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It is fundamental in our purpose, and our express

. desire, that in the appointments to the staff and

faculty as well as in the admission of workers and

students, no account shall be taken, directly or indirectly,

of race, religion, or sex. We feel strongly that the spirit

characteristic of America at its noblest, above all

the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any

conditions as to personnel other than those designed

to promote the objects for which this institution is

established, and particularly with no regard whatever

to accidents of race, creed, or sex.

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Institute’s Founders, Louis Bamberger and

Caroline Bamberger Fuld, to the first

Board of Trustees, dated June 4, 1930

Newark, New Jersey

Cover: Members in the School of Social Science participating in “The Dewey Seminar: Education, Schools, and the State” Photo: Cliff Moore

The Institute for Advanced Study exists to encourage and support fundamentalresearch in the sciences and humanities—the original, often speculative, thinking that

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THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES, established in 1949 withthe merging of the School of Economics and Politics and the School ofHumanistic Studies, is concerned principally with the history of WesternEuropean, Near Eastern, and East Asian civilizations. The School activelypromotes interdisciplinary research and cross-fertilization of ideas.

THE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS, established in 1933, was the firstSchool at the Institute for Advanced Study. Several central themes in math-ematics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries owe their major impetusto discoveries that have taken place in the School, which today is an inter-national center for research on mathematics and computer science. TheSchool sponsors, jointly with Princeton University, the Program forWomenand Mathematics.

THE SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES, established in 1966, supportsresearch in broad areas of theoretical physics, astronomy, and systems biology.Areas of current interest include elementary particle physics, string theory,quantum theory, and quantum gravity; investigating the origin and compo-sition of the universe; and conducting research at the interface of molecularbiology and the physical sciences.The School sponsors Prospects inTheoreticalPhysics, a program for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.

THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE, founded in 1973, takes as itsmission the analysis of societies and social change and is devoted to a multi-disciplinary, comparative, and international approach to social research and theexamination of historical and contemporary problems.

SPECIAL PROGRAMS include the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies,which explores different ways of viewing the world; the Artist-in-ResidenceProgram; Director’sVisitors; the IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, whichaims to increase awareness of the roles of professionals in all mathematics-based occupations; and the Science Initiative Group, dedicated to buildingscience capacity in the developing world.

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5 Background and Purpose

6 Report of the Chairman

7 Report of the Director

9 Report of the School of Historical Studies

23 Report of the School of Mathematics

39 Report of the School of Natural Sciences

59 Report of the School of Social Science

67 Report of the Institute Libraries

68 The IAS Community

73 Reports of the Special Programs

84 Acknowledgments

91 Founders,Trustees, and Officers of the Board

and of the Corporation

92 Present and Past Directors and Faculty

93 Administration

95 Independent Auditors’ Report

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The Institute for Advanced Study is a community of scholars whose primary purpose is the pursuit of advanced learning and scholarly exploration. Here LeonardoSenatore, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, works on an outdoor chalkboard with Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences.


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Background and Purpose

The Institute for Advanced Study was founded in 1930 with a major gift from New Jersey businessmanand philanthropist Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, who wished to use theirfortunes to make a significant and lasting contribution to society. They sought the advice of educator

Abraham Flexner, who developed the concept of the Institute as a community of scholars whose primarypurpose would be the pursuit of advanced learning and scholarly exploration. The Institute for AdvancedStudy has remained committed to its founding principles, and its record of definitive scholarship and scientificachievement is unsurpassed.

The Institute fills a unique role in postgraduate education and scientific and scholarly research. As “theuniversity to universities,” in the words of Trustee Vartan Gregorian, the Institute serves all colleges anduniversities by providing a place where scholars can hone their skills and do their best work, thereby addingsubstantially to their ability to contribute as both teachers and scholars to the academic institutions wherethey base their careers. For young scholars just entering the academic world, anopportunity to work at the Institute can set the direction for lifelong researchinterests and thereby determine professional careers. The Institute provides moremature scholars with the opportunity to take new directions in their research orto complete a major piece of work away from the many obligations of workinglife at a university. At a time when pure research and scholarly activities areundervalued, the opportunities that the Institute provides have never been morenecessary. The Institute’s foremost objective is the advancement of knowledgeand the deepening of understanding across a broad range of the humanities, sci-ences, and social sciences.

One of the Institute’s unique strengths is its permanent Faculty of twenty-eight eminent scholars, whosebroad interests and extensive ties to the larger academic world are reflected in their own work and also in theguidance and direction they provide to the Institute’s visiting scholars.

The Faculty defines the major themes and questions that become the focus of each School’s seminars andother activities, and selects and works closely with visiting Members. Small in number and organized intofour Schools (Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science), the Faculty and Membersinteract with one another without any departmental or disciplinary barriers.

Each year the Institute awards fellowships to some 190 visiting Members from about one hundred universitiesand research institutions throughout the world. The Institute’s more than six thousand former Members holdpositions of intellectual and scientific leadership in the United States and abroad. Some twenty-two NobelLaureates and thirty-eight out of fifty-two Fields Medalists, as well as many winners of the Wolf andMacArthur prizes, have been affiliated with the Institute. The Institute does not receive income from tuitionor fees; resources for operations come from endowment income, grants from private foundations andgovernment agencies, and gifts from corporations and individuals.

The Institute’s foremostobjective is the advancementof knowledge and thedeepening of understandingacross a broad range ofthe humanities, sciences,and social sciences.


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More than eighty years ago, Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, entrepreneurswho had made a fortune from their department stores, were in search of a philanthropic use of a largesum of money. They approached Abraham Flexner, an expert on higher education, and the leading

expert on medical education, who persuaded the Bambergers that what was needed in the United States,and beyond, was an institution dedicated to advancing the frontiers of knowledge. Hence, the Institute forAdvanced Study was established in Princeton in 1930 with Flexner as its founding Director.

From its beginnings, benefactors have played an enormously important role in the continuance of the Institute’smission of providing a place where scholars from around the world would be freed from administrative andteaching duties and could devote themselves to curiosity-driven rather than objective-driven research. Thismission produces benefits not only in fundamental research and the personal development of its scholars; it alsohas served as inspiration for the proliferation of institutions that have followed the Institute’s example.

Last fall, the Institute completed a Decadal Review that reached three conclusions: that the mission of theInstitute remains at least as relevant today as at its founding; that the size and scope of the Institute are nowappropriate for its mission and that its essential character would not benefit from further expansion; and that itsendowment must be strengthened in order to secure the Institute’s ability to provide its Faculty and Memberswith complete academic freedom. The Institute’s Trustees take their responsibility toward the realization of

these goals immensely seriously as demonstrated by the $10 million per year commitmentthat they have made toward operating costs for three years through 2012.

In the past year, we were very pleased to welcome three new Trustees: Harold T. Shapiro,President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public Affairs of Princeton Univer-sity; E. Robert Fernholz, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of INTECH; and John S.Hendricks, Founder and Chairman of Discovery Communications.

We are grateful for the exceptional dedication of three Trustees who retired from the Boardin May and were elected Trustees Emeriti: Richard B. Black, President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of ECRM Incorporated, the outgoing Vice Chairman of the Board who servedas a Trustee since 1990; Martin A. Chooljian, President of CH Capital Investments, whoserved as a Trustee since 1997; and James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of Wolfensohn & Company, who served as a Trustee since 1979 and was Chairman

of the Board from 1986 to 2007.We are also grateful to David K.P. Li, Chairman and Chief Executive of theBank of East Asia, who was elected Trustee Emeritus in October.

It is highly encouraging that two donor groups, the Friends of the Institute, which provides the Institute withits largest source of unrestricted income, and the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study,achieved records for the number of donors and total gift amount in the last year.We are deeply appreciative toMartin Chooljian and his wife Helen, Friends since 1992, who put forth a generous challenge gift to theFriends, increasing contributions substantially.

The Institute depends on, and is grateful to, the Centennial Council, its most generous individual contributors,as well as the foundations, corporations, and other benefactors who make it possible for the Institute to providewhat Flexner described as “more light.” In announcing the appointment of Albert Einstein as a Professor in theInstitute’s School of Mathematics in 1932, Flexner explained that what the world needed was “more light toilluminate what is obscure” and articulated his view that the Institute’s dedication to enabling scholars “ofsuperior wisdom and capacity to indulge their curiosity and to promote understanding will in due courseproduce consequences of which neither they nor we now dream.”The Board and I look forward to continuingto work with the Director, Faculty, Staff, and our many supporters throughout the world to facilitate theilluminating consequences of this most worthwhile endeavor.

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On May 20, 1930, a certificate of incorporation was filed with the State of New Jersey, marking the creation ofthe Institute for Advanced Study. Established to be neither a university nor a research institute, in the narrowsense of being dedicated to specific projects, the Institute fulfilled the dreams with which its first Director,

Abraham Flexner, inspired its founders, Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld, who designed it solelyto encourage and support fundamental scholarship.

To celebrate its eightieth anniversary, the Institute has planned two weekends for the fall of 2010, which will illustratethe work of its Schools and celebrate the Institute’s history and continued vitality. To bring up to date the 1980 pub-lication A Community of Scholars:The Institute for Advanced Study 1930 –1980, produced for the fiftieth anniversary, theInstitute has published a list on its website of the scholars and scientists who have been Members or Visitors at theInstitute from its founding to the present day—more than seven thousand historians, mathematicians, scientists, andsocial scientists, drawn from around the world. A photographer was in residence throughout the academic year, livingwithin our academic village and capturing the Institute’s daily intellectual, social, and family life. A selection of thephotographs taken will be exhibited throughout the fall term and a book, containing more of them, together with essaysabout the Institute by members of its wider community, will be published next spring.

All of this helps to convey what is very evident to those of us here today—that the Institute remains a uniquely stimulatingand productive environment. Flexner and the Bambergers were clear that the Institute should not allow itself to be seducedinto pursuing preset objectives or employing superficial short-term indicators to judge its success.

Ultimately, the real criteria by which the work of the Institute should be judged are the long-term significance of the new ideas developed here and the impact the Institute has on theintellectual lives of its Members. In the past year, a number of Faculty and Members wereacknowledged for the importance of their contributions to knowledge: Avishai Margalit,George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies, was awarded the Israel Prizein Philosophy; in the School of Mathematics, Enrico Bombieri, IBM von Neumann Profes-sor, received the King Faisal International Prize, Professor Jean Bourgain was awarded theShaw Prize in Mathematics, and Bao Châu Ngô, a Member in the School for the last threeand a half years, was awarded a Fields Medal; Edward Witten, Charles Simonyi Professor inthe School of Natural Sciences, was the recipient of the Lorentz Medal of the Royal Nether-lands Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics.

We are immensely pleased that Angelos Chaniotis, formerly Senior Research Fellow in Classics at All Souls College,Oxford, will join the Institute as a Professor in the School of Historical Studies in July. Angelos works in innovative wayson a wide variety of topics: war, memory, identity, emotions, the communicative aspects of rituals, and strategies ofpersuasion in the ancient world.We look forward to the continued participation in our community of Stephen Adler,Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and Heinrich von Staden, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, whowill become Professors Emeriti at the beginning of July.

We were profoundly saddened by the death in February of Carl Kaysen, Director of the Institute from 1966–76, who wasresponsible for the founding of the School of Social Science in 1973. As Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the Schoolof Natural Sciences, observed, “Carl had a wonderful gift for demolishing lofty pretensions with simple facts. He lived inthe real world. He did not expect our gratitude, but he earned it.”

In a world in which funding bodies tend to support research that has specific outcomes promised in advance, the freedom pro-vided by the Institute to its permanent Faculty and Members is increasingly rare.The Institute’s continuing commitment toits original mission reflects both its growing relevance and, crucially, the independence provided by the Institute’s endowment.In light of this and the global economic climate, we appreciate deeply the crucial financial support provided by the Board ofTrustees and the record level of donations made in the last year by former Members and the current Friends of the Institute.

The Decadal Review,which concluded last fall, reaffirmed the Institute’s world-leading role as an institution devoted to disinterestedresearch, driven by intellectual curiosity towards the discovery of what could not have been conceived in advance. I am pro-foundly grateful to all of the members of our community—Trustees, Faculty,Members, Friends, Staff, and other benefactors—for their contributions to the Institute and their support of its mission, which matters even more today than eighty years ago.

Peter GoddardDirector

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Beyond the individual research projects pursued, many events drew groups of scholars together for lectures and discussions that facilitated the exchange of ideasacross fields and regions. Professor Patricia Crone (left) spent the year working on her book about the coming of Islam in rural Iran.


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Yve-Alain Bois

CarolineWalker Bynum

Patricia Crone, AndrewW. Mellon Professor

Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies

Jonathan Israel

Avishai Margalit, George F. Kennan Professor

Heinrich von Staden

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Glen W. Bowersock

Giles Constable

Oleg Grabar

Christian Habicht

Irving Lavin

Peter Paret

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The School of Historical Studies is concerned principally with the history of Western European, NearEastern, and East Asian civilizations. Both inside and outside these broad areas of study, Faculty andMembers have pursued a wide range of topics. The emphasis has been traditionally on Greek and

Roman civilization, medieval, early modern and modern European history, history of art, and the history ofscience, but over time the School’s interests have been enlarged to include Islamic culture, the history ofChina and Japan, modern international relations, and more recently, music studies. Over two thousand schol-ars have come to the School since its founding, and their work in these and other areas of research regularlyhas been enriched by the fruitful interaction of disciplines in a small and collegial community.

The School’s broad interpretation of the meaning of “Historical Studies” continued to be reflected in theresearch projects pursued by the forty-four Members and twelve Visitors who joined the School for the aca-demic year 2009–10.Their research spanned a diverse range of historical subjects, including the history of art,philosophy, music, religion, international relations, literature, science, and medicine, as well as ancient historyand Classics. The periods studied ranged from as far back as 1420 B.C.E. to the late twentieth century.Research carried out in the School also extended over a wide geographic range, including Europe, theMiddle East, and East and South Asia. Members received support both from the Institute’s own funds andfrom a variety of external sources, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Andrew W.Mellon Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the Delmas Foundation, and the American Council ofLearned Societies.

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of presentations by individual Members to the School as a whole at theMonday Lunchtime Colloquia, as well as invited lectures, seminars, and anumber of smaller groups that met on a regular basis to present and discusstopics of mutual interest. (See the list of events at the end of this section.)

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIESIn 2009–10, Professor Yve-Alain Bois finished his work on the catalogueraisonné of the Henri Matisse holdings in the Barnes Foundation (Merion,Pennsylvania), whose publication is forthcoming. He concentrated his workon a single long-term project, the catalogue raisonné of the paintings andsculptures of the American artist Ellsworth Kelly, which he would like tobring to fruition within the next two academic years. As a result, hedeclined all writing commissions but one, that of an essay on the Belgianartist Georges Vantongerloo (1886–1965) for the catalogue of his retrospec-tive exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid.

In the fall, he gave a lecture on John Cage at the Mildred Lane Kemper ArtMuseum and a graduate seminar on “non-composition” at the Sam FoxSchool of Design &Visual Arts (both atWashington University in St. Louis);in the spring, he held a seminar for curators at the Museum of Modern Art,New York, on the work of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark (1920–88). InApril, he also gave the Clarkson Lecture in the history of architecture at theDepartment of Architecture of University at Buffalo,The State University ofNewYork, as well as a series of three graduate seminars (on art and architec-ture, on axonometry, and on horizontality in modern sculpture); in May, hegave lectures on Matisse at the Tampa Museum of Art and at the Art Instituteof Chicago, in conjunction with exhibitions in these museums; in June, hegave a lecture on “pseudomorphism,” a topic on which he plans to write abook when the Kelly project is finished, at the Institut National d’Histoire del’Art in Paris. He continued to work with Harvard University graduate studentsand served on several dissertation committees in other institutions as well.He also participated in a seminar on abstract art jointly held by ProfessorHal Foster (Princeton University) and curator Leah Dickerman (Museum ofModern Art). At the Institute, he organized a series of art history seminars(either at lunch and reserved to Members or in the evening and open toscholars from neighboring institutions), and with the Department of Artand Archaeology of Princeton University he coorganized a third series of

art history lectures, whose theme this yearwas “Art and Its Audiences.”

Professor Caroline Bynum completed a studyof late medieval devotional objects, ChristianMateriality, which is scheduled to appear fromZone Books in late 2010 or early 2011. Shepublished eight book reviews, an article ongraduate teaching, and a study of medievaland early modern devotion to the wound inChrist’s side.While on sabbatical in the fall of2009, she traveled to India, where she beganto work on the question of why statues thatappear to receive quite similar treatment inreligious processions in Hinduism and Chris-tianity in fact represent radically different ideas10

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While on sabbatical in the fall of 2009,Professor Caroline Bynum (left) traveledto India, where she began to work on thequestion of why statues that appear toreceive quite similar treatment in religiousprocessions in Hinduism and Christianityin fact represent radically different ideasboth of the material world and of encounterwith the sacred.


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both of the material world and of encounterwith the sacred. In another move toward compar-ative study, she has organized with Professor JuliaSmith of the University of Glasgow (a formerSchool of Historical Studies Member) a workshopto take place at the Institute in July 2010 onobjects that have been thought of as “relics” inIslam, Christianity, Buddhism, and several indige-nous African religions.

Bynum lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts andLiterature in New Delhi; at the Heyman Centerfor the Humanities at Columbia University; atHood College; at Washington University in St.Louis; at the Pingry School in Martinsville, New Jersey; and at the Zentrumfür Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin. She gave the Priestley Lecturesat the University of Toronto, the Danforth Lecture in the Study of Religion atPrinceton, and a response to a Davis Seminar presentation, also at Princeton.Together with Yaakov Blidstein of Ben-Gurion University, she continues tocochair the Commission on the Humanities in Israel, funded jointly by theIsrael Council on Higher Education and the Yad-Hanadiv Foundation. Herlast graduate student from Columbia University defended a dissertation in thefall of 2009. In the spring of 2010, Bynum again organized the IAS MedievalTable, which met everyWednesday at lunchtime for presentation of individualresearch and discussion of general methodological issues. She also organizedand chaired, with Professor Piet Hut of the Program in Interdisciplinary Stud-ies and Professor Nicola Di Cosmo of the School of Historical Studies, theearly evening series After Hours Conversations, designed to increase intellec-tual exchange across the four Schools at the Institute.

Patricia Crone, AndrewW. Mellon Professor, spent the year working on herbook about the (mostly rebellious) response to the coming of Islam in ruralIran. This book has taken much longer than anticipated because under-standing the nature of the rural religion proved to require far closer textualknowledge of Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Christianity, and Gnosticismthan she had imagined. The research could easily continue forever. Thepoint has come, however, where it may be better to call a halt to it forpurposes of this book and to continue in separate articles, so in that sensethe end is now in sight.

In between working on the book, Crone worked on the so-called polythe-ists in the Qur’an: where on the religious map of late antiquity do theybelong? She completed a long article examining exactly what they said, orare accused of saying, about God and the lesser beings, which is meant toserve as the starting point for a series of articles investigating their beliefs andcommunal membership. In fact, a second article (examining their concept ofmessengers) is in press already, but this one will come out first. Crone alsodrafted a third article on those of them who denied the resurrection andthe afterlife altogether. Her article “No Compulsion in Religion” finallyappeared, but several other pieces are still languishing in overdue festschriftsand memorial volumes.

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The School’s broad interpretation of themeaning of “Historical Studies” continued

to be reflected in the research projectspursued by its Members andVisitors,

whose research spanned a diverse range ofhistorical subjects, including the history of

art, philosophy, music, religion, internationalrelations, literature, science, and medicine,

as well as ancient history and Classics.


group led by Member Mohammad-Reza Shafii-Kadkani, drawing participantsfrom outside the Institute. A third group, planned by a Member in the Clas-sics section, unfortunately did not come off. In November, Crone was sur-prised to receive an honorary doctorate from her alma mater, the Universityof Copenhagen, and went there to collect it and to give a seminar inCopenhagen and at Aarhus. She also presented papers in London, Gotha,and Austin, and she will also present a paper at a conference on Zoroastrian-ism in Oxford in July.

Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, contin-ued to work on the early history of the Manchus (1590–1640). This studyaims to reassess the economic, social, and military transformations that tookplace in Manchuria before the conquest of China by focusing on the formsof integration between Manchuria and the surrounding powers (Mongolia,China, and Korea) at a time of increased circulation of goods, money, andtechnology.

In the fall, he coorganized the After Hours Conversations series, andthroughout the year he ran the East Asian Seminar with the School’s Asian-ists and some Members from Social Science. In all, fourteen talks were held,ranging from Chinese art, archaeology, and history, to Buddhist philosophy,Japanese history, and medical care in nineteenth-century India.

In October 2009, he presented a paper at the Bard Graduate Center on theconnections between Mediterranean and Asian commercial networks in thefourteenth century. In November, he coorganized with Zvi Ben-Dor ofNewYork University a workshop on the sources of the Mongol Empire(New York University, Florence). In the spring term, he gave the HarnEminent Scholar Lecture at the University of Florida, “The Materiality ofthe Inner Asian Nomads: The Relationship between Archaeology andHistory in a Nomadic Context.” He also spoke at the University of Virginiaand Harvard University.

A volume he coedited, The Cambridge History of Inner Asia:The Chinggisid Age(Cambridge University Press), was published in October 2009.The followingessays were also published: “Sobre los Orígenes de la Gran Muralla” in LaConstrucción del Poder en la China Antigua, edited by Alicia Relinque Eleta(Granada, 2009); “The Manchu Conquest inWorld-Historical Perspective:ANote on Trade and Silver” in Journal of Central Eurasian Studies 1 (2010); “La‘Guerra Giusta’ nella Conquista Mancese della Cina” in Nuova Rivista Storica93:2 (2009); “Black Sea Emporia and the Mongol Empire: A Reassessment ofthe Pax Mongolica” in Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient 53(2010); “Gli Imperi Nomadi nella Storia della Cina Imperiale” in La CinaVol. 2:DaiTre Regni ai Qing, edited by Mario Sabattini and Maurizio Scarpari(Torino, 2010); “Ethnography of the Nomads and ‘Barbarian’ History in HanChina” in Intentional History: Spinning Time in Ancient Greece, edited by LinFoxall, et al. (Stuttgart, 2010); “Han Frontiers: Towards an IntegratedView” inJournal of the American Oriental Society 129:2 (2009); “Impero e Frontiere nellaCina Antica: 200 BC–200 AD” in Gli Imperi: dall’Antichità all’età Contempo-ranea, edited by Ruth Ben-Ghiat (Il Mulino, 2009).

Professor Jonathan Israel brought the third part of his general history of theWestern Enlightenment, covering the period 1750 to the beginning of theFrench Revolution, almost to completion. It will be the largest of the three12

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volumes in the trilogy. Besides intensive writingand rewriting in rounding off the volume, he car-ried out final research at the British Library, Göt-tingen, the Vienna Hofbibliothek, the Archivo deIndias in Seville, andWolfenbüttel. He expects todeliver the final version of the manuscript inAugust 2010.

He delivered public lectures and gave papers atinternational conferences during this year at SãoPaulo, Campinas (Brazil), Kingston ( Jamaica),Harvard, Bloomington, New York (ColumbiaUniversity), University College London, Aarhus(Denmark), and Seville and had discussion classesand meetings at several of these places with grad-uate students, advising on research.

Besides book reviews, his publications during this year were a short book, ARevolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Mod-ern Democracy (Princeton, 2010); the article “Democracy and Equality in theRadical Enlightenment: Revolutionary Ideology Before 1789” in Rethinkingthe Atlantic World: Europe and America in the Age of Democratic Revolutions,edited by Manuela Albertone and Antonino de Francesco (NewYork, 2009);and a review essay on seventeenth-century Anglo-Dutch cultural exchangefor the New York Review of Books. He also participated in an exchange ofviews with another Enlightenment scholar, Margaret Jacob, published as“Lumières Radicales, Radicalisme des Lumières,” interviews with MargaretJacob and Jonathan Israel in Lumières: Publication du Centre InterdisciplinaireBordelaise d’ étude des Lumières XIII (2009), edited by Jean Mondot andCécile Revauger. During this year, his Radical Enlightenment (2001) appearedin Portuguese translation at São Paulo and his Enlightenment Contested (2006)in Dutch translation at Franeker.

Avishai Margalit, George F. Kennan Professor, published his book On Com-promise and Rotten Compromises (Princeton University Press). In October, hedelivered the Marie Claire lecture, “BetrayingYour Class,” in the Chapel HillColloquium in Philosophy. The lecture is part of Margalit’s work on politi-cal betrayal to be published next year as a book by Harvard University Press.

In the second term of the academic year, Margalit conducted a seminar forMembers of the School of Historical Studies dealing with twentieth-centurycontemporary history, with particular stress on counterfactual accounts ofmajor historical events, namely on possibilities that could have happened butdid not. In April, Margalit received the Israel Prize, the highest civic prize inIsrael, for philosophical inquiry.

In August, Professor Heinrich von Staden participated in the Congress ofthe International Federation of Classical Studies at Humboldt University inBerlin; he served as president of this federation of classical associations,representing all parts of the world, from 2004–09.

From January to May, von Staden held the Sather Professorship of ClassicalLiterature at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to teaching agraduate seminar at Berkeley, he gave the Sather Classical Lectures (a seriesof six public lectures) on “The Scientific Lives of Animals: Ancient Greece 13

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Professor Nicola Di Cosmo (right)continued to work on the early history ofthe Manchus in an effort to reassess the

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and Rome.” In April and May, he also presented lectures on aspects of thistopic at Stanford University and at various branches of the University ofCalifornia, including Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Davis. In April, he alsogave a talk at the University of Lausanne on current methodological issues inthe history of medicine at a workshop for doctoral and postdoctoralresearchers from a variety of European countries. On the occasion of themeeting of the Institute’s Board of Trustees in early May, von Staden gave apublic lecture at the Institute on animal experimentation in ancient biologyand medicine. Also in May, he presented some of his research on animals inancient science to the Bay Area History of Medicine Club in San Francisco.In June, he gave the second annual public CMG Lecture at the Berlin-Bran-denburgische Akademie derWissenschaften.

In early June, the University of Lausanne awarded von Staden an honorarydoctorate, for which he was nominated jointly by the university’s Faculty ofLetters and its Faculty of Biology and Medicine. This joint nomination wasa first in the long history of the University of Lausanne, according to apresentation read at the award ceremony.

In addition to several book reviews, von Staden published several articles inthe academic year 2009–10, including “Staging the Past, Staging Oneself:Galen on Hellenistic Exegetical Traditions” in Galen and theWorld of Knowledge,edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh, and John Wilkins (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2009); and “The Hellenistic character of Celsus, Artes X–XI: History, Structure, and System,” in Fito-zooterapia Antigua y Altomedieval:Textos y Doctrinas, edited by Arsenio Ferraces Rodríguez (Universidade daCoruña, 2010). Most of his research this year was focused on animals inancient science, medicine, and natural history. In May and June, he startedrevising and amplifying his Sather Classical Lectures for publication.

Professor Emeritus GlenW. Bowersock went to Moscow in September 2009to participate in an international conference organized by the Russian Acade-my of Sciences in memory of former Institute Member Gregory Bongard-Levin. In addition to personal evocations of Bongard-Levin, he delivered apaper on the Pontic king Mithridates Eupator in connection with recentRussian discoveries at the excavation of Phanagoreia. In NewYork, in February2010, he delivered a paper, including personal recollections, about the eminenthistorian of Greek and Jewish antiquity, Elias Bickerman (another formerInstitute Member), on the occasion of the publication of a biography of Bick-

erman by Albert Baumgarten. Bowersock continued hissupervision of the Fonds Louis Robert at the Académiedes Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris, and he alsocontinued to serve on the advisory/search committeefor the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,founded by Institute Trustee ShelbyWhite at NewYorkUniversity. He traveled to Florence in the spring tochair a meeting of the Consiglio Scientifico of the Isti-tuto Italiano di Studi Umanistici. At the same time, heresumed his work as panel chair for grants to advancedscholars in the humanities and social sciences from theEuropean Research Council in Brussels.

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During the academic year,Professor Bowersock published

articles on the epigraphy ofMount Hermon from Lebanon

and Syria, on the Christiankingdom of Axum in Ethiopia,on the memory of Rome in the

late antique Near East,and on pantomimes.

Member Judith Pfeiffer presented “The‘Mongol Moment’ in the Middle East—Perspectives and Debates” at a lunchtimecolloquium.


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Professor Emeritus Oleg Grabar (ata School seminar) attended meetings oftheVisiting Committees of the Islamic

Department at the Metropolitan Museumof Art and of the Sahib Sabanci Museum

in Istanbul, as well as a meeting inBerlin about the reorganization of the

Islamic galleries there.

Syria, on the Christian kingdom of Axum in Ethiopia, onthe memory of Rome in the late antique Near East, andon pantomimes. He also published a number of reviews inthe NewYork Review of Books, the London Review of Books,and the New Republic on such topics as Byzantium,Achilles, Roman epigrams, Greek pederasty, and Sir Mau-rice Bowra. He has begun preparing a set of three lectures,“Empires in Collision,” to be delivered in Jerusalem inmemory of Menahem Stern, on the conflict betweenByzantium and Persia in the lifetime of Muhammed andduring the Islamic conquests that followed his death. Thiswork will serve as the foundation for two books on Arabiaand the Near East in late antiquity.

Professor Emeritus Giles Constable published one book and three articlesduring the academic year 2009–10. His and William Connell’s book onAntonio Rinaldeschi has been translated into Italian and Russian. Two otherbooks are in course of publication. He gave lectures at Princeton Universi-ty, the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane in Florence, and Seton Hall Uni-versity and spoke at the meetings of the Midwest Medieval HistoryConference in Notre Dame and the Research Group on Manuscript Evi-dence (Princeton) and at conferences at Brescia, theVilla Vigoni, PrincetonUniversity, and the University of Colorado (Boulder). He attended, andpresided at sessions in, meetings at Troyes, the Delaware Valley MedievalAssociation, the Medieval Academy of America, and Princeton University.He continued to serve on the editorial boards of several book series andscholarly journals, as a reviewer for the American Philosophical Society, andon the selection committee of the Delmas Foundation.

Professor Emeritus Oleg Grabar attended meetings of theVisiting Commit-tees of the Islamic Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and ofthe Sahib Sabanci Museum in Istanbul, as well as a meeting in Berlin aboutthe reorganization of the Islamic galleries there. He published three books:Images en Terres d’Islam (RMN, Paris, 2009) with an English translation, TheDecorated Page;Where Heaven and Earth Meet, edited with Benjamin Kedar( Jerusalem, 2009); facsimile edition of the Paris 1199 Kitab al-Diryaq(London, 2008); and the following articles: “Introduction,” “The Haramal-Sharif as a Work of Art,” and “Epilogue” in Where Heaven and EarthMeet; “Seeing and Believing” in the New Republic (November 4, 2009);“Schreiben, Lesen, Verzieren” in Taswir Islamische Bildwelten und Moderne(Berlin, 2009); “Introductory Remarks” in The Knowledge Economy, editedby Myriam Wissa (Barcelona, 2010); “Entretien: l’Art Islamique etl’Antiquité” in Anabases 11 (2010); and “Riegl, the Arabesque, and IslamicArt” in Alois Riegl Revisited edited by Peter Noeven, et al. (Vienna, 2010).

Professor Emeritus Christian Habicht read the proofs for the first two vol-umes of Polybius’sThe Histories, a new bilingual edition (Greek and English)of the Loeb Classical Library, to which he contributed the introduction,select bibliography, notes to the text, and indices. In September, he partici-pated in an International Ptolemaic Colloquium “Ptolemaic Waterways andPower,” organized by Kostas Buraselis, a former Member in the School, andheld in Athens. At the opening, he delivered a tribute to the late Frank W.Walbank, to whose memory the symposium was dedicated; gave a paper, 15

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“Eudoxos of Kyzikos and the Ptolemaic Exploration of the Sea-Route toIndia”; and chaired a session. A festschrift in Habicht’s honor, Attic Epigraphy,was presented to him at a ceremony held at the Greek Epigraphic Society.His publications were “How I Came to Greek Epigraphy” in Attic Epigraphy(Athens, 2010); “Ehren für Cn. Domitius Calvinus in Nysa,“ written withWolfgang Blümel and T. Corey Brennan, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie undEpigraphik 169 (2009). Other papers written during the year are awaitingpublication. In April, volumes 1 and 2 of Polybius’sThe Histories were pub-lished by Harvard University Press, translated by W. R. Paton, revised byFrankW.Walbank and Christian Habicht.

Professor Emeritus Irving Lavin gave his annual seminar in Italian at the Isti-tuto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, Italy. He participated in twomajor colloquia, both held in Rome, Italy: the five hundredth anniversary ofthe founding of the Basilica of New St. Peter’s (organized by the BibliotecaApostolica Vaticana), where he spoke on the bronze baldachin of GianLorenzo Bernini; and the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Giulio CarloArgan, the distinguished art historian and mayor of Rome (organized by theUniversità degli Studi di Roma, La Sapienza), where he spoke on Argan’scontribution to the study of rhetoric in the history of art. He participated asa member of the final jury of Frank Gehry’s graduate seminar at the Schoolof Architecture,Yale University. Lavin’s publications during this year includethe second volume of his collected works on Bernini, Visible Spirit:The Artof Gian Lorenzo Bernini (The Pindar Press, 2009). He also published hisfirst article to appear online: “Picasso’s Lithograph(s) ‘The Bull(s)’ and TheHistory of Art in Reverse (with a postscript on Picasso’s Bulls in AmericanRetrospect: John Cage, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein)” in Ojo 10(May 2010), in a journal published by the Administration Picasso in Paris(www.picasso.fr/us/picasso_page_index.php).

Professor Emeritus Peter Paret and Helga Thieme of the Ernst BarlachFoundation in Germany completed their manuscript on Ernst Barlach’sdrawings on the medieval Nibelungen epic, in which they analyze thedrawings in relation to Barlach’s sculptural and graphic work, against thebackground of the seven-hundred-year-long reception of the poem inGermany, and the interaction of ideology and modernism in the WeimarRepublic and the Third Reich. Paret also wrote an essay on comparativehistory, “Two Historians on Defeat in War and its Causes,” which waspublished in Historically Speaking XI ( June 2010). He is currently preparinglectures, which he will give in Germany this fall and in the coming year.

The Lees Knowles Lectures that Paret gave at the University of Cambridge in2008, The Cognitive Challenge ofWar, were published by Princeton UniversityPress in the fall of 2009, and early this year Cambridge University Pressreprinted his volume of essays on cultural history and the history of art,German Encounters with Modernism, 1840–1945, which first appeared in 2002.

Professor Emeritus MortonWhite has completed a manuscript of a book thatnow bears the title Reflections on the Roots of Rationalism, a critical expositionof views on necessary truth, a central concept in the writings of Descartes,Hobbes, Leibniz, and Kant. It will soon be submitted to a publisher and theauthor hopes that it will appear during his lifetime. By contrast, he hopes thata book he first published in 1962 with the late Lucia PerryWhite—The Intel-lectual versus The City: From Thomas Jefferson to Frank LloydWright—will soonbe reissued with a new introductory essay by N. S. Slabbert.

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Professor Paret analyzed ErnstBarlach’s drawings on the

medieval Nibelungen epic inrelation to Barlach’s sculpturaland graphic work, against the

seven-hundred-year-longreception of the poem in

Germany, and the interactionof ideology and modernism in

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MEMBERS AND VISITORS

f First Term s Second Term vVisitor

John BainesEgyptology University of OxfordFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation

Sandy BardsleyMedieval History Moravian CollegeGeorgeWilliam Cottrell, Jr. Member

Nicole Rachel BelaycheHistory of Religions (RomanWorld) ÉcolePratique des Hautes Études, Paris sFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation

Ruth BielfeldtClassical Art and Archaeology HarvardUniversityHetty Goldman Member

DanielVernon BotsmanJapanese History University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill sThe Starr Foundation East Asian StudiesEndowment Fund Member

Alan C. BowenClassics, History of Science Institute forResearch in Classical Philosophy and Science,Princeton, New Jersey v

Amy Nelson BurnettEarly Modern European History University ofNebraska–Lincoln v, f

Stephen George BurnettJewish History University of Nebraska–Lincoln fHans Kohn Member; additional funding providedby theWillis F. Doney Membership

Kevin ClintonClassics Cornell University v, f

Serena ConnollyClassics Rutgers,The State University ofNew JerseyFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Frank CostigliolaInternational Relations University ofConnecticutFunding provided by the National Endowment forthe Humanities andThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation

Alexandra F. C. CuffelMedieval History Institute for AdvancedStudy v, s

Yingcong DaiLate Imperial China William PatersonUniversity of New Jersey fThe Starr Foundation East Asian StudiesEndowment Fund Member

Charles de MiramonMedieval History CNRS and École desHautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris sWillis F. Doney Member

Marilynn Robin DesmondMedieval Studies Binghamton University,State University of NewYork v, s

Emma DillonMedieval French Music University ofPennsylvania v, s

Fa-Ti FanChinese History, History of Science

Binghamton University, State University ofNewYorkFunding provided by the National Endowment forthe Humanities; additional funding provided by theWillis F. Doney Membership

Marie Favereau-DoumenjouHistory of the Mongol Empire, Islamic History

Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale vFulbrightVisiting Scholar

Carlos FraenkelHistory of Philosophy McGill UniversityMartin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member

Sarah Elizabeth FraserHistory of Chinese Art NorthwesternUniversityFrederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by theAmerican Council of Learned Societies

Ginger Suzanne FrostModern British History Samford UniversityHans Kohn Member

David Michael GanzMedieval History, Latin Palaeography King’sCollege London fHetty Goldman Member

Jessica L. GoldbergMedieval History University of PennsylvaniaFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Thomas HegghammerMiddle Eastern Studies Harvard UniversityWilliam D. Loughlin Member

Sabine R. HuebnerAncient History Columbia University sFunding provided byThe Herotodus Fund

Sarah HuttonHistory of Philosophy AberystwythUniversity fThe Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member

Sandy IsenstadtArt History University of DelawareElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow inHistorical Studies

Igor KhristoforovModern Russian History Russian Academy ofSciences, MoscowFelix Gilbert Member

Jinah KimArt History Vanderbilt UniversityFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

InnaVeniaminovna KupreevaAncient Philosophy The University ofEdinburghThe Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member

ThomasW. LaqueurEuropean Cultural History University ofCalifornia, Berkeley v, f

Susan LaxtonArt History University of California,RiversideElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow inHistorical Studies; additional funding provided bytheWillis F. Doney Membership

Michael LurieClassics The University of EdinburghFriends of the Institute for Advanced StudyMember

Thomas MaissenEarly Modern European History UniversitätHeidelberg v, s

Nicholas McDowellEarly Modern Cultural History University ofExeter fFunding provided byThe Herotodus Fund

Eric Olivier MichaudHistoriography of Art École des Hautes Étudesen Sciences Sociales, Paris sFunding provided by the Florence GouldFoundation Fund

Christopher MinkowskiSanskrit and Indian Studies University ofOxford sFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation

Lauren Nauta MinskySouth Asian History of Science and Medicine

NewYork University Abu DhabiFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors


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Frances NethercottRussian History University of St AndrewsFunding provided by the Patrons’ EndowmentFund

Nicholas Lithgow PaulMedieval History Fordham UniversityFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

David PetrainArt History, Classics Vanderbilt UniversityFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Judith PfeifferIslamic History University of OxfordGerda Henkel Stiftung Member

Verity Jane PlattClassical Art History The University ofChicago sFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Christine ProustHistory of Science CNRS and UniversitéParis Diderot fFunding provided by the Otto Neugebauer Fund

Susan K. RankinMusicology University of Cambridge fEdwardT. Cone Member in Music Studies;additional funding provided byThe AndrewW.Mellon Foundation

James Boykin RivesAncient History University of North Carolinaat Chapel HillFunding provided by the National Endowment forthe Humanities andThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation

Klaas RuitenbeekChinese Studies Royal Ontario Museum,Toronto v, f

Mohammad-Reza Shafii-KadkaniIslamic Religious History and Literature

University of TehranFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation

William G.ThalmannClassics University of Southern California sFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation

LluísTo-FiguerasMedieval History University of GironaAgnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member

StephenV.TracyGreek History and Epigraphy The AmericanSchool of Classical Studies at Athens v

FranciscusVerellenEast Asian Studies École Françaised’Extrême-OrientEdwin C. and Elizabeth A.Whitehead Fellow;additional funding provided byThe AndrewW.Mellon Foundation

Q. EdwardWangChinese History and ComparativeHistoriography Rowan University sThe Starr Foundation East Asian StudiesEndowment Fund Member; additional fundingprovided byThe AndrewW.Mellon Foundation

DonWyattChinese Intellectual History MiddleburyCollege v, s

.Ipek KocaomerYosmaogluOttoman History University of Wisconsin–MadisonFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

SusanYouensMusicology University of Notre Dame sEdwardT. Cone Member in Music Studies

RECORD OF EVENTS

September 30East Asian Studies Seminar MaterialTraces of aGeneral in the Ming-QingWar: Zu Dashou (ca.1565–1656) Klaas Ruitenbeek, RoyalOntario Museum,Toronto;Visitor, School ofHistorical Studies

October 1Modern History (Pre-1850) HistoriansWorkshop Introductory Session JonathanIsrael, Professor, School of Historical Studies

October 5Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Introductions Jonathan Israel,Professor, School of Historical Studies

October 9Empire Group Seminar IntroductoryMeeting Patricia Crone, AndrewW.Mellon Professor, School of Historical Studies

October 12Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries A Royal Hunting Party in Egypt, ca.1875 B.C. John Baines, University ofOxford; Member, School of Historical Studies

October 14Art History Seminar Introductory Session

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor, School ofHistorical Studies

October 19Empire Group Seminar The Roman Empire

James Rives, University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries UnheardVoices:Women’s Role in EarlyMedieval Buddhist Artistic Productions andReligious Practices in South Asia Jinah Kim,Vanderbilt University; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

October 22Modern History (Pre-1850) HistoriansWorkshop Mortalism and the Early ModernImagination Nicholas McDowell,University of Exeter; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

October 26Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries TheTabulae Iliacae:Text, Image, andNarrative in a Group of Early Imperial RomanReliefs David Petrain,VanderbiltUniversity; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

November 2Empire Group Seminar How FarWerethe Crusader States an Imperial Enterprise?

