of the motives for the foundation was a need to catch up, particularly in theoretical physics in France to foreign countries and the desire to improve international networking. In addition to theoretical physics also played the probability theory, which has been maintained by Borel, in the early days a large role.

With the reorganization of the University of Paris in the 1970s, the seat of the IHP was predominantly used by non-specialist organizations. Initiatives of a French mathematician and physicist Jean -Pierre Aubin, Bernard Teissier and Bernard Julia ( Demazure Report) in the 1980s led to the foundation in 1990 with affiliation to the University of Paris VI and simultaneous use by the CNRS.

Director is currently (2009) Cédric Villani.