Welcome to the Park City Mathematics Institute

Current list of publications

Park City Mathematics Series, published by the American Mathematical Society.  Each volume contains the lectures for that year from the PCMI Graduate Summer School and, in some cases, the Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics.

  • Volume 1: Geometry and Quantum Field Theory  (1991); Karen Uhlenbeck and Daniel Freed, Editors

  • Volume 2: Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry (1992); Robert Hardt and Michael Wolf, Editors

  • Volume 3: Complex Algebraic Geometry  (1993); János Kollár, Editor

  • Volume 4: Gauge Theory and the Topology of Four-Manifolds (1994); Robert Friedman and John Morgan, Editors

  • Volume 5: Hyperbolic Equations and Frequency Interactions (1995); Luis Caffarelli and Weinan E, Editors

  • Volume 6: Probability Theory and Applications (1996); Elton P. Hsu and S.R.S. Varadhan, Editors

  • Volume 7:  Symplectic Geometry and Topology (1997); Yakov Eliashberg and Lisa M. Traynor, Editors

  • Volume 8: Representation Theory of Lie Groups (1998); Jeffrey Adams and David Vogan, Editors

  • Volume 9: Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry (1999); Karl Rubin and Brian Conrad, Editors  

  • Volume 10: Computational Complexity Theory (in production); Avi Wigderson and Stephen Rudich, Editors

AMS Student Mathematics Series: Park City Mathematics Subseries.  Each single volume in this subseries contains lectures of one of the PCMI Summer Session Undergraduate Program courses or the Mentoring Program for Women in Mathematics Undergraduate Course.

  • Lectures on Contemporary Probability by Gregory F. Lawler and Lester N. Coyle

  • An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of Waves by Roger Knobel

  •  Codes and Curves by Judy L. Walker. 

All AMS/PCMI volumes are available from the AMS web site.

 About the IAS/Park City Mathematics Series

Preface from Volume II

 The IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) was founded in 1991 as part of the "Regional Geometry Institute" initiative of the National Science Foundation. In mid 1993 it found an institutional home at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton. The PCMI will continue to hold summer programs in both Park City and in Princeton.

 The IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute encourages research and education in mathematics and fosters interaction between the two. The month-long Summer Session offers programs for researchers and postdoctoral scholars, graduate students, undergraduates, and high school teachers. One of our main goals is to make all of the participants aware of the total spectrum of activities that occur in mathematics education and research: we wish to involve professional mathematicians in education and to bring modern concepts in mathematics to the attention of educators. To that end, the Summer Session features general sessions designed to encourage interaction among the various groups. In-year activities at sites around the country form an integral part of the Program for High School Teachers.

 Each summer a different topic is chosen as the focus of the Research Program and Graduate Summer School. (Activities in the Undergraduate Program deal with this topic as well.) Lecture notes from the Graduate Summer School are being published each year in the Series. The first volume contains notes from the 1991 Summer School on the Geometry and Topology of Manifolds and Quantum Field Theory. The second volume is from the 1992 Summer School Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations in Differential Geometry. The 1993 Summer School Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry, the 1994 Summer School Gauge Theory and the Topology of Four-Manifolds, and the 1995 Summer School Nonlinear Wave Phenomena are in preparation for publication.

 We plan to publish material from other parts of the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute in the future, including the interactive activities which are a primary focus of the PCMI. At the Summer Session, late afternoons are devoted to seminars of common interest to all participants. Many deal with current issues in education; others treat mathematical topics at a level which encourages broad participation. Several popular evening programs are also well-attended. These include lectures, panel discussions, computer demonstrations, and videos. The PCMI has also spawned interactions between universities and high schools at a local level. We hope to share these activities with a wider audience in future volumes.

Dan Freed, Series Editor
June, 1995

  

Information for PCMI Authors

Manuscript Preparation

Your manuscript must be prepared using our TeX style files (which are a variant of the standard AMS style files). Style files are available in both AMSTeX and (AMS-)LaTeX formats.

If you have any technical problems with these files, please email Catherine Giesbrecht at giesbrec@ias.edu. For other questions related to the PCMI Publications, please email the series editor David Morrison at drm@math.duke.edu. If you are interested, more information is available about the AMS Book Publishing Program.

Instructions for Submitting Manuscripts

Please check your completed manuscript as carefully as possible. Use a spell checker, if available. Remove any magnification or page size adjustments. Then take measures to eliminate all overflow lines.

Once you submit the completed file to the IAS you will not be able to make further corrections directly to the TeX files. Someone at the IAS will check your document for proper formatting and return page proofs to you. You can make written corrections at this stage, but we hope they will be kept to a minimum.

Here is the submission procedure. You first need to collate and compress your files using a program called uufiles. Information and a copy of the program for unix, mac, and dos is available on the uufaq. Put all of the relevant files in one directory. It should include all TeX files, graphics files, and any special instructions or comments in a README file. Then run uufiles to obtain a file your_name.uu. Now email David Morrison at drm@math.duke.edu including the file your_name.uu as text. Please send another email to Catherine Giesbrecht at giesbrec@ias.edu with a message saying that you submitted your manuscript. Finally, send a hard copy of the completed manuscript to:

PCMI
Institute for Advanced Study
Einstein Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540 

Your manuscript will be checked at the IAS for correct formatting and a hardcopy corrected version will be sent back to you for final corrections. If you have any questions about these procedures, or about your manuscript, please contact Catherine Giesbrecht at 609-734-8290 or 800-PCM-IIAS.  

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