Nicholas Paul, Fordham University;Member, School of Historical Studies

Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Divine Law and Autonomy in Plato’sPolitical Philosophy Carlos Fraenkel,McGill University; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

November 3East Asian Studies Seminar The Meaning of“Tatar” from Asia to Europe (Eighth–FifteenthCenturies) Marie Favereau-Doumenjou,Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale;Visitor, School of Historical Studies

November 4Ancient Studies Seminar Animal Sacrificeand Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire

James Rives, University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

Art History Seminar Research on John Cage

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor, School ofHistorical Studies

November 9Empire Group Seminar ArchaeologicalComparison of Ancient Chinese and EgyptianEmpires John Baines, University ofOxford; Member, School of Historical Studies


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Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Fragmenting the Fathers: New Styles ofReading in the Early Middle Ages DavidGanz, King’s College London; Member,School of Historical Studies

November 10East Asian Studies Seminar The JiaqingEmperor’s Failed Battle with Lebao, Commander-in-Chief in theWhite LotusWar YingcongDai,William Paterson University of NewJersey; Member, School of Historical Studies

November 16Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Dangerous Emotions, Divisive Discourses,and the Abandoned Alliance, 1945 FrankCostigliola, University of Connecticut;Member, School of Historical Studies

November 18Modern History (Pre-1850) HistoriansWorkshop The Christian Hebraist Questfor JewishWisdom Stephen Burnett,University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Member,School of Historical Studies

November 20Ancient Studies Seminar Why Do ColophonsMatter? Old Babylonian MathematicalTablets

Christine Proust, CNRS and UniversitéParis Diderot; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

November 23Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Alexander of Aphrodisias and PeripateticPsychology in the Second Century InnaKupreeva,The University of Edinburgh;Member, School of Historical Studies

November 30Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Not to Be Born Is Best: On theDifference between Scholarship andTheodicy

Michael Lurie,The University ofEdinburgh; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

December 4Ancient Studies Seminar The Dicta of Catoand Molestiae Nuptiarum Serena Connolly,Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey;Member, School of Historical Studies

December 7Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Science, Politics, and Earthquakes inCommunist China Fa-ti Fan, BinghamtonUniversity, State University of NewYork;Member, School of Historical Studies

December 8East Asian Studies Seminar SummarizingVasubandhu:Must a Buddhist Philosopher Have aPhilosophy? Jonathan C. Gold, PrincetonUniversity

December 9Ancient Studies Seminar The CarolingianReception of the Classics with a Special Focus onVirgil David Ganz, King’s College London;Member, School of Historical Studies

Modern History (Pre-1850) HistoriansWorkshop Women, Freedom, and Equality inthe PoliticalThought of Margaret Cavendish(1623–74) and Mary Astell (1666 –1731)

Sarah Hutton, Aberystwyth University;Member, School of Historical Studies

December 14Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries The Art of Lists:A MathematicalCuneiformTablet from the Old Babylonian Period

Christine Proust, CNRS and UniversitéParis Diderot; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

December 15East Asian Studies Seminar The Hospital asHealing Shrine: Rethinking Colonial India’s“Medical Masala” Lauren Minsky, NewYork University Abu Dhabi; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies

December 16Ancient Studies Seminar Egyptian Biographiesof the Ptolemaic Period John Baines,University of Oxford; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

December 17Empire Group Seminar The Golden Horde

Marie Favereau-Doumenjou, InstitutFrançais d’Archéologie Orientale;Visitor,School of Historical Studies

January 11Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Introductions Jonathan Israel,Professor, School of Historical Studies

January 18Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries WeddingTrousseaux and ClothTrade inthe Late Middle Ages LluísTo-Figueras,University of Girona; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

January 19East Asian Studies Seminar Rashid al-Din’sUniversalism at the Crossroads of PoliticalThought,Theology, and Historiography Judith Pfeiffer,University of Oxford; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

Modern History (Pre-1850) HistoriansWorkshop On the Concept of a PhilosophicalReligion and Its Role in Spinoza and Lessing

Carlos Fraenkel, McGill University;Member, School of Historical Studies

Twentieth-Century Contemporary HistorySeminar Introduction to CounterfactualHistory Avishai Margalit, George F.Kennan Professor, School of Historical Studies

January 20Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium

Dynastic Narrative, Monastic Ritual, and Other“Miscellaneous”Things: Paris BNF MS lat. 5132of Santa Maria de Ripoll Nicholas Paul,Fordham University; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

Art History Seminar Kandinsky-Hegel-Kojeve Lisa Florman,The Ohio StateUniversity

January 25Empire Group Seminar America as an Empire

Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University;Member, School of Social Science

Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Blinks of Light—Rays of Perception:Thoughts on the Agency of Roman Lamps

Ruth Bielfeldt, Harvard University;Member, School of Historical Studies

January 26East Asian Studies Seminar The CulturalFrontier inWestern China during the 1940s

Sarah Fraser, Northwestern University;Member, School of Historical Studies

January 27Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium

Sex Ratios andWomen’s Health in England,1000–1500 Sandy Bardsley, MoravianCollege; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

Art History Seminar Electric Light andModern Architecture Sandy Isenstadt,University of Delaware; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

February 1Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Narrating the Nation: China, Japan,and theWest in Comparative Historiography

Q. EdwardWang, Rowan University;Member, School of Historical Studies

February 3Art History Seminar Chinese Archaeology andPhotography Sarah Fraser, NorthwesternUniversity; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

February 4Twentieth-Century Contemporary HistorySeminar Presentation of ResearchTopics

I.pek KocaomerYosmaoglu, Universityof Wisconsin–Madison; Member, School ofHistorical Studies Frances Nethercott,University of St Andrews; Member, School of


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Historical Studies ThomasHegghammer, Harvard University;Member, School of Historical Studies Fa-tiFan, Binghamton University, State Universityof NewYork; Member, School of HistoricalStudies Frank Costigliola, University ofConnecticut; Member, School of HistoricalStudies Igor Khristoforov, RussianAcademy of Sciences, Moscow; Member,School of Historical Studies

February 8Empire Group Seminar The Late RussianEmpire Igor Khristoforov, RussianAcademy of Sciences, Moscow; Member,School of Historical Studies

Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Races, Nations,Arts:Vegetal Metaphorsin Art History’s Narratives of the PastTwoCenturies Eric Michaud, École des HautesÉtudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Member,School of Historical Studies

February 16East Asian Studies Seminar TheTenth-Century Kingdom of Shu : Cultural Innovationand the Politics of Secession FranciscusVerellen, École Française d’Extreme-Orient;Member, School of Historical Studies

February 17Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium TheAltar that Moved: Classical Canon Law and theManagement of Sacred Objects Charles deMiramon, CNRS and École des HautesÉtudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Member,School of Historical Studies

February 18Twentieth-Century Contemporary HistorySeminar The 1980s Arab Afghan Mobilizationwithout Abdallah Azzam ThomasHegghammer, Harvard University;Member, School of Historical Studies

February 22Empire Group Seminar Nationalism and theOttomans I.

.pek KocaomerYosmaoglu,

University of Wisconsin–Madison; Member,School of Historical Studies

Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Scholars, Popularizers, and Ideologues:The Image of the Historian in Nineteenth-CenturyRussia Frances Nethercott, University ofSt Andrews; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

February 23East Asian Studies Seminar Treaty Ports,Outcasts, and the Meaning of “Liberation”:Revisiting Meiji Japan’s Emancipatory Moment

Daniel Botsman, University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

February 24Art History Seminar Michel, Roussel, etMoi Susan Laxton, University ofCalifornia, Riverside; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

Modern History (Pre-1850) HistoriansWorkshop Debating China and Japan

Jonathan Israel, Professor, School ofHistorical Studies

March 1Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries Logic and Legitimacy inViolence: Scenesfrom Ottoman Macedonia ca. 1900 I

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KocaomerYosmaoglu, University ofWisconsin–Madison; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

March 2Twentieth-Century Contemporary HistorySeminar PoliticalViolence in OttomanMacedonia I

.pek KocaomerYosmaoglu,

University of Wisconsin–Madison; Member,School of Historical Studies

March 3Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium

Sound in a Prayer Book ca. 1300 EmmaDillon, University of Pennsylvania;Visitor,School of Historical Studies

March 8Empire Group Seminar Eurasia inWorldHistory Fa-ti Fan, Binghamton University,State University of NewYork; Member,School of Historical Studies

Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries In Search of “The Divine (ToTheion)”in Roman Anatolia: Epigraphic Evidence andScholarly Hermeneutics Nicole Belayche,École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris;Member, School of Historical Studies

March 9East Asian Studies Seminar Chopsticks:“Bridges” of Culture in East Asia Q. EdwardWang, Rowan University; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies


Religious Festivals in Cross-Cultural Perspective

Alexandra Cuffel,Visitor, School ofHistorical Studies

March 15Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries FreedomWithout Slavery?The Case ofthe Maria Luz and the Question of Emancipationin Nineteenth-Century Japan DanielBotsman, University of North Carolina atChapel Hill; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

March 16East Asian Studies Seminar NewWine in OldBottles: Nationalism, Internationalism, and thePreservation of Antiquities in Republican China

Fa-ti Fan, Binghamton University, StateUniversity of NewYork; Member, School ofHistorical Studies


Robert of Anjou’sView ofTroy andConstantinople Marilynn Desmond,Binghamton University, State University ofNewYork;Visitor, School of HistoricalStudies

Art History Seminar Pictures, Movement, andUnfolding of a Sacred Space Jinah Kim,Vanderbilt University; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

Modern History (Pre-1850) HistoriansWorkshop TheVirgin and Her State:Representing the Body Politic through Metaphors ofMarital Status Thomas Maissen,Universität Heidelberg;Visitor, School ofHistorical Studies

March 18Twentieth-Century Contemporary HistorySeminar Works in Progress:“Aristocracy inSearch for Social and Cultural Identity in Fin-de-siècle Russia” and “RussiansWriting History,1755–2005: Scholarship, Ideology, and Myth”

Igor Khristoforov, Russian Academy ofSciences, Moscow; Member, School ofHistorical Studies and Frances Nethercott,University of St Andrews; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

March 22Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries An Unsavory Lunch in Liège around1110: Secular Clerical Identity and the Rhetoricsof Law Charles de Miramon, CNRS andÉcole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales;Member, School of Historical Studies

March 23East Asian Studies Seminar Chinese Self,AlienOther, and the Emergence of a RacializedWorldview DonWyatt, MiddleburyCollege;Visitor, School of Historical Studies

March 24Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium ThePhysician as a Charismatic Hero: Urso of Salernoon Efficacious Language in Medicine, Magic, andReligion Maaike van der Lugt, École desHautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris

March 25Art History Seminar Envisioning the Divinein the AncientWorld Verity Platt,TheUniversity of Chicago; Member, School ofHistorical Studies


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Twentieth-Century Contemporary HistorySeminar The Origins of the ColdWar:ACounterfactual Argument Frank Costigliola,University of Connecticut; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies

March 29Empire Group Seminar The Chinese and theColor of Outsiders DonWyatt, MiddleburyCollege;Visitor, School of Historical Studies

Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries The “Mongol Moment” in the MiddleEast—Perspectives and Debates JudithPfeiffer, University of Oxford; Member,School of Historical Studies

March 30East Asian Studies Seminar Sa-dhus,A

-ca-ryas,

andTheir Sons: Lay Buddhist Practitioners and theProduction of Medieval Indian Buddhist Books

Jinah Kim,Vanderbilt University; Member,School of Historical Studies

March 31Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium TheRhetoric of Incoherence: Making an Argument forNorms in Geniza MercantileTexts JessicaGoldberg, University of Pennsylvania;Member, School of Historical Studies

April 6East Asian Studies Seminar The Making ofBronzes, Marble Carvings, and Bone Objects: CraftProduction and Political Economy in the ShangDynasty Capital at Anyang Yung-ti Li,Institute of History and Philology,AcademiaSinica

April 7Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium

TheVirgin and Her State: Representing the BodyPolitic through Metaphors of Marital Status

Thomas Maissen, Universität Heidelberg;Visitor, School of Historical Studies

April 14Art History Seminar Seeing and Framing:SomeThoughts about Medieval Images NinoZchomelidse, Princeton University

Modern History (Pre-1850) HistoriansWorkshop Facing Up toTragedy: Sophocles inthe History of EuropeanThought and DramaticTheory 1500–1900 Michael Lurie,TheUniversity of Edinburgh; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

April 21Art History Seminar Untitled Presentations—Work Accomplished John Baines, Universityof Oxford, and Sarah Fraser, NorthwesternUniversity; Members, School of HistoricalStudies

May 26Modern History (Pre-1850) HistoriansWorkshop Spinoza’s Critique of Humility

Julie Cooper,The University of Chicago;Member, School of Social Science

June 10Workshop: The Early Modern OttomanEmpire as a Contact Zone OttomanBorderlands, Frontiers, and Contact Zones

Linda Darling,The University of Arizona

“Frontiers of Learning”—Transborder MilitaryLearning and the Example of Central EuropeanLessons Learned from the Military Border with theOttoman Empire PeterTrummer,Universität Heidelberg The Frontier Man andthe Espionage in the Habsburg InformationGathering in the Ottoman Capital EmrahSafa Gürkan, Georgetown University

Ottoman,Mughal, Littérateur, and Spy:The Caseof Monsieur Raymond or Haji Mustafa, d. 1791

Abhishek Kaicker, Columbia University

AnAgent of Contact:The Mission of Marie-LouisDescorches, Envoyé Extraordinaire to the SublimePorte 1793–95 Pascal Firges, UniversitätHeidelberg A European Consul in theOttoman Empire on the Eve of theTanzimat

GülayTulasoglu, Universität Heidelberg

June 11Workshop: The Early Modern OttomanEmpire as a Contact Zone The CommonLife: ReligiousTolerance in Ottoman Bosnia

Bruce Burnside, Columbia University

Renegades in the Ottoman Empire, ca.1580–1610: Preliminary Reflections TobiasGraf, Universität Heidelberg Two ChristianCreditors at the Ottoman Na’ib Court of Kos

Christian Roth, Universität Heidelberg

The Dissemination and Reception of BirgiviMehmed Efendi’s al-Tariqa al-Muhammadiyya

Katharina A. Ivanyi, Princeton University

The Early Modern Ottoman Empire as a ContactZone—Concluding Remarks ChristinePhilliou, Columbia University


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During both terms of the academic year of 2009–10, the School of Mathematics held a specialprogram on analytic number theory. The program organizers were Enrico Bombieri, IBM vonNeumann Professor, and Professor Peter Sarnak.

The seminars during the special program on analytic number theory focused on topics that included the dis-tribution of prime numbers, sieves, L-functions, and special sequences, as well as additive and combinatorialmethods, exponential sums, spectral analysis, and modular forms. There were many collaborations betweenyounger and more senior Members and Visitors that resulted in progress on various problems and numerouspublications. The weekly seminars were of a very high quality and well attended. Highlights included themini-courses by Member Kannan Soundararajan relating to his work on “weak subconvexity”; Jonathan Pilaof the University of Bristol on his work about the “Andre-Oort Conjectures”; Manjul Bhargava of PrincetonUniversity on his work regarding average ranks of elliptic curves; and theWeyl Lecture by Umberto Zannierof the Scuola Normale Superiore, which offered new insights into his work with Pila on torsion points onabelian varieties.

Throughout both terms, the junior and mid-career Members organized and held various learning seminarsthat gave accounts of some novel techniques and also resulted in facilitating collaborations. School MemberAntoine Chambert-Loir gave four talks about equidistribution theorems in Arakelov geometry. The topicscovered metrized line bundles, the proof of the Bogomolov conjecture by Emmanuel Ullmo and Shou-WuZhang and XinyiYuan’s theorem, and equidistribution in arithmetic dynamics. In his final lecture, Chambert-Loir discussed his construction of measures associated with metrized line bundles on Berkovich spaces and itsrelevance for p-adic equidistribution theorems.

Another seminar, organized by Member Michael Temkin, involved a series of talks on non-archimedean analyticgeometry developed byVladimir Berkovich.

In March, there was a week-long workshop that attracted a large audience from neighboring universities.Speakers and participants includedValentin Blomer, Universtiy of Toronto; Regis De La Breteche, Institut de

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Jean Bourgain

Helmut Hofer

Robert MacPherson, HermannWeyl Professor

Peter Sarnak

Thomas Spencer

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AviWigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor

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Mathématiques de Jussieu; BenGreen, University of Cambridge;Gergely Harcos, Alfréd Rényi Insti-tute of Mathematics; MemberRoger Heath-Brown, University ofOxford and Institute for AdvancedStudy; Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey;Nick Katz, Princeton University;Member Xiaoqing Li, University atBuffalo, The State University ofNew York, and Institute forAdvanced Study; Hugh Mont-gomery, University of Michigan;Peter Sin, University of Florida;John Thompson, University ofCambridge; Peter Varju, Princeton

University; Robert Vaughan, The Pennsylvania State University; TrevorWooley, University of Bristol; and Professor Jean Bourgain of the Institute.

Professor Helmut Hofer set forth a new geometry/dynamical systems semi-nar that met weekly, and the computer science and discrete mathematicsseminar of Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor, met twice a weekthroughout the year. The joint Princeton University and Institute numbertheory seminar met regularly, and a seminar on “Geometry and Materials”organized by Robert MacPherson, HermannWeyl Professor, and MembersRandall Kamien and Jeremy Mason met throughout the year. The analysismath-physics seminar met every week during the second term.

There was a small program on A1-homotopy theory and its recent develop-ments during the second term, organized by Professor VladimirVoevodskyand Member Fabien Morel.

The “Workshop on Topology” activities continued this year, organized byMacPherson and Professor Konstantin Mischaikow of Rutgers, the StateUniversity of New Jersey. The workshop brought together pure mathema-ticians, mathematicians involved with doing large computer simulations,and scientists who work in areas where such mathematical ideas may be

relevant.The goal is to bring ideas of pure mathematics,particularly topology, to bear on problems arising inscience and engineering. The workshop participantsmet on the first Wednesday of each month starting inNovember, alternating their meeting locationsbetween the campuses of the Institute and Rutgers.Speakers were Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University;Sarah Day, College of William & Mary; DanielKoditschek, University of Pennsylvania; AlexanderGrosberg, New York University; Marian Gidea,Northeastern Illinois University; Yuliy Barysyhnikov,Bell Laboratories; Stanislas Leibler, Professor, Schoolof Natural Sciences and The Rockefeller University;Mark Dennis, University of Bristol; Arnold J. Levine,Professor, School of Natural Sciences; Paul Fendley,

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Professor Enrico Bombieri (right) wasrecognized with the 2010 King FaisalInternational Prize in Science (Mathematics)for his pioneering contributions to variousbranches of mathematics, includingnumber theory, algebraic geometry,complex analysis, and minimal surfaces.

Professor AviWigderson (left) organized acomputer science and discrete mathematicsseminar that met twice a week throughoutthe year.

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University of Virginia; Peter Landweber, Rutgers; MacPherson; and Jean-Philippe Lessard of Rutgers.

In April, the Marston Morse Memorial Lectures were given by Paul Seidelof the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Seidel gave three talks, “Cotan-gent Bundles and Their Relative,” “Monodromy and Its Categorification,”and “Symplectic Topology as Sheaf Theory?”

In June, the School held a week-long workshop on “Pseudorandomnessin Mathematical Structures.” The workshop was organized by Bourgain,Sarnak, Wigderson, and Visiting Professor Russell Impagliazzo. The goalof the workshop was to highlight parallels and connections betweenapproaches to pseudorandomness in different areas of mathematics andbetween the mathematical and computational approaches to pseudorandomness.Tutorials were held on the first two days of the workshop, and during theremaining three days there were a series of survey lectures. Sixty-five studentsregistered for the workshop activities as well as eighty-five Ph.D. participants.Speakers for the tutorials were Ben Green, University of Cambridge;VisitingProfessor Russell Impagliazzo, University of California, San Diego, and Insti-tute forAdvanced Study; ProfessorAviWigderson, Institute forAdvanced Study;and Luca Trevisan, University of California, Berkeley. Survey lectures weregiven by Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge; Fan Chung Graham,University of California, San Diego; Professor Jean Bourgain, Institutefor Advanced Study; BenjaminWeiss, Einstein Institute of Mathematics,TheHebrew University of Jerusalem; Alexander Gamburd, University of Cali-fornia, Santa Cruz; Ryan O’Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University; Alex

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The workshop on topology,which aims to bring ideas ofpure mathematics, particularlytopology, to bear on problemsarising in science andengineering, brought togetherpure mathematicians,mathematicians involvedwith doing large computersimulations, and scientistswho work in areas wheresuch mathematical ideasmay be relevant.

Professor Helmut Hofer gave a publiclecture on celestial mechanics and a

geometry based on area.


Throughout both terms, junior and mid-career Members organized and held various seminars that gave accounts of some novel techniques andalso resulted in facilitating collaborations. Clockwise from left: Members John Friedlander, ZhiweiYun, Lillian Pierce, and Bao Châu Ngô

Lubotzky, Einstein Institute of Mathematics, The Hebrew University ofJerusalem;VanVu, Rutgers; Dimitris Achlioptas, University of California, SanDiego, and Research Academic Computer Technology Institute, Greece;Tamar Ziegler, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology; Member SergeiKonyagin, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, andInstitute for Advanced Study; and Professor Peter Sarnak, Institute forAdvanced Study.

Bombieri shared the 2010 King Faisal International Prize in Science (Math-ematics) with Terence Chi-Shen Tao, a former Visitor in the School and aProfessor at the University of California. Bourgain was awarded the 2010Shaw Prize in Mathematics and received theVernadsky gold medal from theNational Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Sarnak received an honorarydegree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Professor ThomasSpencer was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and Hofer waselected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In March, Hofergave a public lecture, “Celestial Mechanics and a Geometry Based on Area.”

Beginning with the 2009–10 academic year, the School of Mathematics hasbeen recording all mathematical lectures that take place on the Institute’scampus. The math videos may be seen at http://video.ias.edu/sm.

The workshop onpsuedorandomness in

mathematical structures soughtto highlight parallels and

connections between approachesto pseudorandomness in

different areas of mathematicsand between the mathematicaland computational approaches

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MEMBERS AND VISITORS

f First Term s Second Term m Long-termMember vVisitor vpVisiting Professorj Joint Member School of Natural Sciences

vriVeblen Research Instructorshipvnf von Neumann Fellowship

Peter AlbersDifferential Geometry, SymplecticTopology

Purdue University sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Ekaterina AmerikAlgebraic Geometry Université Paris-Sud 11Funding provided by the Minerva ResearchFoundation and the National Science Foundation

Alexandr AndoniComputer Science Institute for AdvancedStudy v

Nils A. BaasAlgebraicTopology, Systems Biology NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology j, s

JohnArthur BaldwinKnotTheory, Low-dimensionalTopology

Institute for Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity vriFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation andThe Charles Simonyi Endowment

Valentin P. BlomerNumberTheory University of Toronto fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

JonathanWilliam BoberNumberTheory Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Alexis BouthierGeometric Langlands Program École NormaleSupérieure, Paris v, sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Tim Daniel BrowningNumberTheory University of Bristol sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Farrell BrumleyAnalytic NumberTheory Université HenriPoincaré v

Alina BucurNumberTheory Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Emanuel CarneiroAnalysis Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Antoine Chambert-LoirNumberTheory Université de Rennes 1 vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Szu-yu Sophie ChenDifferential Geometry, Nonlinear PartialDifferential Equations Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Alina Carmen CojocaruNumberTheory University of Illinois atChicago sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

J. Brian ConreyNumberTheory American Institute ofMathematics fFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund

Chantal DavidNumberTheory Concordia University,MontrealFunding provided by the Minerva ResearchFoundation

Jean-Marc DeshouillersNumberTheory Université Bordeaux I v, s

William DukeNumberTheory University of California, LosAngeles sFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund

Zeev DvirComputer Science Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Pierluigi FalcoMathematical Physics Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Kevin FordNumberTheory University of Illinois atUrbana-ChampaignFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund; Friendsof the Institute for Advanced Study Member

John FriedlanderAnalytic NumberTheory University ofToronto Scarborough fFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund

Jayce GetzNumberTheory Institute for Advanced Studyand Princeton University vri

Amit GhoshNumberTheory Oklahoma State University sFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund

Mark GoreskyGeometry,Automorphic Forms Institute forAdvanced Study mFunding provided byThe Charles SimonyiEndowment

Anna GourevitchAlgebraic Geometry, SingularityTheory Institutefor Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Dmitry GourevitchRepresentationTheory,Algebraic Geometry

Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Andrew GranvilleAnalytic NumberTheory Université deMontréalFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund

Olivier GuichardDiscrete Subgroups of Lie Groups, SurfaceGroups CNRS and Université Paris-Sud 11Funding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Robert GuralnickFinite and Algebraic Groups University ofSouthern California v, s

Shamgar GurevichRepresentationTheory,Algebraic Geometry


Hamed HatamiCombinatorics, Computer Science Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University

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Roger Heath-BrownAlgebraic NumberTheory University ofOxford v, s

Jochen HeinlothAlgebraic Geometry University ofAmsterdam fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Ghaith A. HiaryNumberTheory Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

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Michael HochmanDynamical Systems Institute for AdvancedStudy and Princeton University vri

Roman HolowinskyAnalytic NumberTheory Institute forAdvanced StudyNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Founders’Circle Member; additional funding provided by theNational Science Foundation

Olga HoltzAnalysis University of California, Berkeley

vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Pavel HrubesComputer Science Institute for AdvancedStudy v

Wenchuan HuAlgebraic Geometry,Algebraic Cycles Institutefor Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Russell ImpagliazzoComputational Complexity University ofCalifornia, San Diego vpFunding provided byThe Charles SimonyiEndowment, the Fund for Mathematics, theNational Science Foundation, andThe BellCompanies Fellowship

Valentine KabanetsComputational Complexity Simon FraserUniversity vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Jerzy KaczorowskiNumberTheory Adam MickiewiczUniversity, Poznan, Poland v, s

Randall D. KamienDifferential Geometry and Materials Universityof Pennsylvania

Martin KassabovLie Groups, RepresentationTheory, ProfiniteGroups Cornell University vnf, fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Kiran S. KedlayaNumberTheory,Algebraic Geometry

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation andThe James D.Wolfensohn Fund

Alexandra KollaComputer Science Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Antonina KolokolovaComputer Science Memorial University ofNewfoundland v

Alex KontorovichNumberTheory,Automorphic Forms, Sieves

Brown UniversityFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation and the Ellentuck Fund

Sergei KonyaginNumberTheory Steklov MathematicalInstitute, Russian Academy of Sciences fFunding provided by the Fund for Mathematics

Emmanuel KowalskiNumberTheory Université Bordeaux 1 vnf, fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Gabor KunDiscrete Mathematics, Computer Science, NumberTheory Institute for Advanced Study v

Pär KurlbergNumberTheory KTH Royal Institute ofTechnology, Stockholm fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Denka KutzarovaBanach Spaces University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign and Bulgarian Academyof Sciences v, s

Youness LamzouriAnalytic NumberTheory Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Kai-Wen LanNumberTheory, ShimuraVarieties Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University vriQiu Shi Science andTechnologies FoundationMember; additional funding provided by theNational Science Foundation

Aaron LevinNumberTheory Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Xiaoqing LiNumberTheory University at Buffalo,TheState University of NewYork vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Victor Daniel LieAnalysis Institute for Advanced Study andPrinceton University vri

Elon LindenstraussErgodicTheory Princeton University v

Jianya LiuNumberTheory Shandong UniversityFunding provided by the Minerva ResearchFoundation,The James D.WolfensohnFund, and the S. S. Chern Foundation forMathematics Research Fund

Jeremy MasonMathematical Physics Institute for AdvancedStudy

Giuseppe MolteniNumberTheory Università degli Studi diMilanoFunding provided by the Giorgio and ElenaPetronio Fellowship Fund and the National ScienceFoundation

Fabien MorelAlgebraicTopology and Geometry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München sFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund,TheCharles Simonyi Endowment,The James D.Wolfensohn Fund, andThe OswaldVeblen Fund

Hadar Dana MoshkovitzDerandomization, CodingTheory Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Ritabrata MunshiNumberTheory Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Bao Châu NgôAlgebraic Geometry, GroupTheory UniversitéParis-Sud 11 mFunding provided byThe Charles SimonyiEndowment andThe Ambrose Monell Foundation

Stephane NonnenmacherMathematical Physics Commissariat àl’Énergie Atomique, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex,France vnf, sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Yaron OstroverSymplectic Geometry Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Alberto PerelliNumberTheory Università degli Studi diGenova v, s

Lillian Beatrix PierceAnalytic NumberTheory Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation andThe Charles Simonyi Endowment

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János PintzNumberTheory Alfréd Rényi Institute ofMathematics, Hungarian Academy ofSciences, Budapest fFunding provided byThe OswaldVeblen Fund

Paul PollackNumberTheory Institute for AdvancedStudy fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation andThe OswaldVeblen Fund

Anup RaoTheoretical Computer Science Institute forAdvanced Study v, f

Andre ReznikovAutomorphic Functions Bar-Ilan University sFunding provided byThe OswaldVeblen Fund

Guy Nathanel RothblumComputer Science Institute for AdvancedStudy v

Marat RovinskyAlgebra Institute for InformationTransmission Problems, Russian Academy ofSciences, Moscow vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Tristan Cyrus RoyAnalysis, Partial Differential Equations Institutefor Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Michael RubinsteinNumberTheory University of WaterlooFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Zeev RudnickNumberTheory Tel Aviv UniversityFunding provided byThe OswaldVeblen Fund

Ben SchweinhartTopology Institute for Advanced Study v

Kannan SoundararajanNumberTheory Stanford University fFunding provided byThe OswaldVeblen Fund

Endre SzemerédiNumberTheory, GraphTheory Rutgers,TheState University of New Jersey

MichaelTemkinAlgebraic Geometry, Non-ArchimedeanGeometry Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

NicolasTemplierAnalytic NumberTheory Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

YichaoTianArithmetic Algebraic Geometry Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University

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MadhurTulsianiTheoretical Computer Science Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the Fund for Mathematics,The OswaldVeblen Fund, and the NationalScience Foundation

Adrian UbisNumberTheory,Analysis, Combinatorics

Institute for Advanced Study sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

AnnaWienhardGeometry Princeton University v

AndrewWilesAlgebraic NumberTheory PrincetonUniversity v

KrzysztofWysockiSymplectic Geometry The Pennsylvania StateUniversity fFunding provided byThe OswaldVeblen Fund

AmirYehudayoffComputer Science, Discrete Mathematics


CemYalçinYildirimNumberTheory Bogaziçi University fFunding provided byThe OswaldVeblen Fund

Matthew PatrickYoungAnalytic NumberTheory Texas A&MUniversity sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

ZhiweiYunRepresentationTheory,Algebraic Geometry

Institute for Advanced StudyZurich Financial Services Member; additionalfunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Umberto ZannierNumberTheory Scuola Normale Superiore diPisa v, s

Eduard ZehnderMathematical Physics EldgenössischeTechnische Hochschule Zürich fFunding provided by the Fund for MathematicsandThe OswaldVeblen Fund

RECORD OF EVENTS

September 14Computer Science/Discrete Math I

Blackbox Polynomial IdentityTesting for Depth 3Circuits Shubhangi Saraf, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology

September 15Computer Science/Discrete Math II AffineDispersers from Subspace Polynomials SwastikKopparty, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology

September 21Computer Science/Discrete Math I Twice-Ramanujan Sparsifiers Nikhil Srivastava,Yale University

September 22Computer Science/Discrete Math II TheCompleteness of the Permanent AmirYehudayoff, Member, School ofMathematics

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Contact Structures, Open Books, and SupportGenus John Baldwin, PrincetonUniversity;Veblen Research Instructorship,School of Mathematics

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members BigGaps in Zeros of Functions JonathanBober, Member, School of Mathematics

Statistics forTraces of Frobenius for Curves overFinite Fields Alina Bucur, Member, Schoolof Mathematics Some Extremal Functions inFourier Analysis and Applications to NumberTheory Emanuel Carneiro, Member,School of Mathematics

September 24Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members TheYamabe Problem in Conformal Geometry Szu-yu Sophie Chen, Member, School ofMathematics Matrix Rigidity Zeev Dvir,Member, School of Mathematics CoulombGas inTwo Dimensions Pierluigi Falco,Member, School of Mathematics Geometryof Obstructed Families of Plane Algebraic Curvesand Projective Hypersurfaces Anna Gourevich,Member, School of Mathematics HeckeRelations and Amplifiers for GL(3) RomanHolowinsky, Member, School ofMathematics

September 25Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members

Relative RepresentationTheory of ReductiveGroups over Close Local Fields with Applicationsto Gelfand Pairs Dmitry Gourevitch,Member, School of Mathematics AlgebraicCycles and Lawson Homology WenchuanHu, Member, School of Mathematics FastMethods to Compute the Riemann ZetaFunction Ghaith Hiary, Member, School ofMathematics

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September 29Computer Science/Discrete Math II SpanPrograms and Quantum Query BenReichardt, University of Waterloo

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members GraphPatches andTheir Applications AlexandraKolla, Member, School of Mathematics

Counting Kissing Circles AlexKontorovich, Brown University; Member,School of Mathematics The Distribution ofValues of the Riemann Zeta Function andDirichlet L-Functions on the 1-Line YounessLamzouri, Member, School ofMathematics Coherent Cohomology ofAutomorphic Bundles Kai-Wen Lan,Princeton University;Veblen ResearchInstructorship, School of Mathematics

Integral Points and Holomorphic Curves onCertain AffineVarieties Aaron Levin,Member, School of Mathematics Analysis ofCrystallographicTexture as a ProbabilityDistribution Function of Quaternions JeremyMason, Member, School of Mathematics

September 30Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members GroupRepresentation Patterns in Digital Signal

Shamgar Gurevich, Member, School ofMathematics Probabilistically Checkable Proofs(PCP):WhatTheoretical Computer ScienceDiscovered about Mathematical Proofs DanaMoshkovitz, Member, School ofMathematics Discrete Analogues in HarmonicAnalysis Lillian Pierce, Member, School ofMathematics Perfect Numbers andTheirFriends Paul Pollack, Member, School ofMathematics SemilinearWave and SchrödingerEquations Tristan Roy, Member, School ofMathematics

October 1Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar

Even Galois Representations and the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture Frank Calegari,Northwestern University

October 2Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members OnDesingularization of Schemes MichaelTemkin, Member, School of Mathematics

Local Harmonic Analysis and AutomorphicForms NicolasTemplier, Member, Schoolof Mathematics Some Connections between the(Weak) Regularity Lemma, ComplexityTheory,and Additive Combinatorics MadhurTulsiani, Member, School of Mathematics

The Structure of Cylinder Intersections

AmirYehudayoff, Member, School ofMathematics Homology of Loop Groups viaLanglands Dual Groups ZhiweiYun,Member, School of Mathematics SymplecticMeasurements and Convex Geometry YaronOstrover, Member, School of Mathematics

October 5Computer Science/Discrete Math I TheDetectability Lemma and Quantum Gap ItaiArad,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Members Seminar Recent Progress on QUE(Quantum Unique Ergodicity) Peter Sarnak,Professor, School of Mathematics

October 6Computer Science/Discrete Math II TheCompleteness of the Permanent AmirYehudayoff, Member, School ofMathematics

October 8Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Sifting the Least Prime in Arithmetic

Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers,The StateUniversity of New Jersey

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar AnArithmetic Fundamental Lemma for UnitaryGroup ofThree Wei Zhang, HarvardUniversity

October 12Computer Science/Discrete Math I On theComplexity of Circuit Satisfiability

Ramamohan Paturi, University ofCalifornia, San Diego

Members Seminar Enrico Bombieri and thePrime NumberTheorem John Friedlander,University of Toronto Scarborough; Member,School of Mathematics

October 13Computer Science/Discrete Math II UsingLocal Conductance to Give Improved Algorithmsfor Unique Games William Matthews,University of California, San Diego

Geometry and Materials Seminar Ideal 2DFoams and Spherical Foams from Mancini’sEquations Bryan Chen, University ofPennsylvania

October 14Analytic and Geometric Number TheoryMini-Course Mean-Values of MultiplicativeFunctions andWeak Subconvexity KannanSoundararajan, Stanford University;Member, School of Mathematics

October 15Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Erdos-Kac, Renyi-Turan, Keating-Snaith, Katz-Sarnak EmmanuelKowalski, Université Bordeaux 1; vonNeumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar

Volume Estimates in Analytic and AdelicGeometry Antoine Chambert-Loir,Université de Rennes 1; von NeumannFellowship, School of Mathematics

October 19Computer Science/Discrete Math I PCPs ofSub-Constant Error via Derandomized DirectProduct Or Meir,Weizmann Institute ofScience

Members Seminar The DecompositionTheorem and Abelian Fibrations Bao ChâuNgô, Université Paris-Sud 11; Member,School of Mathematics

October 20Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Hardness of Projection Games DanaMoshkovitz, Member, School ofMathematics

October 22Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Toward Schmidt’sTheorem for AlgebraicPoints of Bounded Degree Aaron Levin,Member, School of Mathematics


Torsion in the Homology of Arithmetic Groups

AkshayVenkatesh, Stanford University

October 26Members Seminar The Algebra andCombinatorics of Box Splines Olga Holtz,University of California, Berkeley; vonNeumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics

October 29Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Global Divisibility of Heegner PointsandTamagawa Numbers Dimitar Jetchev,NewYork


Generalizations of the Sato-Tate Conjecture

David Geraghty, Harvard University

October 30Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar

Modularity Lifting for N-Dimensional OrdinaryGalois Representations David Geraghty,Harvard University

November 2Computer Science/Discrete Math I

Grothendieck Inequalities, XOR Games, andCommunication Complexity Troy Lee,Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey

Members Seminar SmecticTopology,Tomography, andTopography Randall D.Kamien, University of Pennsylvania;Member, School of Mathematics

November 3Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Constructions of Expanders Using GroupTheory

