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About the IAS/Park City Mathematics Series

Preface from Volume I0

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 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 Secondary 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 Secondary 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 this series.

Future volumes from the 2001 Summer School on Quantum Field Theory, Supersymmetry and Enumerative Geometry and from the 2004 Summer School on Automorphic Forms and Applications  are in preparation.  The 2003 Research Program and Graduate Summer School topic is Harmonic Analysis and Partial Differential Equations. 

Some material from the Undergraduate Program is published as part of the Student Mathematical Library series of the American Mathematical Society.  We hope to publish material from other parts of the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute in teh future.  This will include material from the High School Teacher Program and publications documenting the interactive activities which are a primary focus of the PCMI.  At the summer institute 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.  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.

David R. Morrison , Series Editor
March, 2003


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 (2000)
    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.

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 LaTeX format (access the styles files).

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 John Polking at polking@rice.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 PCMI you will not be able to make further corrections directly to the TeX files. Someone connected with PCMI 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.

Submission Procedure

  1. 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.
     
  2. Email John Polking at polking@rice.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.
     
  3. 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 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 801-581-7467 or 800-PCM-IIAS.