List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers

Summary

This is a list of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers. Being invited to talk at an International Congress of Mathematicians has been called "the equivalent, in this community, of an induction to a hall of fame."[1] The current list of Plenary and Invited Speakers presented here is based on the ICM's post-WW II terminology, in which the one-hour speakers in the morning sessions are called "Plenary Speakers" and the other speakers (in the afternoon sessions) whose talks are included in the ICM published proceedings are called "Invited Speakers". In the pre-WW II congresses the Plenary Speakers were called "Invited Speakers".

By congress year

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1897, Zürich

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Felix Klein

1900, Paris

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David Hilbert

During the 1900 Congress in Paris, France, David Hilbert (pictured) announced his famous list of Hilbert's problems.[2]

1904, Heidelberg

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Emile Borel
 
Heinrich Weber

1908, Rome

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Tullio Levi-Civita

1912, Cambridge (UK)

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G. H. Hardy
 
Edward Kasner
 
J. J. Thomson

1920, Strasbourg

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Jacques Hadamard

1924, Toronto

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Arthur Eddington

1928, Bologna

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George David Birkhoff
 
Stefan Banach
 
Emmy Noether
 
Hermann Weyl
 
Guido Fubini

1932, Zürich

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Participants Zürich 1932

1936, Oslo

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Samuel Eilenberg
 
Erich Hecke
 
Oswald Veblen

1950, Cambridge (USA)

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Eberhard Hopf
 
Shiing-Shen Chern

1954, Amsterdam

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André Weil

At the 1954 Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam, Richard Brauer announced his program for the classification of finite simple groups.[5]

1958, Edinburgh

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Alexander Grothendieck (pictured) in his plenary lecture at the 1958 Congress outlined his programme "to create arithmetic geometry via a (new) reformulation of algebraic geometry, seeking maximal generality."[6]

 
Alexander Grothendieck

1962, Stockholm

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At the 1962 Congress in Stockholm Kiyosi Itô (pictured) lectured on how to combine differential geometry and stochastic analysis, and this led to major advances in the 60s and 70s.[7]

 
Kiyosi Itô

1966, Moscow

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John Griggs Thompson
 
Stephen Smale
 
Lennart Carleson

There were thirty-one Invited Addresses (eight in Abstract) at the 1966 congress.[8]

1970, Nice

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Michael Artin
 
Philip Griffiths
 
David Mumford
 
Pierre Deligne
 
John Horton Conway
 
Alan-Baker

1974, Vancouver

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Jacques Tits
 
Alain Connes
 
William Thurston

1978, Helsinki

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Roger Penrose
 
Robert Langlands
 
Shing-Tung Yau

1983, Warsaw

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René Thom
 
Efim Zelmanov
 
Pierre-Louis Lions
 
Jean Bourgain

1986, Berkeley

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Gerd Faltings
 
Edward Witten

1990, Kyoto

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Grigorji Margulis
 
Vaughan Jones
 
Curtis T. McMullen
 
Jean-Christophe Yoccoz
 
Shigefumi Mori

1994, Zürich

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Andrew Wiles
 
Grigori Perelman
 
Richard Borcherds
 
Maxim Kontsevich

1998, Berlin

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Laurent Lafforgue
 
Vladimir Voevodsky
 
Michael Freedman
 
Simon Donaldson

2002, Beijing

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2006, Madrid

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Alice Guionnet
 
Terence Tao
 
Wendelin Werner
 
Elon Lindenstrauss
 
Stanislav Smirnov
 
Cedric Villani

2010, Hyderabad

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Artur Ávila
 
Ngô Bảo Châu
 
S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan
 
Maryam Mirzakhani

2014, Seoul

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Martin Hairer
 
Alessio Figalli
 
Peter Scholze
 
John Milnor
 
Manjul Bhargava

2018, Rio de Janeiro

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Andrei Okounkov
 
Laszlo Babai
 
James Maynard
 
Maryna Viazovska
 
Hugo Duminil-Copin
 
Gil Kalai

2022, Virtual

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Most invited

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This list inventories the mathematicians who were the most invited to speak to an ICM.

Rank Name # Years Nationality
1 Jacques Hadamard 9 1897, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1928, 1932, 1950   France
2 Émile Borel 7 1897, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1928, 1936   France
2 Jules Drach 7 1900, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936   France
4 Elie Cartan 6 1900, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936   France
4 Gino Loria 6 1897, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1928, 1932   Italy
4 Vito Volterra 6 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920, 1928   Italy
7 Henri Fehr 5 1904, 1908, 1912, 1924, 1932    Switzerland
7 Rudolf Fueter 5 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936    Switzerland
7 Yuri Manin 5 1966, 1970, 1978, 1986, 1990   Russia   Germany
7 Mihailo Petrović 5 1908, 1912, 1924, 1928, 1932   Serbia
7 Cyparissos Stephanos 5 1897, 1900, 1904, 1908, 1912   Greece
7 Carl Størmer 5 1908, 1920, 1924, 1932, 1936   Norway
7 Gheorghe Țițeica 5 1908, 1912, 1924, 1932, 1936   Romania
7 Stanisław Zaremba 5 1908, 1920, 1924, 1932, 1936   Poland

References

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  1. ^ Castelvecchi, Davide (7 October 2015). "The biggest mystery in mathematics: Shinichi Mochizuki and the impenetrable proof". Nature. 526 (7572): 178–181. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..178C. doi:10.1038/526178a. PMID 26450038.
  2. ^ Scott, Charlotte Angas (1900). "The International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 7 (2): 57–79. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1900-00768-3.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Richardson, R. G. D. (1932). "International Congress of Mathematicians, Zurich, 1932". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 38 (11): 769–774. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1932-05491-X.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u Morse, Marston. "The international Congress in Oslo." Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 42, no. 11 (1936): 777–781. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1936-06421-9
  5. ^ Carl B. Boyer; Uta C. Merzbach (25 January 2011). A History of Mathematics (PDF). John Wiley & Sons. p. 592. ISBN 978-0-470-63056-3.
  6. ^ Cartier, Pierre (2004), "Un pays dont on ne connaîtrait que le nom (Grothendieck et les " motifs ")" (PDF), in Cartier, Pierre; Charraud, Nathalie (eds.), Réel en mathématiques-psychanalyse et mathématiques (in French), Editions Agalma, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29, English translation: A country of which nothing is known but the name: Grothendieck and "motives".
  7. ^ Jean-Paul Pier (September 2000). Development of Mathematics 1950-2000. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 437. ISBN 978-3-7643-6280-5.
  8. ^ Thirty-one Invited Address (eight in Abstract) at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Moscow, 1966. American Mathematical Society Translations - Series 2. American Mathematical Society. 1968.
See also
  • Plenary Speakers (in Russian), contribution titles, and URLs
  • International Mathematical Union: Proceedings 1893-2022
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  • "International Mathematical Union (IMU)". mathunion.org. Retrieved 2015-09-06.
  • "ICM Main invited speakers". www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-09-06.