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Mission and History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

School of Historical Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

School of Mathematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

School of Natural Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

School of Social Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Program in Interdisciplinary Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Director’s Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Artist-in-Residence Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Trustees and Officers of the Boardand of the Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Past Directors and Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Information contained herein is current as of September 23, 2013.

Contents

Mission and History

The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists toencourage and support curiosity-driven research in the sciences andhumanities—the original, often speculative thinking that producesadvances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. Itprovides for the mentoring of scholars by Faculty, and it offers all whowork there the freedom to undertake research that will make significantcontributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences andhumanities studied at the Institute.

Founded in 1930 by Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline BambergerFuld, the Institute was established through the vision of foundingDirector Abraham Flexner. Past Faculty have included Albert Einstein,who arrived in 1933 and remained at the Institute until his death in 1955,and other distinguished scientists and scholars such as Kurt Gödel, George F.Kennan, Erwin Panofsky, Homer A. Thompson, John von Neumann, andHermann Weyl.

Abraham Flexner was succeeded as Director in 1939 by Frank Aydelotte,followed by J. Robert Oppenheimer (1947), Carl Kaysen (1966), HarryWoolf (1976), Marvin L. Goldberger (1987), Phillip A. Griffiths (1991),and Peter Goddard (2004). In July 2012, Robbert Dijkgraaf became theInstitute’s ninth Director.

The Institute has had permanent impact, in both intellectual and practi-cal terms, through the work of its Faculty and Members. One of theInstitute’s unique strengths is its permanent Faculty, whose broad interestsand extensive ties to the larger academic world are reflected in their ownwork and also in the guidance and direction they provide. The Faculty,numbering no more than twenty-eight, selects and works closely withvisiting Members and defines the major themes and questions thatbecome the focus of each School’s seminars and other activities.Organized in four Schools (Historical Studies, Mathematics, NaturalSciences, and Social Science), the Faculty and Members interact with oneanother without any departmental or disciplinary barriers. Each year theInstitute awards fellowships to some 190 visiting Members from about

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one hundred universities and research institutions throughout the world.The Institute’s more than six thousand former Members hold positions ofintellectual and scientific leadership in the United States and abroad.Thirty-three Nobel Laureates and thirty-eight out of fifty-two FieldsMedalists, as well as many winners of the Wolf and MacArthur prizes,have been affiliated with the Institute.

Located in Princeton, New Jersey, the Institute is a private, independentacademic institution with no formal links to other educational institu-tions. However, there is a great deal of intellectual, cultural, and socialinteraction with other nearby institutions. The Institute’s HistoricalStudies–Social Science Library has a collection of some 125,000 volumesand subscribes to more than 1,000 journals. The Mathematics–NaturalSciences Library contains about 30,000 volumes and an important col-lection of journals. Institute scholars have full access to the libraries ofPrinceton University and the Princeton Theological Seminary.

The Institute is situated on eight hundred acres of land, the majority ofwhich is conserved permanently, forming a key link in a network of greenspaces in central New Jersey and providing a tranquil environment forInstitute scholars and members of the community. The Institute does notreceive income from tuition or fees. Resources for operations come fromendowment income, grants from private foundations and governmentagencies, and gifts from corporations and individuals.

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Robbert DijkgraafDirector and Leon Levy Professor

Robbert Dijkgraaf is a leading mathematical physicist who has made significant contributionsto string theory and the advancement of science education. He has identified deep connectionsbetween particle physics and mathematics, as wellas between different areas of mathematical physics.His work has influenced understanding of stringtheory in low dimensions, topological strings, thedynamics of supersymmetric gauge theories, andthe quantum states of black holes. A distinguishedpublic policy adviser and passionate advocate forscience and the arts, Dijkgraaf previously served asPresident of the Royal Netherlands Academy ofArts and Sciences (2008–12) and has been Co-Chair of the InterAcademy Council since 2009.

School of Historical Studies

Administrative Officer: Marian Gallagher Zelazny

The School of Historical Studies was established in 1949 with the mergingof the School of Economics and Politics and the School of HumanisticStudies. It bears no resemblance to a traditional academic history department,but rather supports all learning for which historical methods are appropriate.The School embraces a historical approach to research through out thehuman istic disciplines, from socioeconomic developments, political theory,and modern international relations, to the history of art, science, philos-o phy, music, and literature. In geographical terms, the School concentratesprimarily on the history of Western, Near Eastern, and Far Eastern civili -zations, with emphasis on Greek and Roman civilization, the history ofEurope (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, andEast Asia. The School has also supported scholars whose work focuses onother regions, including Central Asia, India, Africa, and the Americas.

The Faculty and Members of the School do not adhere to any one pointof view but practice a range of methods of inquiry and scholarly styles,both traditional and innovative. Uniquely positioned to sponsor work thatcrosses conventional departmental and professional boundaries, theSchool actively promotes interdisciplinary research and cross-fertilizationof ideas. It thereby encourages the creation of new historical enterprises.

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Yve-Alain BoisProfessor · Art History

A specialist in twentieth-century European and Ameri-can art, Yve-Alain Bois is recognized as an expert on awide range of artists, from Henri Matisse and PabloPicasso to Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, andEllsworth Kelly. The curator of a number of influentialexhibitions, he is currently working on several long-term projects, including a study of Barnett Newman’spaintings, the catalogue raisonné of Ellsworth Kelly’spaintings and sculptures, and the modern history ofaxonometric projection.

Angelos Chaniotis Professor · Ancient History and Classics

Angelos Chaniotis is engaged in wide-ranging researchin the social, cultural, religious, legal, and economic his-tory of the Hellenistic world and the Roman East. Theauthor of many books and articles and senior editor ofthe Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, he has worked onwar, religion, communicative aspects of rituals, andstrategies of persuasion in the ancient world. His cur-rent research focuses on emotions, memory, and identity.He is interested in previously unexplored aspects of theancient world in a dialogue with other disciplines.

Patricia CroneAndrew W. Mellon Professor · Islamic History

Patricia Crone’s research is focused on the Near Eastfrom late antiquity to the coming of the Mongols. Sheis interested in the delineation of the political, reli-gious, and cultural environment in which Islam beganand how it transformed, and was itself transformed by,the regions that the Arabs conquered. Originally apolitical, social, and military historian (some diversionsnotwithstanding), she has been steadily moving intothe history of ideas. She now works mainly on theQur’an and the cultural and religious traditions of Iraq,Iran, and the formerly Iranian part of Central Asia.

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Nicola Di CosmoLuce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies · EastAsian Studies

Nicola Di Cosmo’s research focuses on the relationsbetween China and Inner Asia from prehistory to theearly modern period. He is interested in the history andarchaeology of China’s northern frontiers, cultural con-tacts between China and Central Asia, and the military,political, and social history of Chinese dynasties of InnerAsian origin. His most recent and forthcoming worksinclude studies on Chinese military culture, Chinese his-toriography, the early history of the Manchu state, andrelations between Europe and the Mongol empire.

Patrick J. GearyProfessor · Medieval History

Patrick Geary’s work extends over a vast range of topics inmedieval history, both chronologically and conceptually—from religiosity to language, ethnicity, social structure, andpolitical organization. Many of his essays and booksremain standard literature in the field and have been trans- lated in multiple languages. Currently, Geary is leading amajor project that studies the migration of Europeansocieties north and south of the Alps through the analysisof ancient DNA in Longobard cemeteries in Hungaryand in Italy. He also directs the St. Gall Plan Project, anInternet-based initiative funded by the Andrew W.Mellon Foundation that provides tools for the study ofCarolingian monasticism.

Jonathan IsraelProfessor · Modern European History

Jonathan Israel’s work is concerned with European andEuropean colonial history from the Renaissance to theeighteenth century. His recent work focuses on theimpact of radical thought (especially Spinoza, Bayle,Diderot, and eighteenth-century French materialists) onthe Enlightenment and on the emergence of modernideas of democracy, equality, toleration, freedom of thepress, and individual freedom.

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Glen W. BowersockProfessor Emeritus · Ancient History

Glen Bowersock is an authority on Greek, Roman, andNear Eastern history and culture as well as the classicaltradition in modern literature. The author of numerousimportant volumes and articles, he uses his exceptionalknowledge of classical texts in many languages, togetherwith inscriptions, coins, mosaics, and archaeologicalremains, to illuminate the mingling of different culturesand to draw unexpected and revelatory conclusions. Hisresearch interests include the Greek East in the RomanEmpire and late antiquity as well as pre-Islamic Arabia.

Caroline Walker BynumProfessor Emerita · European Medieval History

Caroline Bynum studies the social, cultural, and intellec-tual history of Europe from the early Middle Ages to theearly modern period. Her books have explored women’sreligious movements, the history of the body, the role ofsacrifice in religion, and the materiality of late medievalart and devotion. She is currently working on a comparisonof Western and non-Western pieties.