Martin Kassabov, Cornell University; vonNeumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics

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November 4Workshop onTopology: Identifying Order inComplex Systems Functoriality, GeneralizedPersistence, and Hierarchy Gunnar Carlsson,Stanford University ComputationalTopologyin the Study of Discrete Dynamical Systems

Sarah Day, College of William & Mary

November 5Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Prime Chains and Applications

Kevin Ford, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


MeanValues with GL(2)Times GL(3)Functions MatthewYoung,Texas A&MUniversity; Member, School of Mathematics

November 9Computer Science/Discrete Math I WhySex? Adi Livnat, University of California,Berkeley

Members Seminar Deformation Spaces ofGeometric Structures AnnaWienhard,Princeton University;Visitor, School ofMathematics

November 10Computer Science/Discrete Math II Graphand Subgraph Sparsification and Its Implications toLinear System Solving andTransforming Graphsinto Expanders Alexandra Kolla, Member,School of Mathematics

November 11Analytic and Geometric Number TheoryMini-Course Introduction to Sieves,Theory andPractice John Friedlander, University ofToronto Scarborough; Member, School ofMathematics

November 12Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar O-Minimality and Some Cases of theAndre-Oort Conjecture Jonathan Pila,University of Bristol

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar Onthe Areas of RationalTriangles or How Did Euler(and How CanWe) Solve Xyz(x+y+z)=a

Noam Elkies, Harvard University

November 16Members Seminar The RiemannHypothesis—150Years and Counting BrianConrey, American Institute of Mathematics;Member, School of Mathematics

November 18Analytic and Geometric Number TheoryMini-Course Introduction to Sieves,Theory andPractice John Friedlander, University ofToronto Scarborough; Member, School ofMathematics

November 19Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Small Gaps between Primes, andbetween Almost Primes C.Y.Yildirim,Bogaziçi University; Member, School ofMathematics


Slope Filtrations in Families Kiran Kedlaya,Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Member, School of Mathematics

November 20Special Seminar Lecture Spectral EdgeStatistics of Random Band and Sparse Matrices

Alexander Sodin,Tel Aviv University

Special Geometry of Materials Seminar

What Does the Modular Group Have to Do withMaterials? Robert MacPherson,HermannWeyl Professor, School ofMathematics

November 23Computer Science/Discrete Math I Privacyof Dynamic Data: Continual Observation and PanPrivacy Moni Naor,Weizmann Institute ofScience

Members Seminar NumberTheory Related toQuantum Chaos Pär Kurlberg, KTH RoyalInstitute of Technology, Stockholm; Member,School of Mathematics

November 24Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Arithmetic Progressions in Primes MadhurTulsiani, Member, School of Mathematics

November 30Members Seminar Moduli Spaces ofBundles—With SomeTwists JochenHeinloth, University of Amsterdam;Member, School of Mathematics

December 1Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Algorithmic Dense ModelTheorems,Decompositions, and RegularityTheorems

Russell Impagliazzo, University ofCalifornia, San Diego;Visiting Professor,School of Mathematics

December 2Analytic and Geometric Number TheoryMini-Course Mean-Values of MultiplicativeFunctions andWeak Subconvexity II KannanSoundararajan, Stanford University;Member, School of Mathematics

Workshop onTopology: Identifying Order inComplex Systems Knots in Proteins

Alexander Grosberg, NewYorkUniversity Topological Methods in the ArnoldDiffusion Problem Marian Gidea,Northeastern Illinois University Electricaland Systems Engineering DanielKoditschek, University of Pennsylvania

December 3Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Half-Dimensional Sieve, MultiplicativeFunctions, and Rational Points RitabrataMunshi, Member, School of Mathematics


Hilbert Modular Surfaces through K3 Surfaces

Abhinav Kumar, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology; Princeton University

December 4Special Geometry of Materials Seminar

Using Betti Numbers to Quantify ComplicatedTime Dependent Patterns KonstantinMischaikow, Rutgers,The State Universityof New Jersey

December 7Special Guest Lecture TheTame Algebra

Yuval Flicker,The Ohio State University

Computer Science/Discrete Math I TheNOF Communication Complexity of MultipartyPointer Jumping Joshua Brody, DartmouthCollege

Members Seminar Finding the SymmetryGroup and theThree-Dimensional Shape ofSymmetric MoleculesThatWe Don’t Know Howto Crystallize Shamgar Gurevich,Member, School of Mathematics

December 8Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Algorithmic Dense ModelTheorems,Decompositions, and RegularityTheorems


Geometry and Materials Seminar How DoMechanical Interactions Generate SurfaceTension inTissues? M. Lisa Manning, PrincetonUniversity

December 10Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar The Inverse Conjectures for the GowersNorms Ben Green, University ofCambridge; Harvard University

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar AnEffective Proof of the Oppenheim Conjecture

Elon Lindenstrauss, Princeton University;Visitor, School of Mathematics

December 14Computer Science/Discrete Math I AParallel RepetitionTheorem for Any InteractiveArgument Iftach Ilan Haitner, MicrosoftResearch New England

Members Seminar FunctionTheory onSymplectic Manifolds Leonid Polterovich,The University of Chicago

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December 15Computer Science/Discrete Math II AnAlgorithmic Proof of Forster’s Lower Bound

Moritz Hardt, Princeton University

January 11Members Seminar Pseudoholomorphic Curvesand Dynamics in DimensionThree HelmutHofer, Professor, School of Mathematics

January 18Members Seminar Gelfand Pairs and InvariantDistributions Dmitry Gourevitch,Member, School of Mathematics

January 19Computer Science/Discrete Math II Limitsof Randomly Grown Graph Sequences KatalinVesztergombi, Eötvös Loránd University

January 20Special Geometry/Dynamical SystemsSeminar Using Dvir’s Polynomial Method inEuclidean Space Larry Guth, University ofToronto

January 21Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar The Positive Density Conjecture forIntegral Apollonian Packings Elena Fuchs,Princeton University

January 25Computer Science/Discrete Math I

Expanders and Communication-AvoidingAlgorithms Oded Schwartz,TechnischeUniversität Berlin

Members Seminar Pretentiousness in theAnalyticTheory of Numbers AndrewGranville, Université de Montréal; Member,School of Mathematics

Geometry and Materials Seminar LiquidCrystals, Minimal Surfaces, and EllipticFunctions Randall Kamien, University ofPennsylvania; Member, School ofMathematics

January 26Computer Science/Discrete Math II

RepresentationTheory and Expansion in Groups

AviWigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor,School of Mathematics

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

Rabinowitz-Floer Homology UrsFrauenfelder, Seoul National University

January 28Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Bounds toward Ramanujan over aNumber Field Farrell Brumley, UniversitéHenri Poincaré;Visitor, School ofMathematics

January 29Analysis Math-Physics Seminar Nodal Setsfor Eigenfunctions of the Laplacian and LatticePoints on Circles and Spheres Zeev Rudnick,Member, School of Mathematics

February 1Computer Science/Discrete Math I A NewApproach to the Inverse Littlewood-OffordProblem Hoi Nguyen, Rutgers,The StateUniversity of New Jersey

Members Seminar An Extension Criterion forLattice Actions on the Circle Marc Burger,Eldgenössische Technische HochschuleZürich

February 2Computer Science/Discrete Math II




IdealValued Measures andTopology of Maps

Misha Gromov, Courant Institute ofMathematical Sciences, NewYork University,and Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

February 3Workshop onTopology: Identifying Order inComplex Systems Caging and Linking

Yuliy Baryshnikov, Bell Laboratories

Protein Sectors: From Evolutionary Correlations to3rd Functional Structures Stanislas Leibler,Professor, School of Natural Sciences

Knotted, Linked, andTangled Nodal Lines inOptical Fields Mark Dennis, University ofBristol

Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar A Subconvexity Bound forAutomorphic L-Functions for SL(3,Z) LiangyiZhao, Nanyang Technological University,Singapore, and Max-Planck-Institut fürMathematik

February 4Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar On the Sup-Norm of Maass Forms ofLarge Level NicolasTemplier, Member,School of Mathematics


Generalized Modular Functions WinfriedKohnen, Universität Heidelberg

February 5Analysis Math-Physics Seminar EntropyBounds for Eigenstates of Anosov Manifolds

Stephane Nonnenmacher, Commissariatà l’Énergie Atomique, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex,France; von Neumann Fellowship, School ofMathematics

February 8Computer Science/Discrete Math I

Interpreting Polynomial Structure Analytically

JuliaWolf, Rutgers,The State University ofNew Jersey

Members Seminar Heegaard Floer Homology,Khovanov Homology, and Contact Geometry

John Baldwin, Princeton University;VeblenResearch Instructorship, School ofMathematics




February 11Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Quadratic Polynomials Represented byNorms Tim Browning, University ofBristol; Member, School of Mathematics


Some Remarks on QuadraticTwists ofL-Functions VinayakVatsal, University ofBritish Columbia

February 12Analysis Math-Physics Seminar GaussianSubordination for the Beurling-Selberg ExtremalProblem Emanuel Carneiro, Member,School of Mathematics

February 15Computer Science/Discrete Math I GraphExpansion and the Unique Games Conjecture

David Steurer, Princeton University


Complexity of Constraint Satisfaction Problems:Exact and Approximate PrasadRaghavendra, University of Washington


Real Quadratic Analogues ofValues of theJ-Function at CM Points William Duke,University of California, Los Angeles;Member, School of Mathematics

February 19Joint IAS/PU Mathematical PhysicsSeminar Superconcentration SouravChatterjee, University of California,Berkeley, and Courant Institute ofMathematical Sciences, NewYork University

February 22Computer Science/Discrete Math I AverageSensitivity of PolynomialThreshold Functions

Rocco Servedio, Columbia University

Members Seminar Algebraic Properties of theQuantum Homology Yaron Ostrover,Member, School of Mathematics

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Geometry and Materials Seminar UnusualClassical Ground States of Matter SalvatoreTorquato, Princeton University

February 23Computer Science/Discrete Math II TestingCorrelations and InverseTheorems HamedHatami, Princeton University;VeblenResearch Instructorship, School ofMathematics

Special Talk on A1-Homotopy Theory and ItsRecent Developments The Friedlander-Milnor Conjecture Fabien Morel,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Member, School of Mathematics


Lipschitz Maps from Spaces with Many RectifiableCurves Jeff Cheeger, Courant Institute ofMathematical Sciences, NewYork University

February 24Special Talk on A1-Homotopy Theory and ItsRecent Developments The Friedlander-Milnor Conjecture Fabien Morel,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Member, School of Mathematics

February 25Special Talk on A1-Homotopy Theory andIts Recent Developments The Friedlander-Milnor Conjecture Fabien Morel,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München;Member, School of Mathematics

Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Analytic Methods to ComputeDirichlet L-Functions and Character Sums

Ghaith A. Hiary, Member, School ofMathematics


On Eisenstein Series and the Cohomology ofArithmetic Groups Joachim Schwermer,UniversitätWien and Erwin SchrödingerInternational Institute for MathematicalPhysics

February 26Analysis Math-Physics Seminar Loop-ErasedRandomWalk on Planar Graphs AmirYehudayoff, Member, School ofMathematics

March 1Computer Science/Discrete Math I ATheory of Cryptographic Complexity ManojPrabhakaran, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign

Members Seminar L-Functions and RandomMatrixTheory Michael Rubinstein,University of Waterloo; Member, School ofMathematics

Geometry and Materials Seminar UnusualClassical Ground States of Matter SalvatoreTorquato, Princeton University

March 2Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Computational Complexity and InformationAsymmetry in Financial Products BoazBarak, Princeton University


Floer Homology and Loop SpaceTopology I

Matthias Schwarz, Universität Leipzig

March 3Analytic and Geometric Number TheoryMini-Course The Parameterization of AlgebraicStructures and Applications I ManjulBhargava, Princeton University

Workshop onTopology: Identifying Order inComplex Systems The Structure of Large DataSets of Biological Information:Tracking theMeaning of Evolutionary Changes Arnold J.Levine, Professor, School of NaturalSciences Topological Order in QuantumStatistical Mechanics Paul Fendley,University of Virginia Topological Robotics,Topological Complexity, and EuclideanEmbeddings of Real Projective Spaces PeterLandweber, Rutgers,The State Universityof New Jersey


Floer Homology and Loop SpaceTopology II

Matthias Schwarz, Universität Leipzig

March 4Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar One Parameter Families of EllipticCurves with Maximal Galois Representations

Alina Cojocaru, University of Illinois atChicago; Member, School of Mathematics


Geometric Overconvergent Modular Forms

Vincent Pilloni, Columbia University

March 5Analysis Math-Physics Seminar StronglyCorrelated Phases in Rapidly Rotating BoseGases Robert Seiringer, PrincetonUniversity

March 8Computer Science/Discrete Math I

Behavioral Experiments in Strategic Networks

Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania

March 9Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Algorithms vs. Hardness NisheethVishnoi,Microsoft Research India

March 10Analytic and Geometric Number TheoryMini-Course The Parameterization of AlgebraicStructures, and Applications II ManjulBhargava, Princeton University

March 11Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Distribution of ExtremeValues ofL-Functions in the Strip 1/2 < Re(s) < 1

Youness Lamzouri, Member, School ofMathematics


The Average Rank of Elliptic Curves ManjulBhargava, Princeton University

March 15Workshop on Analytic Number Theory

Asymptotic Large Sieve and the Critical Zeros

Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers,The StateUniversity of New Jersey SL(2,Z), DirichletSeries, and Gamma1(15) JohnThompson,University of Florida The Burgess BoundforTwisted Hilbert Modular L-Functions

Gergely Harcos, Alfréd Rényi Instituteof Mathematics, Hungarian Academy ofSciences, Budapest

Computer Science/Discrete Math I

Extremal Problems for Convex Lattice Polytopes

Imre Barany, Alfréd Rényi Institute ofMathematics, Hungarian Academy ofSciences, Budapest


Subconvexity forTwisted L-Functions on GL(3)

Valentin Blomer, University of Toronto

Linear Approximate Groups Ben Green,University of Cambridge Total Eigenfunctionsand the Distribution of Lattice Points on Spheres

Jean Bourgain, Professor, School ofMathematics

Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Pseudorandom Generators for Regular BranchingPrograms AmirYehudayoff, Member,School of Mathematics


Symplectically Non-Fillable Contact Manifolds andtheWeinstein Conjecture ChrisWendl,Humboldt Universität zu Berlin


L-Functions for High Rank Groups XiaoqingLi, University at Buffalo,The State Universityof NewYork; von Neumann Fellowship,School of Mathematics Rational Points andWeyl Sums TrevorWooley, Universityof Bristol

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Anomalous Intersections Enrico Bombieri,IBM von Neumann Professor, School ofMathematics Mysteries around HeilbronnSums Nick Katz, Princeton University

The Affine Sieve Peter Sarnak, Professor,School of Mathematics

Joint Biology/Math Seminar Images of Life:Exploring Plant Development withVisual Modelsand Simulations PrzemyslawPrusinkiewicz, University of Calgary


Methods from Analytic NumberTheory to CountRational Points on Châtelet Surfaces Régis dela Bretèche, Institut de Mathématiques deJussieu, Université Paris Diderot Expansionin SLd(Z/qZ), q Square-Free PeterVarju,Princeton University Counting RationalPoints on Cubic Curves Roger Heath-Brown, University of Oxford;Visitor, Schoolof Mathematics

March 22Computer Science/Discrete Math I ProductRules in Semidefinite Programming RajatMittal, Rutgers,The State University of NewJersey

Members Seminar Explicit Automorphic Formsfor the Rational Function Field, andTheir GaloisRepresentations ZhiweiYun, Member,School of Mathematics

March 24Analytic and Geometric Number TheoryMini-Course Artin’s Conjecture on Zeros ofp-adic Forms Roger Heath-Brown,University of Oxford;Visitor, School ofMathematics

March 25Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Metaplectic Ramanujan Conjecture andTernary Quadratic Forms over Function Fields

JacobTsimerman, Princeton University

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar AnEstimate for the Counting Function of PrimeChains with Applications Florian Luca,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

March 29Members Seminar Discrete Analogues inHarmonic Analysis Lillian Pierce, Member,School of Mathematics

March 30Computer Science/Discrete Math II ACombinatorial Proof of the Chernoff-HoeffdingBound with Applications to Direct-ProductTheorems Valentine Kabanets, SimonFraser University; von Neumann Fellowship,School of Mathematics


IdealValued Measures andTopology of Maps

Misha Gromov, Courant Institute ofMathematical Sciences, NewYork University;Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

April 1Analytic and Geometric Number TheorySeminar Twists of L-Functions AlbertoPerelli, Università degli Studi di Genova

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar Ona p-adic Automorphic Construction of EulerSystems Eric Urban, Columbia University

April 2Analysis Math-Physics Seminar GlobalExistence of Smooth Solutions to a BarelySupercriticalWave Equation Tristan Roy,Member, School of Mathematics

April 5Computer Science/Discrete Math I

Compressing Bounded-Round Communication

Mark Braverman, Microsoft Research NewEngland

Members Seminar VanishingTheorem forTorsion Automorphic Sheaves Kai-Wen Lan,Princeton University;Veblen ResearchInstructorship, School of Mathematics

April 6Computer Science/Discrete Math II MobiusRandomness and Dynamics Peter Sarnak,Professor, School of Mathematics

Marston Morse Lecture Cotangent BundlesandTheir Relatives Paul Seidel,Massachusetts Institute of Technology

April 7Special Lecture Berkovich Spaces as Pro-Definable Spaces Francois Loeser, ÉcoleNormale Supérieure, Paris

Marston Morse Lecture Monodromy and ItsCategorification Paul Seidel, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology

Workshop onTopology: Identifying Order inComplex Systems Measuring Shape withHomology Robert MacPherson,HermannWeyl Professor, School ofMathematics

Toward a Computational Morse Theory

Rigorous Computations of Equilibria andConnecting Orbits Jean-Philippe Lessard,Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey

April 8Marston Morse Lecture SymplecticTopologyas SheafTheory? Paul Seidel, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology


Proof, via Smooth Homology, of the Existence ofRational Families of H-Invariant Linear Forms onG-Induced Representations, when G/H Is aSymmetric, Reductive, p-adic Space, via SmoothHomology Philippe Blanc, Institut deMathématiques de Luminy, Marseille, France

April 12Computer Science/Discrete Math I CoverTimes, BlanketTimes, and Majorizing Measures

James Lee, University of Washington

April 13Computer Science/Discrete Math II CriticalSlowdown for the Ising Model on theTwo-Dimensional Lattice Eyal Lubetzky,Microsoft Research Redmond

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar ThePicard LefschetzTheory of Complexified MorseFunctions Joseph Johns, ColumbiaUniversity

April 14Analytic and Geometric Number TheoryMini-Course Artin’s Conjecture on Zeros ofp-adic Forms, Part II Roger Heath-Brown,University of Oxford;Visitor, School ofMathematics

Special Lecture Cybersecurity, Mathematics,and Limits onTechnology Andrew Odlyzko,University of Minnesota

April 15Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar

Split Reductions of Simple AbelianVarieties

David Zywina, University of Pennsylvania

April 16Analysis Math-Physics Seminar The Decay ofFourier Modes in Solutions of the 2-Dim Navier-Stokes System Yakov Sinai, PrincetonUniversity

April 19Computer Science/Discrete Math I CanComplexityTheory Ratify the Invisible Hand ofthe Market? VijayVazirani, GeorgiaInstitute of Technology

Geometry and Materials Seminar Coarseningand Drainage and Coarsening inWet Foams

Douglas Durian, University of Pennsylvania

April 20Computer Science/Discrete Math II

MatchingVector Codes Zeev Dvir, Member,School of Mathemtics


Loop Products and Closed Geodesics NancyHingston,The College of New Jersey

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On the Multiplicity of Periodic Orbits forTonelliSystems Marco Mazzucchelli, Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in denNaturwissenschaften

April 21Special Mathematical Physics Seminar

On Quantum Sigma Models with Non-AbelianWinding Reimundo Heluani, Universityof California, Berkeley

April 22Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar

Refining and Generalizing Gromov’s CompactnessTheorem for J-Curves Joel Fish, StanfordUniversity


Deformation Rings of Group Representations

Bart de Smit, Leiden University

April 26Geometry and Materials Seminar

Equilibrium Shapes for Anisotropic SurfaceEnergies Bennett Palmer, Idaho StateUniversity

April 27Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Hardness of Approximately Solving LinearEquations over Reals Dana Moshkovitz,Member, School of Mathemtics

April 28Special Mathematical Physics Seminar

Mathematical Structures in N=2 GaugeTheory

Davide Gaiotto, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

April 29Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar

Deformation Rings of Group Representations

Bart de Smit, Leiden University

May 3Extreme Gaps in the Spectrum of RandomMatrices Gerard Arous, Courant Instituteof Mathematical Sciences, NewYorkUniversity

May 4Computer Science/Discrete Math II ExplicitConstruction of RIP Matrices, Matrices with SmallCoherence, and Related Problems SergeiKonyagin, Steklov Mathematical Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences; Member,School of Mathemtics

HermannWeyl Lectures An Overview ofSome Problems of Unlikely Intersections

Umberto Zannier, Scuola NormaleSuperiore de Pisa;Visitor, School ofMathematics

May 5HermannWeyl Lectures Unlikely Intersectionsin Multiplicative Groups and the ZilberConjecture Umberto Zannier, ScuolaNormale Superiore de Pisa;Visitor, School ofMathematics

May 6Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar

Selmeer Ranks ofTwists of Elliptic Curves KarlRubin, University of California, Irvine

May 11Computer Science/Discrete Math II Small-Bias Sets AmirYehudayoff, Member,School of Mathematics

May 12HermannWeyl Lectures About the André-Oort Conjecture Umbertro Zannier,Scuola Normale Superiore de Pisa;Visitor,School of Mathematics

May 18Computer Science/Discrete Math II

Reductions between Expansion Problems

MadhurTulsiani, Member, School ofMathematics

May 24Computer Science/Discrete Math I

Subsampling Mathematical Relaxations andAverage-Case Complexity Boaz Barak,Princeton University

Geometry and Materials Seminar ConicSections, Lorentz Covariance, and Smectic LiquidCrystals Randall D. Kamien, University ofPennsylvania; Member, School ofMathematics

May 25Computer Science/Discrete Math II TheStepanov Method AviWigderson, HerbertH. Maass Professor, School of Mathematics

May 26SpecialWomen and Mathematics ColloquiumTalk Automorphic Forms and GaloisRepresentations Matthew Emerton,Northwestern University

June 7Geometry and Materials Seminar AUniversal and Complete Descriptor of MaterialMicrostructures SalvatoreTorquato,Princeton University

June 14Pseudorandomness in MathematicalStructuresWorkshop Approximate AlgebraicStructure (Groups, Fields, Homomorphisms, . . . )

Ben Green, University of Cambridge

Computational Pseudorandomness and Extractors


June 15Pseudorandomness in MathematicalStructuresWorkshop Expander Graphs:Applications and Combinatorial Constructions

AviWigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor,School of Mathematics Regularity Lemmas inGraphTheory, Additive Combinatorics, andTCS

LucaTrevisan, University of California,Berkeley

June 16Pseudorandomness in MathematicalStructuresWorkshop Quasirandom Groups

Timothy Gowers, University of Cambridge

Quasirandom Graphs and Hypergraphs FanChung Graham, University of California,San Diego Expansion in Lie Groups andApplications Jean Bourgain, Professor,School of Mathematics Random-LikeBehavior in Deterministic Systems BenjaminWeiss, Einstein Institute of Mathematics,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

June 17Pseudorandomness in MathematicalStructuresWorkshop Group Expansion andthe Affine Sieve Jean Bourgain, Professor,School of Mathematics Quasirandom BooleanFunctions, and Inapproximability RyanO'Donnell, Carnegie Mellon University

Randomness in GroupTheory AlexLubotzky, Einstein Institute of Mathematics,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Random Matrices andTheir Spectra VanVu,Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey

June 18Pseudorandomness in MathematicalStructuresWorkshop Structure of Solutionsto Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems

Dimitris Achlioptas, University ofCalifornia, Santa Cruz, and ResearchAcademic Computer Technology Institute,Greece An InverseTheorem for the GowersNorms over Finite Fields Tamar Ziegler,Technion–Israel Institute of Technology

Pseudorandom Matrices and Explicit ConstructionsRelated to Sparse Signal Recovery SergeiKonyagin, Steklov Mathematical Institute;Member, School of Mathematics

Pseudorandomness of the Mobius Function

Peter Sarnak, Professor, School ofMathematics

Geometry and Materials Seminar: TopologicalDefects in Liquid Crystals Beyond HomotopyGroups Bryan Chen, University ofPennsylvania

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The seventeenth annual Program for Women and Mathematics was held at the Institute for AdvancedStudy during the period of May 17–28, 2010. The program activities were sponsored by the Instituteand Princeton University and generously supported by the National Science Foundation.

The goal of the program is to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to continue their matheducation. Research mathematicians give lectures and seminars focusing on a particular topic. The subject ofthis year’s program was “p-adic Langlands Program.” Mentoring, discussions regarding peer relations, and anintroduction to career opportunities were also part of the program.

The total number of participants in the program was fifty-six. That number includes twenty-two undergrad-uates, twenty-three graduate students, and eleven postdoctoral mathematicians. Everyone was accommodatedin the Institute’s housing complex, giving them an opportunity to meet Institute scholars from other parts ofthe country and the world.

Ingrid Daubechies of Princeton University was the organizer of the program this year with the help of TanyaKhovanova, a research affiliate atMassachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy. Advanced course lectureswere given by Ariane Mézardof the Université de VersaillesSaint-Quentin-en-Yvelines andMarie-France Vigneras of theInstitut de Mathematiques deJussieu. Beginning course lectureswere given by Elena Mantovan ofthe California Institute of Technol-ogy and Rachel Ollivier of theUniversité de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines.

Ramla Abdellatif of the UniversitéParis-Sud 11 and Ana Caraiani ofHarvard University served asteacher assistants for the advancedcourse lectures, and Laura Peskinof the California Institute of Tech-nology and Katherine Korner ofHarvard University were begin-ning course teaching assistants.

Research seminars were as follows:Tanya Khovanova, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology, “Integersand Sequences”; Lillian Pierce,Member, School of Mathematics,“Number Theoretic Methods forDiscrete Analogues in HarmonicAnalysis”; Ila Varma, Leiden Uni-

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versity, “Elementary Formulasfor Sums of Squares via Mod-ular Forms and Hecke Char-acters”; Denis Ibadula,University of ConstantaRomania, “On the Structureof a Certain Space and ItsApplications to the Theoryof Igusa Local Zeta Func-tions”; Tanya Khovanova,Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology, “Baron Münch-hausen’s Sequence”; EkinOzman, University of Wis-consin, “Local Points onQuadratic Twists of theClassical Modular Curve”;Ramla Abdellatif, UniversitéParis-Sud 11, “Mod p Repre-sentations of SL2(Qp)”; and Dubravka Ban, Southern Illinois University, “The Langlands Quotient Theoremfor Central Extensions of p-adic Groups.”

There were sevenWomen-in-Science Seminars. Andrew Pollington of the National Science Foundation gave“An Introduction to the National Science Foundation and Funding Opportunities”; Ingrid Daubechies andCathleen Morawetz hosted “A Chat with Ingrid and Cathleen” and “A Day in the Life,” with Lillian Pierce ofthe Institute, Constance Leidy of Wesleyan University, Birgit Rudloff of Princeton University, and Julie Litmanof the Center for Communications Research; Janet Mertz, University of Wisconsin, spoke on “Gender,Culture, and Mathematics Performance”; and Shelley Costa, Swarthmore College, discussed “Theory ofDifferences: How andWhy the Most Famous ScienceWriter in Nineteenth-Century England Could Not GetHer Mathematical Text Book Published” and led a discussion on “The Next Step—Applying and Survivingthe Graduate School and a Postdoc Position.”

Two colloquia were given during the program, one by Sophie Morel of Harvard University and one byMatthew Emerton of Northwestern University.

On Monday, May 24, the group spent the day at Princeton University where they had lunch, dinner, and atour of the campus. The highlights of the day’s activities were talks by both John Conway of PrincetonUniversity and Peter Sarnak, Professor in the School of Mathematics.

The Institute for Advanced Study and the School of Mathematics appreciate the dedication of the seniorwomen who have graciously given their time and talents since the inception of the program in 1994. Organizers,program committee members, and lecturers have all contributed to the growth and success of the women’sprogram. In the past seventeen years, many women in the field of mathematics, or contemplating entering thefield, have been encouraged and supported by Karen Uhlenbeck, the program founder, and her collaboratorand co-organizer Chuu-Lian Terng. Their commitment to the goals of the program has been unparalleled.

During the course of the workshop, participants were asked for feedback regarding the material level of thelectures. In addition, at the conclusion of each program, surveys were distributed to gain participant opinionsabout the quality of the Institute’s facilities and the structure and organization of the program activities. Thequestionnaires reveal that both undergraduates and graduate students appreciate being offered the opportunityto participate in the program. Many stated that as a result of the program, they have a renewed sense of excite-ment about their math and feel fortunate to have been able to meet and work with so many women withcommon interests and goals. From talking with a few participants, it seemed that while some of the lecturesappeared to be too advanced, the evening tutorials helped those individuals “catch up” and thus they benefitedfrom the additional course lectures.

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In 2009–10, Professor Stephen L. Adler continued his work on possible Earth-bound dark matter, as apotential explanation of the mysterious flyby anomalies. In these anomalies, spacecraft that are put in flybyorbits near Earth have shown unexplained decreases or, more startlingly, increases in velocity. In one new

paper this past year, Adler constructed a model of Earth-orbiting dark matter shells, one composed of inelasticscatterers and a second composed of elastic scatterers, and showed that with shell radii of about thirty tothirty-five thousand kilometers these could give a good fit to the data. This work will appear in theproceedings of the Gell-Mann eightieth birthday conference. In a second paper, submitted as a “whitepaper” to the National Academy of Sciences decadal review on biological and physical sciences in space,Adler showed that if dark matter in Earth orbit is responsible for the flyby anomalies, it will necessarily pro-duce temperature increases in spacecraft passing through the dark matter shells, and so spacecraft calorime-try could be a useful test of the hypothesis. Additionally, Adler wrote up his talk on the flyby anomalies forthe Moriond conference proceedings, and put an analysis on his website showing that modifications of gen-eral relativity within the parameterized post-Newtonian framework cannot account for the flyby anomalies.Adler also wrote two articles of an expository nature. In an invited article for Scholarpedia on the Adler sumrule, he reviewed the history and derivation of this sum rule, and its relationship to the Bjorken scalinghypothesis. The article also included new material, in the form of a detailed evaluation of the current com-mutator side of the sum rule using the full Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa mixing matrix. In the secondexpository article, which appeared as a Perspective in Science, Adler and Angelo Bassi reviewed theoreticaland experimental issues associated with the quantum measurement problem, focusing specifically on exper-imental tests that could verify or falsify stochastic reduction models. These models give an objective solutionto the measurement problem by postulating a very weak noise field that couples to the Schrödinger equation,in such a way that microscopic physics is virtually unaffected, but effects that accumulate over the large num-ber of particles in a measurement apparatus lead to definite outcomes in measurements. Earlier estimates byAdler suggest that the noise coupling may be larger than originally thought, which may make it possible tocontemplate experimental tests within the next decade. Much of Adler’s current work has dealt with finding

School of Natural SciencesFaculty

Stephen L.Adler

NimaArkani-Hamed

Stanislas Leibler

Arnold J. Levine

Juan Maldacena

Nathan Seiberg

ScottTremaine, Richard Black Professor

EdwardWitten, Charles Simonyi Professor

Matias Zaldarriaga

Professors Emeriti

Freeman J. Dyson

Peter Goldreich


improved methods for evaluating high dimensional integrals, a topic ofinterest for both fundamental physics and applications. Adler is currentlywriting a short monograph containing both the theory of these methodsand computer programs that he has developed.

In the 2009–10 academic year, Professor NimaArkani-Hamed’s research hasbeen focused on a deeper understanding of the extraordinary structure ofscattering amplitudes in gauge theories that are invisible using standardmethods. As an example, the scattering of six gluons in gauge theoryinvolves 220 Feynman diagrams and more than ten thousand terms, and yetthe final result is the sum over only three terms that fits on a single line!The reason for all this complexity in the usual formulation of quantumfield theory is locality and unitarity, which forces us to use very gauge-redundant descriptions of physics.

This strongly suggests that there is a new way of thinking about field theorywhere space-time and unitarity will not play a central role, but otherhidden physical principles will be made more manifest. In collaborationwith Member Freddy Cachazo and his students, Arkani-Hamed has madewhat he believes is a significant step in uncovering this dual theory by find-ing a new mathematical structure that seems to be underlying the physicswith deep connections to algebraic geometry, twistor space, and twistorstring theory.

Last July, Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators proposed a dual formulationfor the S Matrix of N=4 SYM and have been studying its consequencesever since. In its first incarnation, the dual provides a basis for the “leadingsingularities” of scattering amplitudes to all orders in perturbation theory.The scattering amplitude for n particles in the sector with k negative helic-ity gluons is associated with a simple integral over the space of k planes inn dimensions the Grassmannian G(k,n), with the action of parity and cyclicsymmetries manifest. The residues of the integrand compute a basis for theleading singularities.

This G(k,n) Grassmannian formulation allows a direct understanding ofboth superconformal and dual superconformal symmetries, somethingimpossible in the usual local formulation of field theory. Locality emergesonly when a correct combination of residues is taken, motivated by a naturalconstruction that gives the integral a “particle interpretation.” This alsoreveals a surprising connection with twistor string theory.

Arkani-Hamed and his collaborators have recently also understood theGrassmannian origin of the full quantum loop amplitudes, beyond leadingsingularities. They arise from a canonical way of removing particles fromhigher-point amplitudes, associated with an “entangled” contour integralover pairs of points in twistor space.

In recent years, gene sequencing has become relatively easy and inexpensive,thus leading to large data banks of protein sequences. It is now possible tocompare the sequences of proteins from a given family and to deduce cor-relations in amino acid frequencies at different positions along the peptidechain. Such correlations originate mainly from functional constraints sharedby different members of the protein family. In collaboration with OlivierRivoire, a Simons Foundation fellow at the Rockefeller University, and thegroup of Rama Ranganathan at the University of Texas Southwestern,40


In collaboration with MemberFreddy Cachazo and his

students, Professor Arkani-Hamed has made what he

believes is a significant step inuncovering this dual theory byfinding a new mathematical

structure that seems to beunderlying the physics

with deep connections toalgebraic geometry, twistor

space, and twistor string theory.


Professor Stanislas Leibler studied the functional constraints in several fam-ilies of proteins, such as serine proteases. This work uncovered the existenceof novel “functional structure” of proteins. It typically consists of severalcoexisting “protein sectors”—contiguous, quasi-independent groups ofamino acids, which do not follow the secondary structure. Each sector can beassociated with different functional aspects of the protein family and it seemsthat different sectors emerge largely under different evolutionary pressures.

Development of theoretical methods to systematically uncover protein sec-tors and to find their physical origins is a daunting theoretical program.Members Rémi Monasson and Simona Cocco, together with Leibler, havebeen trying to delineate simple models to study the interplay betweenfunctional and historical correlations within the protein families. Moregenerally, they have been interested in the development of theoreticalapproaches to the inverse statistical problems in biology. In such problems,starting from observed correlations between interacting elements, one istrying to deduce the nature of underlying effective interactions. In partic-ular, Cocco, Leibler, and Monasson applied new theoretical methods tothe functioning of vertebrate retina, resulting in the rapid deduction ofeffective interactions between neurons directly from the recorded neuralspike trains.

Together with Member Arvind Murugan, Leibler also began to develop ageneral theoretical framework to study error corrections in biologicalsystems. The starting point was the classical work of John Hopfield andJacques Ninio on kinetic proofreading in biochemistry. First generalizationsof these results were obtained and some connections to non-equilibriumstatistical mechanics were explored.

During the 2009–10 academic year, Professor Arnold J. Levine’s researchfocused on cancer genetics, infectious diseases, genetic causes of autism, andevolutionary biology.

Member Hideaki Mizuno, former Members Alexei Vazquez, now at theCancer Institute of New Jersey, Gareth Bond, now at the University ofOxford, and Mickey Atwal, now at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, andLevine continued exploring associations between allelic variants of singlenucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human population and responses 41


Member Nils Baas (standing) discussed newstructures in the natural sciences during aSimons Center for Systems Biology seminar.

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to chemotherapy and correlations amongnearby SNPs as a means to identify candi-date SNPs that could play a role in cancerrisk and response to treatment (ClinicalCancer Research 15, 2009; Carcinogenesis30, 2009; Cancer Research 70, 2010; BMCGenetics 11, 2010). Separately, Levine andVazquez looked for small moleculeswith increased chemotherapeutic activityagainst specific tumor subtypes for someof the most aggressive tumors (provisionalpatent filed). Mizuno and Levine also ana-lyzed the association of p53 mutations inbreast cancers with stem cell transcrip-tional signatures. p53 is frequently inacti-vated in malignant cancer and, recently, ithas been shown that p53 functions as a

barrier to induced pluripotent stem cell production, leading to the hypothesisthat p53 inactivation in vivo might act to permit the emergence of varianttumor cells with stem-cell-like properties (manuscript submitted).

Levine collaborated with Member Benjamin Greenbaum and researchers atthe California Institute of Technology and New York University to testhypotheses about whether influenza has evolved in humans to avoid a set ofsequence motifs that allow it to circumvent the most virulent host immuneinterferon response, and with Greenbaum to investigate variations, such ascopy number variation, in host genetic immune backgrounds.

With Members Ning Lei, Chang Chan, and Asad Naqvi, Levine analyzedAutism Genetic Resource Exchange data to identify genetic mutations thatmight be associated with autism. Out of four mutations identified, twowere in genes previously shown to be associated with autism, and one ofthe new genes identified is expressed in the hippocampus of the humanbrain, a region previously associated with autism.

The human genome contains three related transcription factors termedp53, p63, and p73, which are significant in fidelity of DNA replication,formation of epithelial cell layers, and formation of several structures in thecentral nervous system. A project with Member Vladimir Belyi traced thisgene family back through over one billion years of evolution to an ancestorp53/63/73-like gene, showing the continuity as well as expansion andselection of function.

During the past academic year, Professor Juan Maldacena’s main researcheffort has been on the gauge/string duality with particular emphasis onunderstanding some aspects of gauge theory dynamics.

Maldacena, with Member Davide Gaiotto, studied the gravity descriptionfor a large class of N=2 supersymmetric quantum field theories. The com-plete set of equations and boundary conditions that determine a geometrydual to a given quantum field theory was given. Some special cases wereconstructed explicitly.This gravity description was in precise correspondencewith the general construction of N=2 quantum field theories given byGaiotto in a previous paper.42


Professors EdwardWitten (left),Juan Maldacena (center), andNathan Seiberg at a high energytheory seminar


Maldacena, with Dario Martelli, explored a geometry related to an inter-esting confining supersymmetric quantum field theory. This geometry hasalso played an important role in recent string constructions. There are twogeometries that are closely related, one introduced by Igor Klebanov andMatthew J. Strassler and the other by Chamseddine-Volkov-Maldacena-Nuñez. The relation between the two was clarified by considering a generalbrane configuration in string theory that can give rise to the two geometriesin two distinct limits.

Maldacena, with Member Luis Fernando Alday and Gaiotto, Amit Sever,and PedroVieira, studied a problem involving minimal area surfaces in Anti-de-Sitter space. This problem arises when one considers the strong couplinglimit of Wilson loops or planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 super YangMills. This is a simple modification of the classical Plateau problem: theproblem of finding a soap bubble that ends on a given contour. Except thatnow the contour, as well as the surface, live in a curved space with Lorentz-ian signature. The contour lives on the boundary of anti-de Sitter space andit consists of a sequence of light-like segments. These two papers found away to compute the area of the surface as a function of the shape of thecontour. The problem was solved by using the classical integrability of theequations of motion for a string. It is quite likely that these techniquescould be extended to the full quantum theory. In fact, the main motivationfor this project has been to compute Wilson loops or scattering amplitudesfor all values of the coupling.

