de la Vallée Poussin Chair 2025

The recipient of the de la Vallée Poussin Chair 2025 is Professor Philippe Di Francesco, CEA Saclay and University of Illinois

The general title of the lectures is: "Integrable combinatorics : from exact enumeration to limit shapes"

Philippe Di Francesco is a distinguished mathematical physicist, Research Director at the Institut de Physique Théorique at the CEA Saclay, and Morris and Gertrude Fine Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Illinois. 

He has made major contributions to conformal field theory, exactly solvable models in statistical physics, integrable systems, matrix models, enumerative combinatorics, and cluster algebras.

Philippe Di Francesco was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematical Physics (ICMP) in 2012 and an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in 2018. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences in 2024.