Giles ConstableProfessor Emeritus · Medieval History

The medievalist Giles Constable is the author or editor ofmore than twenty books in the area of medieval religiousand intellectual history, concerning, among other subjects,the origins of monastic tithes, Peter the Venerable, peopleand power of Byzantium, medieval religious and socialthought, the reformation of the twelfth century, Renais-sance Florence as seen through the case of AntonioRinaldeschi, twelfth-century crusading, and the history ofCluny. He recently completed a book on the fourteenth-century crusading propagandist William of Adam andcontinues to work on the California Gold Rush.

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Christian HabichtProfessor Emeritus · Ancient History

Christian Habicht is among the leading historians of theHellenistic period. He is an authority on Greek epigraphyand on the history of Athens between Alexander theGreat and Augustus. He has published books on the Hel-lenistic ruler-cults, on the Maccabees, on Cicero, and onPausanias. He has edited hundreds of previously unpub-lished inscriptions from important sites in Greece andAsia Minor. To a new bilingual edition of Polybius, hecontributed the introduction and explanatory notes; sixvolumes were published in 2010–12. An updated Englishedition of his doctoral dissertation, submitted in Germanin 1951, is scheduled to be published as “Divine Honorsfor Mortal Men in Greek Cities: The Early Cases” byMichigan Classical Press.

Irving LavinProfessor Emeritus · Art History

Irving Lavin is one of America’s most distinguished arthistorians. He has written extensively on the history ofart from late antiquity to modern times, includingnumerous studies on Italian painting, sculpture, and archi-tecture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Hisinterests have focused primarily on the correlationbetween form and meaning in the visual arts. Two volumesof his collected works appeared under the title VisibleSpirit (2007–09). A third volume, “Bernini at St. Peter’s:The Pilgrimage,” appeared in 2013, and a lengthy essay,“Divine Grace and the Remedy of the Imperfect:Michelangelo’s Signature on the St. Peter’s Pietà,” is incourse of publication.

Peter ParetProfessor Emeritus · Modern European History

Peter Paret is a cultural and intellectual historian withparticular interest in the interaction of war and societysince the eighteenth century, how historians integrate warwith their interpretation of other historical forces, and therelationship between tradition and modernism in the artof nineteenth and twentieth-century Europe. His mostrecent book (2012), written with Helga Thieme, Myth andModernity: Ernst Barlach’s Drawings on the Nibelungen, discusses a modern interpretation of a medieval myth as adocument of German history in the 1920s and 30s.

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Heinrich von StadenProfessor Emeritus · Classics and History of Science

Heinrich von Staden has written on a variety of topics inancient science, medicine, philosophy, and literary theory,from the fifth century B.C. to the fifth century A.D.Drawing on a wide range of scientific, philosophical, andreligious sources, he has contributed to the transformationof the history of ancient science and medicine, particularlyof the Hellenistic period. His current research is on the roleof animals in ancient scientific theories and practices, ongenres of scientific and medical literature in antiquity, andon the “semantics of matter” in ancient science and medicine.

Morton WhiteProfessor Emeritus · Philosophy and Intellectual History

Morton White is one of America’s leading thinkers. In hisphilosophy of holistic pragmatism, he tries to bridge thepositivistic gulf between analytic and synthetic truth aswell as that between moral and scientific belief. Hemaintains that philosophy of science is not philosophyenough, thereby encouraging the examination of otheraspects of civilized life—especially art, history, law, politics,and religion—and their relations with science.

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Hassan Farhang AnsariIntellectual and Legal Studies · Freie Universität Berlin Funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Hassan Ansari focuses on the study of philosophy, theology, Islamic law,and principles of jurisprudence.

Sean William AnthonyIslamic History, Late Antiquity · University of Oregon · fThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Sean Anthony’s project aims to reorient the historiography of earlyShi’ism by offering a new reading of its origins against the backdropof late-antique apocalypticism and the triumphalist ideologies of theearly Islamic polity.

Alison BeachMedieval Religious Women · The Ohio State UniversityFunding provided by the Patrons’ Endowment and the Edwin C. and Elizabeth A.Whitehead Fellowship Fund

Alison Beach’s research focuses on the role of religious women in theHirsau reform from the eleventh to twelfth centuries. While at theInstitute, she will look beyond the narratives of the movement’smonk-historians to write a history of the women of Hirsau that takesthem seriously as both agents and subjects of reform.

Edyta BojanowskaRussian Literature and History · Rutgers, The State University ofNew JerseyFrederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by the American Council of Learned Societies

Edyta Bojanowska works on the treatments of empire in Russian cultureand intellectual history. Her current project traces this theme in theworks of major Russian writers of the 1850s to the 1900s and inperiodical press, linking the empirical, historical empire with its culturaland ideological incarnations.

Anna BoreczkyMedieval Manuscript Illumination, History of Illustration · NationalSzéchényi Library, BudapestThe Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member; additional funding provided bythe Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellowship Fund

Anna Boreczky intends to reconstruct the illustration history of thelate-antique adventure story known today as the Historia Apollonii RegisTyri, one of the most popular secular readings throughout the MiddleAges, by compiling the corpus of Apollonius illustrations and theircomparative analyses.

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f First Term · s Second Term · v Visitor · vp Visiting Professor · a Research Assistant j Joint Member School of Social Science

M E M B E R S , V I S I T O R S , A N D R E S E A R C H A S S I S T A N T S

Annie BourneufEuropean Art of the Early Twentieth Century · School of the ArtInstitute of ChicagoFelix Gilbert Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Annie Bourneuf ’s project explores how artists and intellectuals workingin Expressionist and Dadaist circles in central Europe during the 1910spursued visions of visual art in general and of abstract art in particularas a form of language and often as a prelapsarian “language of paradise.”

David Prager BrannerChinese Philology · Columbia University · fWillis F. Doney Member

David Branner’s project examines the development of prosody in theChinese middle period, relying on statistical tools to define differentstyles quantitatively. His goal is to describe prosodically organized liter-ature in its early stages so as to understand its place in the larger historyof Chinese language and literature.

Ursula Birgit BrossederEurasian Archaeology · Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-UniversitätElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow; additional funding provided by theHetty Goldman Membership Fund

Ursula Brosseder’s work explores dynamics of interaction in the lateIron Age Eurasian steppes during the emergence of the “silk roads” andconfronts theories of the Xiongnu as progenitors of the European Huns.She seeks to supersede notions of merchant trade and mass migrationsby reframing contacts within sociopolitical and economic networks.

Rainer BrunnerIslamic Studies · Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Rainer Brunner is interested in Islamic intellectual history, especiallymodernism and modern appropriations of classical concepts. He is alsoexploring Shiite Islam, Sunnite-Shiite relations, the role of politics intheological reasoning, and Islam in Europe and the various problemsrelated to Muslim presence in a secular environment.

Judith Ann-Marie ByfieldAfrican History · Cornell UniversityFunding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

Judith Byfield is studying a women’s tax revolt in Abeokuta, Nigeria,in 1947, marking a new stage of collective organizing among womenas they transformed a critique of local officials into a critique of colo-nialism. Byfield’s research explores women’s anticolonial activism,political agency, and intellectual contribution to nationalism.

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Giorgio CaravaleEarly Modern European Intellectual History · Università degli StudiRoma TreGerda Henkel Stiftung Member

The object of Giorgio Caravale’s research is to investigate the impact ofChurch censorship on Italian culture during the early modern period(sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) and the effects of this effort of culturaland social disciplining on the structuring of Italian cultural identity.

Mark CruseMedieval French Literature · Arizona State UniversityAMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Mark Cruse’s research focuses on the relationship between writing,material culture, and performances of various kinds in the medievalFrancophone world. At the Institute, he will examine manuscripts ofthe Old French version of Marco Polo’s travel account to elucidatewhat this seminal work meant to its earliest readers.

Anastasia DrandakiByzantine Art and Archaeology · Benaki Museum, AthensFunding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Anastasia Drandaki is investigating Byzantine paintings of the thir-teenth to fifteenth centuries to identify the pictorial means employedby patrons and artists to express religious tolerance toward the Latinpopulation in an environment of deep division in the Orthodox com-munity over the official ecclesiastical policy toward the Latin populace.

Yaacob DweckEarly Modern Intellectual History · Princeton UniversityThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Yaacob Dweck is reconstructing the worldview of Jacob Sasportas(1610–98), a rabbi from North Africa, who wandered throughout theSephardic Diaspora in Western Europe for much of his life andemerged as the primary opponent of the mass messianic movementthat coalesced around Sabbetai Sevi in the 1660s.

Patricia EbreyChinese History · University of Washington · fFunding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Patricia Ebrey is examining how states have repeatedly been able toreunite the marked geographical differences between north and southChina, making China the largest country in the world for most of itshistory. She is focusing primarily on the crucial period from 550 to1250.

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Bonnie EffrosHistory of Archaeology; Early Medieval History and Archaeology ·University of FloridaGeorge Kennan Member; additional funding provided by the Hetty GoldmanMembership Fund

Bonnie Effros studies how the French army’s destruction of ancientRoman monuments in Algeria following the 1830 invasion encouragedofficers to document and preserve antiquities. Her project examinesthe contributions of Roman archaeological studies to French narrativesof occupation and the building of settler identities in Algeria.

