The Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research is an international research institute for mathematics based at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

. It is named after the distinguished number theorist

Hans Heilbronn Hans Arnold Heilbronn (8 October 1908 – 28 April 1975) was a mathematician. Education He was born into a German-Jewish family. He was a student at the universities of Berlin, Freiburg and Göttingen, where he met Edmund Landau, who supervised ...

who worked at Bristol University from 1934–1935 and 1946–1964. The Institute was founded in 2005 and is run as a partnership between the UK

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and the UK academic mathematics community. It has facilities in Bristol, London, and Manchester. The current Chair of the Institute is

Geoffrey Grimmett Geoffrey Richard Grimmett (born 20 December 1950) is a mathematician known for his work on the mathematics of random systems arising in probability theory and statistical mechanics, especially percolation theory and the contact process. He is ...

FRS. The Institute has headquarters in the

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of Bristol University, to which it moved in September 2019 together with the School of Mathematics of the University.

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Institute website
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