The Simons Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of the Simons Collaboration on Probabilistic Paths to Quantum Field Theory. Scott Sheffield of the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will direct the new collaboration.

The collaboration will bring together experts in probability, analysis and mathematical physics to work on problems related to quantum field theory (QFT), a theoretical framework uniting the principles of classical field theory, quantum mechanics and special relativity. Collaboration members will work toward a unified probabilistic foundation for quantum field theory in Euclidean space.

 

The members of the new collaboration are:

Scott Sheffield
Director; Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Roland Bauerschmidt
PI; New York University

Denis Bernard
PI; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Délégation Paris-Centre

Sourav Chatterjee
PI; Stanford University

Massimiliano Gubinelli
PI; University of Oxford

Colin Guillarmou
PI; University of Paris-Saclay

Martin Hairer
PI; École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Nina Holden
PI; New York University

Antti Kupiainen
PI; University of Helsinki

Nikita Nekrasov
PI; Stony Brook University

Remi Rhodes
PI; Aix-Marseille University

Slava Rychkov
PI; Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques

Fredrik Viklund
PI; KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Yilin Wang
PI; ETH Zürich

Denis Pobytov

 

 

 

More:
Announcement by the Simons Foundation: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/08/13/announcing-the-simons-collaboration-on-probabilistic-paths-to-quantum-field-theory/ 
Website of the collaboration : https://probabilistic-qft.org/ 

Author affiliation:
Laboratoire de physique de L’École normale supérieure (LPENS, ENS Paris/CNRS/Sorbonne Université/Université de Paris)

Corresponding author: Denis Bernard
Communication contact: L’équipe de communication