Stefan EsdersHistory of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages · FreieUniversität Berlin · fFunding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

Stefan Esders aims to explore the possible interconnectedness of severalcrucial periods of approximately five to seven years between the sixthand early ninth centuries, during which important political decisions,military action, and other events in different regions and realms of theMediterranean appear to have happened simultaneously.

Mehrdad FallahzadehHistorical Music Theory · Uppsala UniversityEdward T. Cone Member in Music Studies; additional funding provided by theElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellowship Fund

Mehrdad Fallahzadeh’s research focuses on the history and evolutionof Indian, Iranian, and Central Asian music theory during the post -scholastic era (1500–1850) of Persian writing on music theory. At theInstitute, he will study the evolution of Indian music theory and theraga-ragini system of the seventeenth century.

Paul R. GoldinClassical Chinese History and Philosophy · University of Pennsylvania · fWillis F. Doney Member

Paul Goldin plans to work on a volume on classical Chinese thoughtthat will focus on eight texts from the classical period—the Analects ofConfucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi, Xunzi, and HanFeizi—that proved most influential in later periods and provided thephilosophical statements around which contemporaries oriented theirown positions.

Monica H. GreenHistory of Medicine · Arizona State UniversityWillis F. Doney Member; additional funding provided by the National Endowmentfor the Humanities

Monica Green’s project surveys over five hundred Latin medical booksfrom the late eleventh to early thirteenth centuries, many of whichbrought new texts and concepts into Europe from the Islamic world.For the first time, Europe shared a medical language and practices towhich all Christians, Muslims, and Jews could lay claim.

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Christopher HamlinHistory of Science, Technology, and Medicine · University of Notre DameHans Kohn Member

Christopher Hamlin plans to focus on the intersection of social medicine and political economy in Scotland and Ireland in the decadesbefore and after 1800—the foundational period of European liberalism,particularly with regard to famine-generated epidemic disease.

Kaja Harter-UibopuuAncient Greek Law, Greek Epigraphy · Österreichische Akademie derWissenschaften · sFunding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

Kaja Harter-Uibopuu is focusing on ancient Greek inscriptions as a sourcefor public administrative law and the law of procedure in Hellenistic andRoman times from the end of the fourth century B.C. to the beginningof the third century A.D. Under the title “Administration of Philanthropy,”she is preparing a commentary on several charitable foundations.

Colin HeydtEarly Modern History of Philosophy · University of South FloridaFunding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Colin Heydt is a historian of early modern ethics and political philos-ophy. He is writing a book that reconstructs the history of practicalethics in eighteenth-century Britain. The book’s principal goal is toidentify the conventional positions on both the content and point ofphilosophical morality.

Masoud JafarijazeIslamic History · Institute for Advanced Study · a

Masoud Jafarijaze is a Research Assistant to Professor Patricia Crone.His research interests include Persian literature, especially of theSamanid and Ghaznavid ages, and comparative studies in contemporaryPersian literature.

Katherine L. JansenMedieval History · The Catholic University of America · fGeorge William Cottrell, Jr., Member

Katherine Jansen is currently researching dispute settlement in latemedieval Florence. Through an examination of notarial peace instru-ments as a complement to the legal system, she argues that these legalremedies helped to forge the new popular government’s identity as a benecomune, one based firmly on communal peace and security.

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Sara KaczkoGreek Literature, Epigraphy, Linguistics · Università degli Studi diRoma, La Sapienza · sWillis F. Doney Member

Sara Kaczko is studying the interplay between image and literary-linguis-tic features of dedicatory epigrams on stone in archaic and classical Athensin the communication with their audience. Her research chiefly investi-gates how the languages of art, epigraphy, and literature were purposefullyemployed to make some more elaborate inscribed monuments stand out.

Sean Hsiang-lin LeiHistory of Science and Medicine in Modern East Asia · Institute ofModern History, Academia SinicaThe Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member; additionalfunding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Sean Hsiang-lin Lei is seeking to understand how Chinese medicinewas transformed from an antithesis of modernity in the early twentiethcentury into a potent symbol and vehicle for China’s exploration of itsown modernity half a century later.

Michele MatteiniHistory of Chinese Art · Reed CollegeThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Michele Matteini’s research explores the relationship between antiquar-ian studies and the practice of painting in late eighteenth-centuryChina. He is currently working on a cultural history of the Xuannandistrict, a neighborhood of Beijing, between the 1770s and the 1820s.

Naphtali S. MeshelReligion · Princeton University

Naphtali Meshel has developed a “ritual grammar” as an analytical toolfor the examination of Biblical and early Jewish sacrificial texts. At theInstitute, he plans to assess the explanatory power of this “grammar” byexamining its applicability to other ancient Near Eastern and SouthAsian ritual systems.

Matthew W. MoscaChinese History · College of William & MaryThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Matthew Mosca is examining how, between 1700 and 1900, historiansof the Mongol empire effectively integrated research communitiesacross Eurasia into a collaborative field of study involving Chinese,Inner Asian, and European scholars. This forged an incipient pan-Eurasian circuit of information capable of confronting large-scale phenomena that earlier techniques could not adequately address.

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Laura NenziEarly Modern Japanese History · University of Tennessee · sMartin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member

Laura Nenzi is a social historian of early modern Japan. Her currentresearch on popular reactions to the political crisis of the late Tokugawareassesses the traditional distinction between rational and irrationalactors, between methodical and emotional participation, and betweendiscourse and action.

David William PankenierArchaeoastronomy, Astrology, Cosmology, and History of Ancient China ·Lehigh UniversityThe Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member

David Pankenier will study the astronomical alignments of high-valueBronze Age structures, principally in Shaanxi. The aims of the projectare to establish the patterns of alignment that are present, the culturalcontinuities they suggest, how they were achieved in practical terms,and the cosmological preconceptions they reflect.

Christopher Charles ParslowRoman Archaeology · Wesleyan University · fFunding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

Christopher Parslow is documenting the architecture, art, and inscriptionsfrom the Praedia (Properties) of Julia Felix in Pompeii—a unique semi- public building combining luxurious baths, shops, ornamental gardens,reception suites, and private apartments—and assessing their role in thesocial, economic, and political life of the city.

Sebastian PrignitzEpigraphy, Classical Archaeology · Inscriptiones Graecae, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften · sWilliam D. Loughlin Member; additional funding provided by the Hetty GoldmanMembership Fund

Sebastian Prignitz is interested in ancient Greek epigraphy and archae-ology. His aim is to combine these fields of scholarship, which aremostly separated in modern science. He plans to study the buildingprogram of the sanctuary of Asclepios at Epidauros, Greece, in theearly fourth to mid-third centuries B.C.

Matthew B. RestallLatin America/Caribbean · The Pennsylvania State University · f

Matthew Restall will explore the myths, meanings, and consequencesof two misunderstood moments in history—the 1519 meeting ofCortés and Moctezuma in Mexico and the 1798 Spanish-British battleof St. George’s Caye in Belize.

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David RobinsonChinese History · Colgate UniversityThe Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member

David Robinson is examining how successor states in Eurasia dealtwith the legacy of the Mongol empire, particularly the Ming court ofChina in 1368 to 1644. He plans to explore how the Ming court bothvilified the fallen Mongol rulers and exploited the prestige of themighty Mongol empire and its institutions.

Roberto RomaniModern Intellectual History · Università degli Studi di Teramo · sThe Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member

Roberto Romani’s field of expertise is the intellectual history ofEurope from 1750 to 1914. He is currently working on the impact of religion and republicanism on the political thought of the ItalianRisorgimento, aiming, in particular, to capture the elitist nature of itsliberal strand.

Kim Lane ScheppeleLaw · Princeton University · j

Kim Scheppele’s research tracks the debate over the Holy Crown of St.Stephen—the twentieth-century interwar irredentist symbol fore-ground in Hungary’s new nationalist constitution of 2012. She tracesthe debate back to its medieval sources and reworks its origin story byexploring the twin ideas of abjection and awe in the construction ofconstitutional community.

Sabine SchmidtkeIslamic Studies · Freie Universität Berlin

Sabine Schmidtke, who aims to contribute to the history of sharedideas, is working on an analysis of the theological doctrines of Abu l-Husayn al-Basri, the founder of what was apparently the last innovativeschool of Mu‘tazilism, and a study of their reception among Muslims,Jews, and Christians.

Stephen J. ShoemakerReligion in Late Antiquity · University of Oregon · fFunding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Stephen Shoemaker is studying the veneration of the Virgin Mary inearly Christianity by focusing on a number of frequently overlookedsources, including apocrypha and early liturgical texts especially. Thesetexts reveal evidence of belief in Mary’s intercession and her culticveneration already in the third and fourth centuries.

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Gerhard ThürAncient Greek Law · Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften ·v, s

Gerhard Thür is working on a book that draws a line—from Homerto Gortyn and archaic and classical Athens—from “irrational” to(more) “rational” methods in making judicial decisions.

Deborah TorMedieval Islamic History · University of Notre DameFunding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Deborah Tor will be writing a thematic history of the Great Seljuqdynasty (1040–1194), which inaugurated a thousand years of Turco-Mongol domination of the Middle East, and its formative role in theshaping of many of the religious, political, and social institutions ofclassical Islamic society.