Over the past year, Professor Nathan Seiberg continued his work on vari-ous aspects of supersymmetry and its phenomenology.

Following his earlier work on the most general framework of communi-cating supersymmetry breaking using gauge interactions, together withThomas Dumitrescu, and Members Zohar Komargodski and David Shih,he performed a detailed analysis of a large class of models. In these models,the hidden sector consists of two subsectors that are weakly coupled to eachother. One sector is made up of messengers and the other breaks super-symmetry. Each sector by itself may be strongly coupled. A unifying frame-work for such theories was presented and their predictions in differentsettings were discussed. This framework incorporates all known models ofmessengers. In the case of weakly coupled messengers interacting with aspurion through the superpotential, the sfermion mass-squared was shownto be positive, and furthermore, a lower bound on the ratio of the sfermi-on mass to the gaugino mass was established.

With Komargodski he presented a new formalism for finding the low-energyeffective Lagrangian of Goldstinos and other fields. This Lagrangian iswritten using standard superspace and the superfields are constrained toinclude only the light degrees of freedom. The Goldstino resides in a (con-strained) chiral superfield that is naturally identified at short distances. Thisleads to an exact computation of the IR behavior of some correlation func-tions even in strongly coupled theories with supersymmetry breaking. TheGoldstino couplings above the scale of the matter superpartners are deter-mined by identifying the Goldstino superfield with the standard spurion. Atenergies below the superpartners’ scale, fermions, scalars (including Gold-stone bosons), and gauge fields are also described by constrained super-fields. This formalism makes it easy to find the leading order terms in the 43


With Members Ning Lei,Chang Chan, and Asad Naqvi,Professor Levine analyzedAutism Genetic ResourceExchange data to identifygenetic mutations that might beassociated with autism. Out offour mutations identified, twowere in genes previously shownto be associated with autism,and one of the new genesidentified is expressed in thehippocampus of the humanbrain, a region previouslyassociated with autism.


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Lagrangian and to control their corrections. It simplifies the derivation ofmany known results and leads to new ones.

Following their earlier work on Fayet-Iliopoulos (FI) terms in field theoryand supergravity, Komargodski and Seiberg analyzed various supersymmetrymultiplets containing the supercurrent and the energy-momentum tensor.The most widely known such multiplet, the Ferrara-Zumino (FZ) multi-plet, is not always well-defined. This can happen once FI terms are presentor when the Kahler form of the target space is not exact. A new multiplet,which always exists, was presented. This understanding of the super-symmetry current led to new results about the possible IR behavior ofsupersymmetric theories. It also streamlined the coupling of rigid super-symmetric theories to supergravity. The standard coupling, which is basedon the FZ-multiplet, cannot be used when this multiplet is ill-defined.Instead, the new current can be gauged. The resulting theory has, inaddition to the graviton and the gravitino, another massless chiral super-field, which is essential for the consistency of the theory. Some of themoduli of various string models play the role of this superfield. Thesegeneral considerations, which are based on the consistency of supergravity,show that such moduli cannot be easily lifted, thus leading to constraints ongravity/string models.

The centers of most galaxies contain black holes of millions to billions oftimes the mass of the Sun. The closest of these is the black hole at the cen-ter of our own MilkyWay galaxy, which is surrounded by a cluster of starssome one hundred million times denser than the stellar neighborhood ofthe Sun. Understanding the behavior of stars in this exotic system informsus about how black holes grow, about star formation in extreme environ-ments, and even about the rate and properties of gravitational waves thatmay be detected by spacecraft in the next decade. Richard Black ProfessorScott Tremaine and Bence Kocsis of Harvard University have investigatedthe properties of disks of young, short-lived stars found near the Galaxy’sblack hole and have shown that the pronounced warps in these disks arisenaturally and inevitably from resonant gravitational interactions with thesurrounding cluster stars. They have also found intriguing analogiesbetween the properties of the stellar distribution in dense environmentsand phase transitions in condensed-matter systems such as liquid crystals.With Andreas Burkert of the University of Munich, Tremaine has shownthat the masses of black holes in nearby galaxies appear to correlateremarkably well with the population of globular clusters in the host galaxy,suggesting that both form or grow in the same processes.

Much of our understanding of black holes in galaxies and of the distributionof stars in the galaxies themselves is derived from fitting the observed prop-erties of the galaxies—light distribution, rotation speed, velocity dispersion,etc.—to self-consistent models of stellar systems based on the collisionlessBoltzmann equation. Almost all such models are constructed by a techniquepioneered some three decades ago by Martin Schwarzschild at PrincetonUniversity. Tremaine has collaborated with Mir Abbas Jalali of the SharifInstitute of Technology on a new modeling tool based on the finite elementmethods used in engineering design. The greater accuracy of finite-elementmodels of galaxies will become increasingly important as powerful new tele-scopes and instruments provide more accurate data on the galaxy properties.

One of Professor Witten’sprojects involved analyticcontinuation of the path

integral of quantum mechanics,motivated both by the pathintegral of quantum gravity

and by certain recentdiscoveries involving

Chern-Simons gauge theoryin three dimensions.


Tremaine is collaborating with Member Subo Dong to investigate theimplications of new discoveries of extrasolar planets made by NASA’sKepler spacecraft. Kepler detects planets when they pass in front of theirhost star and temporarily block a fraction of the stellar light; its first datarelease contains over seven hundred stars with viable candidate events, in-cluding five systems with candidate events from multiple planets. The Keplerdata is likely to provide our first clean evidence on whether extrasolar planetsgenerally are formed in a disk, like the planets in our own solar system.

EdwardWitten, Charles Simonyi Professor, has worked primarily on threeprojects during 2009–10. The first, in collaboration with Nikita Nekrasov,involved trying to explain surprising new properties of supersymmetricgauge theories (with the so-called Ω-deformation) that have been discov-ered in recent years, at the Institute and elsewhere. Nekrasov and Wittenwere at least partially successful in explaining some of the surprises. Thesecond project involved analytic continuation of the path integral of quan-tum mechanics, motivated both by the path integral of quantum gravityand by certain recent discoveries involving Chern-Simons gauge theory inthree dimensions. Richard Feynman conceived of the path integral as anintegral over real phase space variables. Complexification of the integrationvariables has often been considered on an ad hoc basis for specific purposes.Witten reformulated the path integral more systematically as an integralover a middle-dimensional real cycle in an infinite-dimensional complexspace. At least for certain applications, this reformulation has proved to bequite illuminating.

The third project involves the theory of knots in three-dimensional space.More than twenty years ago, Witten used Chern-Simons gauge theory togive a manifestly invariant description of the celebrated but then-mysteriousJones polynomial of knots. In the last decade, mathematicians such asMikhail Khovanov, following earlier ideas of Igor Frenkel and others, devel-oped knot homology theories that extend the Jones polynomial in an unex-pected way. A manifestly invariant description of Khovanov homology hasbeen lacking. Can the physics-based understanding of the Jones polynomialbe extended to Khovanov homology? Progress in this direction was madesome years ago by Sergei Gukov, Albert Schwarz, and Cumrun Vafa, usingstring theory methods. Witten has succeeded in extending and simplifyingthe arguments in this area and has obtained a much more complete picture.

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Among other research, Professor ScottTremaine (below) collaborated with MemberSubo Dong to investigate the implications ofnew discoveries of extrasolar planets made

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In 2009–10, ProfessorMatiasZaldarriaga worked on avariety of topics in cosmol-ogy, ranging from early uni-verse cosmology to the studyof the Lyman alpha coolingradiation associated withgalaxy formation.

Member Leonardo Senatoreand Zaldarriaga constructedsingle field inflationary mod-els that are not tuned buthave a four point functionlarge enough to be detect-able by the next generationof observations. This openeda new window to constraininflationary models. In a sep-

arate paper, they computed loop corrections to correlation functions ofinflationary perturbations in two sets of models, one where the inflaton hasa large cubic self interaction and the other in which it interacts gravitation-ally with N additional massless scalar fields. The computations showed thatcontrary to previous results, quantum correction to the two point functiondoes not induce a logarithmic running with the wavenumber or make thesuper-horizon correlation function time dependent.

Members Daniel Baumann and Senatore, together with Alberto Nicolis ofColumbia University and Zaldarriaga, constructed a long wavelengtheffective theory for describing the universe on large scales. This theory canbe used to address issues of back-reaction of the short wavelength pertur-bations on the dynamics of the expansion of the universe as well as on theevolution of the large-scale inhomogeneities in the universe. This approachcan be the basis for new calculation techniques that could be used to makepredictions for upcoming large-scale structure measurements.

Max Tegmark of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Zaldarriagacontinued to pursue a novel radio telescope array design that could result invastly larger collecting areas for the same computational cost. This innova-tion could lead to sensitive telescopes to observe the large-scale structure ofthe universe at early times using the 21 centimeter line of hydrogen. Theseinvestigations resulted in three papers that studied the array configurationsfor which this reduction of computational cost would apply; developednew calibration techniques for such arrays; and presented a solution for theso-called corner turning problem.

Together with JaiyulYoo and Lars Hernquist of Harvard University, Zaldar-riaga studied a method to reconstruct the masses of galaxy clusters using thegravitational lensing effect they produce on the polarization of themicrowave background.WithYoo and Liam Fitzpatrick of Boston University,Zaldarriaga studied general relativistic effects on galaxy clustering statistics.

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Professor Matias Zaldarriaga discussed theearly universe and cosmology during a jointPrinceton University and Institute lunch.


associated with galaxy formation. Using a newly developed Lyman alpharadiative transfer code, they studied how gas accreted into galaxies in thecold mode could result in the observed Lyman-alpha blobs and other highredshift Lyman alpha sources.

Professor Emeritus Freeman J. Dyson did no significant research duringthe year 2009–10. He spent most of his time writing reviews of books forthe NewYork Review of Books and writing keynote speeches for various for-mal occasions. The most interesting of the keynote speeches was written forthe “John von Neumann Distinguished Lecture Series” at Brown Universi-ty, with the title “AWalk through Johnny von Neumann’s Garden.”Anoth-er historical lecture, with the title “Birds and Frogs,” was published in theNotices of the American Mathematical Society 56 (2009).

Each of the outer planets—Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune—host asystem of planetary rings. Saturn’s rings are the most prominent and thor-oughly investigated. They are broad, bright, separated by narrow gaps, andare composed of centimeter- to meter-size particles of water ice. Much hasalso been learned about the rings of Uranus. They form almost the negativeimage of Saturn’s—narrow, dark, widely separated—but are likely alsocomposed of ice particles, albeit covered with a dark organic residue.

Sharp edges are a common feature of both ring systems. These are charac-terized by abrupt drops in optical depth from order unity to essentially zeroover scales no larger than hundreds of meters. Some edges are maintainedby shepherd satellites, which tidally transfer angular momentum away froman outer edge and to an inner edge. This prevents the edges from spreadingdue to collisional stresses that transport angular momentum outward indifferentially rotating rings.

Some sharp edges appear to lack shepherd satellites. At least none have beendiscovered by the Cassini spacecraft that has been orbiting Saturn for sev-eral years. Professor Emeritus Peter Goldreich has been investigating anovel form of shepherding in which angular momentum is transferredacross empty space from an outer to aninner edge. The transfer involves thespontaneous excitation of a pair of den-sity waves on the two edges. The wavesshare a common pattern speed; that is,they appear stationary in a frame rotat-ing with an angular velocity intermedi-ate between that of particles at theouter and inner edge. Spontaneousexcitation is possible because the waveon the outer edge has negative energyand angular momentum, whereas boththe energy and angular momentum ofthe wave on the inner edge are positive.Thus the transfer of energy and angularmomentum from the outer to the inneredge results in the amplification of bothwaves while conserving total energyand angular momentum.

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Member Daniel Green discussed strongcoupling and supersymmetry model

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MEMBERS ANDVISITORS

f First Term s Second Term m Long-termMember vVisitor j Joint Member Schoolof Mathematics

Prashanth AKBiology Institute for Advanced StudyHelen and Martin Chooljian Founders’ CircleMember

Luis FernandoAldayParticle Physics Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Departmentof Energy

Natalie ArkusBiology The Rockefeller University v

Nils A. BaasAlgebraicTopology, Systems Biology NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology j, s

Daniel BaumannCosmology, Particle Astrophysics, StringTheory,Supersymmetry Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Jacob D. BekensteinGravitationTheory,Astrophysics The HebrewUniversity of JerusalemIBM Einstein Fellow

Vladimir BelyiBiology Institute for Advanced StudyMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Member inBiology

Gyan BhanotBiology Rutgers,The State University ofNew Jersey, and The Cancer Institute of NewJersey v

Freddy CachazoFieldTheory, StringTheory Perimeter Institutefor Theoretical PhysicsFunding provided byThe Ambrose MonellFoundation

Simon Caron-HuotMathematical Physics and Statistical Mechanics,StringTheory, Supersymmetry Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Chang S. ChanBiology Institute for Advanced StudyCharles L. Brown Member in Biology

R. Sekhar ChivukulaHigh-EnergyTheory, Phenomenology MichiganState University f

Simona CoccoBiology Laboratoire de Physique Statistique,École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Shane DavisAstrophysics Institute for Advanced Study mFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation and the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration

Subo DongAstrophysics Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration, Exoplanet Science Institute,Carl Sagan Fellowship Program

Anatoly DymarskyCosmology, StringTheory and Supersymmetry,Particle Physics Institute for Advanced Study

Henriette ElvangTheoretical Physics University of Michigan f

Rodrigo FernandezAstrophysics Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration, Einstein Fellowship Program

Davide GaiottoParticle Physics Institute for AdvancedStudy mRoger Dashen Member; additional fundingprovided by the National Science Foundation

Daniel GreenCosmology, StringTheory and Supersymmetry,Phenomenology,Mathematical Physics andStatistical Mechanics Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the United States Departmentof Energy

Benjamin GreenbaumBiology Institute for Advanced StudyEric andWendy Schmidt Member in Biology

Jonathan Jacob HeckmanStringTheory and Supersymmetry,Phenomenology Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Tobias HeinemannAstrophysics Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration and the National ScienceFoundation

Kevin HengAstrophysics Institute for Advanced StudyFrank and PeggyTaplin Member; additionalfunding provided by the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration

Zohar KomargodskiStringTheory and Supersymmetry,Phenomenology Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Paul LangackerParticle Physics Institute for AdvancedStudy mFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Ning LeiBiology Institute for Advanced Study

Marilena LoVerdeCosmology,Astrophysics Institute for AdvancedStudyFriends of the Institute for Advanced StudyMember; additional funding provided by theNational Science Foundation

Rachel MandelbaumAstrophysics Institute for Advanced Study mFunding provided byThe Ambrose MonellFoundation

Elke Katrin MarkertBiology Institute for Advanced Study

Patrick MeadeParticle Physics Institute for AdvancedStudy v, f

MikhailV. MedvedevTheoretical Astrophysics The University ofKansas sFunding provided byThe Ambrose MonellFoundation

Hideaki MizunoBiology Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.,Tokyo

Rémi MonassonBiology Laboratoire de Physique Théorique,École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Arvind MuruganBiology Institute for Advanced Study

Asad NaqviBiology Swansea University

Donal O’ConnellParticle Physics Institute for Advanced StudyMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Member;additional funding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

Michele PapucciParticle Physics Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation


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Martin PessahAstrophysics Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by theW.M.Keck FoundationFund

Gunaretnam RajagopalBiology The Cancer Institute of NewJersey v

Soo-Jong ReyStringTheory,Theoretical High-Energy Physics

Seoul National UniversityFunding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

Douglas RuddAstrophysics Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation; IBM Einstein Fellow

Alexia SchulzAstrophysics Institute for Advanced StudyCorning GlassWorks Foundation Fellow;additional funding provided by the NationalScience Foundation

Leonardo SenatoreParticle Astrophysics, Cosmology, StringTheoryand Supersymmetry, Phenomenology HarvardUniversityFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

David ShihParticle Physics Institute for Advanced StudyWilliam D. Loughlin Member; additional fundingprovided by the United States Department ofEnergy

Elizabeth H. SimmonsParticle Physics Michigan State University f

Anna Marie SkalkaBiology Institute for Cancer Research, FoxChase Cancer Center f

Aristotle SocratesAstrophysics Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation; IBM Einstein Fellow

YujiTachikawaMathematical and Particle Physics Institute forAdvanced Study mMarvin L.Goldberger Member; additional fundingprovided by the National Science Foundation

SalvatoreTorquatoParticle Physics Princeton University v

TanmayVachaspatiParticle Physics CaseWestern ReserveUniversity v

TomerVolanskyParticle Physics Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

HaijianWangBiology Fudan UniversityQiu Shi Science andTechnologies FoundationMember

BrianWechtParticle Physics Institute for Advanced StudyFrank and PeggyTaplin Member; additional fundingprovided by the United States Department ofEnergy

DavidWeinbergCosmology,Astrophysics The Ohio StateUniversityFunding provided by the Association of Membersof the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS)

Amit Pratap SinghYadavCosmology,Astrophysics Harvard UniversityIBM Einstein Fellow

Joshua D.YoungerAstrophysics Institute for Advanced StudyHubble SpaceTelescope Fellow

Nadia ZakamskaAstrophysics Institute for Advanced Study mJohn N. Bahcall Fellow; additional fundingprovided by the National Science Foundation

RECORD OF EVENTS

Astrophysics Activities

September 15Astrophysics Seminar The Demographics ofMassive Black Holes Tod Lauer, NationalOptical Astronomy Observatory

September 17Astrophysics Informal Seminar RefiningPhotometric Redshift Distributions with Cross-Correlation Alexia Schulz, Member,School of Natural Sciences

September 21Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/ExtragalacticReading Group) z~7-8 Survey Papers

Discussion Leader:Andrei Mesinger,Princeton University

September 22Astrophysics Seminar Structure andFormation of Elliptical and SpheroidalGalaxies—Correlations with Supermassive BlackHoles John Kormendy, University ofTexas

September 24Astrophysics Informal Seminar ConnectingGalaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates acrossCosmicTime RisaWechsler, StanfordUniversity

September 29Astrophysics Seminar The Saga of theVarying Fine Structure Constant JacobBekenstein,The Hebrew University ofJerusalem; Member, School of NaturalSciences

October 1Astrophysics Informal Seminar Modeling theFlyby Anomalies with Dark Matter Scattering

StephenAdler, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences

October 5Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar Simulations of AGNFeedback in Clusters and Galaxies GregNovak, Princeton University

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/ExtragalacticReading Group) Dissecting the RedSequence Discussion Leader:MariskaKriek, Princeton University

October 6Astrophysics Seminar Dynamics of the RMode Instability of Rotating Neutron Stars

IraWasserman, Cornell University

October 8Astrophysics Informal Seminar TheDynamics of Spiral DensityWaves inTurbulentAccretion Disks Tobias Heinemann,Member, School of Natural Sciences

October 13Astrophysics Seminar Mechanism of GRBEmission Andrei Beloborodov,Columbia University

October 19Astrophysics Informal Seminar FastRadiation Mediated Shocks and SNe ShockBreakouts Boaz Katz,Weizmann Instituteof Science


Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar Reionization:The MoreWe Learn, the LessWe Know AndreiMesinger, Princeton University

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/Extragalactic ReadingGroup) FIR/Radio Correlation DiscussionLeader:Claire Lackner, PrincetonUniversity

October 20Astrophysics Seminar Galactic Orbits ofUltracool Subdwarfs Adam Burgasser,Massachusetts Institute of Technology

October 22Astrophysics Informal Seminar BalancingOutflows and Gas Dilution:The Mass-MetallicityRelation at z=0 Molly Peeples,The OhioState University

October 27Astrophysics Seminar The First Stars and theFossil Record JasonTumlinson, SpaceTelescope Science Institute, NASA, Baltimore

October 29Astrophysics Informal Seminar

Ly-alpha Emission from Galaxy Formation

Claude-André Faucher-Giguère,Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

November 2Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar TheThermal History ofthe IGM,Reionization, and the Ly-alpha Forest

Adam Lidz, University of Pennsylvania

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/Extragalactic ReadingGroup) Outer Parts of Disk Galaxies

Discussion Leader: Jenny Greene,Princeton University

November 3Astrophysics Seminar Dark Energy and theHubble Constant from a Differential DistanceLadder Adam Riess, Space TelescopeScience Institute, NASA, Baltimore

November 10Astrophysics Seminar Chromospheric Activityin Low-Mass Stars Jill Knapp, PrincetonUniversity

November 12Astrophysics Informal Seminar Approachesto Understanding Inflation:Theory, Experiment,and Observation Mark Hertzberg,Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar Cold Mode of GasAccretion Dusan Keres, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/Extragalactic ReadingGroup) Empirical Determinations of theTotalMass to Stellar Mass Ratio viaWeak and StrongLensing Discussion Leader:Douglas Rudd,Member, School of Natural Sciences

November 17Astrophysics Seminar Non-Thermal Pressurein Early-Type Galaxy Atmospheres and AGNFeedback Eugene Churazov, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik

November 19Astrophysics Informal Seminar The EffectiveTheory of Quintessence and Its ObservationalSignatures Guido D’Amico, ScuolaInternazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati,Trieste, Italy


December 1Astrophysics Seminar Non-Gaussianities fromInflation Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor,School of Natural Sciences

December 3Astrophysics Informal Seminar SatelliteGalaxies in LCDM:Orbits, Merging, andDisruption AndrewWetzel, Universityof California, Berkeley

December 8Astrophysics Seminar The Fine-Scale Structureof Dark Matter Halos SimonWhite, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik

December 10Astrophysics Informal Seminar Cosmologyand Astrophysics with Galaxy Clusters

Daisuke Nagai,Yale University

December 14Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar Kelvin-HelmholtzInstability II: Eulerian Galilean Invariance andWhat Does Numerical Convergence Really MeanAnyway? Douglas Rudd, Member, Schoolof Natural Sciences

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/Extragalactic ReadingGroup) Passive Red Disks DiscussionLeader:Charlie Conroy, PrincetonUniversity

December 15Astrophysics Seminar Stability, EnergyTransport, andVariability of High LuminosityAccretion onto Black Holes Omer Blaes,University of California, Santa Barbara

January 11Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar The SubmillimeterViewof Galaxy Formation JoshuaYounger,Member, School of Natural Sciences

January 12Astrophysics Informal Seminar Testing AGNEvolution Models through the Comparison ofSemi-Analytic Simulations and a LargeObservational Data Set Amy Kimball,University of Washington

January 19Astrophysics Informal Seminar PlanetarySystems, Turbulence, and Saturn’s Rings

Hanno Rein, University of Cambridge

January 21Astrophysics Informal Seminar Exo-Cartography:Time-Resolved Photometry ofExoplanets Nick Cowan, Universityof Washington


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January 25Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar Triaxial Dark MatterHalos: Observations,Theory, and Implications

Kathryn Johnston, Columbia University

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/Extragalactic ReadingGroup) Halo Alignments Discussion Leader:Kathryn Johnston, Columbia University

January 26Astrophysics Seminar Measuring the Cosmos

Mark Reid, Harvard-Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics

January 28Astrophysics Informal Seminar ACosmological RandomWalk DavidWeinberg,The Ohio State University;Member, School of Natural Sciences

February 2Astrophysics Seminar The Status of CosmicRay Anomalies and Dark Matter Interpretations

NealWeiner, NewYork University

February 8Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar Chemical Enrichmentof the Primeval IGM by the First Supernovae

DanielWhalen, Carnegie Mellon University

February 9Astrophysics Seminar Peaks and Pitfalls inLarge Scale Structure Ravi Sheth, Universityof Pennsylvania

February 16Astrophysics Seminar The Seven-YearWMAPObservations: Cosmological Interpretation

Eiichiro Komatsu,The University of Texasat Austin

February 18Astrophysics Informal Seminar MagneticEquilibrium Andrei Gruzinov, NewYorkUniversity

February 22Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch

Discussion Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga,Professor, School of Natural Sciences, andDavid Spergel, Princeton University

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar Gas Accretion onto Halosand Galaxies Yuval Birnboim, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/Extragalactic ReadingGroup) Lensing + Dynamics as aWay ofConstraining Halo Masses/IMF DiscussionLeader:Claire Lackner, PrincetonUniversity

February 23Astrophysics Seminar InflationaryTheory,StringTheory, and the CMB EvaSilverstein, Kavli Institute for TheoreticalPhysics, University of California, Santa Barbara

February 25Astrophysics Informal Seminar MatterDistribution around Galaxies MasatakaFukugita,The University of Tokyo

March 2Astrophysics Seminar Were Star-FormingGalaxies Responsible for Cosmic Reionization?

Richard Ellis, California Institute ofTechnology

March 4Astrophysics Informal Seminar FrontierPlanets: Formation and Dynamics atWideSeparations Ruth Murray-Clay, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

March 8Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

March 9Astrophysics Seminar Spiral Structure:WhatRemains? AlarToomre, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology

March 11Astrophysics Informal Seminar TidallyInteracting Planets and Stars: Fluid Dynamicsand the Fate of Planets Gordon Ogilvie,University of Cambridge

March 16Astrophysics Seminar Equivalence Principleand Cosmic Acceleration Lam Hui, ColumbiaUniversity

March 18Astrophysics Informal Seminar SecularInstability: Formation of Hot Jupiters and theOrganization of Planetary Systems YoramLithwick, Canadian Institute for TheoreticalAstrophysics

March 22Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Computational Cosmology and GalaxyFormation Seminar Physical and NumericalIssues in SPH Simulations of Galaxy Formation

DavidWeinberg,The Ohio StateUniversity; Member, School of NaturalSciences

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/Extragalactic ReadingGroup) Tracers of Star Formation Rates atHigh z Discussion Leader:Mariska Kriek,Princeton University

March 23Astrophysics Seminar Pulsar Magnetic FieldEvolution Malvin Ruderman, ColumbiaUniversity

March 25Astrophysics Informal Seminar From Pebbleto Planetesimal Anders Johansen, LeidenObservatory

March 30Astrophysics Seminar Stellar AstrophysicsResults from the CHARA Interferometric Array

Hal McAlister, MountWilson Institute

April 1Astrophysics Informal Seminar Probingthe Physics of the Beginning: Primordial Non-Gaussianity and GravitationalWaves AmitYadav, Harvard University; Member, Schoolof Natural Sciences

April 6Astrophysics Seminar High-z GalaxyFormation in the Standard Cosmology AvishaiDekel,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

April 8Astrophysics Informal Seminar HiggsMechanism for Graviton Slava Mukhanov,Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

April 13Astrophysics Seminar Extreme Limits of BlackHole Collisions Frans Pretorius, PrincetonUniversity


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April 15Astrophysics Informal Seminar GalaxyFormation and Evolution in the Next Decade

Jason Kalirai, Space Telescope ScienceInstitute, NASA, Baltimore

April 19Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/Extragalactic ReadingGroup) Sources of the Extragalactic IRBackground Discussion Leader: JoshuaYounger, Member, School of NaturalSciences

April 20Astrophysics Seminar Pulsar Magnetosphere:The Incredible Machine AnatolySpitkovsky, Princeton University

April 22Astrophysics Informal Seminar Accretionof Gas with Small Angular Momentum ontoSupermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies

Rashid Sunyaev, Max-Planck-Institut fürAstrophysik

April 27Astrophysics Seminar Imaging the Interiors ofEarth and Sun Based upon Adjoint Methods

JeroenTromp, Princeton University

April 29Astrophysics Informal Seminar SymmetronFields: Screening Long-Range Forces through LocalSymmetry Restoration Justin Khoury,University of Pennsylvania

May 3Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Galread (Galactic/Extragalactic ReadingGroup) Compactness of Massive Galaxies atHigh-z from HST/WFC3 Discussion Leader:Richard Cool, Princeton University

May 4Astrophysics Seminar Magnetar Oscillation

Yuri Levin, Leiden Observatory

May 6Astrophysics Informal Seminar CosmologicalPerturbations as an Effective Fluid DanielBaumann, Member, School of NaturalSciences

May 11Astrophysics Seminar Dead “Miniquasars” inNearby Galaxies Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz,University of California, Santa Cruz

May 13Astrophysics Informal Seminar RelativisticFlows and Magnetic Fields AndrewMacFadyen, NewYork University

May 17Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

May 18Astrophysics Seminar The Chemistry ofGalaxy Formation Andrey Kravtsov,The University of Chicago

May 20Astrophysics Informal Seminar MagneticFields in Galaxy Clusters ChristophPfrommer, Canadian Institute forTheoretical Astrophysics

June 28Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

Particle Physics Activities

August 5High Energy Theory Seminar Much AdoAbout Parton Showers Michael Peskin,Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, StanfordUniversity

September 11High Energy Theory Seminar LiouvilleTheory and Four-Dimensional GaugeTheory

Davide Gaiotto, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

September 16Physics Group Meeting More N=2 S-dualities fromTwist Lines YujiTachikawa,Member, School of Natural Sciences

September 18High Energy Theory Seminar Aspects ofSUSY Breaking Zohar Komargodski,Member, School of Natural Sciences

September 21High Energy Theory Seminar Non-FermiLiquids from Holography John McGreevy,Massachusetts Institute of Technology

September 23Physics Group Meeting Geometric Unificationin the F-theory GUT Jonathan Heckman,Member, School of Natural Sciences

October 1Informal Phenomenology Seminar

Photinoverse Nathaniel Craig, StanfordUniversity

October 2High Energy Theory Seminar CollapseModels with Non-White Noise StephenAdler, Professor, School of Natural Sciences

October 5High Energy Theory Seminar Probing theStrong Coupling N=4 SYMTheory AlfredMueller, Columbia University

October 7Physics Group Meeting Geometric Unificationin F-theory GUT—Part 2 JonathanHeckman, Member, School of NaturalSciences

October 14Physics Group Meeting Comments on N=2GaugeTheories and the Quantization ofTeichmüller Spaces JoergTeschner,Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)

October 16High Energy Theory Seminar Indirect Probesof the Hidden Sector TomerVolansky,Member, School of Natural Sciences

October 19High Energy Theory Seminar InterpolatingfromWeak to Strong Coupling in the AdS/CFTCorrespondence: Examples of BPS Subsectors

Nadav Drukker, Humboldt Universität zuBerlin

October 21Informal Phenomenology Seminar R4-counterterm and E7-symmetry in MaximalSupergravity Johannes Broedel, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationphysik

October 30High Energy Theory Seminar NewToolsfor New SCFTs BrianWecht, Member,School of Natural Sciences

November 2High Energy Theory Seminar Conformalityor Confinement: (IR)relevance of TopologicalExcitations Mithat Unsal, SLAC NationalAccelerator Laboratory

November 3Special High Energy Theory Seminar ANovel Hydrodynamic Phenomenon from Gravity

R. Loganayagam,Tata Institute ofFundamental Research, Mumbai, India


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November 4Informal Phenomenology Seminar LinkVariables, Gauge Amplitudes, and OpenTwistorStringTheory Louise Dolan, University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill

November 5Informal Phenomenology Seminar

Hadronization, Spin, and Lifetimes YuvalGrossman, Cornell University

November 6Informal Phenomenology Seminar Signalsof a Sneutrino NLSP at the LHC AndreyKatz, University of Maryland

November 10Special High Energy Theory Seminar

Exact Symmetries for N=4 SYM ScatteringAmplitudes Tristan McLoughlin,Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationphysik

November 11Physics Group Meeting SupersymmetricWilson Loops in N=4 SYM and Pure Spinsors

Anatoly Dymarsky, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

November 12Informal Phenomenology Seminar DirectDetection of Leptophilic Dark Matter JureZupan, CERN/University of Ljubljana,Slovenia

November 17Informal Phenomenology Seminar TheFermi Haze? Tracy Slatyer, HarvardUniversity

November 18Physics Group Meeting Strong Coupling andSUSY Model Building Daniel Green,Member, School of Natural Sciences

November 25Physics Group Meeting FusingTreeAmplitudes into Loops without Using Unitarity

Simon Caron-Huot, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

November 30High Energy Theory Seminar QuantumIntegrability and Supersymmetric GaugeTheoriesorTBA from Instantons Nikita Nekrasov,Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques

December 3Informal Phenomenology Seminar FormFactor Dark Matter Andrew LiamFitzpatrick, Boston University

December 4High Energy Theory Seminar SuperconformalFlavor Simplified David Poland, HarvardUniversity

December 7High Energy Theory Seminar ExactIntegrability in Planar AdS/CFT PedroVieira, Perimeter Institute for TheoreticalPhysics

December 14High Energy Theory Seminar QuantumIntegrability as Discrete Hirota Dynamics: From2D Sigma Models to AdS/CFT VladimirKazakov, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

December 18High Energy Theory Seminar From GaugeTheory to Liouville via Coisotropic Branes

EdwardWitten, Charles Simonyi Professor,School of Natural Sciences

January 11High Energy Theory Seminar MatrixModels and SupersymmetricTheories in FourDimensions CumrunVafa, HarvardUniversity

January 18Informal High Energy Theory Seminar

Exploring the MirrorTBA Gleb Arutyunov,Utrecht University

February 1High Energy Theory Seminar The Statusand Near-Future of Dark Matter DirectDetection NealWeiner, NewYorkUniversity

February 4Physics Group Meeting N=4 SYM andGrassmannian NimaArkani-Hamed,Professor, School of Natural Sciences

February 5High Energy Theory Seminar From GaugeTheory to Integrability and Liouville viaCoisotropic Branes EdwardWitten, CharlesSimonyi Professor, School of Natural Sciences

February 16High Energy Theory Seminar The LithiumProblem and Particle Physics: PossibleConnections Maxim Pospelov, Universityof Victoria and Perimeter Institute forTheoretical Physics

February 19High Energy Theory Seminar Higher SpinGaugeTheory and Holography XiYin,Harvard University

March 1High Energy Theory Seminar Compact F-theory GUT’s with PQ Symmetry NataliaSaulina, Perimeter Institute for TheoreticalPhysics

March 5High Energy Theory Seminar Y-system forScattering Amplitudes Luis FernandoAlday, Member, School of Natural Sciences

March 22High Energy Theory Seminar New SeibergDualities from Elliptic Hypergeometry GrigoriVartanov, Max-Planck-Institut fürGravitationphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)

March 23Informal High Energy Theory Seminar

Twistor-Strings for Leading Singularities andthe Grassmannian and Box Functions as(Renormalized) AdSVolumes Lionel Mason,University of Oxford

March 29Informal High Energy Theory Seminar

Conformal Symmetry and Integrability inPerturbative N=4 Scattering Amplitudes

Niklas Beisert, Max-Planck-Institut fürGravitationphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut)

April 5High Energy Theory Seminar S-duality,Superconformal Index and 2dTQFT ShlomoRazamat, Stony Brook University,The StateUniversity of NewYork

April 7Physics Group Meeting Aspects of SymmetricProduct Orbifolds Shlomo Razamat, StonyBrook University,The State University ofNewYork

April 8 and 9Workshop on Integrability in ScatteringAmplitudes Recent Advances in PerturbativeComputations Henrik Johansson, Institutde Physique Théorique, CEA, Saclay

Amplitudes and the Grassmannian NimaArkani-Hamed, Professor, School of NaturalSciences Yangian Symmetry in ScatteringAmplitudes Johannes Henn, HumboldtUniversity, and James Drummond,Laboratoire de Physique Theoriqued’Annecy Amplitudes at Strong Coupling andAdS/CFT Juan Maldacena, Professor,School of Natural Sciences

April 14Physics Group Meeting Octonions and E6

Tevian Dray and Corrine Manogue,Oregon State University

April 15Informal Phenomenology Seminar DarkMatter from the Baryon Asymmetry KathrynZurek, University of Michigan

April 16High Energy Theory Seminar Supercurrents

Nathan Seiberg, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences


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April 19High Energy Theory Seminar The Multiverseand Scale-Factor Cutoff Measure Alan Guth,Massachusetts Institute of Technology

April 21Physics Group Meeting Recursion Relationsin StringTheory BrianWecht and DonalO’Connell, Members, School of NaturalSciences

April 22Informal Phenomenology Seminar MoreSupersymmetries or No Supersymmetry at theLHC Yasunori Nomura, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley

April 23High Energy Theory Seminar General GaugeMediation with Gauge Messengers MattSudano, Institute for the Physics andMathematics of the Universe,The Universityof Tokyo

May 14High Energy Theory Seminar Hiding theHiggs in Lepton Jets TomerVolansky,Member, School of Natural Sciences

May 21High Energy Theory Seminar CosmologicalNon-Linearities as an Effective Fluid

Leonardo Senatore, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

May 24High Energy Theory Seminar The ATLASExperiment at the LHC: Status, Performance, andFirst Results Beate Heinemann,University of California, Berkeley

May 27Physics Group Meeting On B-Bbar Mixing

Michele Papucci, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

May 28High Energy Theory Seminar TheNonrelativistic Limit of AdS/CFT ArjunBagchi, Harish-Chandra Research Institute

The Simons Center forSystems Biology Activities

July 30Autism Group Meeting

August 20The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar An Integrated Analysis of MolecularAberrations in Cancer Chen-HsiangYeang,Institute of Statistical Science,AcademiaSinica

September 11The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting

September 18The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting Hunting Genes in Autism

Chang S. Chan, Member, School of NaturalSciences Innate Immune Responses to Flu andHIV Benjamin Greenbaum, Member,School of Natural Sciences

September 21The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Retrovirus Replication and the RT–INConnection Anna Marie Skalka, Institutefor Cancer Research, Fox Chase CancerCenter; Member, School of Natural Sciences

September 22The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Virus-Host Cell Interactions andDaxx Anna Marie Skalka, Institute forCancer Research, Fox Chase Cancer Center;Member, School of Natural Sciences

September 24Joint Lab Meeting Epigenetic Silencing ofViralGene Expression Natalia Shalginskikh,Moscow State University Role of Rad21 inEpigentic Silencing DineshkumarDandekar, Fox Chase Cancer Center

September 25–26Joint Meeting on Bioinformatics,The SimonsCenter for Systems Biology and Institute ofMolecular and Cell Biology Hunting Genesin Autism Chang S. Chan, Member,School of Natural Sciences Innate ImmuneResponses to Flu and HIV BenjaminGreenbaum, Member, School of NaturalSciences The Evolution of the p53 GeneFamily Arnold J. Levine, Professor, Schoolof Natural Sciences

October 12The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Rotaviruses Phil Dormitzer,Novartis Vaccines

October 15The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology John Hopfield, PrincetonUniversity

October 22Joint Lab Meeting Functional Screens forHuman Epigenetic Silencing Factors RichardKatz, Fox Chase Cancer Center TheStructure and Function of Retroviral IntegraseProteins Mark Andrake, Fox Chase CancerCenter

October 30The Simons Center for Systems Biology/TheCancer Institute of New Jersey/Johnson &Johnson Asthma Meeting

November 5The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar The Persistent Shape of Data

Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University

The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology A. James Hudspeth,TheRockefeller University

November 6The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar StatisticalTopology and Mapping inHigh Dimensions Gunnar Carlsson,Stanford University

November 13The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar The Apples of Our Eyes: Innovation,Art, and Intellectual Property in American Fruits

Daniel J. Kevles,Yale University

November 18Joint Lab Meeting Epigenetic Silencing

Dineshkumar Dandekar, Fox ChaseCancer Center Natalia Shalginskikh,Fox Chase Cancer Center

November 19The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology Laurent Keller, Université deLausanne

November 24The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting

November 30The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting Optimal Drug Combinationsand Minimal Hitting Sets AlexeiVazquez,The Cancer Institute of New Jersey

December 3The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Is the Most Abundant Protein onEarth, Rubisco, Slow and Inefficient, Optimal, orBoth? TsviTlusty,Weizmann Institute ofScience

December 4The Simons Center for SystemsBiology/Genstruct Meeting IdiosyncraticDrug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI) DaphnaLaifenfeld, Genstruct Introduction toGenstruct’s Personalized Oncology Platform

Renee Kenney, Genstruct Development ofCNTO328 Response Biomarkers for MultipleMyeloma Patients—A Collaboration with J&J

Renee Kenney, Genstruct Small Moleculeswith Activity in Cell Lines Containing p53


