The idea was conceived in preparation for the International Congress of Mathematicians 2010 (ICM2010) in Hyberdad, India.
Professor Edward Bierstone of the University of Toronto was the director of the institute during the inaugural symposium in October 2012.
The symposia include mathematical activity that explore work related to the honoured Fields Medallist.
Alex Eskin Dimitry Jakobson Marina Ratner Ralf Spatzier Yves Benoist Jean Bourgain Shimon Brooks Manfred Einsiedler Alex Eskin Hillel Furstenberg Anatole Katok Elon Lindenstrauss Gregory Margulis Shahar Mozes Hee Oh Kannan Soundararajan Masaki Tsukamaoto Benjamin Weiss Tamar Ziegler Robert McCann Clement Mouhot Neil Trudinger Luis Caffarelli Eric Carlen Jeff Cheeger Wilfrid Gangbo Yan Guo Michel Ledoux Monika Ludwig Nader Masmoudi Assaf Naor Felix Otto Tristan Rivière Laure Saint-Raymond Karl-Theodor Sturm Vladimir Sverak Horng-Tzer Yau John Cardy Kostya Khanin Greg Lawler Gordon Slade Balint Virag Wendelin Werner Dmitri Belyaev Alexei Borodin John Cardy Dmitry Chelkak Geoffrey Grimmett Jacek Graczyk Clément Hongler Rick Kenyon Antti Kupiainen Greg Lawler Bernard Nienhuis Dimitry Panchenko Steffen Rohde Scott Sheffield Béatrice de Tilière Anna Zdunik John Friedlander Florian Herzig Kumar Murty Sujatha Ramdorai Jacob Tsimerman Benedict Gross Piper Harron Wei Ho Melanie Wood Barry Mazur Alison Miller Hee Oh Peter Sarnak Arul Shankar Christopher Skinner Jacob Tsimerman Ila Varma Xiaoheng Wang Amir Mohammadi Yulan Qing Kasra Rafi Anna Wienhard Peter Sarnak Simion Filip Howard Masur Hee Oh Scott Wolpert Kathryn Mann Francis Bonahon Juan Souto Alex Eskin Steve Kerckhoff Anton Zorich Ursula Hamenstädt Elon Lindenstrauss Yair Minsky Amie Wilkinson (Public Opening Lecturer)
Svetlana Jitomirskaya Konstantin Khanin Raphaël Krikorian Misha Lyubich Michael Yampolsky Raphaël Krikorian Amie Wilkinson Giovanni Forni Giulio Tiozzo Daniel Smania Zhiyuan Zhang Svetlana Jitomirskaya Dmitry Dolgopyat Sylvain Crovisier Alex Eskin Ursula Hamenstädt Xavier Buff David Damanik Luis Caffarelli Jacopo De Simoi Francesco Maggi Robert McCann Matteo Bonforte Yann Brenier Xavier Cabré Maria Colombo Guido De Philippis Wilfrid Gangbo Alice Guionnet Young-Heon Kim Connor Mooney Xavier Ros-Oton Sylvia Serfaty Joaquim Serra Enrico Valdinoci Ana Caraiani Matthew Satriano Ila Varma