Stephen V. TracyGreek History and Epigraphy · The American School of ClassicalStudies at Athens · v

Stephen Tracy is helping English and Australian colleagues prepare anew edition of Athenian decrees of the late fourth to third centuriesB.C. He is also working on Athenian letter cutting of the second halfof the fifth century B.C. and on the hands of the so-called “AthenianTribute Lists.”

Jing TsuHistory of Science and Technology in Modern China; ComparativeMethods · Yale University · sFunding provided by the Patrons’ Endowment Fund

Jing Tsu plans to examine how the advent of modern Western scientificthinking was interpreted by Chinese intellectuals, amateur scientists,and industrialists in a rising cultural market for empirical novelties andfalsifiable knowledge.

Nikolay Vladimirovich TsyrempilovBuddhism and International Relations in Modern Inner Asia · RussianAcademy of SciencesGeorge Kennan Member

Nikolay Tsyrempilov is studying the role of Tibetan Buddhism in themodern history of Inner Asia, particularly how Buriat-Mongolianlamas lobbied in the upper circles of Russia and attempted to transmitEuropean conceptions of state and politics to Mongolia and Tibet.

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Henk van NieropThe Dutch Golden Age · University of Amsterdam · s

Henk van Nierop is working on a biography of Romeyn de Hooghe(1645–1708), the most prolific graphic artist of the later Dutch GoldenAge, who became deeply involved with various radical movements of histime and whose story highlights the vulnerability of aesthetic quality inthe face of political strife and contesting networks of patronage.

Michael van Walt van PraagModern International Relations and International Law · Institute forAdvanced Study · vp

An expert in the field of intrastate conflict resolution and internationallaw as well as a mediator, Michael van Walt seeks to create conditionsfor equitable peace by addressing core causes of conflict. He is currentlyexploring innovative ways to overcome obstacles in peace processesposed by conflicting interpretations of history.

Sitta von RedenAncient History · Albert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member

Sitta von Reden, who has published widely on money, exchange, andcredit both in classical Athens and Hellenistic Egypt, will be investigatingconflicts over water and water management in Hellenistic Egypt.

Emmanuel VoutirasClassics, Greek and Roman Archaeology, Greek Epigraphy · AristotleUniversity of Thessaloniki · sElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow; additional funding provided by TheAndrew W. Mellon Foundation

Emmanuel Voutiras is studying a new inscription from Dikaia, a colony ofEretria. A projected monograph will discuss and evaluate new evidenceconcerning the Eretrian presence in the northern Aegean, the reconcil-iation process, local cults, and calendar.

Barbara WalkerModern History · University of Nevada, Reno · fFunding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies

A Russianist, Barbara Walker studies the economic foundations of cul-tural, intellectual, and professional life. She is exploring the rise of atransnational class of experts in the Cold War United States and SovietUnion as they leveraged the national security anxieties of their respec-tive countries to expand their numbers and influence.

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Xi WangChinese History; Mongolian and Manchu Studies · Renmin Universityof China · a

Xi Wang, Research Assistant to Professor Di Cosmo, is studying thehistory of the relations between Mongolians and Manchus from theseventeenth to the eighteenth centuries and is participating in a largerresearch project on climate change in Mongolia during the twelfth tothirteenth centuries.

Stephen H. WestChinese History and Literature of the Tenth to Sixteenth Centuries ·Arizona State UniversityFunding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the NationalEndowment for the Humanities

Stephen West is researching the transitional period from the last days ofthe Jin dynasty to the reign of Kubilai Khan in the Yuan dynasty and inves-tigating how conquest functioned as a catalyst for human re-engagementwith the material, cultural, and social world through the act of writing.

Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneMedieval Literature · Fordham University · sAgnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member; additional funding provided by theHerodotus Fund

Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, whose work has involved the reconceptual-ization of English medieval literary culture as multilingual, with partic-ular attention to postnationalizing accounts of literary history enabledby inclusion of the Frenches of England, is studying late medievalwomen’s multilingualism and their literary and documentary texts.

Yücel YanikdagOttoman and Turkish History · University of RichmondGeorge Kennan Member

Yücel Yanikdag’s research examines the cultural responses of Ottomansoldiers to the experience of the First World War. He is interested inhow these men interpreted the conflict, what motivated them toendure the carnage, and in the end, how they dealt with the effects ofthis industrialized war.

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School of Mathematics

Administrative Officer: Mary Jane Hayes

The School of Mathematics, established in 1933, was the first School atthe Institute for Advanced Study. Oswald Veblen, Albert Einstein, Johnvon Neumann, and Hermann Weyl were the first Faculty appointments.Kurt Gödel, who joined the Faculty in 1953, was one of the School’s firstMembers. Today, the School is an international center for research inmathematics and computer science. Members discover new mathematicalresults and broaden their interests through seminars and interactions withthe Faculty and with each other. Several central themes in mathematicsin the last seventy-five years owe their major impetus to discoveries thattook place at the Institute. As an example, the creation of one of the firststored-program computers, which von Neumann built on the Institute’scampus, influenced the development of today’s computers and formedthe mathematical basis for computer software.

Non-equilibrium dynamics and random matrices will be the topic of thespecial program during the 2013-14 academic year. Horng-Tzer Yau ofHarvard will be the School’s Distinguished Visiting Professor and togetherwith Tom Spencer will lead the program. Jürg Fröhlich, Joel Lebowitz,and Herbert Spohn will be among the senior participants attending.

Other programs associated with the School are the Institute for AdvancedStudy/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), an innovative programintegrating mathematics research and mathematics education, and theProgram for Women and Mathematics, jointly sponsored with PrincetonUniversity, which brings together research mathematicians with womenundergraduate and graduate students for an intensive ten-day workshopheld on campus.

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Jean BourgainIBM von Neumann Professor

Jean Bourgain’s work touches on many central topics ofmath ematical analysis: the geometry of Banach spaces, har-monic analysis, ergodic theory, spectral problems, and non-linear partial differential equations from mathematicalphysics and combinatorial number theory. His contributionshave solved longstanding problems in convexity theory andhar monic analysis such as Mahler’s conjecture and thelambda-p set problem. His work also has had importantconsequences in theoretical computer science and on expo-nential sums in analytic number theory. In Hamiltoniandynamics, he developed the theory of invariant Gibbs meas-ures and quasi-periodicity for the Schrödinger equation.

Helmut HoferProfessor

One of the founders of the area of symplectic topology,Helmut Hofer works on symplectic geometry, dynamicalsystems, and partial differential equations. His fundamentalcontributions to the field have led to a new area of mathe-matics known as “Hofer geometry.”

Robert MacPhersonHermann Weyl Professor

Robert MacPherson’s work has introduced radically newapproaches to the topology of singular spaces and promotedinvestigations across a great spectrum of mathematics. Heworks in several fields of geometry-topology, algebraicgeometry, differential geometry, and singularity theory. Heis especially interested in aspects of geometry that inter actwith other areas of mathematics, such as the geometry ofspaces of lattices, which interacts with modular forms,and the geometry of toric varieties, which interacts withcombinatorics.

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Peter SarnakProfessor

Peter Sarnak has made major contributions to numbertheory and to questions in analysis motivated by num-ber theory. His interest in mathematics is wide-ranging,and his research focuses on the theory of zeta functionsand automorphic forms with applications to numbertheory, combinatorics, and mathematical physics.

Thomas SpencerProfessor

Thomas Spencer has made major contributions to thetheory of phase transitions and the study of singularitiesat the transition temperature. In special cases, he and hiscollaborators have proved universality at the transitiontemperature. Spencer also has worked on partial differentialequations with stochastic coefficients, especially localizationtheory. He is presently developing a mathematical theoryof supersymmetric path integrals to study the quantumdynamics of a particle in random media. His other interestsinclude random matrices, chaotic behavior of dynamicalsystems, and nonequilibrium theories of turbulence.

Richard TaylorRobert and Luisa Fernholz Professor

A leader in the field of number theory and in particularGalois representations, automorphic forms, and Shimuravariations, Richard Taylor, with his collaborators, hasdeveloped powerful new techniques for use in solvinglongstanding problems, including the Shimura-Taniyamaconjecture, the local Langlands conjecture, and theSato-Tate conjecture. Currently, Taylor is interested inthe relationship between l-adic representations for auto-morphic forms—how to construct l-adic representa-tions for automorphic forms and how to prove given l-adic representations that arise in this way.

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Vladimir VoevodskyProfessor

Vladimir Voevodsky is known for his work in the homo-topy theory of schemes, algebraic K-theory, and interrela-tions between algebraic geometry and algebraic topology.He made one of the most outstanding advances in alge-braic geometry in the past few decades by developing newcohomology theories for algebraic varieties. Among theconsequences of his work are the solutions of the Milnorand Bloch-Kato conjectures. Currently, he is interested in type-theoretic formalizations of mathematics and automated proof verification. He is working on newfoundations of mathematics based on homotopy-theoreticsemantics of Martin-Lof type theories.