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Mutations AlexeiVazquez,The CancerInstitute of New Jersey Innate ImmuneResponses to Flu and HIV BenjaminGreenbaum, Member, School of NaturalSciences Systems Analysis of SignalTransduction Pathways Prashanth AK,Member, School of Natural Sciences

December 7Joshua Lederberg –John von NeumannSymposium: Toward Quantitative Biology

Neural Processing of Acoustic CommunicationSignals: From Biophysics to Biological Function

AndreasV. M. Herz, Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversität München Universals of GenomeEvolution and the Prospect of a PostmodernSynthesis of Evolutionary Biology EugeneV.Koonin, National Institutes of Health

Mutation and Evolution Michael Lynch,Indiana University Evolutionary “Design” ofProteins Rama Ranganathan, Universityof Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Physics and Biology: Unexpected Connections

Boris I. Shraiman, Kavli Institute forTheoretical Physics Geometry and MolecularInformation TsviTlusty, WeizmannInstitute of Science

December 16Joint Lab Meeting Retroviral IntegraseStructure and Function Ravi Bojja, FoxChase Cancer Center Epigenetic Silencing

Richard Katz, Fox Chase Cancer Center

December 22The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting Ghosts of AncientViruses

Vladimir Belyi, Member, School of NaturalSciences

January 21The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology Larry Abbott, ColumbiaUniversity College of Physicians and Surgeons

January 22Autism Group Meeting

January 27The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar p53 Allele Specific SyntheticLethality Darren Carpizo,The CancerInstitute of New Jersey

The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Stem Cell Signatures in Breast Cancerwith p53 Mutations Hideaki Mizuno,Member, School of Natural Sciences

January 28The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting Functional GeneticCharacterization of Mammary and Cancer StemCells Benjamin Spike,The Salk Institutefor Biological Studies

February 18The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology Uri Alon,Weizmann Institute ofScience

March 3The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar New Structures in the NaturalSciences Nils A. Baas, NorwegianUniversity of Science and Technology;Member, School of Mathematics; Member,School of Natural Sciences

March 4The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting Limited Effective Sizeof the CD8+T Cell Receptor RepertoireCreates Unexpectedly Large Overlap betweenIndividuals Harlan Robins, FredHutchinson Cancer Research Center

Autism Group Meeting

March 5The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Beyond the Double Helix: ReadingandWriting the Histone Code C. David Allis,The Rockefeller University

March 11The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Approximate Learning Algorithm inBoltzmann Machines Using the BetheApproximation and the Linear ResponseRelation MunekiYasuda,TohokuUniversity, Sendai, Japan

March 17The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Hunting for Genes andTracking Loci:ComplexTrait Analysis in the Domestic Dog

Elaine Ostrander, National Institutes ofHealth

March 18The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Images of Life: Exploring PlantDevelopment withVisual Models andSimulations Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz,University of Calgary

March 22The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting

March 24Autism Group Meeting

The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Genomic Instability and Copy NumberBurden in Autism Spectrum Disorder Scott B.Selleck,The Pennsylvania State University

March 26The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Integrating Mass Screening andStructure Based Design for Novel AntithromboticDrug Development Barry Coller,TheRockefeller University

March 29The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting

April 15The Simons Center for Systems BiologyTalks on Abstract/Conceptual/QuantitativeAspects of Biology Hod Lipson, CornellUniversity

April 22The Governor’s Conference on EffectivePartnering in Cancer Research: SystemsBiology & Cancer Genome-Wide Allele-Specific Analyses Andrew Chess,Massachusetts General Hospital and HarvardMedical School The Universe of Normal andCancer Cell Line Responses to Small Molecules:Lessons for AnticancerTherapy AlexeiVazquez,The Cancer Institute of NewJersey Proteomic and Genetic Analysis of theUbiquitin System J.Wade Harper, HarvardMedical School Next Generation QuantitativeProteomicTools for Understanding EpigeneticMechanisms Benjamin A. Garcia,Princeton University Exploring the SystemsPathology/Biology of Breast Cancer Anne-Lise Børresen-Dale, Norwegian RadiumHospital, Oslo University Hospital NetworkPolymorphisms and Cancer Gurinder S.Atwal, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The Evolution of the p53 Family of Genes:Somatic Cell and Germ Cell Fidelity ArnoldJ. Levine, Professor, School of NaturalSciences Surprisingly Small Effective Size of theHumanTCR Repertoire Creates Large Overlapbetween Individuals Harlan Robins, FredHutchinson Cancer Research Center

May 18The Simons Center for SystemsBiology/Reproductive Medicine Associates ofNew Jersey Meeting Assessing EmbryonicReproductive Competence NathanTreff,Richard Scott, and DeanneTaylor,Reproductive Medicine Associates of NewJersey Introduction to p53, p63, and p73

Arnold J. Levine, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences The p53 Pathway andFertility Wenwei Hu,The Cancer Instituteof New Jersey Fidelity of InformationTransferin the Germline Arnold J. Levine,Professor, School of Natural Sciences

June 1Autism Group Meeting


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June 4The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar Leptin and the Genetic Basis ofObesity: Dissecting Leptin’s Loop JeffreyM. Friedman,The Rockefeller Universityand HHMI

June 7The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting Detectability of Certain Dark-Genome-Matter Candidates:Algorithms forAssembling Genomes Correctly Bud Mishra,Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,NewYork University, and NewYorkUniversity School of Medicine

June 9–10Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Meeting

Generation of Single Cell Diversity in the Brain

Tom Maniatis, Columbia UniversityMedical Center QuietTime:The Secret Livesof Quiescent Fibroblasts Hilary Coller,Princeton University TAp63 SuppressesMetastasis through CoordinateTranscriptional

Regulation of Dicer and miRNAs ElsaFlores, MDAnderson Cancer Center

InVivo Screening to Identify Cancer DrugTargets

MichaelT. Hemann, KOCH Institute forIntegrative Cancer Research, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology The Role of PTENand PHLPP in Prostate Cancer Metastasis

LloydTrotman, Cold Spring HarborLaboratory Poster Session (RAF Scholarsin Pain) Integrative Genome-Wide Strategiesto Identify AberrantTranscriptional Networks inHuman Cancers Ian Davis, University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill NewFunctions for Poly(ADP)ribose—The CytoplasmicStress Response and RNA Regulation PaulChang, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCancer Research Center Higher OrderChromatin Structures in Normal and CancerEpigenomes Tae Hoon Kim,YaleUniversity The Dark Side of HematopoieticStem Cell Quiescence EmmanuellePassegué, University of California, SanFrancisco Identification of Stem Cell andRegeneration Regulatory Genes in Planarians

PeterW. Reddien, Massachusetts Instituteof Technology –Whitehead Institute CellularHeterogeneity in Models of Cancer and CellPolarity Steven Altschular, Universityof Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Biochemical Modulation of Nociceptive Circuits

Mark J. Zylka, University of North Carolinaat Chapel Hill TGF‚1 Control of EffectorT Cell Differentiation in the Context ofAutoimmunity Ming Li, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Roles of Myc inOrgan Growth and Homeostasis LauraJohnston, Columbia University MedicalCenter

June 14The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting Systems Biology: NetworkStructure Determination De Novo and with PriorKnowledge David de Graaf, Genstruct


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Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) is an intensive two-week program for graduate students in theo-retical physics, held each summer at the Institute for Advanced Study. Through PiTP, the Institute,which traditionally devotes its attention to the education of scientists at the postdoctoral level, aims to

increase its participation in graduate education as well. A special effort is made to involve women and minorities,along with graduate students in small universities, who typically do not have the same opportunities andaccess to leaders in the field as graduate students in large research institutions.

The 2010 Prospects in Theoretical Physics program was held from July 19 to 30. Its focus was “Aspects ofSupersymmetry.” This program was designed as an advanced workshop for young physicists specializing in thefield, and aimed to give a coherent overview of the fundamental theoretical aspects of the subject, emphasizingthe common themes running throughout it, from the major advances made in the second string theoryrevolution of the 1990s to the most exciting recent developments. The first week of the school was devotedlargely to introducing supersymmetry and superspace and their role in quantum field theory and stringtheory. During the second week, more advanced material was reviewed including new N=2 supersymmetricgauge theories, wall-crossing formula for BPS states, integrability and gauge/gravity duality, M2-branes andChern-Simons theories, supersymmetric gauge dynamics, and supersymmetric extensions of the StandardModel. The lectures were accessible, well-coordinated, and of high quality throughout the program.

Prospects in Theoretical Physics builds on the strong relationship of the research groups at the Institute andPrinceton University, and many Faculty members from both institutions are actively involved in the program,together with scientists from neighboring institutions. This year, the program was directed by Professors IgorKlebanov and Chiara Nappi of Princeton University and Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School ofNatural Sciences at the Institute. Greg Moore, Professor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, wasamong the lecturers.

The other lecturers were: Jon Bagger ( Johns Hopkins University), Katrin Becker and Melanie Becker (TexasA&M University), Freddy Cachazo (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics), Davide Gaiotto (Institute forAdvanced Study), Daniel Jafferis (Institute for Advanced Study), Juan Maldacena (Institute for AdvancedStudy), Nathan Seiberg (Institute for Advanced Study), Pedro Vieira (Perimeter Institute for TheoreticalPhysics), and EdwardWitten (Institute for Advanced Study).

This year, there were 109 participants enrolled in the program, selected out of 198 applicants. Seventy-five of theattendees were from U.S. institutions and thirty-four were from institutions in fifteen countries outside of theUnited States, including Armenia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea,the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Thirteen registered participants were post-docs. As usual, the visiting students lived in the Institute’s housing complex during the two-week program.Additionally, the program lectures attracted many students, postdocs, and professors from nearby institutions.

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The School of Social Science invited twenty-two scholars from a pool of 160 applicants from theUnited States and abroad to be part of the School’s scholarly community as Members for the 2009–10 academic year. Nine Visitors and two Research Assistants also participated in the year’s activities.

Individual Members were supported by funding from the Leon Levy Foundation, Paula and James Crown,Friends of the Institute, the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study, and endowmentsestablished by Deutsche Bank, RogerW. Ferguson Jr. and Annette L. Nazareth, Richard B. Fisher, Ralph E.and Doris M. Hansmann, and the Wolfensohn family. Fields of inquiry of the group included politicalscience, history, sociology, education, economics, literature, philosophy, and psychology.

During the 2009–10 academic year, sixteen Members and Visitors joined Faculty for discussions in “TheDewey Seminar: Education, Schools, and the State,” which received additional support from the Ford Foun-dation and the Spencer Foundation. Scholars met bimonthly to discuss work-in-progress on themes rangingfrom the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind to immigration and education policy, education inPakistan, and the public authority of scholars in medieval Paris. Scholars also met (again on a bimonthly basisbut in the alternate weeks) with a range of educational practitioners—from school superintendents andleaders of networks of K–12 schools to lawyers involved in school finance cases, university and foundationpresidents, and chief executive officers of technology companies working in the education field. Thesepractitioners were asked to share reflections on “what presently keeps them up at night” in their pursuit ofeducational reform. These conversations with practitioners gave scholars an opportunity to refine theirunderstanding of the horizons of the possible and provided an occasion to assess how macro-level policydecisions manifest themselves at the micro-level in the experience of particular institutions and individuals.Finally, a third set of meetings was held on the subject of “Education, Justice, and Democracy.” Roughly halfof the year-long Members, as well as another eight to ten scholars not in residence, participated in theseweek-long seminars, the goal of which was to advance our understanding of how better to bring educationalpolicy and the ideals of both justice and democracy into alignment with one another. The cumulative resultof these three different kinds of conversation will be a collaborative book under the title “Education,Justice, and Democracy.” It is expected that the manuscript will be submitted to a press in late fall 2010.

The School conducted three seminar series—the Social Science Thursday Luncheon Seminar; “The DeweySeminar,” as described above; and the “Can We? Seminar,” which drew together those Members whosework was not applicable to the year’s formal theme. The School also continued publication of its series ofOccasional Papers and EconomicsWorking Papers, which can be accessed online from the School’s website,www.sss.ias.edu.

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Danielle S.Allen, UPS Foundation Professor

Didier Fassin, James D.Wolfensohn Professor

Eric S. Maskin, Albert O. Hirschman Professor

JoanWallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor

Professors Emeriti

Albert O. Hirschman

Michael Walzer


Danielle S. Allen, UPS FoundationProfessor, led “The Dewey Seminar:Education, Schools, and the State”; theseminar included the School’s usualtheme workshop and also a three-stageconference funded by the SpencerFoundation and a series of practitionersymposia funded by the Ford Founda-tion. She began development of a coau-thored book, “Education, Justice, andDemocracy,” as well as writing essays oneducation and the current structure ofthe public sphere. She gave lectures atSt. John’s College, Boston University,andWashington University in St. Louis,and contributed to the work of the

MacArthur Foundation Research Network on youth political participationand to the ongoing seminar on “Language, History, and Political Theory” atthe University of Chicago.

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, gave his first lecture at theInstitute, “Critique of Humanitarian Reason,” based on the book he coedited,Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and HumanitarianIntervention, published by Zone Books. He also lectured on humanitarianismat the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, the Insti-tute for Global Law at Harvard University, and the École des Hautes Étudesen Sciences Sociales in Paris. His analysis on the “politics of life” in thejournal Theory, Culture, and Society, was further developed in a lecture hedelivered at Duke University. The reappraisal he proposed of the concept of“moral economies” was presented at the University of Montreal andPrinceton University and appeared as an article in the French journalAnnales. Invited to give the keynote lecture on “Global Health” for theMedical Anthropology at the Intersections conference, held atYale Univer-sity, Fassin gave talks on the same topic for the Critical Global HealthSeries at Johns Hopkins University and as part of the Global Health Collo-quium at Princeton University, and participated in a workshop at NewYorkUniversity. The publication of his book Les Nouvelles Frontières de la SociétéFrançaise (Editions La Découverte) and the organization of an internationalconference in Paris on “Borders and Boundaries,” in collaboration withColumbia University, were followed by a lecture on immigration andasylum at the Pembroke Center at Brown University and a presentation onracialization and policing at the Presidential Panel of the American Anthro-pological Association in Philadelphia. Other lectures were delivered atColumbia University on the sociology of trauma, at the University ofWisconsin for the “What is Human?” project, and at the New School forSocial Research during the conference “Committing Anthropology.” Arti-cles were published in the UN Chronicle on gender and violence in SouthAfrica and in Hommes et Migrations on health issues related to immigrationin Europe. As part of the “Ideas” Advanced Grant that he was awarded bythe European Research Council for his program “Toward a Critical MoralAnthropology,” Fassin continued his fieldwork in France on everyday workin prisons and at the National Court for Asylum.

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During a lunch seminar, Professor DidierFassin discussed the 2005 riots in France.

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In July 2009, Eric S. Maskin, Albert O. Hirschman Professor, gave theMcKenzie Lecture in Ischia, Italy, on the subject of “Elections and StrategicVoting.”This was also the subject of his Hurwicz Lecture in Minneapolis andlectures at the Institute, Hong Kong, and the Princeton Political EconomySymposium. In October, he spoke on “Mechanism Design: How to Im-plement Social Goals” in a speech to the Catalan Parliament. This was alsothe subject of lectures at Nobel Week at the Free University of Brusselsand James Buchanan’s ninetieth birthday at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.In December, he gave the Arrow Lecture at Columbia University on “TheArrow Impossibility Theorem.” That same month he spoke on “Evolutionand Repeated Games” at the Nobel Symposium in Brussels. This was alsothe subject of lectures inVienna and the Huntington Memorial Symposiumin Moscow. In January, he gave a lecture tour in Thailand and Cambodiathrough the International Peace Foundation. He also spoke in Nanning,China, on “Lessons from NAFTA” at the opening of the China-ASEANFree Trade Area. In March, he lectured on “Should Software be Patented” ata meeting of the European Commission in Seville. He also spoke on thissubject at the Library of Alexandria. In May, he gave the Griliches Memo-rial Lectures on the topic of political economy at the New EconomicSchool in Moscow. This was also the subject of the Jerusalem SummerSchool in Economics, which he directed. In the academic year 2009–10,Maskin was elected to a fellowship in the Royal Spanish Academy ofEconomics and Finance and to an honorary fellowship at Jesus College,Cambridge. He received honorary degrees from the University of Cambodiaand the Free University of Brussels. He was also awarded the CentennialMedal of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

Joan Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor, is one of the founding editors ofa new journal, History of the Present, to be published by the University of Illi-nois Press.The first issue is scheduled for June 2011. Her book,Gender and thePolitics of History, was published in Spanish translation in Mexico by the Fondode Cultura Económica and the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de Méx-ico. Another book, The Politics of the Veil, was published in an Arabic transla-tion by the Moroccan press Toubkal. Scott gave lectures at the Colegio deMéxico; the University of California, Los Angeles; Columbia University;Brown University; the University ofMichigan; Bogaziçi University (Istanbul);and the University of Bergen (Norway).She gave papers at conferences atColumbia Law School, Arizona StateUniversity, the University of Pennsylva-nia, and NewYork University. She com-mented on a paper at a session ofPrinceton University’s Davis Center forHistorical Studies. She also served on anAmerican Council of Learned Societiesselection committee for fellowships forassistant professors.

During the academic year 2009–10,Professor Emeritus Michael Walzertraveled to Italy, where he lectured on“Which Socialism for the Future?” at the

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University of Turin for the centenary celebration ofNorberto Bobbio. In Israel in October, he attendedthe Second Israeli Presidential Conference. On a re-turn visit in May and June, Walzer participated in aworkshop on binationalism, presenting “Five Regimesof Co-Existence”; the Israel Democracy Institute’sInternational Advisory Council Annual Retreat; theInternational Conference on Religious Education ina Democratic State, delivering the keynote address;and the Hartman Institute Philosophy Conference,at which he presented the Kogod Lecture. Walzerreceived an honorary degree from Belgrade Univer-sity, where as keynote speaker at a conference onasymmetric wars, international relations, and just

war theory, he lectured on “The Aftermath of War: Reflections on Jus PostBellum.” He made several trips to Canada, first to the University of Toronto,where he lectured on “The Politics of BiblicalWisdom” to graduate studentsin the Department of Political Science and the Centre for Jewish Studies and,second, to give the keynote address for the Association for Israel Studies Con-ference. In Ottawa, at Carleton University, he delivered the COVE Distin-guished Lecture in Values and Ethics on “Trying Political Leaders.” In theUnited States, Walzer was a panelist at the Isaiah Berlin Centenary Confer-ence at Harvard. He also gave the Dewey Lecture in Law and Philosophy atthe University of Chicago, and he visitedYale at the invitation of YIISA, theYale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism. At GeorgetownUniversity, he attended a conference on “EndingWarsWell” and spoke againon the topic of jus post bellum. He is currently working on the third of fourvolumes of The Jewish Political Tradition, a collaborative project on the historyof Jewish political thought. Along with Nicolaus Mills, he edited Getting Out:Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq, published by the University of PennsylvaniaPress in August 2009.Walzer continues as coeditor of Dissent magazine.

Professor Eric Maskin attended alunch seminar, “Anonymous: OnSilence and the Public Sphere,” byProfessor Danielle Allen.

Member Paul Attewell (center) presented“Educational Imposters and Fake Degrees,”as part of “The Dewey Seminar: Education,Schools, and the State.” Organized byProfessor Danielle Allen (far left), the DeweySeminar was held throughout the year todiscuss work-in-progress on themes rangingfrom the reauthorization of No Child LeftBehind to immigration and education policy.


MEMBERS, VISITORS,AND RESEARCH STAFF

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Paul AttewellSociology The Graduate Center,The CityUniversity of NewYorkLeon Levy Foundation Member

Julia A. Clancy-SmithHistory The University of Arizona

Julie E. CooperPoliticalTheory The University of ChicagoRalph E. and Doris M.Hansmann Member

James DoylePhilosophy University of Bristol v, s

Crystal N. FeimsterHistory University of North Carolina atChapel Hill v, s

Graham FinlayPoliticalTheory University College DublinGinny and Robert Loughlin Founders’ CircleMember

Angel L. HarrisSociology Princeton University

Jeffrey R. HenigPolitics and Education Columbia UniversityRogerW. Ferguson, Jr. and Annette L. NazarethMember

Robin Marantz HenigScienceWriting The NewYorkTimes Magazine v

Yuval JobaniHebrew Culture Tel Aviv University a

Ben KafkaHistory and Media Studies NewYorkUniversity

Myung-Koo KangPolitical Science Claremont McKennaCollege v, s

Sheena KangPolitical Science The University of Chicago

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David KarenSociology, Education Bryn Mawr College

Mary Fainsod KatzensteinPolitical Science Cornell University v

Peter J. KatzensteinPolitical Science Cornell UniversityLouise and John Steffens Founders’ Circle Member

Dalenda LarguecheHistory Université de la Manouba,Tunis

Humberto LlavadorEconomics Universitat Pompeu Fabra,BarcelonaDeutsche Bank Member

JoAnne ManciniHistory National University of Ireland,Maynooth v

Patrick McGuinnPolitical Science Drew University

Joel S. MigdalPolitical Science University of Washington

Seth MoglenAmerican Literature and History of AmericanSocial Movements Lehigh UniversityFriends of the Institute for Advanced StudyMember

Matthew J. NelsonPolitical Science University of LondonTheWolfensohn Family Member

Mae M. NgaiHistory Columbia UniversityFunding provided by the Association of Membersof the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS)

Niels ReehSociology of Religion University ofCopenhagen v

Rob ReichPoliticalTheory Stanford University vp

Richard RothsteinJournalism Economic Policy Institute v

Jason SchnittkerSociology University of PennsylvaniaDeutsche Bank Member

Anna Marie SmithPolitical Science Cornell UniversityRosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders’ CircleMember

Carola M. Suárez-OrozcoPsychology NewYork University

Marcelo M. Suárez-OrozcoEducation NewYork UniversityRichard B. Fisher Member

Ian P.WeiHistory University of Bristol

Anat ZoharEducation The Hebrew Universityof JerusalemPaula and James Crown Member

Noam ZoharJewish Studies Bar-Ilan University v

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September 13–17SpencerWorkshop: Education, Democracy,and Justice Organized by Danielle S.Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, School ofSocial Science, and Rob Reich, StanfordUniversity;Visiting Professor, School of SocialScience

September 23Dewey Theme Seminar OrganizationalMeeting Danielle S. Allen, UPSFoundation Professor, School of SocialScience, and Rob Reich, Stanford University;Visiting Professor, School of Social Science

October 1Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

The New Middle East:The U.S., Iran, andIsrael Joel S. Migdal, University ofWashington; Member, School of SocialScience

October 7Dewey Theme Seminar Brokering Inclusion:Education, Language, and the Immigrant-MiddleClass Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University;Member, School of Social Science


A Search for Oppositional Culture: Perceptions ofOpportunities and Academic Investment amongAdolescents Angel L. Harris, PrincetonUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

October 12Dewey Practitioner Symposium Policy

Frederick M. Hess, American EnterpriseInstitute Andrew Rotherham, EducationSector

October 13CanWe? Seminar “HeTalk Lie” orTheTrueStory of Ah Jake: Language and Justice in LateNineteenth-Century Sierra County, California

Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University;Member, School of Social Science


Introduction to Paperwork Ben Kafka, NewYork University; Member, School of SocialScience


No Child Left Behind and theTransformation ofFederal Education Policy, 1965–2005 PatrickMcGuinn, Drew University; Member,School of Social Science

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October 28Dewey Theme Seminar How ScholarsTalkaboutThemselves and Each Other, andWhy ItMatters:The Emergence of the University of Parisin theThirteenth Century and the Disappearanceof Autobiographical and BiographicalRepresentations of Scholars Ian P.Wei,University of Bristol; Member, School ofSocial Science


Mourning Modernity Seth Moglen, LehighUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

November 2Dewey Practitioner Symposium UrbanReform Joshua Edelman, D.C. PublicSchools Office of School Innovation

Timothy Knowles, Urban EducationInstitute,The University of Chicago

November 3CanWe? Seminar Embracing the Ummah:Student Politics beyond State Power in Pakistan

Matthew J. Nelson, University of London;Member, School of Social Science

November 5Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

Learning to DoWell or Learning to Do Good?UsingTwins to Understand the Social andEconomic Effects of Schooling JasonSchnittker, University of Pennsylvania;Member, School of Social Science

November 11Dewey Theme Seminar Toward a NewTheoryof Secularization:Teaching of Religion in theDanish Mandatory Primary and Secondary Schoolsfrom 1720 to 1975 Niels Reeh, Universityof Copenhagen;Visitor, Schoolof Social Science


AcademicTrajectories of ImmigrantYouth

Carola M. Suárez-Orozco, NewYorkUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

November 16Dewey Practitioner Symposium Policy

Thomas Payzant, Harvard GraduateSchool of Education


ShouldThat Child Be Saved? PhilosophicalReflections from a National HealthcareCommission Noam Zohar, Bar-IlanUniversity;Visitor, School of Social Science

November 23CanWe? Seminar French SeductionTheory

JoanW. Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor,School of Social Science

December 2Dewey Theme Seminar “Campaign for FiscalEquity” and the Federal Doctrine AnnaMarie Smith, Cornell University; Member,School of Social Science

December 3Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

ATale ofTwo Planets? Educational Policymakingand Actual Classrooms in the Case ofTeachingtoThink Anat Zohar,The HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem; Member, School ofSocial Science

December 7Dewey Practitioner Symposium Law, CivilRights, and Education Howard Manning,Superior CourtWake County, NorthCarolina Michael Rebell, Columbia LawSchool

December 10Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

Intergenerational Justice in aWarming Planet

Humberto Llavador, Universitat PompeuFabra, Barcelona; Member, School of SocialScience

December 16Dewey Theme Seminar General Discussion

Danielle S. Allen, UPS FoundationProfessor, School of Social Science

January 12CanWe? Seminar Asian Objects:Art andWarin the PacificWorld JoAnne Mancini,National University of Ireland, Maynooth;Visitor, School of Social Science

January 14Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar TheUnbearable Normalcy of Being an Immigrant:FurtherThoughts on Global Immigration

Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, NewYorkUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

January 15Dewey Practitioner Symposium Technologyand Education Larry Berger,WirelessGeneration David Coleman,The GrowNetwork Jose Ferreira, Knewton LarryRosenstock, High Tech High DoviWeiss,Time-To-Know

January 20Dewey Theme Seminar Does DemocracyMatter? David Karen, Bryn Mawr College;Member, School of Social Science

January 21Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

Religious Education and the Politics of Pluralism inPakistan Matthew J. Nelson, Universityof London; Member, School of Social Science

January 28Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

How Research Is Used in Policy Debates:TheCase of Charter Schools Jeffrey R. Henig,Columbia University; Member, School ofSocial Science

January 29Dewey Practitioner Symposium Reinventing aResearch and Development Capacity TonyBryk, Stanford University

February 3Dewey Theme Seminar The End ofEducational Exceptionalism in the U.S.:TheReabsorption of Public School Policy into GeneralPurpose Governance and Politics Jeffrey R.Henig, Columbia University; Member,School of Social Science

February 4Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

Toward a Relational Approach to the Study ofReligion Niels Reeh, University ofCopenhagen;Visitor, School of Social Science

February 9CanWe? Seminar Monogamy in Islam

Dalenda Largueche, Université de laManouba,Tunis; Member, School of SocialScience


A Nation of Immigrants:The ColdWar and CivilRights Origins of Illegal Immigration Mae M.Ngai, Columbia University; Member, Schoolof Social Science

February 17Dewey Theme Seminar Educational Impostersand Fake Degrees Paul Attewell,TheGraduate Center,The City University of NewYork; Member, School of Social Science


Anonymous: On Silence and the Public Sphere

Danielle S. Allen, UPS FoundationProfessor, School of Social Science

February 24Dewey Theme Seminar TeachingThinking,Assessment and Accountability Anat Zohar,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem;Member, School of Social Science


Vainglory,Modesty, and Political Agency in thePoliticalTheory ofThomas Hobbes Julie E.Cooper,The University of Chicago;Member, School of Social Science


March 1Dewey Practitioner Symposium Immigration,Religion, and Education Mushirul Hasan,Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi DjelloulSeddiki, Al-Ghazali Institute, Paris ClaireSylvan, Internationals Network for PublicSchools

March 2CanWe? Seminar Withdrawal Slips:Paperwork and Parapraxis Ben Kafka, NewYork University; Member, School of SocialScience

March 4Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

Muslim Princes and Catholic Sisters: How GirlsSchooling Came to Nineteenth-Century NorthAfrica Julia A. Clancy-Smith,TheUniversity of Arizona; Member, School ofSocial Science

March 10Dewey Theme Seminar Problems ofCosmopolitan Citizenship Education GrahamFinlay, University College Dublin; Member,School of Social Science


Art andWar in the PacificWorld JoAnneMancini, National University of Ireland,Maynooth;Visitor, School of Social Science


Interpellation: Remarks on the French 2005Riots Didier Fassin, James D.WolfensohnProfessor, School of Social Science


The Authority of the University: Medieval andContemporary Ian P.Wei, University ofBristol; Member, School of Social Science

April 6CanWe? Seminar Bethlehem:AmericanUtopia,AmericanTragedy Seth Moglen,Lehigh University; Member, School of SocialScience

April 8Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

Mass Higher Education and the “DropoutProblem” Paul Attewell,The GraduateCenter,The City University of NewYork;Member, School of Social Science

April 14Dewey Theme Seminar Parental Involvementin Children’s Education (Doesn’t) Matter:Parenting in the Era of High Stakes Achievement

Angel L. Harris, Princeton University;Member, School of Social Science


Toleration and Development Graham Finlay,University College Dublin; Member, Schoolof Social Science

April 20Dewey Practitioner Symposium If WinningIsn’t Everything,Why DoThey Keep Score?

YuliTamir,Tel Aviv University


Was Kipling Right? Civilizations inWorldPolitics Peter J. Katzenstein, CornellUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

April 26Dewey Seminar Field Trip to InternationalHigh School at Lafayette in Brooklyn, NewYork

April 27CanWe? Seminar Why Rousseau? JulieE. Cooper,The University of Chicago;Member, School of Social Science

April 28Dewey Theme Seminar Connecting thePolitics of Educational Equity to the Challenge ofSchool Governance and Reform in a FragmentedFederal System Patrick McGuinn, DrewUniversity; Member, School of Social Science


The State School Funding Lawsuits: NormativeDilemmas Anna Marie Smith, CornellUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

April 30Dewey Practitioner Symposium HigherEducation Freeman Hrabowski,University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Anthony Marx, Amherst College DianaChapmanWalsh,Wellesley College

May 5Dewey Theme Seminar (Dis)Locating theImmigrant Family Carola M. Suárez-Orozco andMarcelo M. Suárez-Orozco,NewYork University; Members, School ofSocial Science

May 6Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

Monogamy in Islam:The Case of aTunisianMarriage Contract Dalenda Largueche,Université de la Manouba,Tunis; Member,School of Social Science

May 10Dewey Practitioner Symposium Foundationsand Education Reform Michele Cahill,Carnegie Corporation of NewYork

Michael McPherson, Spencer Foundation

May 12Dewey Theme Seminar Bethlehem:AmericanUtopia,AmericanTragedy Seth Moglen,Lehigh University; Member, School of SocialScience

May 13Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar

Sport as a Model of Meritocracy David Karen,Bryn Mawr College; Member, School ofSocial Science

May 19Dewey Theme Seminar Religious Educationand the Politics of Pluralism in Pakistan

Matthew J. Nelson, University of London;Member, School of Social Science

May 26Dewey Theme Seminar Wrap-up Meeting

Danielle S. Allen, UPS FoundationProfessor, School of Social Science RobReich, Stanford University;Visiting Professor,School of Social Science

May 27Field Trip to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania SethMoglen, Lehigh University; Member, Schoolof Social Science

June 4–5Recent Developments in Mechanism DesignConference Organized by Eric S. Maskin,Albert O. Hirschman Professor, School ofSocial Science, and Stephen Morris,Princeton University

June 28 –July 2SpencerWorkshop: Education, Democracy,and Justice Organized by Danielle S.Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, School ofSocial Science, and Rob Reich, StanfordUniversity;Visiting Professor, School of SocialScience

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The Historical Studies–Social Science Library (Marcia Tucker, Librarian) contains some 120,000 volumes andhas subscriptions to over 1,000 journals. The Library is strongest in classical studies, ancient history, andarchaeology, but it contains basic document collections, reference works, and important secondary works of

scholarship in most fields of history and the social sciences. The journal collection is extensive, and fairly completeback runs exist to the founding of the Institute. The HS–SS Library has occupied its present building since 1964.

The Institute’s rare book collection, the gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, consists of about 2,000 volumes on the historyof science and was compiled by Herbert M. Evans in the 1930s. The collection, which is housed in a special room,includes numerous first editions of important scientific works in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and the lifesciences. Additional volumes have been added through various gifts, most notably through the Leon Levy Fund,expanding the subject scope of the collection. The HS–SS Library continues to process books from the library ofWalther Heissig, a noted Central Asian–studies scholar.Walther Heissig’s library came to the Institute partly as a giftand partly on deposit from the Princeton University East Asian Studies Department and Princeton University Library.

The HS–SS Library includes books and offprints from past Professors including Kurt Gödel, Ernst H. Kantorowicz,Elias Avery Lowe, Millard Meiss, Erwin Panofsky, Marshall Clagett, and HarryWoolf, and former Members RobertHuygens andWalther Kirchner. The Library also contains the library of Giorgio Tonelli.

The microfilm collections of the HS–SS Library include a large selection from Manuscripta, a collection of severalthousand fifteenth- to nineteenth-century printed books from the Vatican Library. The Bavarian Academy in 1965provided the Institute with a microfilm copy of slips presented for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae along with recentadditional material on CD. The Library has microfilm copies of the papers of SimoneWeil.

The Library houses the Institute archives. The records in the collection of the ShelbyWhite and Leon Levy ArchivesCenter (Christine Di Bella, Archivist) date from the 1930s and consist of official correspondence of the Director’sOffice, minutes of meetings of the Faculty and the Board of Trustees, correspondence concerning past Faculty andMembers, records of the Electronic Computer Project, and the papers of select Faculty members, including astro-physicist John N. Bahcall. The archives also include the Institute’s photograph collection and a growing oral historycollection. The reading room, located in the annex of the Historical Studies–Social Science Library, opened inOctober 2009. It provides a space for researchers to consult resources from the archives, as well as a display areafeaturing selections from the collections. A generous gift from the Leon Levy Foundation supports the ongoingwork of the Institute to formally organize and preserve the important historical materials already in its possessionand to serve as a repository for essential source materials going forward.

The Mathematics–Natural Sciences Library (Momota Ganguli, Librarian) is based in Fuld Hall, with smaller depart-mental branches in Bloomberg Hall, and compact shelving spread across campus. The collection, which includesabout 30,000 volumes of monographs and bound periodicals as well as 140 print and/or electronic subscriptions,spans pure and applied mathematics, astrophysics, theoretical and mathematical physics, and biology. The M–NSLibrary has an extensive collection of the collected works of mathematicians, including those of Cauchy, Descartes,Fermat, Gauss, Hardy, and Poincaré. Each year, the M–NS Library adds about three hundred books to its collection.

Both of the Institute’s libraries participate in the shared cataloguing system OCLC, which gives Institute scholars com-puterized access to a database that is in use by 57,000 libraries in 112 countries.The Institute is a member of the RLGProgram SHARES partnership, a resource-sharing program. The Institute’s Web-accessible online catalogue providesholdings information for the libraries and is accessible via http://library.hs.ias.edu from anywhere in the world.

The Historical Studies–Social Science Library maintains computers that provide access to scanners, a variety ofsoftware packages for both PCs and Macintoshes, and databases in the fields of Classics, the history of science, andIslamic and French studies. The M–NS Library’s electronic resources include access to Math-SciNet, JSTOR, andarXiv.org. All scholars affiliated with the Institute enjoy the same privileges as Princeton University faculty in thePrinceton University Library system. All scholars also have privileges in the Robert E. Speer Library of the PrincetonTheological Seminary. The Librarians and the Faculty of all four Schools at the Institute warmly appreciate gifts ofbooks and publications from former and current Faculty, Members, and Visitors of the Institute.

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For eighty years, the Institute for Advanced Study has had a profound influence on the fields of studyrepresented here: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science. Any day atlunch or tea, you will hear leading scientists and scholars from around the world discussing topics as

as diverse as the response to terrorism, how to combat the next influenza virus, fourteenth-century Mon-golian history, the very latest developments in string theory, the mathematical basis of computer security,attitudes toward AIDS in South Africa, or how to evaluate the signals for supersymmetry at the LargeHadron Collider at CERN.

Members, who typically stay for one year but may stay for up to five years, live together with their familiesin housing adjacent to the Institute campus in what might be described as a true academic village. Throughoutthe year, the Office of the Director hosts a broad range of concerts, lectures, programs, and forums, as listed onthe following pages. In addition, the Institute offers a series of activities for Members, Visitors, and theirfamilies. In the 2009–10 academic year, these included films, play readings, clay modeling classes, yoga,tennis lessons, trips to museums and other cultural sites, and activities for children in the Institute community.

