List of International Congresses of Mathematicians Plenary and Invited Speakers

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".

Speakers by year of congress[]

1897, Zürich[]

1900, Paris[]

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

1904, Heidelberg[]

1908, Rome[]

1912, Cambridge (UK)[]

1920, Strasbourg[]

1924, Toronto[]

1928, Bologna[]

1932, Zürich[]

1936, Oslo[]

1950, Cambridge (USA)[]

1954, Amsterdam[]

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

1958, Edinburgh[]

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]

1962, Stockholm[]

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]

1966, Moscow[]

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

1970, Nice[]

1974, Vancouver[]

1978, Helsinki[]

1983, Warsaw[]

1986, Berkeley[]

1990, Kyoto[]

1994, Zürich[]

1998, Berlin[]

2002, Beijing[]

2006, Madrid[]

2010, Hyderabad[]

2014, Seoul[]

2018, Rio de Janeiro[]

The most invited speakers[]

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

The most invited speakers after 1950[]

This list inventories the mathematicians who were the most invited to speak to an ICM after 1950.

Rank	Name	#	Years	Nationality
1	Yuri Manin	5	1966, 1970, 1978, 1986, 1990	Russia  Germany
2	Vladimir Arnold	4	1958, 1966, 1974, 1983	Russia
2	Michael Atiyah	4	1962, 1966, 1970, 1978	United Kingdom
2	Simon Donaldson	4	1983, 1986, 1998, 2018	United Kingdom
2	Mikhail Gromov	4	1970, 1978, 1983, 1986	Russia  France
2	Goro Shimura	4	1958, 1966, 1970, 1978	Japan
2	Yakov Sinai	4	1962, 1970, 1978, 1990	Russia  United States
8	Paul Erdős	3 (4)	(1936,) 1950, 1954, 1983	Hungary
8	Beniamino Segre	3 (4)	(1928,) 1950, 1954, 1958	Italy
10	Aldo Andreotti	3	1950, 1962, 1970	Italy
10	James Arthur	3	1983, 1998, 2014	Canada
10	László Babai	3	1990, 1994, 2018	Hungary
10	Jean Bourgain	3	1983, 1986, 1994	Belgium
10	Alberto Calderón	3	1950, 1966, 1978	Argentina
10	Lennart Carleson	3	1962, 1966, 1990	Sweden
10	Shiing-Shen Chern	3	1950, 1958, 1970	China  United States
10	Alain Connes	3	1974, 1978, 1986	France
10	John Conway	3	1970, 1978, 1994	United Kingdom
10	Roland Dobrushin	3	1974, 1978, 1990	Russia
10	Eugene Dynkin	3	1962, 1970, 1974	Soviet Union  United States
10	Yakov Eliashberg	3	1986, 1998, 2006	United States
10	Hillel Furstenberg	3	1970, 1990, 2010	Israel
10	Jürg Fröhlich	3	1978, 1986, 1994	Switzerland
10	Frederick Gehring	3	1966, 1974, 1986	United States
10	Israel Gelfand	3	1954, 1962, 1970	Russia
10	Étienne Ghys	3	1990, 2006, 2014	France
10	Hans Grauert	3	1958, 1962, 1966	Germany
10	Henryk Iwaniec	3	1978, 1986, 2006	Poland  United States
10	Kazuya Kato	3	1990, 2002, 2006	Japan
10	Carlos Kenig	3	1986, 2002, 2010	Argentina  United States
10	Harry Kesten	3	1970, 1983, 2002	United States
10	Olga Ladyzhenskaya	3	1966, 1983, 1994	Russia
10	Peter Lax	3	1966, 1970, 1983	United States
10	Jacques-Louis Lions	3	1958, 1970, 1974	France
10	Pierre-Louis Lions	3	1983, 1990, 1994	France
10	George Lusztig	3	1974, 1983, 1990	Romania  United States
10	Yves Meyer	3	1970, 1983, 1990	France
10	John Milnor	3	1958, 1962, 2014	United States
10	Jürgen Moser	3	1962, 1978, 1998	Germany  United States
10	David Mumford	3	1962, 1970, 2002	United States
10	Sergei Novikov	3	1966, 1970, 1978	Russia
10	Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro	3	1966, 1978, 2002	Russia  Israel
10	Wolfgang M. Schmidt	3	1970, 1974, 1983	Austria
10	Richard Schoen	3	1983, 1986, 2010	United States
10	Saharon Shelah	3	1974, 1983, 1986	Israel
10	Yum-Tong Siu	3	1978, 1983, 2002	China
10	Stephen Smale	3	1962, 1966, 1986	United States
10	Daniel Spielman	3	2002, 2010, 2014	United States
10	Elias M. Stein	3	1962, 1970, 1986	United States
10	Dennis Sullivan	3	1970, 1986, 1974	United States
10	Andrei Suslin	3	1978, 1986, 1994	Russia
10	Clifford Taubes	3	1986, 1994, 1998	United States
10	René Thom	3	1958, 1970, 1983	France
10	John G. Thompson	3	1962, 1966, 1970	United States
10	Jacques Tits	3	1962, 1970, 1974	Belgium  France
10	S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan	3	1978, 1994, 2010	United States
10	Jean-Loup Waldspurger	3	1983, 1994, 2014	France
10	André Weil	3	1950, 1954, 1978	France

References[]

See also

• Plenary Speakers (in Russian), contribution titles, and URLs
• International Mathematical Union: Proceedings 1893-2014

External links[]

• "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.