Avi WigdersonHerbert H. Maass Professor

Avi Wigderson is a widely recognized authority in thediverse and evolving field of theoretical computer science.His main research area is computational complexity theory.This field studies the power and limits of efficient compu-tation and is motivated by such fundamental scientificproblems as: Does P=NP? (Can mathematical creativitybe efficiently automated?) Can every efficient process beefficiently reversed? (Is electronic commerce secure?) Canrandomness enhance efficient computation? Can quantummechanics enhance efficient computation? How do we learn,and can machines be taught to learn like us (or better)?

Enrico BombieriProfessor Emeritus

Enrico Bombieri, a Fields Medalist for his work on thelarge sieve and its application to the distribution of primenumbers, is one of the world’s leading authorities onnumber theory and analysis. His work ranges from analyticnumber theory to algebra and algebraic geometry, and thepartial differential equations of minimal surfaces. In thepast decade, his main contributions have been in the activearea of Diophantine approximation and Diophantinegeometry, exploring questions on how to solve equationsand inequalities in integers and rational numbers.

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Pierre DeligneProfessor Emeritus

Pierre Deligne is known for his work in algebraic geometryand number theory. He pursues a fundamental under-standing of the basic objects of arithmetical algebraicgeometry—motive, L-functions, Shimura varieties—andapplies the methods of algebraic geometry to trigonomet-rical sums, linear differential equations and their mon-odromy, representations of finite groups, and quantizationdeformation. His research includes work on Hilbert’stwenty-first problem, Hodge theory, the relations betweenmodular forms, Galois representations and L series, thetheory of moduli, tannakian categories, and configurationsof hyperplanes.

Phillip A. GriffithsProfessor Emeritus

Phillip Griffiths initiated with his collaborators the theoryof variation of Hodge structure, which has come to play acentral role in many aspects of algebraic geometry and itsuses in modern theoretical physics. In addition to algebraicgeometry, he has made contributions to differential andintegral geometry, geometric function theory, and thegeometry of partial differential equations. A former Directorof the Institute (1991–2003), Griffiths chairs the ScienceInitiative Group, which fosters science in the developingworld through programs such as the Carnegie-IAS AfricanRegional Initiative in Science and Education.

Robert P. LanglandsProfessor Emeritus

Robert Langlands’s profound insights in number theoryand representation theory include the formulation of gen-eral principles relating automorphic forms and algebraicnumber theory; the introduction of a general class of L-functions; the construction of a general theory of Eisen-stein series; the introduction of techniques for dealingwith particular cases of the Artin conjecture (whichproved to be of use in the proof of Fermat’s theorem); theintroduction of endoscopy; and the development of tech-niques for relating the zeta functions of Shimura varietiesto automorphic L-functions. Mathematicians have beenworking on his conjectures, the Langlands program, forthe last three decades. He has spent some of his time inrecent years studying lattice models of statistical physicsand the attendant conformal invariance.

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Noga AlonCombinatorics · Tel Aviv University · vp, fNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Founders’ Circle Visiting Professor; additional funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment and the NationalScience Foundation

Noga Alon is working on questions in discrete mathematics and theo-retical computer science. His current research focuses on problems inextremal and probabilistic combinatorics, information theory, combinato-rial number theory, and discrete probability. At the Institute, he expects tocombine combinatorial tools with algebraic and probabilistic techniques.

Andris AmbainisComputer Science · University of Latvia · vnf, sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Andris Ambainis’s research involves the theory of quantum computing,particularly quantum algorithms, quantum complexity theory, quantumcryptography, randomness, and pseudorandomness in the quantumcontext. At the Institute, he will explore various topics in both classicaland quantum computational complexity and theoretical computer science.

Stefanos AretakisPartial Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics · Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University · vriFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Stefanos Aretakis is interested in hyperbolic partial differential equationsthat arise in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. His main focus hasbeen the study of stability and instability properties of the wave equationon black hole backgrounds. He plans to study the black hole stabilityand uniqueness problem.

Roland BauerschmidtMathematical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Roland Bauerschmidt is interested in statistical mechanics from aprobabilistic and analytic perspective, in particular methods of multi-scale and renormalization group analysis.

Costante BellettiniMathematics and Geometric Analysis · Institute for Advanced Studyand Princeton University · vri

Costante Bellettini’s research focuses on regularity questions in geometric measure theory, particularly calibrated currents and the rolethat they play in several geometric problems, such as invariants ofmanifolds and gauge theory.

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Vladimir BerkovichNon-Archimedean Analytic Geometry · Weizmann Institute of ScienceFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member; additional funding provided bythe Oswald Veblen Fund

Vladimir Berkovich works in non-Archimedean analytic geometryand its applications to algebraic geometry and number theory. He plansto investigate a new approach to complex analytic vanishing cyclesthrough formal geometry, with the aim of a possible extension of theHodge theory to non-Archimedean analytic spaces.

Raphaël Beuzart-PlessisMathematics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the Florence Gould Foundation Fund

Raphaël Beuzart-Plessis is primarily interested in the fields of represen-tation theory and number theory. He is currently working on relativelocal harmonic analysis, particularly the Gan-Gross-Prasad conjecture.

Bhargav BhattArithmetic Algebraic Geometry · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Bhargav Bhatt is interested in arithmetic geometry, especially in the p-adic context. At the Institute, he will study the interactions betweenarithmetic geometry, commutative algebra, and the newly emergingsubject of derived algebraic geometry.

Paul BourgadeMathematics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Paul Bourgade is interested in probability theory, especially the studyof random matrices. He plans to work on so-called universality questions that arise from the complex statistical physics phenomena ofrandom matrices, conjectured by Eugene Wigner and Freeman Dyson,which are surprisingly connected to problems in statistics and analyticnumber theory.

Chris BravAlgebraic Geometry · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Chris Brav is working on explicit descriptions of monodromy groupsand period maps of certain families of Calabi-Yau varieties generalizing the Dwork family as well as on other general questions about thestructure of moduli spaces and their quantizations in derived algebraicgeometry.

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Anna Gwenaelle CadoretArithmetic Geometry · Institute for Advanced Study · vnfFunding provided by the Fernholz Foundation and the National Science Foundation

Anna Cadoret’s research is at the crossroads between arithmetic geometry,group theory, and number theory. Currently, she is studying represen-tations of étale fundamental groups of schemes. In particular, she isinterested in how they can be used to control the variation in familiesof arithmetico-geometric invariants encoded in étale cohomology groups.

Ana CaraianiNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity · vri

Ana Caraiani is interested in the classical and p-adic Langlands programsand the geometry of Shimura varieties. In particular, she studies the l-adic Galois representations associated to automorphic forms usinggeometric techniques together with the trace formula. She also studiesthe connection between modularity lifting theorems and p-adic localLanglands.

Daniel Cristofaro-GardinerSymplectic Geometry · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Daniel Cristofaro-Gardiner is interested in low-dimensional and symplectic geometry and topology. While at the Institute, he plans tostudy applications of a three manifold invariant called the “embedded contact homology” to questions about symplectic embeddings andReeb dynamics.

Anindya DeTheoretical Computer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Anindya De is interested in complexity theory and topics at the inter-section of learning theory and discrete Fourier analysis. More generally,he likes topics with a flavor of analysis and probability.

Andrew DruckerComputer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Andrew Drucker studies the complexity of computational tasks. He isalso interested in understanding the power of various computationalresources, such as randomness and interaction with provers.

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László ErdösQuantum Dynamics, Mathematical Physics · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenAMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund

László Erdös is interested in mathematical physics and probability theory,especially disordered quantum systems. Such systems in the delocalizedregime are believed to obey the universal local statistics described by randommatrices, a conjecture that has recently been proved for Wigner matrices. While at the Institute, his goal is to focus on systems with spatial dependence.

Yuval FilmusComputer Science · Institute for Advanced Study · sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Yuval Filmus is interested in various aspects of theoretical computerscience including computational complexity, proof complexity, algo-rithms, and analysis of Boolean functions. He also has a soft spot forcombinatorics.

Joel FishSymplectic/Contact Topology, Hamiltonian Dynamics · MassachusettsInstitute of TechnologyFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund

Joel Fish’s research concerns symplectic topology and Hamiltoniandynamics with an emphasis on pseudoholomorphic curve techniques.While at the Institute, he will continue working on the restrictedthree-body problem, the Gottschalk conjecture, and the developmentof a bordered symplectic field theory.

Jürg FröhlichTheoretical and Mathematical Physics · Eidgenössische TechnischeHochschule Zürich · vpFunding provided by the Fernholz Foundation

Jürg Fröhlich’s field of specialization is theoretical and mathematicalphysics. During his stay at the Institute, he plans to focus on problemsin quantum theory, statistical mechanics, and transport theory. Hisinterests overlap with those of Thomas Spencer.

Edinah GnangComputer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Edinah Gnang’s research involves algebraic combinatorics, arithmeticcircuit complexity, and all branches of theoretical computer science.Gnang’s current research focuses on algebraic approaches to hyper-graph expanders and the combinatorial Nullstellensatz method.