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September 22MemberWelcome Reception

September 29Talk and Exhibit Serge J-F. Levy, Director’sVisitor, Institute for Advanced Study

October 2Friends Forum Paul Dirac and the Religion ofMathematical Beauty Graham Farmelo,Director’sVisitor, Institute for Advanced Study

October 9Friends Culture and Cuisine Julia & Michael:America’s Food Evolution Evolves Betty Fussell,Food Historian andWriter

October 14Friends Forum Musical Journeys: Discovering theAmericanWithin Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Resi-dence, Institute for Advanced Study

October 16–17Edward T. Cone Concert Series DerekBermel, Artist-in-Residence, clarinet;ChristopherTaylor, piano

October 17Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk AnthonyTommasini, Chief Music Critic,NewYorkTimes

October 21Art and Its Audiences Lecture Series WhoWereArtists in Ancient Egypt andWhat Audiences DidTheyAddress? John Baines, University of Oxford;Member, School of Historical Studies

October 23Public Policy Lecture Torture and Accountability inthe “War onTerror”:What Should Be Done? DavidCole, Professor, Georgetown University LawCenter

October 25Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert ElysianCamerata Barbara Jaffe and Fran Berge,violins; Louise Jaffe and Beth Dzwil, violas;Talia Schiff, cello

October 30Public Lecture The Evolution of Bodies Bound byGravity Peter Goldreich, Professor Emeritus,School of Natural Sciences

November 4Friends Forum How Crystals Grow Inside Solids

Robert MacPherson, HermannWeyl Professor,School of Mathematics

November 6Writers Conversation The Daily ShowAfterObama Steve Bodow, HeadWriter andSupervising Producer, The Daily Show with JonStewart

November 11Public Lecture In the Beginning:ModernCosmology and the Origin of Our Universe

Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences

November 13Friends Fireside Chat Chinoiserie:The EastthroughWestern Eyes Judith Applegate,Art Historian and Appraiser

November 22Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert Musicfor Oboe and Harp Mark Snyder, oboe andEnglish horn; AndreTarantiles, harp

December 2Public Lecture The Acculturated NativeWhoRebels: Nativists, Nationalists, andWestern-BornJihadists in Historical Perspective Patricia Crone,AndrewW. Mellon Professor, School of HistoricalStudies

December 4–5Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk

William Bolcom, Composer, and JoanMorris, Mezzo-soprano

Edward T. Cone Concert Series The Music ofWilliam Bolcom Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence, clarinet;William Bolcom, piano;Kevin Deas, bass/baritone; Timothy Fain,violin; Joan Morris, mezzo-soprano; JoshuaRoman, cello; HowardWatkins, piano

December 9Art and Its Audiences Lecture Series LandscapesandTheir Users: From Romantic to Modern in theRepresentation of Normandy Stephen Bann,Professor Emeritus of History of Art and SeniorResearch Fellow, University of Bristol

January 11MemberWelcome Reception

January 15–16Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk Midori,Violinist

Edward T. Cone Concert Series Midori andCharles Abramovic Midori, violin; CharlesAbramovic, piano


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January 27Association of Members of the Institute forAdvanced Study (AMIAS) Lecture Mappingthe Universe DavidWeinberg,The OhioState University; Member, School of NaturalSciences

February 12Writers Conversation Artistic Collaboration:A Conversation with Alex andVincent Katz

Alex Katz, Painter, and Vincent Katz,Writer, hosted by Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence

February 17Public Lecture Critique of HumanitarianReason Didier Fassin, James D.Wolfensohn Professor, School of SocialScience

February 19Culture and Cuisine Talk Art and Food andFood in Art Peter G. Rose, Author andFood Historian

February 21Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert

Clarinet,Viola, and PianoTrio BenjaminFingland, clarinet; Elizabeth Hostetter,viola; Soyeong Kim, piano

February 27Midwinter Party for Faculty, Members,and Staff

March 2Art and Its Audiences Lecture Series TheAudience as Prisoner: Reflections on the Activity ofthe Object Horst Bredekamp, Professor ofArt History, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

March 10Public Lecture Celestial Mechanics and aGeometry Based on Area Helmut Hofer,Professor, School of Mathematics

March 19–20Edward T. Cone Concert Series RadicallyUnfinished:Works for Solo and Duo Piano

Vijay Iyer, piano, and Craig Taborn, piano

March 20Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk NateChinen, FreelanceWriter,NewYorkTimes,VillageVoice, and JazzTimes

April 1Art and Its Audiences Lecture Series AllThat Glitters: Image and Ornament in EarlyIslam Finbarr Barry Flood,William R.Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities,Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts andSciences, NewYork University

April 7Friends Forum New Physics and the LargeHadron Collider NimaArkani-Hamed,Professor, School of Natural Sciences

April 21Leon Levy Lecture Mass Higher Educationand the Dropout Problem Paul Attewell,TheGraduate Center,The City University of NewYork; Member, School of Social Science

April 25Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert

Music from Italy Kiri Murakami, violin;Seth Baer, bassoon; Karen Fraust Baer,piano

April 28Friends Forum Bethlehem:American Utopia,AmericanTragedy Seth Moglen, LehighUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

May 6Public Lecture Return to Space CharlesSimonyi, President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer, Intentional Software Corporation,and Chairman of the Board of Trustees,Institute for Advanced Study

May 7Public Lecture Experiments on Animals inAncient Greece and Rome: Private and PublicScience Heinrich von Staden, Professor,School of Historical Studies

May 14Friends Forum Blackout: Lighting on theHome Front Sandy Isenstadt, Universityof Delaware; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

June 15Staff Picnic


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After Hours Conversations

After Hours Conversations, a program conceived and organized by Professors Caroline Bynum of theSchool of Historical Studies and Piet Hut of the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, was launched inFebruary 2008 to encourage inter-School conversations in an informal and relaxed environment. In2009–10, the program continued with talks held in Harry’s Bar every Monday and Thursday in Octoberand November and again in February and March. After a ten-minute presentation of a theme or problemof broad significance, there were twenty minutes of lively group discussion, often followed by continuingconversation as people lingered over drinks. In the fall term, Professors Nicola Di Cosmo of the Schoolof Historical Studies and Piet Hut chaired the sessions; in the spring term, Bynum and Hut chaired.Attendance varied from twenty to seventy. There were presentations by Members, Visitors, and Faculty,both active and emeriti, from all four Schools of the Institute and from the Program in InterdisciplinaryStudies, as well as by Director’s Visitors and Staff from the administration. Topics ranged from mathematicsin ancient Mesopotamia to writing the biography of George Kennan; solar systems unlike our own;neuroscience and the legal system; the status of women in early modern Europe; strategies for fundraisingat IAS; new perspectives on Borromean rings; and why jihad went global with Al-Qaeda.

A webpage (www.ids.ias.edu/after-hours-conversations) provides information on dates, speakers, andtopics. The program will continue in 2010–11.

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Professor Piet Hut’s activities included both his astrophysics research and his responsibilities as the headof the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies. The latter program had nineteen visitors, with durationsof their visits ranging from days to months, in fields including physics, astrophysics, bioinformat-

ics, medicine, psychology, cognitive science, computer science, philosophy, education, media, political sci-ence, comparative law, art history, and journalism in virtual worlds.

During the year, Hut, together with Professors Caroline Bynum and Nicola Di Cosmo from the School ofHistorical Studies, organized a series of After Hours Conversations, which were held at the Institute inHarry’s Bar, two times a week for a period of two months during each semester. Each get-together had amore formal part lasting thirty minutes, starting with a ten-minute talk by a speaker and followed by a twenty-minute period of questions. In addition, many participants continued informal conversations afterward.These activities were widely seen as an effective way to lower the threshold for inter-School communi-cation at the Institute, and received special praise in the Decadal Review that was published recently: “Aninnovative example of fostering cross-disciplinary interaction is the After Hours Conversations program,developed by Professors Caroline Bynum and Piet Hut within the last couple of years, which has been anenormous success.”

Hut’s main research focus this year continued to be his exploration of virtual worlds, especially Second Life,currently the largest non-game three-dimensional online virtual world, with a continued presence in-worldof well over fifty thousand residents at any given time. As a sign of the “coming of age” of virtual worldactivities, he received a National Science Foundation grant for his work on the Meta Institute for Compu-tational Astrophysics (MICA; www.mica-vw.org), a virtual organization that he had established two yearsearlier, in the category of Human Centered Computing (the research proposal was titled “Exploring theUse of Immersive Virtual Reality Technologies for Scientific Research, Communication, and Outreach”).

In addition to organizing colloquia and workshops in Second Life, MICA has also started to explore anopen-source virtual world, modeled upon Second Life, called OpenSim. The great advantage of OpenSimis that it allows the user to perform actual simulations, by tinkering with the physics engine, the softwaremodule that governs gravity and other physical effects. In this way, Hut and coworkers have been able toperform N-body simulations, the results of which were discussed in a workshop, “Using Virtual Worlds forInteractive Simulations of Star Cluster Evolution,” in Tokyo in September 2009.

Another institute that was cofounded by Hut,Kira (www.kira.org), and brought into Sec-ond Life in the fall of 2008, continued itsmore broadly interdisciplinary activities. Kirawas founded thirteen years ago by facultymembers from Stanford University, PrincetonUniversity, the Institute, and elsewhere as aforum to discuss the nature of scientificknowledge and to compare that with otherways of knowing, from philosophy and art tovarious contemplative traditions. Its mainactivities in Second Life are a series of weeklyworkshops on a wide range of topics.

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Professor Piet Hut continued his exploration of virtual worlds and the nature ofscientific knowledge.


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The 2009–10 academic year marked the inaugural season of “The Harmonic Series,” led by composerand clarinetist Derek Bermel, serving in his first year as Institute Artist-in-Residence. “The HarmonicSeries” was developed to explore the wide variety of aesthetic perspectives in art music, especially of

the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, through chamber music concerts and talks.

The 2009–10 Edward T. Cone Concert Series began with performances by Bermel on the clarinet andChristopher Taylor on piano. Their program traced the history of works for clarinet and piano, taking theaudience on a journey beginning with Brahms and moving through the twentieth and twenty-first centurieswith Milhaud and the American composers Leonard Bernstein, Paul Moravec, Sebastian Currier, and Bermel,who was represented by three works—SchiZm, Thracian Sketches, and Turning. The second concert weekendof the season highlighted the music of William Bolcom, with Bolcom and his wife, mezzo-soprano JoanMorris, as special guests. The first half of the concerts offered Bolcom’s classical compositions performed byviolinist Timothy Fain, cellist Joshua Roman, pianist HowardWatkins, and Bermel on clarinet. The secondhalf featured mezzo-soprano Carla Jablonski, baritone Kevin Deas, and Morris performing Bolcom’scabaret songs. The spring concerts began with performances by noted violinist Midori, accompanied bypianist Charles Abramovic, performing an all-contemporary concert of works by Huw Watkins, KrzysztofPenderecki, Toshio Hosokawa, James MacMillan, and John Adams. The season concluded with concertsfeaturing the world premiere duo-recital by jazz pianistsVijay Iyer and Craig Taborn in “Radically Unfinished:Works for Solo and Duo Piano.”

This season reintroduced concert talks following the Friday performances and preceding the Saturdayconcerts. Anthony Tommasini, chief music critic of the NewYorkTimes, was the season’s first speaker, followedby Bolcom and Morris, Midori and Abramovic, and jazz journalist Nate Chinen.

This year, Bermel introduced a new series,Writers Conversations. The first talk featured Steve Bodow, headwriter of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” who discussed how the show has been dealing with the newsand news media since the election of President Obama. The second in the series featured painter Alex Katzand his son, writer Vincent Katz, who spoke about artistic collaborations.

In addition to directing “The Harmonic Series” during the 2009–10 year, Bermel composed CanzonasAmericanas for the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the work was premiered on May 4, 2010, in Disney Hall, con-ducted by Gustavo Dudamel. Bermel continued work on his music theater composition “Golden Motors”with lyricist/librettistWendyS.Walters, and he completed a set of three études for the violinist Midori, to be

premiered in October 2010in San Francisco. In addition,Bermel was nominated for aGrammy as best soloist withorchestra for his CD Voiceswith the Boston ModernOrchestra Project, and hecompleted a new disc of hismusic with the award-win-ning ensemble Alarm WillSound, which will be releasedin spring 2011.

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Director’s Visitors, scholars who work in a variety of fields, including areas not represented in the Schools, contribute much tothe vitality of the Institute.They are invited to the Institute for varying periods of time, depending on the nature of their work.

During his 2009 visit, Graham Farmelo researched his next project about Winston Churchill andnuclear weapons, which concerns the United Kingdom leader’s thinking about policy and his rela-tionship with the associated scientists (British and American). He took full advantage of the library

facilities at the Institute and the archives in Washington, D.C.

Expecting to come to the Institute to begin work on a new stage counterpart to Schoenberg’s 1909 monodra-ma, Erwartung, composer Tarik O’Regan got waylaid by a BBC commission.With the Princeton power failurein full flow, he started going to bed early for the first time since the age of eleven––a very odd experience––and thus began thinking about matters soporific. The result, a twenty-minute work called The Night’s Untruth,was premiered and broadcast on March 25 by the BBC Singers in London. It explores the use of sleep asmetaphor by dint of excerpts from poems written in the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Death, love, fear,ecstasy, isolation, dreaming, and rest are all textual “variations” on the “theme” of sleep and can be found in thechosen texts. The title is taken from a line in a poem by Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) and speaks to the compo-sition’s focus on sleep as a parallel, possibly dystopian, existence to the one experienced in our waking hours.

Tom Phillips rescued a lot of magazines from the library trash and recycled them [all part of the service] tomake a collage storyboard for the opera Heart of Darkness, which as well as fulfilling a promotional functionpointed the way to new work . . . but that is the wondering blunder of art: that work only points in onedirection, more work; which is preferable to the only other word on that road-sign, death.

Siobhan Roberts, a freelance science journalist and author from Toronto, continued work on her secondbook, a biography of the Princeton University mathematician John Horton Conway. During her research thisyear, she learned that Conway could be described variously as “one of the most charismatic figures in math-ematics” and “an oddball among oddballs.” Her first book, King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter,The ManWhoSaved Geometry (Walker & Company), won the 2009 Euler Prize, awarded by the Mathematical Associationof America for a book that augments the public’s view of mathematics. Her book on Conway, while still inthe popular science genre, is as much a meditation on memory and curiosity and thinking as it is a biogra-phy of a mathematician. To that end, during her stay, Roberts took to heart the advice offered by a bumpersticker belonging to one of the mathematicians on faculty: “Don’t Believe EverythingYou Think.”

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The IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) is a program of professional development for themathematics community, including research mathematicians, graduate students, undergraduate students,mathematics education researchers, undergraduate faculty, and mathematics teachers at the secondary

school level. PCMI has been an outreach program of the Institute for Advanced Study since 1994.

The flagship activity of PCMI is the three-week residential Summer Session, held annually in Park City,Utah, a program that combines high-quality lectures and seminars with activities and events designed tofoster all-institute interaction. This interaction serves to increase awareness of the roles of professionals in allmathematics-based occupations and creates a strong sense of community.

In addition to the Summer Session, PCMI offers year-round professional development activities to secondaryschool mathematics teachers through its Math Science Partnership project and many Professional Develop-ment and Outreach groups.

The Graduate Summer School lectures are typically disseminated through the Park City Mathematics Seriesof lecture notes, a series targeted at graduate students and researchers, published by the American Mathe-matical Society. Also published by the AMS is a series of lectures from PCMI’s Undergraduate SummerSchool. The Math Forum publishes online the products created by PCMI’s Secondary School TeachersProgram, and the proceedings and briefs authored by PCMI’s International Seminar on Mathematics Educa-tion are also available on the Math Forum website.

A more detailed Annual Report is available at http://pcmi.ias.edu.

The Summer SessionThe twentieth annual Summer Session, held June 27–July 18, 2010, in Park City, Utah, attracted some 360participants in all programs.

The following programs took place during the Summer Session:

Graduate Summer SchoolInternational Seminar on Mathematics Education (one week)Research Program in MathematicsSecondary School Teachers ProgramService,Teaching, and Research (STaR) Program (one week)Undergraduate Faculty ProgramUndergraduate Summer School

Except as noted, all programs met for the entire three weeks.

The mathematical topic informs the courses and seminars for the Graduate Summer School, the ResearchProgram, the Undergraduate Summer School, and the Undergraduate Faculty Program; in 2010, the topicwas “The Mathematics of Image Processing.” The topic “Making Mathematical Connections” provided thefocus for the International Seminar and the Secondary School Teachers Program.

Each of the programs met daily for a series of courses and seminars. The groups also met together for CrossProgram Activities three or four days each week.

Opening social events were held for each program on the evening of registration day. They were designed tointroduce participants to their program’s leaders in a casual setting and to foster early acquaintances amongthe diverse population of each program.

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Graduate Summer School and Research ProgramThe Graduate Summer School and the Research Program 2010 were organized by Tony Chan, The HongKong University of Science and Technology; Ronald Devore, Texas A&M University; Stanley Osher, Uni-versity of California, Los Angeles; and Hongkai Zhao, University of California, Irvine. This year’s theme,“The Mathematics of Image Processing,” included recent developments in mathematical theory, numericalalgorithms, and applications in image processing. The graduate lecture series and research seminars covereda wide range of topics, such as sparse representations, compressive sensing, image compression, de-noising,segmentation, learning, and recognition. There were many interactions among participants that areexpected to lead to collaborations in the near future.

GRADUATE SUMMER SCHOOLThe 2010 Graduate Summer School had nine lecture series on a variety of subjects in image processing andrelated topics, including sparse coding, compressive sensing, variational and partial-differential-equation-basedmethods, wavelet, feature learning, and optimization. Each lecture series was supplemented with a computerlab where students got hands-on experience with the lecture material.

Eighty graduate students participated in the Graduate Summer School and reported that the lectures werewell balanced between introductory and advanced research material. The summer program provided partic-ipants with a comprehensive and diverse learning experience that few, if any, could obtain in their ownuniversity.

The Graduate Summer School Lecture Series featured: Richard Baraniuk, Rice University, “CompressiveSensing: Sparsity-Based Signal Acquisition and Processing”; Antonin Chambolle, École Polytechnique,“Total-Variation-Based Image Reconstruction”; Michael Elad, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology,“Sparse & Redundant Representations––From Theory to Applications in Image Processing”; Anna Gilbert,University of Michigan, “A Survey of Sparse Approximation”;Yann LeCun, NewYork University, “Learn-ing Image Feature”; Zuowei Shen, National University of Singapore, “Wavelet and Wavelet Frames inImaging Science”; Joseph M.Teran, University of California, Los Angeles, “Numerical Methods for Elastici-ty Problems in Biomechanics”; RossWhitaker, University of Utah, “Statistical Models and Methods in ImageAnalysis.”

RESEARCH PROGRAMThere were thirty-five participants in the Research Program, which consisted mainly of two one-hourresearch seminar talks given daily by the program participants. The speakers list was balanced between seniorand junior researchers. Research talks presented state-of-the-art research and stimulated not only interestingdiscussions among participants but also possible future collaborations.

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CLAY SENIOR SCHOLARS-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAMThrough the generous funding of the Clay Mathematics Institute, two Senior Scholars-in-Residence partic-ipated in the PCMI 2010 Summer Session. The Senior Scholars-in-Residence are nominated and chosen fortheir distinguished work in the research field. Chosen for the 2010 PCMI Summer Session were IngridDaubechies of Princeton University and Jean-Michel Morel of École Normale Supérieure de Cachan.

The participation of Daubechies and Morel played a crucial role in the summer program. Each of them gavea public lecture to the entire PCMI program and contributed excellent research seminars. Each Scholar alsovolunteered to hold a one-hour conversation with the Undergraduate Summer School program: Daubechiesspoke about life as a mathematician, and Morel spoke about what to expect when doing graduate research inimage processing. In addition, Daubechies made a point of interacting extensively with the SecondarySchool Teachers Program (SSTP): she attended the SSTP mathematics course, held a special session for theSSTP about her work, took part in the Zome building activities, and in general made herself available toSSTP participants.

Public lectures by Clay Senior Scholars were “Fine Art Meets Mathematics” by Ingrid Daubechies and“Image Editing with the Poisson Equation: How to Teach the Fourier Method to Undergraduates” by Jean-Michel Morel.

Secondary School Teachers ProgramFifty-two middle school and high school teachers spent three weeks learning mathematics, reflecting on whatit means to teach mathematics, and working together to create a product to share with their colleagues bothat PCMI and more broadly through the PCMI website.

Of the teacher participants, sixteen had returned for a second or third year of participation in the SSTP; fourwere teachers from the Noyce supplement to the PD3 project; the other participants represented PCMI’sProfessional Development and Outreach groups from California, Minnesota, New Jersey, Utah,Washington,and Mathematics for America in NewYork. The remaining teachers came as individuals from a variety ofgeographic locations such as Arkansas, Florida, Maryland, Ohio, and Turkey.The range of teaching experienceamong the SSTP participants ran from one year of teaching to seasoned veterans.

As in the past nine years, the mathematics session, “Developing Mathematics: Over and Over,” used mate-rials created by a team led by Al Cuoco and Bowen Kerins from the Educational Development Center(EDC) and the PROMYS for Teachers program at Boston University. Participants explored how iterativeprocesses can be used to investigate Fibonacci numbers, image processing, the calculation of square roots,and more, giving them a useful toolkit of techniques that can be applied to many different areas. Instructorsfor the course were Darryl Yong from Harvey Mudd College and Bowen Kerins, a former teacher andmathematics educator.

In the daily “Reflecting on Practice” session, participants considered how to manage productive discussionsin their classrooms that contribute to student learning. The time for the course was increased by fifteenminutes in response to the concerns raised by the 2009 participant evaluations. The staff of six teachersdesigned and led the sessions under the guidance and supervision of the SSTP leadership team (Gail Burrill,Carol Hattan, and James King).Videos of classrooms from the United States and other countries, transcripts,research findings, articles, state assessment results, and instructional materials were used to prompt ananalysis of what constitutes “math talk” and how to create classrooms where the level of discussion and inter-activity was at the highest level.

For two hours each afternoon, participants took part in one of six working groups on data analysis, functions,geometry, discrete mathematics, and lesson study, and a group that took part in the introductory mathematicscourse of PCMI’s Undergraduate Summer School (“An Introduction to Mathematical Image Processing,”taught by Luminita Vese of the University of California, Los Angeles). In the latter working group, partici-pants not only learned about the 2010 PCMI research topic but adapted it to the secondary classroom withseveral activities. The other working groups explored technology, developed lessons and classroom activities,

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Undergraduate Summer SchoolThe 2010 Undergraduate Summer School (USS) at PCMI was, as customary, organized around a pair ofcourses taught each day with daily problem sessions; one course was primarily aimed at introductory-levelstudents (and a group of motivated high school teachers), and the other was intended for students at a moreadvanced undergraduate level of mathematics. The introductory course, “An Introduction to MathematicalImage Processing,” was taught by LuminitaVese of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the advancedcourse, “An Introduction to Compressed Sensing,” was taught by Jared Tanner of the University of Edinburgh.

Both courses were accessible to the students and received generally positive reviews. Attendance was highthroughout the three-week session, filling the room to capacity (about forty to fifty students). In addition,because of the topic, the daily problem sessions (conducted by Jeff Blanchard of Grinnell College and ToddWittman of the University of California, Los Angeles) included crucial programming components. Theseproblem sessions were remarkably popular with the students.

Vese’s introductory course covered techniques for image filtering using first- and second-order partialderivatives, the gradient, and Laplacian, and their discrete approximations by finite differences, average filters,convolution operators, the Fourier transform, and low-pass and high-pass filters. It was presented at a levelthat was easy for students to understand and implement in the lab.

In keeping with PCMI’s focus on cross-program participation, a group of secondary school mathematicsteachers led by James King of the University of Washington created a working group on “Image Processing”and attended two weeks of Vese’s lectures. This group created a handful of exercises centered around simpleimage processing transformation that could be taught to secondary school students.

Tanner’s advanced course discussed Fourier series and wavelets before delving into selected topics in compressedsensing. It was remarkable to see that many of his lectures were also independently covered in the GraduateSummer School. Usually the gap between the advanced undergraduate course and graduate courses isimmense.This year the gap was not as noticeable, probably due to the newness of the field of image processing.

Undergraduate Faculty ProgramFor faculty members whose main focus is teaching undergraduate students, the Undergraduate FacultyProgram (UFP) at PCMI offers the opportunity to renew excitement about mathematics, talk with peers aboutnew teaching approaches, address some challenging research questions, and interact with the broader mathe-matical community. The UFP is unique in that it bridges the educational and research objectives of PCMI.

This year’s UFP instructor/coordinator was KevinVixie, who was assisted by Tom Asaki, both of WashingtonState University. The UFP had three components this year:

1. Metrics and Regularization in Image Processing:This set of fifteen lectures by Vixie introduced the topicof image metrics and regularization and their role in image processing.

2. Data Challenges and Algorithms:Asaki grouped the participants in teams and had them explore concreteimage processing problems using MATLAB. The participants learned how to implement the algorithmsdescribed in the primary lecture series. The problems were set as challenges, with some good-natured compe-tition between the individual teams.

3. Lectures on Geometric Measure Theory:Asaki presented a set of six advanced lectures discussing geometricmeasure theory and its relation to image processing. The lectures attracted graduate students and members ofthe research program in addition to many of the UFP participants.

The UFP was unusually popular this year, attracting twenty-two participants. The group was enthusiasticabout working on the data challenges in a team setting; many participants felt that acquiring a familiarity with

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image processing would help them with their own research and/or could be incorporated into courses attheir home institutions.

Service, Teaching, and Research (STaR) for Early Career Mathematics Educators ProjectNew this year to PCMI was the STaR workshop for recent doctoral graduates in mathematics education.This one-week program was organized by Robert Reys and Barbara Reys of the University of Missouri andsupported with funding from the National Science Foundation.

The goals of the project are to bring together a cadre of future leaders of mathematics education in order toestablish a support structure for advancing the scholarship of recent doctoral graduates in mathematicseducation; expand the networking of recent graduates and advanced graduate students; showcase researchpriorities for the field; and facilitate the establishment and development of research groups involving youngmathematics education scholars from different institutions.

The forty-four STaR fellows of 2010 have appointments in forty-two different institutions throughout theUnited States. Twenty-four fellows have appointments in mathematics departments and twenty in colleges ordepartments of education. Outstanding scholars were recruited to lead or facilitate sessions. Jere Confrey ofNorth Carolina State University, James Hiebert of the University of Delaware, and Denise Mewborn of theUniversity of Georgia made keynote presentations and worked with the STaR fellows in follow-up breakoutsessions. John (Spud) Bradley of the National Science Foundation also attended the Institute for several daysand interacted with attendees.

Community and Cross Program ActivityEfforts toward building a strong and dynamic community among all PCMI participants included the use thisyear of the Ning social networking site, which was successful at encouraging communication among allparticipants in a variety of ways. The online community was used extensively for the posting of discussions,activities, schedule notices, and lecture notes.

Community is also built at PCMI through a variety of Cross Program Activities––a mix of formal presenta-tions and informal recreational activities. Formal activities were Clay Senior Scholars-in-Residence lecturesby Jean-Michel Morel and Ingrid Daubechies; a presentation by Tony DeRose of Pixar Animation Studios;a presentation by Nick Jackiw of Key Curriculum Press; two sessions of “Pizza and Problem Solving,” organ-ized by Andrew Bernoff of Harvey Mudd College; opening socials for each program on the opening day ofPCMI; and opening and closing dinners.

Informal activities included designing and building the customary entry for the annual Park City Fourth ofJuly parade (a hypercube to represent this year’s parade theme “From Silver to Snow”). Some sixty peopleparticipated in the parade activities; a hike organized by PCMI Director Richard Hain, with twenty-five partic-ipants from among the programs; a PCMIWorld Cup soccer match; and an annual ice cream social organizedand hosted by SSTP participants.

Participants are encouraged to organize sports and recreational outings. After the first week, there wereparticipant-led sports activities held nearly every night and on the weekends, as well as weekend trips opento anyone who wished to participate.

Publication SeriesPublished by the American Mathematical Society, the Park City Mathematics Series comprises nearly all ofthe lectures ever given in PCMI’s Graduate Summer School. Also published are six volumes in the Park CityMathematics Institute Subseries, a subsection of the AMS Student Mathematics Series. These volumes areaimed at undergraduate students and are published independently of the Park City Mathematics Series. TheSSTP disseminates its teacher-created materials and other resources via a special website created by the MathForum at Drexel University. A full list of PCMI’s publications is included in the more detailed Annual Reportavailable at http://pcmi.ias.edu.

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FundingThe IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute was made possible by the generosity of the following funders:

The Clay Mathematics InstituteThe George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles FoundationCharles and Rosanna JaffinMath for AmericaThe Mathematical Sciences Research InstituteThe National Science FoundationThe National Security AgencyEric andWendy SchmidtTheWolfensohn Family Foundation

Appreciation is also extended for the in-kind contributions of the Department of Mathematics at theUniversity of Utah.

PCMI Oversight BoardChair: Phillip A. Griffiths, Institute for Advanced StudyDeborah Ball, University of MichiganHyman Bass, University of MichiganPeter Goddard, Institute for Advanced StudyRonald Graham, University of California, San DiegoRobert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced StudyElaine Wolfensohn,Wolfensohn Family Foundation

PCMI Steering Committee 2010Director: Richard Hain, Duke UniversityAndrew J. Bernoff, Harvey Mudd CollegeAaron Bertram, University of UtahGail Burrill, Michigan State UniversityTony F. Chan, University of California, Los AngelesRonald A. DeVore, University of South CarolinaCarol Hattan, Skyview High School,Vancouver,WashingtonHelmut Hofer, Institute for Advanced StudyJames King, University of WashingtonJohnny Lott, University of MississippiJanis Oldham, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityJohn Polking, Rice UniversityRonald Stern, University of California, IrvineKaren Vogtmann, Cornell UniversityHongkai Zhao, University of California, Irvine

PCMI Diversity SubcommitteeChair: Janis Oldham, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State UniversityErika Camacho, Arizona State UniversityDuane Cooper, Morehouse CollegeEdray Goins, Purdue UniversityLeona Harris, The College of New JerseyRobert Megginson, University of MichiganRobinWilson, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

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Over the past year, the Science Initiative Group has continued to support capacity building in scienceresearch and education in Africa through RISE, the Regional Initiative in Science and Education.Funded by Carnegie Corporation of NewYork, RISE trains Ph.D.- and M.S.-level scientists and

engineers in sub-Saharan Africa in university-based networks in disciplines selected in part for their relevanceto Africa’s development. The RISE networks are:

AMSEN:African Materials Science and Engineering Network (Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, SouthAfrica)

RISE-AFNNET:African Natural Products Network (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)

SABINA: Southern African Biochemistry and Informatics for Natural Products Network (Malawi, Namibia,South Africa, Tanzania)

SSAWRN: Sub-Saharan Africa Water Resources Network (Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Uganda)

WIO-RISE:Western Indian Ocean Regional Initiative (Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania)

By the end of June 2010, sixty-eight students were enrolled in degree programs through RISE, about two-thirds of them working toward doctorates and the others earning masters degrees. After completing theirstudies under the supervision of teams of advisers from universities in their networks, most RISE graduateswill commence or resume research and teaching appointments at universities in their home countries.Others will divide their time between academia and industry.

While the impact of RISE isexpected to grow as African uni-versities build stronger links withone another and develop a betterqualified professoriate, individualtriumphs have already begun toemerge, as the following vignettesillustrate.

Sugar cane ash, a waste product ofprocessing sugar cane, has foundits way into the Ph.D. research ofJohn Mwero, an AMSEN studentfrom Kenya. He is seeking ways toreduce the cost of concrete, thestandard building material inNairobi, by adding agriculturalwaste to it. His early resultsshowed that while large amountsof ash weaken the concrete, smallamounts—about 6 to 8 percent—actually bring a slight improve-ment in strength.

In discussing what inspired him tostudy natural products chemistry,John Odda, a Ugandan researcherearning his Ph.D. through AF-NNET, recalled, “Sometimes Iwould get sick with malaria. My

Joseph Erume (right) makes his way to a community spring in a Ugandan village, accompaniedby the community "chairman" (second from left) and fellow RISE researchers Justin Ekou andIrene Naigaga. Erume is studying the water quality of the spring, a source of waterbornediseases; Ekou studies the molecular biology of amoebic parasites; and Naigaga’s researchfocuses on water quality in LakeVictoria.

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Grace Mutia (left), aWIO-RISE Ph.D. student, believes that she can improve thelot of fishermen in Zanzibar by isolating and producing the chemical in seaweedthat attracts parrotfish, a common local food.

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dad would walk over to some bush and come back with roots and leaves and cook them all up. He wouldgive me something to drink and I would get well. I remember thinking, ‘What magic is that?’ I wanted toknow what was in those plants, and I still want to know.” Through RISE, Odda is researching the pharma-cology of plants used in traditional medicine.

Nicholas Mphangwe, a RISE-supported Ph.D. candidate based at the Tea Research Foundation of CentralAfrica in Malawi, is learning how to identify genetic markers that will allow for more accurate and rapidselection of desirable tea strains. The scientists at the foundation have been raising and studying some threehundred tea cultivars, seeking to improve quality by traditional methods of hand selection. Using equipmentand techniques available at the University of Pretoria, part of the SABINA network, Mphangwe will helprefine this process through the use of genetic markers for qualities such as flavor, resistance to insects anddiseases, and tolerance of low temperature and drought.

Irene Naigaga brought her background in veterinary medicine to her Ph.D. research project in the SSAWRNnetwork, where she is developing an inexpensive but accurate technique to monitor water quality in LakeVictoria. She found that she can assess water quality by studying lesions in the tissue of Nile perch (tilapia),a fish that accumulates pollutants from the lake over its lifespan.

WIO-RISE Ph.D. student Grace Mutia discovered that fishermen in Zanzibar, where her research is based,crush certain seaweeds and place them in hand-woven traps as bait for parrotfish, a common local food. Shebelieves that if she can isolate and produce the fish-attracting chemical, she can improve the lot of the fisher-men and reduce the heavy demand on seaweed.

Details and other student stories can befound at www.ias.edu/rise.

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Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor Emeritus,School of Mathematics, Institute forAdvanced Study (Chair)

Mohamed H. A. Hassan, ExecutiveDirector, TWAS:The Academy of Sciencesfor the DevelopingWorld, Trieste, Italy

J.Tomas Hexner, DevelopmentConsultant, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jacob Palis, Director Emeritus andProfessor, Instituto Nacional de MatemáticaPura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro; and Presi-dent, TWAS:The Academy of Sciences forthe DevelopingWorld

C. N. R. Rao, Honorary President andLinus Pauling Research Professor, JawaharlalNehru Centre for Advanced ScientificResearch, Bangalore, India; and ImmediatePast President, TWAS:The Academy ofSciences for the DevelopingWorld

HaroldVarmus, President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, NewYork, NewYork; and Cochair, President’s Council ofAdvisors on Science and Technology

ChungW. Kim (Emeritus)


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Major Donors(through June 30, 2010)

American Council of Learned SocietiesJeffrey P. BezosThe Birkelund FundVictoria and Hank BjorklundBlack-Periman FoundationBotwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation, Inc.Mrs. Ann Lee Saunders BrownCalifornia Institute of TechnologyCarnegie Corporation of NewYorkNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron ChrissChugai Pharmaceutical Company, Ltd.Ciel FoundationHarry and Helen Cohen CharitableFoundationThe Concordia FoundationThe Edward T. Cone FoundationThe Gladys Krieble DelmasFoundationGeorge S. and Dolores Doré EcclesFoundationThe Ford FoundationFritz Thyssen StiftungGerda Henkel StiftungVartan Gregorian

Doris M. and Ralph E. HansmannMr. James Harpel in honor of ArnoldLevineMr. John S. Hendricks andMrs. Maureen D. HendricksSamuel D. IsalyJohnson & JohnsonImmanuel andVera KohnGeorge Labalme Jr.Dr. Spiro J. LatsisSarah and Martin L. LeibowitzLeon Levy FoundationThe MacMillan Family Foundation Inc.Math for AmericaThe AndrewW. Mellon FoundationMinerva Research FoundationThe Ambrose Monell FoundationProfessor George D. MostowNational Aeronautics and SpaceAdministrationNational Endowment for theHumanitiesNational Science FoundationNational Security AgencyThe NewYork Community Trust

Northwestern UniversityNovartis International AGPrinceton UniversityQiu Shi Science and TechnologiesFoundationThe Rockefeller Foundation*

David M. RubensteinThe Schwab Fund for CharitableGivingScully Peretsman FoundationThe Simons FoundationCharles Simonyi Fund for Arts andSciencesSmithsonian Institution AstrophysicalObservatorySpace Telescope Science InstituteSpencer FoundationTIAA-CREFTrust Company, FSBUnited States Department of EnergyVerizonWirelessWolfensohn Family FoundationMr. Brian F.Wruble andMs. KathleenW. BrattonZurich Financial Services

Acknowledgments

The Institute for Advanced Study is deeply indebted to its Founders and to all of its subsequent benefactorsfor providing a strong financial foundation from which to pursue its mission of fundamental research inthe sciences and humanities without the pressure for immediate results.We express deep appreciation toall of the following donors for their generous gifts, grants, pledges, and gifts-in-kind of endowment, cap-ital, and operating support.We especially wish to recognize members of the Centennial Council, our mostgenerous individual donors.

AnonymousJeffrey P. Bezos+

Mr.+ and Mrs. Richard B. BlackAddie and Harold BroitmanMrs. Ann Lee Saunders BrownHelen and Martin+ ChooljianNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron ChrissRogerW. Ferguson, Jr.+ and Annette L.NazarethDrs. Luisa and Robert+ Fernholz

Mr. John S. Hendricks+ and Mrs.Maureen D. HendricksImmanuel+ andVera KohnDr.+ and Mrs. Spiro J. LatsisSarah and Martin L.+ LeibowitzMr. and Mrs. RobertW. LoughlinNancy+ and Duncan MacMillanHamish Maxwell+

Robert B. MenschelNancy B. Peretsman+

Elena PetronioDavid M. Rubenstein+

Eric+ andWendy SchmidtJames Simons+

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Simonyi+

Margaret E.TaplinMr.+ and Mrs. Ladislaus von HoffmannShelbyWhite+

James+ and ElaineWolfensohn

+ denotes current Institute for Advanced StudyTrusteeorTrustee Emeritus

Centennial Council(through June 30, 2010)

*Matching Gift to an Individual Contribution

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Founders’ Circle

Helen and Martin Chooljian•

Neil Chriss and Natasha Herron ChrissMr. and Mrs. Charles L. Jaffin•

Mr. and Mrs. RobertW. Loughlin•

Louise and John Steffens•

Chairman’s Circle

Mrs. Ann Lee Saunders BrownMorton and Donna CollinsCarl and Toby Feinberg •

Immanuel andVera KohnNancy and Duncan MacMillanAnnette Merle-Smith•

John and Caroline PallatElena Petronio•

John Rassweiler•

Director’s Circle

Elizabeth Harkins Baughan•

Pierre Deligne and Elena AlexeevaBrig and Reinhold Gebert

Tina and Bill Greenberg•

John J. and NoraWren Kerr•

Elinor LunderCharlesW. McCutchenJohn and Ann McGoldrickPhilipW. Riskin CharitableFoundation Inc.Drs.Vivian and Harold Shapiro•

Fritz Stern and Elizabeth SiftonSusan and DonaldWilson•

25th Anniversary Circle

Lee ArnoldAddie and Harold BroitmanFran and Antoinette Buckley*

Cedar Fund of the Princeton AreaCommunity Foundation•

Ashvin Chhabra and DanielaBonafede-Chhabra•

John and Melanie Clarke•

The Dow FoundationLor and Michael Gehret•

Thomas and Archer Harvey•

Cynthia and Robert HillasBob and Lynn Johnston•

Christopher P. Jones•

Russell and Helene Kulsrud•

Jane and Robert MacLennan•

Cecilia and Michael Mathews•

Jack McCarthy and Susan Anable•

Jackie and Cy MeiselMichael and Pamela Morandi•

Richard Moseley•

John and Dee Patberg•

Eric and Frances Reichl•

Thomas and Dina RobinsonSanderson Family Fund of thePrinceton Area CommunityFoundationDr. Marcus Schabacker andYuh M.M.Schabacker-Koppel•

Margaret E.TaplinMr. and Mrs. James Utaski•

Mr. and Mrs. LukeVisconti•

Steve and Diane Zipperstein•

Friends of the Institute

Our sincere gratitude is extended to the Friends of the Institute, whose unrestricted gifts make a great difference. This year, we express particularappreciation to Helen and Martin Chooljian for their generous challenge, which matched the increase in any gift by current Friends and every gift bynew Friends. We thank the many Friends who participated in the challenge, especially those who joined the Founders’, Chairman’s, Director’s, and25th Anniversary Circles.

