Clay Senior Scholar-in-Residence

In 2004, an innovative partnership, the Clay Mathematics Institute and the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), established the Clay Mathematics Senior 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 Scholar-in-Residence 2009

Benedict Gross, Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University

John Tate, Professor of Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin

Past Clay Senior Scholars-in-Residence

2008:

Robert Lazarsfeld, Professor of Mathematics, University of Michigan

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2007:

Andrei Okounkov, Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University

Srinivasa Varadhan, Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute

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2006:

Yakov Eliashberg, Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University

Robion Kirbry, Professor of Mathematics, University of California Berkeley

John W. Milnor, Professor of Mathematics and co-Director of Institute for Mathematical Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook

Public Lectures:

Flexible and Rigid Mathematics; Yakov Eliashberg, Stanford University

Boys' surface and eversions of the 2-dimensional sphere; Robion Kirby, University of California at Berkeley

Fifty Years Ago; John W. Milnor, SUNY Stony Brook

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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

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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