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Mark GoreskyGeometry, Automorphic Forms · Institute for Advanced Study · mFunding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund

Mark Goresky’s main interest this year concerns a book, written jointly with Jayce Getz (McGill University), on Hilbert modular formswith coefficients in intersection homology, generalizing some well-known classical results of Fritz Hirzebruch and Don Zagier.

Daniel R. GraysonMathematics · University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignFunding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund

Daniel Grayson’s research focuses on algebraic K-theory and its con-nec tion with motivic cohomology. He has also helped write mathemat-ical software, including Mathematica and Macaulay2. At the Institute,he will help develop homotopy type theory and related software into auseful tool for verifying the proofs of modern mathematics.

Philipp HabeggerNumber Theory · Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main · vnf, fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Height functions are useful for “bookkeeping” when solving diophantineequations but also have interesting intrinsic properties. They played animportant role in resolving the Mordell conjecture and its generaliza-tions. Philipp Habegger’s research includes applications to conjectures onunlikely intersections and the distribution of height values.

Martin HairerProbability, Analysis · University of Warwick · s

Martin Hairer is currently working on the theory of renormalizationfor very singular stochastic partial differential equations. His ultimategoal is to use the objects built by this theory to describe space-timefluctuation fields for a variety of systems from statistical mechanicsnear criticality.

Doris HeinSymplectic Geometry · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Doris Hein is working in symplectic geometry and its applications inHamiltonian dynamics. She plans to study the existence of infinitelymany periodic orbits of Hamiltonian systems and to apply similar toolsto periodic orbits of Reeb flow on contact manifolds.



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Olga HoltzAnalysis · University of California, Berkeley · vnf, sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Olga Holtz is interested in numerical analysis, matrix and operatortheory, approximation theory, algebra and algebraic combinatorics,analysis of algorithms, and computational complexity. She plans towork on the theory of hyperbolic and stable polynomials, as well asentire functions, with applications to combinatorics, matrix theory, statistical mechanics, and theoretical computer science.

Hao HuangCombinatorics, Theoretical Computer Science · Institute for AdvancedStudy · v

Hao Huang’s research interests mainly focus on problems fromextremal graph and hypergraph theory, random structures, and applica-tions of algebraic and probabilistic tools in combinatorics. Huang isalso interested in problems on the interface of discrete mathematicsand theoretical computer science.

John ImbrieMathematical Physics · University of VirginiaFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund

John Imbrie is working on mathematical problems in quantum andstatistical physics. He is currently studying the properties of randommatrices that arise in many-body quantum systems.

Bruce KapronComputer Science · University of Victoria · s

Bruce Kapron’s research interests include logic, verification, foundationsof security, and computational complexity. Using logical methods andcryptographic tools, he plans to work on the development of compu-tationally sound formal systems for reasoning about cryptography-based security.

E. Birgit KaufmannMathematical Physics · Purdue University · f

Birgit Kaufmann works in mathematical physics. In particular, she isinterested in integrable systems, nonequilibrium dynamics, and non-commutative geometry. At the Institute, she plans to mainly focuson the links between Bethe Ansatz and random matrix theory whilecontinuing her work on quantum wire networks and constant meancurvature surfaces.



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Ralph Martin KaufmannAlgebra, Geometry, Topology · Purdue University · f

Ralph Kaufmann works in geometry and topology using algebraic andgeometric methods. He intends to study genera using vertex operatoralgebras, manifolds using topological field theory, algebraic structuresusing Feynman categories, and periodic materials using C*-algebras.He also intends to apply infinity and symplectic techniques to funda-mental geometric questions.

Valerie KingComputer Science · University of Victoria · s

During her stay at the Institute, Valerie King will work on randomizedalgorithms, data structures, and fault tolerant distributed computing.

Antti KnowlesProbability · New York University · f

Antti Knowles is interested in the eigenvalue and eigenvector distri- butions of various random matrix models, including Wigner matrices,covariance matrices, band matrices, and adjacency matrices of randomgraphs.

Gillat KolTheory of Computation · Institute for Advanced Study

Gillat Kol is interested in complexity theory, with a focus on interactiveproofs, probabilistically checkable proofs, and hardness of approximation.

Alex KontorovichNumber Theory, Automorphic Forms · Yale UniversityFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Alex Kontorovich’s research concerns problems at the intersection of number theory, geometry, dynamics, and representation theory.Specifically, he studies harmonic analysis on symmetric spaces to tryto answer simple questions about whole numbers.



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Arno KretNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Arno Kret is using the Arthur-Selberg trace formula to study thereduction modulo p of Shimura varieties.

Antti KupiainenMathematical Physics · University of Helsinki · fFunding provided by the James D. Wolfensohn Fund

Antti Kupiainen is interested in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics,especially proving diffusion in stochastic and deterministic dynamics.He also plans to study two-dimensional random geometry arisingfrom the exponential of the Gaussian free field.

Joel LebowitzStatistical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics · Rutgers, The StateUniversity of New Jersey

Joel Lebowitz is interested in the emergence of macroscopic behaviorfrom the underlying microscopic dynamics of the constituents ofmacroscopic matter.

Zhen LeiApplied Mathematics · Fudan University · sFunding provided by the S. S. Chern Foundation for Mathematics Research Fundand the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Zhen Lei is interested in the analysis of partial differential equationsarising from fluid mechanics and nonlinear wave equations.

Brandon LevinNumber Theory · The University of ChicagoFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Brandon Levin is interested in Galois representations, algebraic groups,p-adic Hodge theory, and Shimura varieties. He studies local Galoisdeformations at l=p with a view toward modularity lifting. He is alsoworking on applying methods from geometric representation theoryto number theory, particularly in the context of local models ofShimura varieties.



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Allison LewkoTheoretical Computer Science, Mathematics · Columbia University · v

Allison Lewko’s research interests include cryptography, complexitytheory, distributed computing, harmonic analysis, and combinatorics.During her visit to the Institute, she will be working on algorithmsand lower bounds for error-resilient computation and communication,as well various topics in cryptography and security.

Mark LewkoHarmonic Analysis · Institute for Advanced Study

Mark Lewko is primarily interested in harmonic analysis and itsapplications.

Xue-Mei LiMathematics · University of Warwick · v, s

Xue-Mei Li has worked on the geometry of diffusion processes, Malliavin calculus, and the interplay between stochastic processes onmani folds and the underlying geometric spaces. Currently, she is focus-ing on mean field stochastic differential equations (SDEs), multiscaleanalysis on manifolds, and SDEs with singular coefficients.

Peter LeFanu LumsdaineCategorical Logic, Formalization of Mathematics · Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Peter Lumsdaine is continuing his work with Voevodsky’s univalentfoundations group, on the formalization and proof theory of homotopytype theory. Other interests include higher category theory, traditionalconstructive logic, and categorical approaches to quantum computing.

Or MeirComputer Science · Institute for Advanced Study · fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Or Meir is interested in all areas of theoretical computer science, particularly in complexity theory, probabilistically checkable proofs,coding theory, and derandomization.



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Jo NelsonSymplectic and Contact Topology · Institute for Advanced Study · v

Jo Nelson’s area of research is in symplectic and contact topology.She is interested in the relationships between symplectic and contacthomology theories. While at the Institute, she plans to work to provideprecise foundations and concrete examples of computations.

Alon NishryAnalysis · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Alon Nishry’s research involves complex analysis, probability, andnumber theory. He is particularly interested in random matrices, randomanalytic functions, and other types of smooth random fields.

Yoshiki OshimaLie Groups · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Yoshiki Oshima is interested in the representation theory of Liegroups, particularly branching laws of representations. The branchinglaw describes how a given representation decomposes when restrictedto a subgroup, which is a mathematical formulation of the breakingsymmetry.

Ori ParzanchevskiAlgebra, Combinatorics · Institute for Advanced Study

Ori Parzanchevski is interested in applications of groups and represen-tation theory to combinatorics and geometry. Currently, he is studyingspectral theory and combinatorics of simplicial complexes. In addition,he has been working on word maps in finite groups, isospectrality indiscrete and Riemannian settings, and semistability in Euclidean lattices.

Oana PocovnicuMathematics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Oana Pocovnicu’s research concerns problems in the analysis of non-linear dispersive partial differential equations, particularly under-standing the long-time behavior of their global solutions. She hasbeen working on global solutions whose high Sobolev norms growwith time and on scattering for energy-critical Schrödinger equations.



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Jeremy QuastelProbability · University of Toronto

Jeremy Quastel has been working on the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equationof random interface growth, where a number of exact solutions havebeen found that he is interested in extending and explaining.

Maksym RadziwillNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Maksym Radziwill is interested in the analytic theory of L-functions,particularly the Riemann zeta-function. At the Institute, he plans towork on issues related to moments of L-functions.

Ran RazComputational Complexity · Weizmann Institute of Science · vpFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Ran Raz’s main research area is complexity theory with emphasis onproving lower bounds for computational models. More specifically,Raz is interested in Boolean and arithmetic circuit complexity, communication complexity, propositional proof theory, probabilisticallycheckable proofs, quantum computation and communication, and randomness and derandomization.

Michael ReitererMathematical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the Giorgio and Elena Petronio Fellowship Fund and theNational Science Foundation

Michael Reiterer’s research focuses on the partial differential equationsof general relativity and Einstein’s theory of gravity. He would like tobetter understand the Belinski Khalatnikov Lifshitz (BLK) singularityscenario and the critical gravitational collapse phenomena that wasdiscovered by Choptuik in numerical experiments.

Colleen RoblesGeometry · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the Fernholz Foundation

Colleen Robles is investigating the geometry and representation theoryassociated to the Lie groups that admit realizations as Mumford-Tategroups, the symmetry groups of Hodge theory.



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Jeffrey SchenkerMathematical Physics · Michigan State University

Jeffrey Schenker’s current research program focuses on a rigorousanalysis of wave propagation in disordered media and a related analysisof random operators and matrices. In a broader context, this researchseeks to answer a fundamental query regarding any model of physics,“What are the effects of disorder?”

Benjamin SchleinMathematical Physics · Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-UniversitätBonn · s

Benjamin Schlein works on analytic questions arising in mathematicalphysics. He is particularly interested in the derivation of effective evolution equations from many body quantum dynamics. Anotherimportant area of his research, on which he plans to focus at the Insti-tute, is the study of the spectral properties of random matrices.

Kevin SchnelliProbability Theory, Mathematical Physics · Institute for AdvancedStudy

Kevin Schnelli’s research concerns random matrix theory and transporttheory. Currently, he is investigating spectral statistics of deformedrandom matrix models with a focus on edge universality and localiza-tion properties of eigenvectors.

Mira ShamisMathematical Physics · Institute for Advanced Study · fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Mira Shamis is currently interested in the spectral theory of Jacobioperators, particularly operators with periodic and almost periodicpotentials.

Peng ShaoHarmonic Analysis · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the Ky Fan and Yu-Fen Fan Membership Fund and theNational Science Foundation

Peng Shao is exploring the interaction between the asymptotic spectral properties of eigenfunctions on Riemannian manifolds andthe propagation of singularities of the wave equation.



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Nick SheridanSymplectic Geometry · Institute for Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity · vri

Nick Sheridan works on symplectic geometry, especially homologicalmirror symmetry. While at the Institute, he plans to use tropical geom-etry to study invariants of symplectic manifolds, such as symplecticcohomology and the Fukaya category.

Ali Kemal SinopTheoretical Computer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Ali Sinop’s research interests are in approximation algorithms, hardnessof approximation, and linear algebra. Currently, he is working on theuse of hierarchies of convex relaxations for graph partitioning problems.

Michael SpiessArithmetic Algebraic Geometry · Universität Bielefeld

Michael Spiess’s current research focuses on p-adic L-functions associat-ed to automorphic forms. He is especially interested in phenomenontrivial zeros.

Herbert SpohnStatistical Mechanics · Technische Universität München

Herbert Spohn’s recent efforts are concentrated on stochastic inte-grable systems, such as models from the KPZ universality class, whichinclude directed polymers in a random medium, statistical propertiesof driven interfaces, and nonlinear fluctuating hydrodynamics of one-dimensional systems.

Florian SprungNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity · vriFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Florian Sprung works in number theory and is exploring how familiesof special values of L-functions relate to families of algebraic objects.In graduate school, his work focused on the Iwasawa theory of ellipticcurves.



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Christine TaylorEvolutionary Game Theory, Evolution of Cooperation · Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University · v

Christine Taylor is studying the act of cooperation, which is abundantin nature ranging from microbial colonies to animal and human soci-eties. She is investigating different mechanisms for the evolution ofcooperation, a conundrum and a central pillar of evolutionary biology,under deterministic and stochastic game dynamics.

Simone WarzelMathematical Physics · Technische Universität München · vnf, fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Simone Warzel’s current research addresses effects of disorder on thespectral and dynamical properties of random operators and matrices.At the Institute, she plans to further investigate the formation ofextended states through resonances as well as aspects of localization inmany-particle models.

Charles WeibelK-theory, Motivic Cohomology · Rutgers, The State University ofNew Jersey

Charles Weibel works on motivic aspects of algebraic geometry, includ-ing motivic homotopy and algebraic K-theory. While at the Institute,he expects to study several conjectures due to Voevodsky, and plans towrite a book containing the proof of the Bloch-Kato conjecture.

Horng-Tzer YauProbability Theory, Mathematical Physics · Harvard University · dvpFunding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation and the Charles SimonyiEndowment

Horng-Tzer Yau is studying the connection between the universalityof random matrices and the quantum unique ergodicity in the settingof random matrices, as well as related questions in other matrix mod-els; the connection between the KPZ equation random matrices; andapplications of random matrix theory in biology, statistics, engineering,and finance.

Jun YinProbability, Analysis, Mathematical Physics · University ofWisconsin–Madison · vnfFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Jun Yin is interested in random matrix theory and the quantum many-body system. During his visit at the Institute, he will be working pri-marily on the Wigner band matrix and the Anderson model.



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Jun YuComputer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation and the Charles SimonyiEndowment

Jun Yu is interested in the branching problem for representations; cur-rently, he is working on applying the ideas of stability and momentmapping to the study of this problem. He is also interested in somequestions about algebraic vector bundles and diophantine approximations.

Inna ZakharevichAlgebraic Topology · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by The Bell Companies Fellowship Fund

Inna Zakharevich’s research in algebraic topology is mostly focused onalgebraic K-theory. Currently, her main project is to develop a theoryof scissors congruence that allows her to construct spaces (not groups)expressing scissors congruence.



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Administrative Officer: Michelle Sage

Executive Director and Administrator, The Simons Center for Systems Biology: Suzanne P. Christen

The School of Natural Sciences, established in 1966, provides a uniqueatmosphere for research in broad areas of theoretical physics, astronomy,and systems biology.

From its earliest days, the Institute has been a leading center for funda-mental physics, contributing substantially to many of its central themes,which now interrelate with mathematics, astrophysics, and biology. Membersin the astrophysics research group employ an array of tools from theoreticalphysics, large-scale computer simulations, and ground- and space-basedobservational studies to investigate the origin and composition of theuniverse, and to use the universe as a laboratory to study fundamentalphysics.At the Simons Center for Systems Biology, which was establishedin the School in 2004, the tools of modern physics and mathematics arebeing applied to biological investigation. This collaborative and pioneeringapproach to the sciences, which extends to the Institute’s School ofMathematics, Princeton University, and the larger scientific community,has transformed research in these fields and presents opportunities forpowerful and important discoveries.

Areas of current interest in theoretical physics include elementary particlephysics, particle phenomenology, string theory, quantum theory and quan-tum gravity and their relationship to geometry, theoretical and observationalastrophysics, and cosmology. The astrophysics group combines theory withmodern observational studies to understand a wide variety of astrophysicalphenomena, from nearby planets to distant galaxies, from black holes to thedark matter and dark energy that dominate the evolution of the universe.The Simons Center conducts research at the interface of molecular biologyand the physical sciences, most commonly utilizing genetic and molecularapproaches, and in some cases focusing on understanding disease processes.

The School also sponsors Prospects in Theoretical Physics, a two-weekresidential summer program held at the Institute for promising graduatestudents and postdoctoral scholars, who attend lectures and sessions onthe latest advances and open questions in the field of theoretical physics.

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Nima Arkani-Hamed Professor · Particle Physics

One of the leading particle physics phenomenologists ofhis generation, Nima Arkani-Hamed is concerned withthe relation between theory and experiment. His researchhas shown how the extreme weakness of gravity, relative toother forces of nature, might be explained by the existenceof extra dimensions of space, and how the structure ofcomparatively low-energy physics is constrained withinthe context of string theory. He has taken a lead in pro-posing new physical theories that can be tested at theLarge Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland.

Peter GoddardProfessor · Mathematical Physics

Peter Goddard’s research concerns quantum field theory andstring theory. With his collaborators, he has made pioneeringcontributions to these areas, including string quantizationand its inconsistency, electric-magnetic duality in gaugetheories, the construction of conformal field theories, andthe realization of gauge symmetry in string theory. Beforeserving as the eighth Director (2004–12) of the Institute, hewas Master of St. John’s College and Professor of Theoreti-cal Physics in the University of Cambridge, England,where he played a leading role in establishing the IsaacNewton Institute for Mathematical Sciences and the Uni-versity of Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Stanislas Leibler Professor · Biology

Stanislas Leibler has made important contributions to theoretical and experimental biology, successfully extend-ing the interface between physics and biology to developnew solutions and approaches to problems. Interested inthe quantitative description of microbial systems, both oncellular and population levels, Leibler is developing thetheoretical and experimental methods necessary for study-ing the collective behavior of biomolecules, cells, andorganisms. By selecting a number of basic questions abouthow simple genetic and biochemical networks function inbacteria, he and his laboratory colleagues are beginning tounderstand how individual components can give rise tocomplex, collective phenomena.