Friends

Georg and Joyce Albers-SchonbergMr. and Mrs. Frank R. Allocca*

Anonymous (3)Anonymous (2)*

Judith ApplegateRobert ArestyDr. and Mrs. David Atkin•

Leigh and John Bartlett*

R. Elise and Eric B. Baum*

Robert A. and Susan M. Beckman*

Mary and Richard Benioff •

Len and Laura Berlik*

Mr. and Mrs. Mihir BhattacharyaDr. Urvish Bidkar and SunandaNair-Bidkar*

Helena and Peter BienstockElizabeth A. Bish*

Shari and Donald Black*

Jane and Ted Boyer*

Ted and Barbie Bromley*

Pernilla and James Burke*

Barbara ChancellorMarvin Harold Cheiten•

Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. ChewLucinda and Charles Clark

Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Cohen•

Victoria and Bradley CorrodiMichael Curtis and Judith K. Brodsky•

Jan and Elly de Boer•

James R. Deneen and Thalia S. DeneenRysia de Ravel•

Sam and Judi deTuroPeter Dougherty and Elizabeth Hock*

Marlene and Aiden Doyle*

Audrey and David Egger*

Arthur C. EschenlauerJoseph and Ruth FathDana and Janet FearonEmily and Johan Firmenich•

Dr. and Mrs. Jerome K. FreedmanSherri andVic Garber•

Dr. and Mrs. Steve Gecha•

Robert and Evelyn GeddesAristidesW. GeorgantasAnn and Lee GladdenChristoph and Dr. Anja Glaetzer*

Colleen Goggins•

Fred and Selma GoldsteinMs. B.F. Graham and Mr.Ted Meth*

Rachel and Charles GrayNadivah and David Greenberg*

Peter and Christine HaganJohn Haines*

Joan and Jack HallT. Randolph Harris and Barbara A.SloanNorman HarveyMr. and Mrs. George H. Heilborn•

Dr. Lucille HellerJonathan and Anna Horner•

Zaki and Liz HosnyKatherine Hughes and Robert Del TufoPamela and Brian HughesBrandon and Lynette Hull*

Dr. Frances C. HutnerBettyW. Johnson•

James and Jacqueline JohnsonAlexander Jones and Catherine Haines•

Landon and Sarah JonesSteven and Florence Kahn•

Allen and Arianne KassofHoward K. Keller•

Dr. Suzanne Keller and Dr. Charles HaarQuentin T. and Peggy R. Kelly

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Gail E. KohnMs. Louisa G. LambertSam and Casey LambertYuki Moore Laurenti and JeffreyLaurenti*

Dr. Karen LeibowitzWilliam Lettier*

Richard J. and Neil Ann S. LevineMaxine and Fraser Lewis•

Walter H. LippincottDeborah Lunder and Alan EzekowitzDr. and Mrs. Gregory E. Lutz•

James LynchRoland and Pamela MacholdLewis Maltby and BethVan HoevenPatricia and James Marino*

Prof. James H. Marrow and Dr. EmilyRose•

Mr.William C. Martin*

Dr. and Mrs. James F. MathisMr. and Mrs. James R. McCredieMichelle McKenna and Patrick Bernuth•

Beatriz and Decio MendesDorothy and Lloyd Moote•

Thomas Nesi and Pamela McGrew*

Rosemary O’BrienBill and Mary O’ShaughnessyDenise Pardello and Neil Salmon*

Jean and Larry ParsonsFayne Petok•

Jacquie andWoody Phares •

Kitty Lou and John Phillips*

C. Mark Pirrung*

George PitcherDorothy and Charles PlohnDavid Ramsay•

Michael and Melanie RauchAnn Reichelderfer and Douglas H. BlairMillard McAdoo Riggs, Jr.Ezra Rosenberg and ElizabethDoverman*

Mr. Robert L. Ruggiero and Ms. JoniFulton*

Bernard and Ingrid Saint-DonatJohn SchmidtEduardo and Anne Marie Schur*

Frank X. and Mary Louise ShannonRobert and Mollie SheppardRuth and Elliott SigalBob and Margaret SlightonDavid E. SmithV.B. Snowden*

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stockman*

Ms. Caren Sturges•

Dr. Jana SukkariehMark Thierfelder and Courtney Lederer*

Bryce and Grace Thompson*

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse TreuGail and Richard UllmanTaysenVan Itallie and Jane Scott

Mr. and Mrs. George A.Vaughn*

Jay and HarrietVawterTeddi and FongWei, M.D.John and LouiseWellemeyer•

Dr. Charles F.Westoff and Ms. JaneS. DeLung *

Laura and RoscoeWhiteSharon and RussWhiteRalph R. and Joan Z.WidnerMr. and Mrs. John J.WiseDavid and DeannaWoodallMasaaki and JoAnnYamada*

Contributions to Friends

Elizabeth S. EttinghausenFrancesca and Michael Liechenstein•

Edwin and Linda MorgensKarl F. and Anne C. MorrisonCatherine F. Newcombe•

William M. RothCarolyn and George Sanderson•

Thomas Fund of the Princeton AreaCommunity FoundationCaroline and HelmutWeymar

Matching Gifts to Friends

BarclaysWealth AmericasExxon-Mobil FoundationGoldman Sachs & Co.Wells Fargo

Other Donors

Alexander McFarlan Ackley Jr.Anonymous (5)Anthony and Judith BrickmanBridgewater AssociatesDaniel D. BrundaCapital Group CompaniesMs. Connie CaplanPeggy L. deWolf and James L. BogartMickey Diener and Lisa BennettEstate of Willis F. DoneyThe Dow FoundationHarold and Catherine FalkHarriet C. Feldman and Gerald H. JurisFidelity Charitable Gift FundHarry and Edith FirstenbergAristidesW. GeorgantasMr. Mikhail GrinbergJames F. HawkinsDavid A. HollingerHorizon Blue Cross Blue Shield ofNew JerseyTed and Keri HurwitzHelene L. KaplanEmma Jaffe and Lawrence KarenKarliner-Thaler FundBoris KayserDr. Plamen KrastevJudy Bronston and George LovittNetty LowensteinAndrew and Ruth MarkoeJennifer and Christopher MollerTari PantaleoRhoda ParnesThe Giorgio Petronio Charitable LeadUnitrustProquest Management LLCRhoda and Larry ShulmanEugene R. SpeerRobert N. StutzMr. and Mrs. Stanley TannenbaumEstate of Frank E.Taplin, Jr.Scott and Marilyn TremaineMr. and Mrs. Jesse TreuU.S. - Israel Binational ScienceFoundationJohnWinterbottom

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Professor C. FranciscusVerellen andMrs. Isabelle M.VerellenMorton G.WhiteBrian F.Wruble

Current and Former Membersand Visitors

We are grateful to our Faculty, and formerand current Members,Visitors, and ResearchAssistants for providing support for ourcurrent visiting scholars.

Richard AbelsWilliam AbikoffProfessor Stephen L. Adler and Dr. SarahC. Brett-SmithAlan AdolphsonKen Ahl and Diane Cole Ahl(In honor of Irving Lavin)John F. AhnerJames S. AmelangSusan AmesAnonymous (3)

Anonymous (11)David Anthony and Dorcas BrownProfessor Dr. Caroline ArniBulent AtalayGiles AuchmutyFernande Auslander

(In memory of Louis Auslander)Jairus BanajiClaude BardosJosé Barros-NetoHyman BassPaul and Felice Bateman

Steve BattersonProfessor Rainer BauböckJérémie BecHermann BeckRobert A. and Susan M. BeckmanBrigitte M. Bedos-RezakPaul BenacerrafGeorgia BenkartPaul BernardAlan E. BernsteinJeremy BernsteinHenry and Leigh BienenDr. Joan Birman and Dr. Joseph Birman

Norman BirnbaumDavid BjelajacJoseph Blasi and Nancy Bonus

Larissa BonfanteProfessor Corinne BonnetJames J. BonoK.H.V. Booth

(In memory of Andrew Booth)Philippe BorgeaudChristian Borgs

Miklós Boskovits and Serena PadovaniConstance Brittain BouchardWilliam N. Brandt

John David Breit and Fanette Pollack

Ward BriggsSusan J. Brison, Ph.D.John B. BronzanJoseph and Michele BrownJerome BrunerRobert Bryant and Réymundo Garia

Dr. Nicholas P. BuchdahlGlenn R. Bugh, Ph.D.William CaferroCalabi Fund of The PhiladelphiaFoundation

Professor Dr. Claude CalameDavid and Claude CampbellJim and Nancy CantrellVicki CaronVincent and Pat CarrettaEugene A. CarrollJessica CattelinoDr. Brenda ChalfinJohnWhiteclay ChambersHoi Fung ChauJennifer T. Chayes

Dr.Weimin ChenJih-Hsin ChengT.P. ChengLucille ChiaPetra ChuAnne L. ClarkForrest D. ColburnWilliam J. ConnellDrs. Maria and Bruno CoppiDario A. CoviRaffaella Cribiore

Dr. Lee CronkCharlesW. Curtis

Michael CwikelJoseph and Monica DavisMartin DavisJohn and Cheryl DawsonPilar de la TorrePercy DeiftHedwig C.H. Dekker(In memory of Jacob C.E. Dekker)Harold G. DiamondWalter DittrichRobert S. DoranRonald G. DouglasSusan B. DowneyVladimir Drinfeld

Pierre du PreyMary and Richard DunnLoyal and Bernice DurandPeter DurenClifford J. EarleBruce EastwoodAllan EdmondsRobert D. EdwardsDr. Paul E. EhrlichProfessor Christiane EisenbergKhaled El RouayhebDyan Elliott

Einstein Legacy Society

The Einstein Legacy Society was established in1996 to honor those who have made a plannedgift to the Institute for Advanced Study and thosewho have included a gift to the Institute in theirestate plans.The Society takes its name fromAlbertEinstein, Institute Faculty member, 1933 –55.Einstein Legacy Society members includeTrustees, Faculty and Faculty Emeriti, Staff,former Members, Friends, and other supporters.

Anonymous (5)Frank BeggsRichard B. BlackEnrico BombieriAddie and Harold BroitmanJoseph E. BrownRobert ButowClaude CalameHelen and Martin ChooljianGetzel M. CohenGiles ConstableJohnW. Dawson, Jr.Hedwig C.H. Dekker(in memory of Professor Jacob C.E. Dekker)Carl FaithGraham FarmeloCarl and Toby FeinbergDr. Cloudy (Klaus-Dietrich) FischerLor and Michael GehretPeter and Helen GoddardB. F. Graham and Theordore S. MethPhillip A. GriffithsRalph E. HansmannMorton E. HarrisJames F. HawkinsSigurdur HelgasonMichel HugloMr. and Mrs. Charles L. JaffinAkio KawauchiSuzanne KellerTatsuo KimuraRobert P. LanglandsJoseph LehnerMr. and Mrs. RobertW. LoughlinRobert MacPherson and Mark GoreskyHamish MaxwellAnnette Merle-SmithLloyd and Dorothy MooteAlexander P.D. MourelatosElena PetronioJohn H. RassweilerMillard M. RiggsBarbara Heard RobertsRichard Donald SchaferMartin E. SegalN.J. SlabbertChuu-Lian Terng and Richard S. PalaisFranklin K.TokerGrazia TonelliProfessor and Mrs.V.S.Varadarajan


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Sir John ElliottGlenn and Sara EllisonJean Bethke ElshtainT. EvergatesDr. Ibrahim FatkullinMr. Solomon FefermanAlex J. FeingoldProfessor Mechthild FendThomas and Sarah FigueiraCarole K. FinkDr. Cloudy (Klaus-Dietrich) FischerVal and Daisy Fitch

Mr. Gerald B. FollandDr. Paul Forman

P. R. FrankeFrancine Frankel and DouglasVerneyTed FrankelDan Freed and Sonia PabanMr. John FreedDr. Norbert FreiIlse Lisl GaalRoss GeogheganLinda GeraciMurray Gerstenhaber

Professor Abolghassem GhaffariDion GildenhuysFred GilmanMarvin D. GirardeauZvi GitelmanDr. George I. GlaubermanCarol GluckProfessor and Mrs. Peter B. GoldenDan and Ryoko GoldstonRichard J. GonsalvesRoeW. GoodmanUlrich GörtzAndreas GraeserBernard Grossman, Ph.D.Erich S. GruenMauro F. GuillenGerald S. GuralnikPaul A. HanleBertW. Hansen, Ph.D.Günter Harder

Morton E. HarrisDr. Kaja Harter-UibopuuJoel Hass and Abby ThompsonCharlesW. HaxthausenRandolph C. HeadJames and Lynn HeitschHenry† and Ravenna HelsonErwin N. and Elfrieda F. HiebertDr. Alexandrou HimonasNancy HingstonAlmut HintzeDr. Kengo HirachiLawrence P. HorwitzProfessor Geoffrey HoskingVittorio Hosle

R. HoweRobert C. HowellDouglas HowlandMr. and Mrs. Michel HugloMr. James E. HumphreysLynn Hunt and Margaret JacobHarvey Hyman, Ph.D.Spyros IakovidisLuc IllusieRon and Gail Irving

Professor Ephraim IsaacHoward JacobsonPierre Jeanquartier

James J. JohnMichael JohnstonAravind K. Joshi

RichardV. Kadison

Dr. Peter KaravitesGoro C. Kato,V.L.S.Joshua T. KatzMichael B. KatzRanon KatzoffTakahiro KawaiAkio KawauchiDennis KehoeProfessor David Kennedy

Martin KernDenise Kim and Rob KusnerYoung-Heon KimDale KinneyToichiro KinoshitaH. KlingenRonald J. KnillMarvin KnoppGeorge KnoxMikhail KoganProfessor Mihail KolountzakisBoris KorenblumHrvoje KraljevicDr.Vyacheslav KrushkalJohn and Mary Kwan

W. R. Laird

Ellen G. LandauHenry J. Landau and JuliaW. Landau

(In memory of HarryWoolf)William E. Lang

Professor ThomasW. Laqueur andProfessor Carla A. Hesse

Sharon Lazarov(In memory of Connor Lazarov)Robert and Nancy Lee Fund of theFidelity Charitable Gift FundJames LepowskyCarl LevyAnatoly LibgoberDavid and Marcia LiebermanHarry LiebersohnJ. LindenstraussJuan and Rocio LinzMing-Chit LiuHoward LouthanMichèle Lowrie

R. Duncan Luce

Dr. John E. LueckeMichael MaasMelissa MacauleyAndrew MacFadyenJodi MagnessProfessor Steven MansbachFouad J. Masrieh

ProfessorWilliam McCallumMichael McCordDavid McNeillSarah McPheeProfessor Dr. Brigitte MeijnsErnest and Erika Michael

Microsoft Matching Gifts Program*

Marvin MielkeProfessor Margaret M. MilesHenry MillonProfessor Katsuhiro MinemuraVernon Hyde MinorRick MirandaMaria Teresa Marabini MoevsCarlos Julio MorenoDetlef H. MüllerProfessor Klaus Nehring

Christoph NeugebauerProfessorWalter NeumannDr. Catharine NewburyDr.Y. Jack NgDoug NieburLouis NirenbergMartti NissinenThomas F.X. NobleMary Jo NyeLeslye ObioraAndrew P. OggYong-Geun OhTakashi OnoDr. Peter P. OrlikMartin OstwaldNicolas PapanicolaouFrançois PaschoudCarole PatemanCharles Patton, Ph.D.Michael G. PeletzJamesV. PetersCarl F. PetryLeon PlantingaHenry A. Pogorzelski(In memory of AndréWeil)John Polking

Karla PollmannDr. Randall A. PooleJeremy D. PopkinLudmilla G. Popova-WightmanGopal Prasad

William L. PresslyMs. Maryann G. PutnamMichael C. J. PutnamOrest RanumM. M. RaoClaudia Rapp

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John G. RatcliffeEvelyn S. RawskiTheodore ReffJoyce ReynoldsP.J. RhodesLawrence Richardson, Jr.Melvin RichterNancy RiesProfessors Carol and François Rigolot

Francesca Rochberg

Professor Fritz RohrlichPaul RoremMyriam Rosen-AyalonJonathan L. RosnerCatherine J. RossDenis Rousset and Sophie MinonDr.Thomas RüttenPaul J. Sally, Jr.

Dr. Stuart A. SamuelLymanTower Sargent

Norman E. SaulRichard D. SchaferSeth L. ScheinChester SchneiderRobert E. SchofieldDr. John SchreckerGerald and Margery SchwarzProfessor Dr. Gerhard SeelMr. Domenico SellaEmanuele SeniciWilliam Sewell

Dr. Joseph Sgro

Irfan ShahidFreydoon ShahidiJohn ShepherdsonRichard SherProfessor Martin J. SherwinDr. Ryszard SienkiewiczIsrael Michael SigalAllan J. SilbergerDebora Silverman and Jeffrey PragerYakov SinaiMaxine SingerMichael F. SingerRobert C. Sleigh, Jr.Neal SnydermanRobert Socolow Fund of the JewishCommunal FundCharles SommerfieldEric SommersEugene SoretsMrs. Mame Sow DioufBridget and Thomas Spencer

Craig SpencerMs. Grace Marmor SpruchLynn StaleyDr. Rosemary Stanfield-JohnsonHarold StarkJim StasheffRobert and Maria Steinberg

Members and Visitors (continued) Jack Steinberger

Clarence F. StephensGeorge StermanDrs. Ronald Stern and Sharon M. SternProfessor Glenn StevensProfessor David M. Stone and ProfessorLinda A. PellecchiaJenny and Neil StratfordSusan M. StuardJohn and Jean SullivanProfessor Oleksandr SymonenkoEarl J. TaftWilliamTaitRichard TalbertTsuneo Tamagawa

Professor Georges TamerMateo Taussig-RubboChuu-Lian Terng and Richard S. Palais

Donna M.TestermanJean ThomasJohn G.ThompsonG. t’HooftMr. Leslie L.Threatte, Jr.Ralph TindellAlar Toomre

Burt Totaro and Diana GilloolyImre Toth

StephenV.Tracy and JuneW.Allison

Kai ManTsangHoward G.TuckerA. Richard TurnerStuart TurnerMartin M.TweedaleNikolai TyurinKaren Uhlenbeck and BobWilliams

Salil VadhanDr. Edward van den HeuvelPhillip and Arachne van der EijkEwine F. van DishoeckAndreiVeronaKarenVogtmann and John SmillieLinda EhrsamVoigtsAlexeiVolkovSamuel S.Wagstaff, Jr.JonathanWahlJohnWalter Charitable Fund

Seth L.WarnerArthurWassermanThomasWeberCharlesWeibelDavidWeinberg and Lisa FlormanHoward D.Weinbrot

(In memory of George F. Kennan)Raymond O.Wells, Jr.MaritWerenskioldJohnWermerH. L.WesselingRobert L.WilsonDr. and Mrs. James R.WisemanDr. and Mrs. LouisWittenMr. IsserWolochJohn and NancyWood

Professor Hung-HsiWu

Nanhua XiMenahemYaariPaulYang and Alice Chang

York-Peng EdwardYaoMitsuruYasuharaM. CrawfordYoungEvgeny ZaytsevProfessor Dr. Eduard Zehnder

Ms. Froma I. ZeitlinKatherine ZiemanErnst-Wilhelm Zink

Gifts-in-Kind

Kazim AbdullaevProfessor Danielle S. AllenProfessor Peter ArnadeDr. John BainesDr. Jane BaunDr. Nicole R. BelaycheLeonid A. BeliaevMr. Derek BermelDr. Joseph R. BlasiProfessor Enrico BombieriG.W. BowersockDr. Benjamin C. BrowerLuigi Capogrossi ColognesiMr. David C. CassidyChihuly StudioForrest D. ColburnGiles ConstableMr. Stanley CorngoldPierre DeligneSeth FagenGraham FarmeloProfessor Didier FassinDr. Arsenio Ferraces-RodríguezHarriet FlowerDr. David M. GanzDr. Joachim GanzertDr.Viktor A. GinzburgDr. Lionel GossmanProfessor and Mrs. Oleg GrabarJames HankinsProfessor Michele A. HannooshProfessor Sigurdur HelgasonVittorio HosleDr. Sarah HuttonProfessor Jonathan I. IsraelChristopher P. JonesDr. Richard L. KaganEllsworth KellyDr. Paul G. LangackerDr. Dalenda LarguecheThe Professors Marilyn and Irving LavinNino LuraghiDr. Michael Lurie

Major Donor*Matching Gift to Individual Contribution† Deceased


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Professorships, Memberships,and Other Dedicated Funds

The Institute expresses its continuinggratitude to donors who have providedsupport through these endowed funds andthrough annual gifts and pledges.

Endowed Professorships

Richard Black ProfessorshipAlbert O. Hirschman ProfessorshipIBM von Neumann ProfessorshipGeorge F. Kennan ProfessorshipHarold F. Linder ProfessorshipLuce Foundation Professorship in EastAsian StudiesHerbert H. Maass ProfessorshipAndrewW. Mellon ProfessorshipCharles Simonyi ProfessorshipUPS Foundation ProfessorshipHermannWeyl ProfessorshipJames D.Wolfensohn Professorship inSocial Science

Endowed and Annual1Member

Support

AMIAS (Association of Members of theInstitute for Advanced Study)MembershipsJohn N. Bahcall FellowshipsThe Bell Companies FellowshipCharles L. Brown Membership

Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship fundedby the American Council of LearnedSocietiesS.S. Chern Foundation for MathematicsResearch FundHelen and Martin Chooljian Founders’Circle MemberMartin A. and Helen ChooljianMembershipMartin A. and Helen ChooljianMembership in BiologyNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron ChrissFounders’ Circle MemberEdward T. Cone Membership in MusicStudiesThe Corning GlassWorks FoundationFellowshipGeorgeWilliam Cottrell, Jr. MembershipRoger Dashen MembershipThe Gladys Krieble Delmas FoundationDeutsche Bank MembershipsElizabeth and J. Richardson DilworthFellowships in Historical StudiesWillis Doney MembershipsDow Jones and Company Inc.The Ellentuck FundThe RogerW. Ferguson, Jr. and AnnetteL. Nazareth MembershipThe 50th Anniversary Fellowship inSocial ScienceRichard B. Fisher MembershipFriends of the Institute for AdvancedStudy MembersFund for MathematicsFelix Gilbert MembershipMarvin L. Goldberger MembershipThe Hetty Goldman MembershipsFlorence Gould Foundation FundAgnes Gund and Daniel ShapiroMembershipThe Ralph E. and Doris M. HansmannMembershipMaureen and John HendricksVisitingProfessorGerda Henkel StiftungThe Herodotus FundIBM Einstein FellowshipsRosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders’Circle MemberW.M. Keck Foundation FundHans Kohn MembershipThe Martin L. and Sarah F. LeibowitzMembershipLeon Levy FoundationWilliam D. Loughlin MembershipsGinny and Robert Loughlin Founders’Circle MemberThe AndrewW. Mellon FoundationMinerva Research FoundationThe Ambrose Monell FoundationNational Aeronautics and SpaceAdministrationNational Endowment for theHumanitiesNational Science Foundation

Patrons’ Endowment FundThe Giorgio and Elena PetronioFellowship FundQiu Shi Science and TechnologiesFoundationHenry Schaerf Memorial FundEric andWendy Schmidt Membershipin BiologyThe Charles Simonyi EndowmentThe Starr Foundation East Asian StudiesEndowment FundLouise and John Steffens Founders’Circle MemberFrank and Peggy Taplin MembershipsUnited States Department of EnergyUnited States-Israel Binational ScienceFoundationThe OswaldVeblen FundThe von Neumann FundTheWeyl FundEdwin C. and Elizabeth A.WhiteheadFellowshipWolfensohn Family MembershipZurich Financial Services Membership

Other Dedicated Endowmentsand Funds

Ruth and Irving Adler ExpositoryLectures in Mathematics FundThe Broitman Foundation FundChugai Pharmaceutical Company Ltd.Edward T. Cone Concert SeriesR. Llewelyn Davies FundGladys K. Delmas Endowment FundFriends of the Institute forAdvanced StudyKresge Challenge FundDr. S.T. Lee Fund for Historical StudiesLeon Levy Book FundMary Marquand Endowment FundMarston Morse Memorial FundOtto Neugebauer FundNew Initiatives FundErwin Panofsky FundNancy Peretsman and Robert ScullyEndowmentPublic Policy Lecture Series EndowmentThe Raymond and Beverly SacklerScience Colloquia in the School ofNatural SciencesMr. and Mrs.William H. ScheideArtist-in-Residence EndowmentSimons Center for Systems BiologyEndowmentThe Karoly Simonyi MemorialEndowment FundThe Sivian FundLeo Usdan FundWolf Foundation Prize EndowmentThe James D.Wolfensohn Fund

Dr.Thomas MaissenProfessor Avishai MargalitMs. Megan McLemoreMr. Josef MikesDr. Charles J. MozzochiGerda S. PanofskyProfessor Peter ParetOlaf PetersFayne PetokDr. Paul PollackDr.William L. PresslyPrinceton University PressDr. Christine ProustProfessor JoanW. ScottDr. Richard A. ShwederDr. Joanna S. SmithFritz SternDr.Thomas SzabóDr. Soren TakhtajanProf. Dr. Gerhard ThürDr. Lluís To-FiguerasProfessor Kevin van BladelProfessor Heinrich von StadenProfessor MichaelWalzerDr. DonWyattDr. Graham Zanker

Gifts-in-Kind (continued)


Founders, Trustees, and Officers of the Boardand of the Corporation, 2009– 2010

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FoundersLouis BambergerCaroline Bamberger Fuld

Board and Corporate OfficersCharles SimonyiChairman of the Board

Martin L. LeibowitzVice Chairman of the Board andPresident of the Corporation

James D.WolfensohnChairman Emeritus

Richard B. BlackVice Chairman of the Boardthrough May 8, 2010

James H. SimonsVice Chairman of the Boardfrom May 8, 2010

Brian F. WrubleTreasurer of the Corporation

John MastenAssistant Treasurer

Nancy S. MacMillanSecretary of the Corporation

Michael GehretAssistant Secretary

The Board of TrusteesJeffrey P. BezosFounder and Chief Executive OfficerAmazon.comSeattle,Washington

Victoria B. BjorklundHead, Exempt-Organizations GroupSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPNewYork, NewYork

Richard B. BlackPresident and Chief Executive OfficerECRM IncorporatedTewksbury, MassachusettsTrustee through May 8, 2010

Curtis CallanJames S. McDonnell DistinguishedUniversity Professor of PhysicsChair, Department of PhysicsPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey

Martin A. ChooljianPresident, CH Capital InvestmentsPrinceton, New JerseyTrustee through May 8, 2010

Mario DraghiGovernor, Bank of ItalyRome, Italy

RogerW. Ferguson, Jr.President and Chief Executive OfficerTIAA-CREFNewYork, NewYork

E. Robert FernholzFounder and Chief Investment OfficerINTECHPrinceton, New JereseyTrustee from May 8, 2010

Peter GoddardDirector, Institute for Advanced StudyPrinceton, New Jersey

Vartan GregorianPresident, Carnegie Corporation of NewYorkNewYork, NewYork

John S. HendricksFounder and ChairmanDiscovery CommunicationsSilver Spring, MarylandTrustee from May 8, 2010

David A. HollingerPreston Hotchkis Professor of HistoryUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, California

Peter R. KannChairman and CEO (retired)Dow Jones & Company, IncorporatedNewYork, NewYork

Florian LangenscheidtAuthor and PublisherBerlin, Germany

Spiro J. LatsisPresident, SETE SAGeneva, Switzerland

Martin L. LeibowitzManaging Director, Morgan StanleyNewYork, NewYork

Nancy S. MacMillanPublisher, Princeton AlumniWeeklyPrinceton, New Jersey

David F. MarquardtManaging Partner,August CapitalMenlo Park, California

Nancy B. PeretsmanManaging Director,Allen & Company LLCNewYork, NewYork

Martin ReesProfessor Emeritus of Cosmology andAstrophysicsMaster of Trinity CollegeUniversity of CambridgeCambridge, England

David M. RubensteinCo-Founder and Managing DirectorThe Carlyle GroupWashington, D.C.

James J. SchiroChairman of the Group Management Boardand Chief Executive Officer ofZurich Financial Services (retired)NewYork, NewYork

Eric E. SchmidtChairman of the Board andChief Executive Officer, Google Inc.MountainView, California

William H. Sewell, Jr.The Frank P. Hixon Distinguished ServiceProfessor of Political Scienceand History EmeritusDepartment of Political ScienceThe University of ChicagoChicago, Illinois

HaroldT. ShapiroPresident Emeritus and Professor ofEconomics and Public AffairsPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey

James H. SimonsChairman of the Board, RenaissanceTechnologies LLC, and President, EuclideanCapital LLCNewYork, NewYork

Charles SimonyiPresident and Chief Executive OfficerIntentional Software CorporationBellevue,Washington

Peter SvennilsonFounder and Managing PartnerThe Column GroupSan Francisco, California

ShelbyWhiteTrustee, Leon Levy FoundationNewYork, NewYork

Marina v.N.WhitmanProfessor of Business Administration andPublic PolicyGerald R. Ford School of Public PolicyUniversity of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan

Andrew J.WilesJames S. McDonnell DistinguishedUniversity Professor of MathematicsPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey

James D.WolfensohnChairman and Chief Executive OfficerWolfensohn & Company, L.L.C.NewYork, NewYorkTrustee through May 8, 2010

Brian F. WrubleChairman,The Jackson LaboratoryBar Harbor, Maine

Trustees EmeritiTheodore L. Cross (deceased February 28, 2010)

Sidney D. Drell

Ralph E. Hansmann

Helene L. Kaplan

Immanuel Kohn

David K.P. Li (Emeritus from October 31, 2009)

Hamish Maxwell

Ronaldo H. Schmitz

Martin E. Segal

Michel L.Vaillaud

Ladislaus von Hoffmann


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Abraham Flexner · Frank Aydelotte

J. Robert Oppenheimer · Carl Kaysen · HarryWoolf

Marvin L. Goldberger · Phillip A. Griffiths · Peter Goddard

Present and Past Faculty(2009-2010 Faculty and Faculty Emeriti are in bold)

Stephen L.Adler · JamesW.Alexander · Andrew E. Z. Alföldi · Danielle S. Allen

NimaArkani-Hamed · Michael F. Atiyah · John N. Bahcall · Arne K.A. Beurling ·Yve-Alain Bois

Enrico Bombieri · Armand Borel · Jean Bourgain · GlenW. Bowersock

CarolineWalker Bynum · Luis A. Caffarelli · Angelos Chaniotis*· Harold F. Cherniss · Marshall Clagett

Giles Constable · Patricia Crone · José Cutileiro · Roger F. Dashen · Pierre Deligne · Nicola Di Cosmo

Freeman J. Dyson · Edward M. Earle · Albert Einstein · John H. Elliott · Didier Fassin · Clifford Geertz

Felix Gilbert · James F. Gilliam · Kurt Gödel · Hetty Goldman · Peter Goldreich · Oleg Grabar

Phillip A. Griffiths · Christian Habicht · Harish-Chandra · Ernst Herzfeld · Albert O. Hirschman

Helmut Hofer · LarsV. Hörmander · Piet Hut · Jonathan Israel · Ernst H. Kantorowicz

George F. Kennan · Robert P. Langlands · Irving Lavin ·Tsung-Dao Lee · Stanislas Leibler

Arnold J. Levine · Elias A. Lowe · Robert MacPherson · Juan Maldacena · Avishai Margalit

Eric S. Maskin · Jack F. Matlock, Jr. · Millard Meiss · Benjamin D. Meritt · JohnW. Milnor

David Mitrany · Deane Montgomery · Marston Morse · J. Robert Oppenheimer · Abraham Pais

Erwin Panofsky · Peter Paret ·Tullio E. Regge ·WinfieldW. Riefler · Marshall N. Rosenbluth

Peter Sarnak · JoanWallach Scott · Nathan Seiberg · Atle Selberg · Kenneth M. Setton · Carl L. Siegel

Thomas Spencer ·WalterW. Stewart · Bengt G. D. Strömgren · Homer A.Thompson · ScottTremaine

KirkVarnedoe · OswaldVeblen ·VladimirVoevodsky · John von Neumann · Heinrich von Staden

MichaelWalzer · Robert B.Warren · AndréWeil · HermannWeyl · MortonWhite · HasslerWhitney

AviWigderson · FrankWilczek · EdwardWitten · Ernest LlewellynWoodward · Chen NingYang

Shing-TungYau · Matias Zaldarriaga

*From July 1, 2010


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Peter GoddardDirector

Karen CuozzoAssistant to the Director

Robert RuggieroSpecial Assistant to the Director for theDecadal Review

John MastenAssociate Director for Finance andAdministration

Anthony Bordieri, Jr.Manager of Facilities

Ashvin ChhabraChief Investment Officer

Michael CicconeManager of Administrative Services

Roberta GernhardtManager of Human Resources

Mary MazzaComptroller

Michel ReymondChef/Manager, Dining Hall

Michael GehretAssociate Director for Development andPublic Affairs

Kamala BrushSenior Development Officer

Christine FerraraSenior Public Affairs Officer

Pamela HughesSenior Development Officer

Catherine NewcombeSenior Development Officer

Kelly DevineThomasSenior Publications Officer

Library Administration

Momota GanguliLibrarian, Mathematics and Natural Sciences

MarciaTuckerLibrarian, Historical Studies and SocialScience (also Coordinator of InformationAccess for Computing,Telecommunications,and Networking Administration)

Christine Di BellaArchivist

School Administration

Mary Jane HayesAdministrative OfficerSchool of Mathematics

Donne PetitoAdministrative OfficerSchool of Social Science

Michelle SageAdministrative OfficerSchool of Natural Sciences

Suzanne P. ChristenExecutive Director and AdministratorThe Simons Center for Systems BiologySchool of Natural Sciences

Marian Gallagher ZelaznyAdministrative OfficerSchool of Historical Studies

Programs

Catherine E. GiesbrechtProgram Officer, IAS/Park CityMathematics Institute

Arlen K. HastingsExecutive Director, Science Initiative Group

Computing,Telecommunications, andNetworking Administration

Jeffrey BerlinerManager of Computing

Jonathan PeeleComputer ManagerInformation Technology Group

James StephensComputer ManagerSchool of Natural Sciences

Thomas Howard UphillComputer ManagerSchool of Mathematics

EdnaWigdersonManagerDatabases and Integration

Administration, 2009– 2010


Institute for Advanced Study—Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation

Financial StatementsJune 30, 2010 and 2009

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Independent Auditors’ Report

The Board of TrusteesInstitute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation:

We have audited the accompanying statements of financial position of Institute for Advanced Study–Louis Bambergerand Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation (the Institute) as of June 30, 2010 and 2009, and the related statements of activities and cashflows for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Institute’s management. Our responsi-bility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America.Those stan-dards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are freeof material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designingaudit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effective-ness of the Institute’s internal control over financial reporting.Accordingly, we express no such opinion.An audit also includesexamining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the account-ing principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presen-tation.We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Insti-tute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation as of June 30, 2010 and 2009, and the changes inits net assets and its cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

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STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITIONJUNE 30, 2010 AND 2009

Assets 2010 2009______________ ______________

Cash and cash equivalents $ 6,952,589 312,162Accounts receivable 585,413 1,328,265Government grants and contracts receivable 4,371,757 2,107,272Prepaid and other assets 635,260 498,011Contributions receivable—net 1,974,608 3,047,310Unamortized debt issuance costs—net 573,080 632,006Funds held by trustee 7,187,358 8,587,408Beneficial interest in remainder trust 2,786,283 2,654,256Land, buildings and improvements, equipment and rare bookcollection—net 60,191,610 60,693,542

Investments 571,200,943 530,320,152______________ ______________

Total assets $ 656,458,901 610,180,384______________ ____________________________ ______________

Liabilities and Net Assets

Liabilities:Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 7,455,400 7,560,855Deferred revenue 15,474,995 9,403,447Liabilities under split-interest agreements 2,234,409 2,247,809Accrued benefit obligation 14,582,000 10,469,000Asset retirement obligation 940,283 908,878Bond swap liability 4,629,600 3,514,367Note payable 492,767 557,724Long-term debt 57,475,994 60,064,009______________ ______________

Total liabilities 103,285,448 94,726,089______________ ______________

Net assets:Unrestricted 346,689,111 322,590,494Temporarily restricted 125,676,785 114,834,907Permanently restricted 80,807,557 78,028,894______________ ______________

Total net assets 553,173,453 515,454,295______________ ______________

Total liabilities and net assets $ 656,458,901 610,180,384______________ ____________________________ ______________

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STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIESYEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2010

Temporarily PermanentlyUnrestricted restricted restricted Total____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Operating revenues, gains and other support:Private contributions and grants $ — 18,180,059 — 18,180,059Government grants — 7,905,853 — 7,905,853Endowment spending policy 11,264,751 13,158,949 — 24,423,700Auxiliary activity 4,865,176 — — 4,865,176Net assets released from restrictions—satisfaction of program restrictions 39,244,861 (39,244,861) — —____________ ____________ ____________ ____________Total operating revenues, gainsand other support 55,374,788 — — 55,374,788

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Expenses:School of Mathematics 10,141,826 — — 10,141,826School of Natural Sciences 12,032,292 — — 12,032,292School of Historical Studies 7,220,001 — — 7,220,001School of Social Science 4,627,413 — — 4,627,413Libraries and other academic 7,410,944 — — 7,410,944Administration and general 12,456,320 — — 12,456,320Auxiliary activity 5,871,469 — — 5,871,469

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Total expenses 59,760,265 — — 59,760,265____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Change in net assets from operations,including depreciation (4,385,477) — — (4,385,477)

Other revenues, gains and other support:Private contributions and grants 289,253 732,749 2,778,663 3,800,665Endowment change after applyingspending policy 28,960,507 10,109,129 — 39,069,636

Change in fair value of bond swap liability (1,115,233) — — (1,115,233)Gain on sale of plant assets 349,567 — — 349,567

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Change in net assets 24,098,617 10,841,878 2,778,663 37,719,158

Net assets—beginning of year 322,590,494 114,834,907 78,028,894 515,454,295____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Net assets—end of year $ 346,689,111 125,676,785 80,807,557 553,173,453____________ ____________ ____________ ________________________ ____________ ____________ ____________



STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIESYEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2009

Temporarily PermanentlyUnrestricted restricted restricted Total____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Operating revenues, gains and other support:Private contributions and grants $ — 6,645,957 — 6,645,957Government grants — 6,893,184 — 6,893,184Endowment spending policy 25,874,809 10,218,991 — 36,093,800Auxiliary activity 4,815,473 — — 4,815,473Net assets released from restrictions—satisfaction of program restrictions 23,758,132 (23,758,132) — —____________ ____________ ____________ ____________Total operating revenues, gainsand other support 54,448,414 — — 54,448,414

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Expenses:School of Mathematics 9,312,306 — — 9,312,306School of Natural Sciences 10,563,018 — — 10,563,018School of Historical Studies 6,770,010 — — 6,770,010School of Social Science 3,651,834 — — 3,651,834Libraries and other academic 7,067,704 — — 7,067,704Administration and general 11,754,699 — — 11,754,699Auxiliary activity 5,720,414 — — 5,720,414

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Total expenses 54,839,985 — — 54,839,985____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Change in net assets from operations,including depreciation (391,571) — — (391,571)

Other revenues, gains and other support:Private contributions and grants 275,006 330,418 6,873,549 7,478,973Endowment change after applyingspending policy (99,677,754) (51,122,695) — (150,800,449)

Change in fair value of bond swap liability (1,639,794) — — (1,639,794)Gain on sale of plant assets 278,072 — — 278,072Gain on bond swap transaction 430,131 — — 430,131

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Change in net assets (100,725,910) (50,792,277) 6,873,549 (144,644,638)

Net assets—beginning of year 423,316,404 165,627,184 71,155,345 660,098,933____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Net assets—end of year $ 322,590,494 114,834,907 78,028,894 515,454,295____________ ____________ ____________ ________________________ ____________ ____________ ____________



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2010 2009______________ ______________

Cash flows from operating activities:Change in net assets $ 37,719,158 (144,644,638)Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to netcash used in operating activities:Depreciation 4,060,637 3,752,797Contributions restricted for endowment and plant (4,478,275) (7,503,021)Net realized and unrealized (gains) losses (64,911,928) 113,984,366Change in fair value of bond swap liability 1,115,233 1,639,794Gain on sale of plant assets (349,567) (278,072)Amortization of debt issuance costs 58,926 63,477Amortization of bond discount 26,985 30,153Changes in assets/liabilities:Accounts receivable and government grants andcontracts receivable (1,521,633) 249,587

Prepaid and other assets (137,249) 185,438Contributions receivable 1,072,702 511,634Beneficial interest in remainder trust (132,027) 696,740Accounts payable and accrued expenses (105,455) 511,460Deferred revenue 6,071,548 2,698,774Accrued benefit obligation 4,113,000 1,379,744Asset retirement obligation 31,405 34,440______________ ______________

Net cash used in operating activities (17,366,540) (26,687,327)______________ ______________

Cash flows from investing activities:Proceeds from sale of plant assets 1,822,338 1,075,930Purchase of plant assets (5,031,476) (4,779,137)Proceeds from sale of investments 567,497,630 929,042,835Purchase of investments (543,466,493) (906,445,760)______________ ______________

Net cash provided by investing activities 20,821,999 18,893,868______________ ______________

Cash flows from financing activities:Contributions restricted for endowment and plant 4,478,275 7,503,021Decrease in liabilities under split-interest agreements (13,400) (139,949)Repayment of long-term debt (2,615,000) (2,425,000)Repayments of note payable (64,957) (63,678)Decrease in funds held by trustee 1,400,050 2,276,982______________ ______________

Net cash provided by financing activities 3,184,968 7,151,376______________ ______________Net increase (decrease) in cash and cashequivalents 6,640,427 (642,083)

Cash and cash equivalents—beginning of year 312,162 954,245______________ ______________

Cash and cash equivalents—end of year $ 6,952,589 312,162______________ ____________________________ ______________Supplemental data:Interest paid $ 1,829,881 2,041,407



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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTSJUNE 30, 2010 AND 2009

1) Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

OrganizationThe Institute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation (the Institute), an independent, privateinstitution devoted to the encouragement, support and patronage of learning, was founded in 1930 as a community of scholarswhere intellectual inquiry could be carried out in the most favorable circumstances.

