Clay Senior Scholars-in-Residence


In 2004, an innovative partnership, the Clay Mathematics Institute and the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), established the Clay Mathematics Senio- Scholar-in-Residence program. Recipients of the Clay Senior Scholar positions are in residence at PCMI for three weeks, actively participating in the Research Program and offering public lectures (one lecture each.) These lectures are designed for a general audience, and the public is cordially invited to attend. Teachers of mathematics and members of the public with a lively interest in math, young and old, may be especially interested in these lectures.

The Clay Mathematics Institute, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge.  CMI is most famous for its Millenium Prizes, which offer the sum of US $1 million for the solution to any of seven outstanding unsolved problems in mathematics (see www.claymath.org).  Most of the Clay Math Institute's work, however, is carried out through direct support of the research of individual mathematicians (its Fellows and Scholars), and through schools and workshops for researchers and students.

Clay Senior Scholars-in-Residence 2006

Yakov Eliashberg, Professor and Chair of Mathematics, Stanford University

Robion Kirbry, Professor of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley

Public Lectures :

To be announced on the PCMI Calendar

Past Clay Senior Scholars-in-Residence

2005:

Simon A. Levin, George M. Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University.

Professor Levin is the Director of The Center for Biocomplexity at Princeton University.

Charles S. Peskin, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University

Public Lectures:

Game Theoretic Problems in Evolutionary Ecology and Economics, by Professor Levin

Ecological Implications for Evolutionary Theory, by Professor Levin

The Ecology and Evolution of Animal Aggregation, by Professor Levin

Medical Physiology from a Mathematical Point of View, by Professor Peskin

Cardiac Mechanics and Electrophysiology by the Immersed Boundary Method, by Professor Peskin

2004:

Richard Stanley, Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics,  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bernd Sturmfels, Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley

Professors Stanley and Sturmfels were the first in the nation to be named as Clay Senior Scholars.  They were both in residence at the Summer Session of the Park City Mathematics Institute in Park City, UT, in the summer of 2004.

Public Lectures:

Tilings, by Professor Stanley

Tropical Mathematics, by Professor Sturmfels

The Park City Mathematics Institute is an outreach program of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey.