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List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers

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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
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