Focused on mathematics and classical studies at the outset, the Institute today consists of the School of Historical Studies, theSchool of Mathematics, the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Social Science. Each school has a small perma-nent faculty, and some 190 fellowships are awarded annually to visiting members from other research institutions and univer-sities throughout the world.

The objectives of the Institute were described as follows in the Founders’original letter to the firstTrustees:“The primary pur-pose is the pursuit of advanced learning and exploration in fields of pure science and high scholarship to the utmost degreethat the facilities of the institution and the ability of the faculty and students will permit.”

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of PresentationThe accompanying financial statements, which are presented on the accrual basis of accounting, have been prepared tofocus on the Institute as a whole and to present net assets and revenues, expenses, gains, and losses based on the exis-tence or absence of donor-imposed restrictions. Accordingly, net assets and changes therein are classified as follows:

• Permanently restricted net assets—net assets subject to donor-imposed stipulations that they be maintained per-manently by the Institute. Generally, the donors of these assets permit the Institute to use all or part of the incomeearned on related investments for general or specific purposes.

• Temporarily restricted net assets—net assets subject to donor-imposed stipulations that will be met by actions ofthe Institute and/or by the passage of time.

• Unrestricted net assets—net assets not subject to donor-imposed stipulations. Unrestricted net assets may be des-ignated for specific purposes by action of the board of trustees.

Revenues are reported as increases in unrestricted net assets unless use of the related asset is limited by donor-imposedrestrictions. Expenses are reported as decreases in unrestricted net assets. Expiration of donor-imposed stipulations thatsimultaneously increase unrestricted net assets and decrease temporarily restricted net assets are reported as net assetsreleased from restrictions.

Contributions and investment returns with donor-imposed restrictions are reported as temporarily restricted revenuesand are reclassified to unrestricted net assets when an expense is incurred that satisfies the donor-imposed restriction.

Contributions of long-lived assets are reported as unrestricted revenue. Contributions restricted for the acquisition ofgrounds, buildings, and equipment are reported as temporarily restricted revenues.These contributions are reclassifiedto unrestricted net assets upon acquisition of the assets.

(a) ContributionsContributions, including unconditional promises to give, are recognized as revenues in the period received. Conditionalpromises to give are not recognized until they become unconditional, that is when the conditions on which they de-pend are substantially met. Contributions of assets other than cash are recorded at their estimated fair value. Pledges ofcontributions to be received after one year are discounted at a risk-adjusted discount rate.The discount rates range from0.32% to 1.11%.Amortization of discount is recorded as additional contribution revenue in accordance with donor-im-posed restrictions, if any, on the contributions.

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(c) InvestmentsAll investments, including short-term investments, investments in marketable securities, limited partnerships and hedgeand offshore funds, are reported in the financial statements at fair value or net asset value as a practical expedient, basedupon values provided by external investment managers, general partners or quoted market value.The Institute reviewsand evaluates the values provided by external investment managers and general partners and agrees with the valuationmethods and assumptions used in determining the fair value of funds. These estimated fair values may differ signifi-cantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market for these securities existed.

The statements of activities recognize unrealized gains and losses on investments as increases and decreases, respec-tively, in unrestricted net assets unless their use is temporarily or permanently restricted by explicit donor stipulation.Purchase and sale transactions are recorded on a settlement-date basis. Gains and losses on the sale of investment secu-rities are calculated using the specific identification method.

The Institute regularly offers first mortgages on primary residences to full-time faculty and senior administrative em-ployees who have met certain requirements stipulated by the board of trustees.

(d) Fair Value HierarchyFair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price)in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market partic-ipants on the measurement date. Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification(ASC) Topic 820, Fair Value Measurements establishes a fair value hierarchy, which requires an entity to maximize theuse of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.The standard describesthree levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value:

• Level 1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

• Level 2: Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quotedprices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable mar-ket data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

• Level 3: Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fairvalue of the asset or liabilities.

Fair value estimates are made at a specific point in time, based on available market information and judgments aboutthe financial asset, including estimates of timing, amount of expected future cash flows and the credit standing of theissuer. In some cases, the fair value estimates cannot be substantiated by comparison to independent markets. In addi-tion, the disclosed fair value may not be realized in the immediate settlement of the financial asset. In addition, the dis-closed fair values do not reflect any premium or discount that could result from offering for sale at one time an entireholding of a particular financial asset. Potential taxes and other expenses that would be incurred in an actual sale or set-tlement are not reflected in amounts disclosed.

(e) Plant Assets and DepreciationProceeds from the sale of plant assets, if unrestricted, are transferred to operating funds, or, if restricted, to amounts tem-porarily restricted for plant acquisitions. Depreciation is provided over the estimated useful lives of the respective as-sets on a straight-line basis (buildings and capital improvements 20–40 years, equipment 3–6 years).

(f) Deferred RevenueConditional amounts are recorded initially as deferred restricted revenue, and are reported as revenues when expendedin accordance with the terms of the condition.

(g) Split Interest AgreementsThe Institute is the beneficiary of various unitrusts, pooled income funds and a gift annuity fund. The Institute’s in-terest in these split interest agreements is reported as a contribution in the year received and is calculated as the differ-ence between the fair value of the assets contributed to the Institute, and the estimated liability to the beneficiary.Thisliability is computed using actuarially determined rates and is adjusted annually.The assets held by the Institute underthese arrangements are recorded at fair value as determined by quoted market price and are included as a componentof investments. Changes in the life expectancy of the donor or annuitant, amortization of the discount and otherchanges in the estimates of future payments are reported as endowment change after applying spending policy in theaccompanying statements of activities.


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(h) Unamortized Debt Issuance CostsDebt issuance costs represent costs incurred in connection with debt financing.Amortization of these costs is providedon the effective interest method extending over the remaining term of the applicable indebtedness. Debt issuance costsat June 30, 2010 and 2009 were net of accumulated amortization of $756,673 and $697,747, respectively.

(i) Other Revenues, Gains and Other SupportA portion of long-term investment income and gains and losses is allocated to operating revenue each year in accor-dance with the Institute’s spending policy for investments held for endowment and similar purposes, as more fully dis-cussed in note 4.All other investment income earned and gains and losses on investments held for long-term purposesand nonrecurring revenue and expenses are considered other revenues, gains and other support in the statements of ac-tivities.

(j) Asset Retirement ObligationThe Institute recognizes the fair value of a liability for legal obligations associated with asset retirements in the periodin which the obligation is incurred, if a reasonable estimate of the fair value of the obligation can be made.When theliability is initially recorded, the Institute capitalizes the cost of the asset retirement obligation by increasing the carry-ing amount of the related long-lived asset.The liability is accreted to its present value each period, and the capitalizedcost associated with the retirement obligation is depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. Upon settlementof the obligation, any difference between the cost to settle the asset retirement obligation and the liability recorded isrecognized as a gain or loss in the statements of activities.

(k) Fund Raising ExpensesFund raising expenses incurred by the Institute amounted to $1,302,728 and $1,456,427 for the years ended June 30,2010 and 2009, respectively. This amount is included in administration and general expenses in the accompanyingstatements of activities.

(l) Functional Allocation of ExpensesThe costs of providing program services and support services of the Institute have been summarized on a functionalbasis in the statements of activities. Accordingly, certain operating costs have been allocated among the functionalcategories.

(m) Tax StatusThe Institute is exempt from federal income taxes pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code(the Code) and is listed in the Internal Revenue Service Publication 78. The Institute has been classified as a publiccharity under Section 509(a) of the Code.

(n) Use of EstimatesThe preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requiresmanagement to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosureof contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements. Estimates also affect the reported amounts ofrevenues and expenses during the reported period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

(o) Subsequent EventsThe Institute evaluated events subsequent to June 30, 2010 and through November 11, 2010, the date on which thefinancial statements were issued.The Institute determined there were no subsequent events to disclose.

(p) ReclassificationsCertain reclassifications have been made to the prior year balances to conform to the current year presentation.

(q) Recently Adopted Accounting StandardsIn 2009, the Institute adopted the measurement provisionsAccounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2009-12, FairValueMeasurements and Disclosures—Investments in Certain Entities That Calculate Net Asset Value per Share (or its Equivalent),with respect to investments within its scope (principally hedge funds and private equity—collectively alternative in-vestments). This guidance amends ASC No. 820-10 and allows for the estimation of the fair value of investments ininvestment companies for which the investment does not have a readily determinable fair value using net asset valueper share or its equivalent. In addition, classification of these investments within the fair value hierarchy is based on theInstitute’s ability to timely redeem its interest rather than on valuation inputs. In 2010, the Institute also adopted thedisclosure provisions of ASU No. 2009-12.


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Effective June 30, 2010, the Institute adoptedASC Section 815-10-50,Disclosures about Derivative Instruments and Hedg-ing Activities (ASC 815-10-50), which requires additional disclosures for derivative instruments, including but not lim-ited to, objectives and strategies of the derivative instruments and the related hedging activities, risk exposure, and thelevel of derivative activity entered into by an organization.The adoption of ASC 815-10-50 had no impact on the In-stitute’s financial statements.

Effective June 30, 2010, the Institute adopted FASB Statement No. 168, The FASB Accounting Standards Codification™and the Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles—a replacement of SFAS No. 162,The Hierarchy of Generally Ac-cepted Accounting Principles (Statement 168), and ASU 2009-01, Topic 105—Generally Accepted Accounting Principles—amendments based on—Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 168—The FASBAccounting Standards Codification™and the Hierarchy of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (ASU 2009-01). Statement 168 establishes The FASB Ac-counting Standards Codification™ (Codification) as the source of authoritative accounting principles recognized by theFASB to be applied by nongovernmental entities in the preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S.GAAP.The adoption of Statement 168 had no impact on the Institute’s financial statements.

2) Contributions Receivable

Unconditional promises to give at June 30, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:2010 2009

Unconditional promises to give:______________ ______________

Less than one year $ 1,123,166 1,198,166One to five years 866,668 1,955,001______________ ______________

1,989,834 3,153,167Discount on promises to give (15,226) (105,857)______________ ______________

Total $ 1,974,608 3,047,310______________ ____________________________ ______________

(3) Investments, Funds Held by Trustee, and Beneficial Interest in Remainder Trust

(a) Overall Investment ObjectiveThe overall investment objective of the Institute is to invest its assets in a prudent manner that will achieve a long-termrate of return sufficient to fund a portion of its annual operating activities and capital preservation. The Institute di-versifies its investments among various managers and investment opportunities. Major investment decisions are au-thorized by the Board’s Finance Committee, which oversees the Institute’s investment program in accordance withestablished guidelines.

(b) Allocation of Investment StrategiesIn addition to traditional stocks and fixed-income securities, the Institute may also hold shares or units in traditional in-stitutional funds as well as in alternative investment funds involving hedged strategies, private equity and real asset strate-gies. Hedged strategies involve funds whose managers have the authority to invest in various asset classes at theirdiscretion, including the ability to invest long and short. Funds with hedged strategies generally hold securities or otherfinancial instruments for which a ready market exists and may include stocks, bonds, put or call options, swaps, currencyhedges and other instruments, and are valued accordingly. Private equity funds employ buyout and venture capital strate-gies and focus on investments in turn-around situations. Real asset funds generally hold interests in public real estate in-vestment trusts (REITS) or commercial real estate through sole-member entities. Private equity and real asset strategiestherefore often require the estimation of fair values by the fund managers in the absence of readily determinable mar-ket values. Because of the inherent uncertainties of valuation, these estimated fair values may differ significantly from val-ues that would have been used had a ready market existed, and the differences could be material. Such valuations aredetermined by fund managers and generally consider variables such as operating results, comparable earnings multiples,projected cash flows, recent sales prices, and other pertinent information, and may reflect discounts for the illiquid na-ture of certain investments held. Moreover, the fair values of the Institute’s interests in shares or units of these funds, be-cause of liquidity and capital commitment terms that vary depending on the specific fund or partnership agreement, maydiffer from the fair value of the funds’ underlying net assets.

(c) Basis of ReportingInvestments are reported at estimated fair value. If an investment is held directly by the Institute and an active marketwith quoted prices exists, the market price of an identical security is used as reported fair value. Reported fair valuesof cash and cash equivalents invested in shares of mutual funds registered with an exchange are based on share prices


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reported by the funds as of the last business day of the fiscal year.The Institute’s interests in alternative investment fundsare generally reported at the net asset value (NAV) reported by the fund managers, which is used a practical expedi-ent to estimate the fair value of the Institute’s interest therein, unless it is probable that all or a portion of the invest-ment will be sold for an amount different from NAV. As of June 30, 2010 and 2009, the Institute had no plans orintentions to sell investments at amounts different from NAV.

The following tables summarize the Institute’s investments and other assets by major category in the fair value hierar-chy as of June 30, 2010 and 2009, as well as related strategy, liquidity and funding commitments:

June 30, 2010____________________________________________________________Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total____________________________________________________________

Investments:Long-term investment strategies:Fixed income:U.S.Treasuries $ 39,913,689 — — 39,913,689__________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total 39,913,689 — — 39,913,689__________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Hedge funds—onshore (1):Emerging markets — — 5,620,295 5,620,295Equities—long bias — — 6,802,442 6,802,442Multiple strategies — — 46,920,737 46,920,737

__________________ ______________ ______________ ______________Total — — 59,343,474 59,343,474__________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Hedge funds—offshore (1):Commercial mortgage backed — — 16,727,631 16,727,631Commodity trading advisor — 7,197,803 — 7,197,803Distressed/high-yield — — 31,950,967 31,950,967Emerging markets — — 9,778,981 9,778,981Equities—long bias — — 19,069,305 19,069,305Equities—long/short — 38,744,376 7,288,394 46,032,770Fixed income arbitrage — — 25,587,287 25,587,287Global asset allocation — — 23,549,745 23,549,745Multiple strategies — 16,185,952 175,410,347 191,596,299

______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Total — 62,128,131 309,362,657 371,490,788______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Limited partnerships (2, 3) — — 71,778,972 71,778,972Cash and cash equivalents 15,767,896 — — 15,767,896

Other investments:Funds invested separately:Cash and cash equivalents — — 222,233 222,233Fixed income securities — — 3,506,803 3,506,803

Mortgages from faculty and staff — — 9,177,088 9,177,088______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Total investments $ 55,681,585 62,128,131 453,391,227 571,200,943______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Other assets:Beneficial interest in remainder trust — — 2,786,283 2,786,283Funds held by trustee:U.S. government obligations 7,187,358 — — 7,187,358______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total other assets $ 7,187,358 — 2,786,283 9,973,641______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Notes:(1) The Institute’s hedge fund investments are restricted from redemption based on rolling lock up periods.(2) The private equity funds have initial terms of 10 years with extensions of 1 to 3 years, and have an average

remaining life of 6 years.(3) Carrying values have been estimated by the fund’s management in the absence of readily determinable fair

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June 30, 2009____________________________________________________________Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total____________________________________________________________

Investments:Long-term investment strategies:Fixed income:U.S.Treasuries $ 39,876,793 — — 39,876,793______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total 39,876,793 — — 39,876,793______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Hedge funds—onshore (1):Emerging markets — — 6,201,637 6,201,637Equities—long bias — — 5,913,657 5,913,657Multiple strategies — — 29,186,384 29,186,384______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total — — 41,301,678 41,301,678______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Hedge funds—offshore (1):Commercial mortgage backed — — 16,806,998 16,806,998Commodity trading advisor — 7,791,330 — 7,791,330Distressed/high-yield — — 33,623,469 33,623,469Emerging markets — — 8,723,640 8,723,640Equities—long bias — — 20,133,536 20,133,536Equities—long/short — 42,515,447 3,127,890 45,643,337Fixed income arbitrage — — 22,546,538 22,546,538Multiple strategies — 12,437,516 187,629,799 200,067,315______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total — 62,744,293 292,591,870 355,336,163______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Limited partnerships (2, 3) — — 61,657,620 61,657,620

Cash and cash equivalents 19,594,262 — — 19,594,262Other investments:Funds invested separately:Cash and cash equivalents — — 268,726 268,726Fixed income securities — — 4,133,861 4,133,861

Mortgages from faculty and staff — — 8,151,049 8,151,049______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Total investments $ 59,471,055 62,744,293 408,104,804 530,320,152______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Other assets:Beneficial interest in remainder trust — — 2,654,256 2,654,256Funds held by trustee:U.S. government obligations 8,587,408 — — 8,587,408______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total other assets $ 8,587,408 — 2,654,256 11,241,664______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Notes:(1) The Institute’s hedge fund investments are restricted from redemption based on rolling lock up periods.(2) The private equity funds have initial terms of 10 years with extensions of 1 to 3 years, and have an average

remaining life of 6 years.(3) Carrying values have been estimated by the fund’s management in the absence of readily determinable fair

values.

Substantially all of the investments are pooled with each individual fund subscribing to or disposing of units on the basisof the market value per unit, determined on a quarterly basis.

As of June 30, 2010, the Institute is obligated under certain limited partnership agreements to advance additional fund-ing in the amount of $43,112,231, which is anticipated to be called over the next 10 years.

U.S. Treasuries, U.S. government obligations, and cash and cash equivalents invested in registered mutual funds areclassified in Level 1 of the fair value hierarchy as defined in note 1 because their fair values are based on quoted pricesfor identical securities. Most investments classified in Levels 2 and 3 consist of shares or units in nonregistered in-vestment funds as opposed to direct interests in the funds’ underlying securities, some of which are marketable or not

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difficult to value. Because each fund’s reported NAV is used as a practical expedient to estimate the fair value of theInstitute’s interest therein, the level in which a fund’s fair value measurement is classified is based on the Institute’s abil-ity to redeem its interest at or near the date of the statement of financial position. Accordingly, the inputs or method-ology used for valuing or classifying investments for financial reporting purposes are not necessarily an indication ofthe risks associated with those investments or a reflection of the liquidity of or degree of difficulty in estimating thefair value of each fund’s underlying assets and liabilities.

The following tables present the Institute’s activities for the years ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 for investments clas-sified in Level 3:

2010____________________________________________________________________________________________Funds invested separately

Beneficial__________________________________________________________________________________Mortgages Cash and Fixed interest in

Limited Hedge from faculty cash income remainderLevel 3 roll forward partnerships funds and staff equivalents securities trust Total__________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ________________________________________Beginning value asof July 1, 2009 $ 61,657,620 333,893,548 8,151,049 268,726 4,133,861 2,654,256 410,759,060

Acquisitions 10,547,098 40,103,388 1,518,813 — 35,000 — 52,204,299Dispositions (12,747,314) (60,256,399) (492,774) (46,493) (1,260,372) — (74,803,352)Transfers in/outof Level 3 — 10,000,000 — — — — 10,000,000

Net realized andunrealized gains 12,321,568 44,965,594 — — 598,314 132,027 58,017,503______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ________________________________________

Fair value atJune 30, 2010 $ 71,778,972 368,706,131 9,177,088 222,233 3,506,803 2,786,283 456,177,510

______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ________________________________________

2009____________________________________________________________________________________________Funds invested separately

Beneficial__________________________________________________________________________________Mortgages Cash and Fixed interest in

Limited Hedge from faculty cash income remainderLevel 3 roll forward partnerships funds and staff equivalents securities trust Total__________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ________________________________________Beginning value asof July 1, 2008 $ 57,571,645 462,520,219 6,566,023 4,046,496 433,697 3,350,996 534,489,076

Acquisitions 21,524,286 85,000,000 1,901,950 — 3,777,770 — 112,204,006Dispositions (6,862,438) (117,143,120) (316,924) (3,777,770) — — (128,100,252)Net realized andunrealized losses (10,575,873) (96,483,551) — — (77,606) (696,740) (107,833,770)______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ________________________________________

Fair value atJune 30, 2009 $ 61,657,620 333,893,548 8,151,049 268,726 4,133,861 2,654,256 410,759,060

______________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ ______________________________________ ________________________________________ ____________________________________ ____________________________________ ________________________________________

All gains (losses) in Level 3 were attributable to changes in net unrealized gains (losses) relating to those investmentsstill held at June 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

Private equity and venture capital investments are generally made through limited partnerships. Under the terms of suchagreements, the Institute may be required to provide additional funding when capital or liquidity calls are made by fundmanagers.These partnerships have a limited existence, and they may provide for annual extensions for the purpose ofdisposing portfolio positions and returning capital to investors. However, depending on market conditions, the inabil-ity to execute the fund’s strategy, or other factors, a manager may extend the terms of a fund beyond its originally an-ticipated existence or may wind the fund down prematurely.The Institute cannot anticipate such changes because theygenerally arise from unforeseeable events, but should they occur they could reduce liquidity or originally anticipatedinvestment returns. Accordingly, the timing and amount of future capital or liquidity calls in any particular future yearare uncertain.

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Investment liquidity as of June 30, 2010 is aggregated below based on redemption or sale period:

Investmentfair values________________

Investment redemption or sale period:Daily $ 55,681,515Monthly 22,737,605Quarterly 23,204,574Semi-annually 23,539,675Annually 35,669,945Subject to rolling lock ups or other restrictions 259,163,285Illiquid 151,204,344________________

Total as of June 30, 2010 $ 571,200,943________________________________

(d) Funds Held by TrusteeFunds held by trustee represent the balance of the proceeds from the 2001, 2006 and 2008 New Jersey EducationalFacilities Authority (NJEFA or theAuthority) bonds that have not yet been expended for construction purposes or debtservice payments.These funds are being held in trust byThe Bank of NewYork. Such funds are invested in U.S. gov-ernment obligations with maturities of less than one year. At June 30, 2010 and 2009, the fair value of such securitiesapproximates their carrying value.

(e) Redemption Restrictions—Hedge FundsAt June 30, 2010, the Institute had hedge fund investments of approximately $430,834,000, of which approximately$127,457,000 was restricted from redemption for lock up periods. At June 30, 2009, the Institute had hedge fund in-vestments of approximately $355,336,000, of which approximately $255,334,000 was restricted from redemption forlock up periods. Some of the investments with redemption restrictions allow early redemption for specified fees. Theterms and conditions upon which an investor may redeem an investment vary, usually with the majority requiring 30to 180 days notice after the initial lock up period.

The expirations of redemption lock up periods are summarized in the table below:

Amount________________Fiscal year:

2011 $ 28,760,0002012 40,755,0002013 4,742,0002014 and thereafter 53,200,000________________

Total $ 127,457,000________________________________

(f) Redemption Restrictions—Limited PartnershipsAt June 30, 2010 and 2009, the Institute had limited partnership investments of approximately $71,778,900 and$61,657,600, respectively, which were restricted from redemption for lock up periods. Some of the investments withredemption restrictions allow early redemption for specified fees. The terms and conditions upon which an investormay redeem an investment vary, usually with the majority requiring 30 to 180 days notice after the initial lock up pe-riod.

The expirations of redemption lock up periods are summarized in the table below:

Amount________________Fiscal year:

2011 $ —2012 —2013 13,498,0002014 and thereafter 58,280,900________________

Total $ 71,778,900________________________________

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(4) Investment Return and Endowment Spending Policy

Investment return consists of interest, dividends, and realized and unrealized gains and losses on investments. Each year, theInstitute includes a portion of its endowment return in its operating budget, with the amount of such planned support de-termined using its spending policy.The policy of the Institute is to distribute for current spending a percentage of the fair valueof pooled investments which is determined by the Board of Trustees annually.The spending rate for operating and capital pur-poses was 4.7% and 5.6% for 2010 and 2009, respectively.

The following tables summarize the investment return and its classification in the statements of activities for the years endedJune 30, 2010 and 2009:

2010__________________________________________Temporarily

Unrestricted restricted Total____________ ____________ ____________Dividends and interest, net ofinvestment expenses of $1,996,337 $ (715,443) (703,148) (1,418,591)

Net realized and unrealized gains 40,940,701 23,971,226 64,911,927____________ ____________ ____________Total investment return 40,225,258 23,268,078 63,493,336

Endowment spending policy for use in operations 11,264,751 13,158,949 24,423,700____________ ____________ ____________Endowment change afterapplying spending policy $ 28,960,507 10,109,129 39,069,636____________ ____________ ________________________ ____________ ____________

2009__________________________________________Temporarily

Unrestricted restricted Total____________ ____________ ____________Dividends and interest, net ofinvestment expenses of $1,343,266 $ (370,813) (351,470) (722,283)

Net realized and unrealized losses (73,432,132) (40,552,234) (113,984,366)____________ ____________ ____________Total investment return (73,802,945) (40,903,704) (114,706,649)

Endowment spending policy for use in operations 25,874,809 10,218,991 36,093,800____________ ____________ ____________Endowment change afterapplying spending policy $ (99,677,754) (51,122,695) (150,800,449)____________ ____________ ________________________ ____________ ____________

Total investment management and advisory fees (credits) were $2,766,610 and $(1,199,314) for the years ended June 30, 2010and 2009, respectively.

5) Endowment

The Institute’s endowment consists of approximately 90 individual funds established for a variety of purposes including bothdonor-restricted endowment funds and funds designated by the Board of Trustees to function as endowments. Net assets as-sociated with endowments, including funds designated by the Board of Trustees to function as endowments, are classified andreported based on the existence or absence of donor-imposed restrictions.

(a) Interpretation of Relevant LawThe Institute has interpreted the New Jersey Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act as requiringthe preservation of the purchasing power of the original gift as of the gift date of the donor-restricted endowment fundsabsent explicit donor stipulations to the contrary. The Institute classifies as permanently restricted net assets (a) theoriginal value of gifts donated to the permanent endowment, (b) the original value of subsequent gifts to the perma-nent endowment, and (c) accumulations to the permanent endowment made in accordance with the direction of theapplicable donor gift instrument at the time the accumulation is added to the fund.

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Endowment net assets consisted of the following at June 30, 2010 and 2009:

2010____________________________________________________________

Temporarily PermanentlyUnrestricted restricted restricted Total______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Donor restricted $ (1,368,509) 125,249,638 80,807,557 204,688,686Board designated 346,580,860 — — 346,580,860______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

$ 345,212,351 125,249,638 80,807,557 551,269,546______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

2009____________________________________________________________


Donor restricted $ (1,612,530) 114,789,876 78,028,894 191,206,240Board designated 322,491,061 — — 322,491,061______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

$ 320,878,531 114,789,876 78,028,894 513,697,301______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Changes in endowment net assets for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 were as follows:


Net assets, July 1, 2008 $ 416,274,585 164,947,754 71,155,345 652,377,684Dividends and interest income, net (370,813) (214,167) — (584,980)Unrealized losses (73,397,047) (40,055,141) — (113,452,188)Contributions 275,006 — 6,873,549 7,148,555Appropriation forexpenditure—operations (25,874,809) (10,218,991) — (36,093,800)

Unspent appropriation returnedto principal 3,971,609 330,421 — 4,302,030______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Net assets, June 30, 2009 $ 320,878,531 114,789,876 78,028,894 513,697,301Dividends and interest income, net (715,443) (406,482) — (1,121,925)Unrealized gains 40,696,680 23,536,468 — 64,233,148Contributions 289,253 — 2,778,663 3,067,916Transfer of gain oninvestments to replenishunrestricted net assets 244,021 (244,021) — —

Appropriation forexpenditure—operations (11,264,751) (13,158,949) — (24,423,700)

Appropriation forexpenditure—other (4,915,940) — — (4,915,940)

Unspent appropriation returnedto principal — 732,746 — 732,746______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Net assets, June 30, 2010 $ 345,212,351 125,249,638 80,807,557 551,269,546______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

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(b) Funds with DeficienciesAt June 30, 2010 and 2009, the fair value of 12 and 10 endowment accounts were less than the level that the donor requiredthe Institute to retain as a fund of perpetual duration by approximately $1,369,000 and $1,613,000, respectively.

(c) Return Objectives and Risk ParametersThe Institute has adopted investment and spending policies for endowment assets that attempt to provide a predictablestream of funding to programs supported by its endowment while seeking to maintain the purchasing power of theendowment assets. Endowment assets include those assets of donor-restricted funds that the Institute must hold in per-petuity or for a donor-specified period as well as board-designated funds.

(d) Strategies Employed for Achieving ObjectivesThe Institute manages its investments in accordance with a total return concept and the goal of maximizing returns withinacceptable levels of risk. The Institute relies on a total return strategy in which investment returns are achieved throughboth capital appreciation (realized and unrealized) and current yield (dividends and interest).The Institute’s spending pol-icy is designed to provide a stable level of financial support and to preserve the real value of its endowment.

(6) Physical Plant

Physical plant and equipment are stated at cost at date of acquisition, less accumulated depreciation. Library books, other thanrare books, are not capitalized.

A summary of plant assets at June 30, 2010 and 2009 follows:2010 2009______________ ______________

Land $ 377,470 377,470Land improvements 1,543,134 1,388,588Buildings and improvements 91,713,069 90,397,927Equipment 25,757,852 24,944,594Construction in progress 200,508 176,288Rare book collection 203,508 203,508Joint ownership property 3,340,441 2,350,158______________ ______________

123,135,982 119,838,533Less accumulated depreciation (62,944,372) (59,144,991)______________ ______________

Net book value $ 60,191,610 60,693,542______________ ____________________________ ______________

The Institute has capitalized interest income of $3,238 and $19,209 and interest expense of $8,942 and $88,746 in construc-tion in progress for the years ended June 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

(7) Long-Term Debt

A summary of long-term debt at June 30, 2010 and 2009 follows:

2010 2009______________ ______________2001 Series A—NJEFA $ 2,480,000 2,735,0002006 Series B—NJEFA 28,600,000 28,800,0002006 Series C—NJEFA 18,800,000 19,200,0002008 Series C—NJEFA 7,815,000 9,575,000Less unamortized bond discount (219,006) (245,991)______________ ________________

Total long-term debt $ 57,475,994 60,064,009______________ ____________________________ ______________

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(a) 2001 Series AIn May 2001, the Institute received proceeds of the Authority offering of $11,000,000 Revenue Bonds, 2001 Series Aof the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. Proceeds were used for the construction of Bloomberg Hall and additionalcapital projects. These bonds were partially refunded through the 2006 Series B Revenue bonds detailed below.

(b) 2006 Series BIn July 2006, the Institute received proceeds of the Authority offering of $29,600,000 Revenue Bonds, 2006 Series Bof the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. The 2006 Series B Bonds were issued to finance the advance refunding ofthe outstanding 1997 Series G Bonds, the partial advance refunding of the 2001 Series A Bonds, and to pay a portionof certain costs incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2006 Series B Bonds.

(c) 2006 Series CIn March 2007, the Institute received proceeds of theAuthority offering of $20,000,000 Revenue Bonds, 2006 Series Cof the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. Proceeds are being used to finance the costs of construction, renovating andequipping certain educational facilities of the Institute, to fund capitalized interest on the 2006 Series C Bonds duringthe renovation and construction and to pay certain costs incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2006 Series C Bonds.

(d) 2008 Series CIn March 2008, the Institute received proceeds of theAuthority offering of $11,255,000 Revenue Bonds, 2008 Series Cof the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. The 2008 Series C Bonds were issued to finance the advance refunding ofoutstanding 1997 Series F Bonds, the advance refunding of outstanding 1997 Series G, and to pay a portion of certaincosts incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2008 Series C Bonds.

(e) Interest RatesThe 2001 Series A and 2008 Series C Bonds bear interest at rates ranging from 3% to 5%, payable semi-annually, aresubject to redemption at various prices and require principal payments and sinking fund installments through July 1,2021. The obligation to pay the Authority on a periodic basis, in the amounts sufficient to cover principal and inter-est due on the bonds, is a general obligation of the Institute.

The 2006 Series B and C Bonds bear interest at variable rates.The bonds were issued in theWeekly Mode with weeklyrates determined by Lehman Brothers Inc, as RemarketingAgent and paid monthly.The maximum interest rate on the2006 Bonds shall be twelve percent (12%) per annum.The 2006 bonds are subject to redemption at various prices andrequire principal payments and sinking fund installments through July 1, 2036.The obligation to pay the Authority ona periodic basis, in the amounts sufficient to cover principal and interest due on the bonds, is a general obligation ofthe Institute. On September 18, 2008, the Institute entered into a contract with JPMorgan Chase Bank to take over asRemarketing Agent, replacing Lehman Brothers Inc.

(f) Bond Swap AgreementOn April 18, 2006, the Institute entered into a swap agreement with Lehman Brothers Commercial Bank covering$29,600,000 of outstanding 2006 Series B Bonds that required the Institute to pay a fixed rate of 3.7702% to LehmanBrothers Commercial Bank in exchange for Lehman Brothers Commercial Bank agreeing to pay the Institute a vari-able rate equal to 67% of the USD-LIBOR-BBA rate with a term of three months, payable monthly, on an identicalnotional amount.The effective date of the swap was July 19, 2006 and the termination date of the swap agreement co-incides with the maturity of the bonds, which is July 1, 2031. In September 2008, the filing of a petition in bankruptcyby Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. constituted an “Event of Default,” giving the Institute the right to terminate theswap and designate an Early Termination Date on notice to Lehman Brothers Commercial Bank.

On December 22, 2008, the Institute entered into a new swap agreement withWells Fargo Bank covering $28,800,000of outstanding Series B Bonds that required the Institute to pay a fixed rate of 3.7702% toWells Fargo Bank in ex-change forWells Fargo Bank agreeing to pay the Institute a variable rate equal to 67% of the USD-LIBOR-BBA ratewith a term of three months, payable monthly, on an identical notional amount.The effective date of the swap was De-cember 22, 2008 and the termination date of the swap agreement coincides with the maturity of the bonds, which isJuly 1, 2031.

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The accounting for this transaction has been made in accordance with ASC 958-815, Not-for-Profit Entities—Deriva-tives and Hedging. The Institute entered into this swap agreement with the intention of lowering its effective interestrate. At June 30, 2010 and 2009, the fair value of the derivative was ($4,629,600) and ($3,514,367), respectively. Theswap agreement utilizes level 2 inputs to measure fair market value underASC 820.The unrealized loss recognized dur-ing the year ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 in the amount of $1,115,233 and $1,639,794, respectively, is reported inthe statements of activities in change in fair value of bond swap liability.

The bonds are repayable as follows at June 30, 2010:Amount

____________Year ending June 30:

2011 $ 2,725,0002012 2,055,0002013 2,290,0002014 2,320,0002015 2,360,0002016 through 2036 45,945,000____________

Total $ 57,695,000________________________

The 2001 Series A, 2006 Series B, 2006 Series C and 2008 Series C bonds are secured by a pledge of revenues pur-suant to the respective Loan Agreements.

(g) Line of CreditAs of June 30, 2010 and 2009, the Institute had an unsecured loan agreement representing a line of credit.The agree-ment provides for borrowings up to $20,000,000 and is available through January 2011.As of June 30, 2010 and 2009,there were no amounts outstanding against the line of credit. It is the Institute’s intention to extend this credit facility.Interest payments are due on demand and interest accrues at the LIBOR rate plus 100 basis points, which was 2.19%and 2.68% as of June 30, 2010 and 2009, respectively. No interest expense was recorded for the years ended June 30,2010 and 2009.

(8) Pension Plans and Other Postretirement Benefits

Separate voluntary defined contribution retirement plans are in effect for faculty members and eligible staff personnel, bothof which provide for annuities, which are funded, to theTeachers Insurance andAnnuity Association and/or the College Re-tirement Equities Fund. Contributions are based on the individual participant’s compensation in accordance with the formulaset forth in the plan documents on a nondiscriminatory basis. Contributions for the years ended June 30, 2010 and 2009 to-taled approximately $2,066,000 and $1,936,000, respectively.

In addition to providing pension benefits, the Institute provides certain health care and life insurance benefits for retired em-ployees and faculty. Substantially, all of the Institute’s employees may become eligible for these benefits if they meet minimumage and service requirements. The Institute accrues these benefits over a period in which active employees become eligibleunder existing benefit plans.


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The following table provides a reconciliation of the change in benefit obligation and the funded status of the plan at June 30,2010 and 2009:

2010 2009Postretirement benefit obligation: ____________ ____________

Retirees $ 5,853,000 4,885,000Fully eligible active plan participants 1,746,000 876,000Other active plan participants 6,983,000 4,708,000____________ ____________

Postretirement benefit obligation $ 14,582,000 10,469,000____________ ________________________ ____________Change in benefit obligation:Benefit obligation at beginning of year $ 10,469,000 9,089,256Service cost 450,000 277,454Interest cost 633,000 568,507Benefits paid (375,946) (490,699)Actuarial loss 3,405,946 1,024,482____________ ____________

Benefit obligation at end of year (funded status) $ 14,582,000 10,469,000____________ ________________________ ____________

Components of net periodic benefit cost:Service cost $ 450,000 277,454Interest cost 633,000 568,507Amortization of transition obligation 3,405,946 1,024,482____________ ____________

Net periodic postretirement benefit cost $ 4,488,946 1,870,443____________ ________________________ ____________

2010 2009____________ ____________Benefit obligation weighted average assumptions atJune 30, 2010 and 2009:Discount rate 5.40% 6.19%

Periodic benefit cost weighted average assumptionsfor the years ended June 30, 2010 and 2009:Discount rate 6.19% 6.50%

At June 30, 2010 and 2009, the trend rate used for health care costs was 5.0% and 5.0%, respectively.

The effects of a 1% increase or decrease in trend rates on total service and interest cost and the postretirement benefit obliga-tion are as follows:

2010 2009____________________________________________________ __________________________Increase Decrease Increase Decrease_________________________ ________________________ ________________________ __________________________

Effect on total serviceand interest cost $ 222,000 (175,000) 141,039 (111,961)

Effect on the postretirementbenefit obligation 2,514,000 (2,011,000) 1,622,000 (1,313,000)

Projected payments for each of the next five fiscal years and thereafter are as follows:

Amount____________Year ending June 30:

2011 $ 522,0002012 569,0002013 600,0002014 644,0002015 675,0002016 through 2017 4,027,000

The Institute expects to contribute approximately $1,464,000 in the next fiscal year.

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(9) Temporarily and Permanently Restricted Assets

Restricted net assets are available for the following purposes at June 30, 2010 and 2009:

2010 2009______________ ______________Temporarily restricted net assets are restricted to:School of Mathematics $ 29,019,998 26,671,464School of Natural Sciences 6,412,172 6,061,912School of Historical Studies 31,210,429 28,297,437School of Social Science 50,295,421 46,543,273Libraries and other academic 3,805,200 2,859,241Administration and general 4,933,565 4,401,580______________ ______________

$ 125,676,785 114,834,907______________ ____________________________ ______________Permanently restricted net assets are restricted to:Investments to be held in perpetuity, the income fromwhich is expendable to support academic services $ 80,807,557 78,028,894

(10) Disclosures About FairValue of Financial Instruments

The Institute is required to disclose the estimated fair value of financial instruments, both assets and liabilities recognized andnot recognized in the statement of financial position, for which it is practicable to estimate fair value.

The estimated fair value amounts in the following disclosure have been determined by the Institute using available market in-formation and appropriate valuation methodologies.The estimates are not necessarily indicative of the amounts the Institutecould realize in a current market exchange, and the use of different market assumptions or methodologies could have a ma-terial effect on the estimated fair value amounts at June 30, 2010 and 2009.

2010 2009____________ ____________Assets:Cash $ 6,952,589 312,162Government grants and contracts receivable 4,371,757 2,107,272Funds held by trustee 7,187,358 8,587,408Beneficial interest in remainder trust 2,786,283 2,654,256Investments 571,200,943 530,320,152

Liabilities:Note payable 492,767 557,724Long-term debt 58,323,828 61,002,987Bond swap liability 4,629,600 3,514,367

The fair value estimates presented are based on information available to the Institute as of June 30, 2010 and 2009, and havenot been revalued since that date.While the Institute is not aware of any significant factors that would affect the estimates sincethat date, current estimates of fair value could differ significantly from the amounts disclosed.

(11) Contingencies

The Institute has an investment in the Ariel Fund Limited (the Fund). During fiscal year 2009, the fund became subject tothe oversight of a Receiver appointed by theAttorney General of NewYork for the principal purposes of marshalling and pre-serving the assets of the Fund, for ultimate distribution of the proceeds to the respective investors of the Fund. There is alsoa potential for litigation to recover amounts from investors who have received distributions from the Fund. Management doesnot expect this to have a significant impact on the Institute’s financial statements.


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