Sir Martin Hairer is a leading Professor of Mathematics and a renowned Austrian–British mathematician known for his groundbreaking work in stochastic analysis, particularly in the area of stochastic partial differential equations (SPDEs). He obtained his B.Sc. in Mathematics (1998), M.Sc. in Physics (1998), and Ph.D. in Physics (2001) from the University of Geneva under the supervision of Jean-Pierre Eckmann. Hairer has held academic positions at the Courant Institute of NYU and the University of Warwick, and he is currently a professor at Imperial College London and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). In 2014, he was awarded the Fields Medal for creating the theory of regularity structures, a revolutionary framework for analyzing highly nonlinear SPDEs. His other accolades include the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2021), the Whitehead Prize, and the Fermat Prize. He is also a software developer under the brand “HairerSoft” and a fellow of several prestigious academic institutions.

https://www.hairer.org/

Phan Dương Hiệu is a Professor and Head of the Cybersecurity–Cryptography team at Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris. He obtained his Ph.D. in Cryptography from the École Normale Supérieure. His research focuses on decentralized and privacy-preserving cryptosystems, as well as new paradigms for protecting user privacy in unconventional scenarios.
He is actively involved in the cryptographic research community through the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR), serving on the steering committees of both IACR Asiacrypt and IACR Public-Key Cryptography. He has also been an enthusiastic contributor to the development of Master’s and Ph.D. programs that foster collaboration between Vietnam and France in the field of cryptography.
His webpage is available at: https://www.di.ens.fr/~phan/

Minhyong Kim is Director and Sir Edmund Whittaker Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. After studying at Seoul National University and receiving his Ph.D. at Yale, he moved on to professorships at numerous institutions on three continents, including Purdue, Oxford, and the Korea Institute for Advanced Study. He works on arithmetic geometry, the study of spaces built out of finitely generated systems of numbers, employing ideas from mathematical physics, especially topological quantum field theory.
Minhyong is a keen communicator of mathematics and has published 13 books in Korea for the general public. His latest project is a series of illustrated children’s books featuring a mathematician (who quickly disappears), his family (who search for him), and Schrödinger’s cat (who does both).
His webpage is available at: https://www.minhyongkim.net/