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Juan MaldacenaProfessor · Theoretical Physics

Juan Maldacena’s work focuses on quantum gravity, stringtheory, and quantum field theory. He has proposed arelationship between quantum gravity and quantum fieldtheories that elucidates various aspects of both theories.He is studying this relationship further in order tounderstand the deep connection between black holesand quantum field theories, and he is also exploring thecon nec tion between string theory and cosmology.

Nathan SeibergProfessor · Mathematical Physics

Nathan Seiberg’s research focuses on various aspects ofstring theory, quantum field theory, and particle physics. Hiswork has shed light on the worldsheet description of stringtheory as a two-dimensional conformal field theory and itsspace-time manifestations. Seiberg has contributed to theunderstanding of the dynamics of quantum field theories,especially supersymmetric quantum field theories.His exactsolutions of such theories have uncovered many new andunexpected insights, including the fundamental role of electric-magnetic duality in these theories. These exactsolutions have led to many applications in physics and inmathematics. He has also clarified how supersymmetry canbe dynamically broken, and has explored the phenomeno-logical consequences of supersymmetry breaking. Theseconsequences will be tested at the Large Hadron Collider.

Scott Tremaine Richard Black Professor · Astrophysics

Scott Tremaine has made seminal contributions to under-standing the formation and evolution of planetary systems,comets, black holes, star clusters, galaxies, and galaxysystems. He predicted the Kuiper belt of comets beyondNeptune and, with Peter Goldreich (Professor Emeritus,School of Natural Sciences), the existence of shepherdsatellites and density waves in Saturn’s ring system, as wellas the phenomenon of planetary migration. He interpret-ed double-nuclei galaxies, such as the nearby Andromedagalaxy, as eccentric stellar disks and elucidated the role ofdynamical friction in galaxy evolution.

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Edward WittenCharles Simonyi Professor · Mathematical Physics

Edward Witten’s work exhibits a unique combination ofmathematical power and physics insight, and his contribu-tions have significantly enriched both fields. He has greatlycontributed to the modern interest in superstrings as acandidate theory for the unification of all known physicalinteractions. Most recently, he has explored quantumduality symmetries of field theories and string theories,opening significant new perspectives on particle physics,string theory, and topology.

Matias Zaldarriaga Professor · Astrophysics and Cosmology

Matias Zaldarriaga has made many influential and creativecontributions to our understanding of the early universe,particle astrophysics, and cosmology as a probe of funda-mental physics. Much of his work centers on understand-ing the clues about the earliest moments of our universeencoded in the Cosmic Microwave Background, the faintglow of radiation generated by the Big Bang. His recentresearch has focused on intergalactic hydrogen gas in theearly universe, and he is at the forefront of developingmachinery to study this gas using the spectral line fromneutral hydrogen at 21-centimeter wavelength.

Stephen L. AdlerProfessor Emeritus · Particle Physics

In a series of remarkable, difficult calculations, StephenAdler demonstrated that abstract ideas about the symme-tries of fundamental interactions could be made to yieldconcrete predictions. The successful verification of thesepredictions was a vital step toward the modern StandardModel of particle physics. In some of his more recentwork, he has been exploring generalized forms of quan-tum mechanics, both from a theoretical and a phenome-nological standpoint. He has also developed new algorithmsfor multi-dimensional numerical integration.

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Freeman J. DysonProfessor Emeritus · Mathematical Physics and Astrophysics

Freeman Dyson’s work on quantum electrodynamicsmarked an epoch in physics. The techniques he used in thisdomain form the foundation for most modern theoreticalwork in elementary particle physics and the quantummany-body problem. He has made highly original andimportant contributions to an astonishing range of topics,from number theory to adaptive optics. His most recentresearch, in collaboration with William Press of the Uni-versity of Texas, found new strategies for Prisoners’Dilemma, a game used by population biologists as amodel for the evolution of cooperation.

Peter Goldreich Professor Emeritus · Astrophysics

Peter Goldreich has made profound and lasting contri- b utions to planetary science and astrophysics, providingfundamental theoretical insights for understanding therotation of planets, the dynamics of planetary rings, pulsars, astrophysical masers, the spiral arms of galaxies,oscillations of the sun and white dwarfs, turbulence inmagnetized fluids, and planet formation. His currentresearch is focused on the production of impact spherules.

Arnold J. LevineProfessor Emeritus · Biology

Arnold Levine is a widely acclaimed leader in cancerresearch. In 1979, Levine and others discovered the p53tumor suppressor protein, a molecule that inhibits tumordevelopment. He established and heads the SimonsCenter for Systems Biology at the Institute, which concen-trates on research at the interface of molecular biologyand the physical sciences: on genetics and geno mics, poly-morphisms and molecular aspects of evolution, signaltransduction pathways and networks, stress respon ses, andpharmacogenomics in cancer biology.

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Yacine Ali-HaïmoudTheoretical Astrophysics, Cosmology · Institute for Advanced Study Frank and Peggy Taplin Member

Yacine Ali-Haïmoud has worked on the physics of dust grains in theinterstellar medium and the primordial recombination of hydrogen.At the Institute, he plans on exploring new areas of theoretical astro-physics and cosmology such as gravity theories and the reionizationepoch.

Tobias BaldaufCosmology · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the W. M. Keck Foundation Fund

Tobias Baldauf is interested in using the large-scale structure of theuniverse to provide answers to fundamental questions in physics. Inparticular, he is trying to understand how matter distribution evolvesfrom linear initial conditions, where galaxies form, and how funda-mental physics and initial conditions imprint themselves on the finalgalaxy clustering pattern.

Till BargheerQuantum Field Theory, String Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyEuropean Commission Marie Curie Fellowship

Till Bargheer studies the hidden symmetries and integrable structuresthat emerge in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and itsstring dual. In particular, he wants to understand how correlationfunctions, scattering amplitudes, and Wilson loops in the planar theoryare governed by the strong constraints imposed by integrability.

Christopher John BeemTheoretical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Christopher Beem studies quantum field theory and string theory,with an emphasis on the geometric structures that play a role in each.His present work includes the application of conformal bootstraptechniques to superconformal field theories.

Ravindra BhattCondensed Matter Physics · Princeton University

Ravindra Bhatt’s research is in theoretical condensed matter physics,especially disordered and correlated systems. Most recently, he has beenworking on Anderson localization, fractional quantum Hall effect, highspin clusters in doped semiconductors, and Zener tunneling in non-parabolic bands.

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Simeon Paul BirdCosmology · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the W. M. Keck Foundation Fund and the National ScienceFoundation

Simeon Bird works on simulations of the Lyman-alpha and of thematter power spectrum, focusing on the impact of cosmologicalparameters. He is also interested in inflation.

Kfir BlumParticle and Astroparticle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation andthe United States Department of Energy

Kfir Blum’s research interests include particle physics, in particularsupersymmetry and Higgs physics; cosmological problems, such as darkmatter and the baryon asymmetry of the universe; and cosmic rayphysics and indirect astrophysical probes for dark matter.

Jo BovyCosmology, Astrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudySpace Telescope Science Institute Hubble Fellow

Jo Bovy works on various topics in astrophysics and cosmology. He isparticularly interested in the formation and evolution of galaxies.While at the Institute, he will study the dynamics and structure of theMilky Way.

Timothy David BrandtAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyCorning Glass Works Foundation Fellowship

Recent technological advances enable us to directly image the mostmassive exoplanets around nearby young stars. Timothy Brandt isinterested in the hardware and image processing needed to see smallerand fainter planets, and ultimately, another Earth. He also plans to usestatistics to constrain these exoplanets’ properties and demographics.

Simon Caron-HuotMathematical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, String Theory, Supersymmetry ·Institute for Advanced Study · mFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Simon Caron-Huot studies very hot and dense systems, such as thequark-gluon plasma. He is also interested in gravitational, especiallyblack hole, physics.

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Horacio CasiniQuantum Field Theory · Instituto Balseiro and Consejo Nacional deInvestigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · v, s

Horacio Casini is very interested in the interplay between quantuminformation theory, quantum field theory, and gravity. Recently, he hasbeen working in entanglement entropy in quantum field theory andapplications to AdS-CFT (holographic entanglement entropy) and thec-theorems.

Lucy J. ColwellApplied Mathematics, Biology · MRC Laboratory of MolecularBiology · v, f

Lucy Colwell is interested in using and developing mathematicaltechniques to better understand the relationship between biologicalsequence and phenotype, in particular at the level of proteins andprotein complexes.

Paolo CreminelliCosmology · The Abdus Salam International Centre for TheoreticalPhysics, Trieste · sIBM Einstein Fellow

Paolo Creminelli is interested in early cosmology, particularly non-Gaussianities inflation and alternatives to inflation. His research alsoconcerns modifications of gravity and large-scale structures.

Raffaele Tito D’AgnoloParticle Physics · CERN, Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Raffaele D’Agnolo’s research interests cover different aspects of particlephenomenology and experimental high-energy physics, includingHiggs and flavor physics, supersymmetry, and collider searches at highjet multiplicities.

Tudor Dan DimofteMathematical and Particle Physics · Institute for Advanced Study · mWilliam D. Loughlin Member; additional funding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

Tudor Dimofte studies various topics in string theory and quantumfield theory, ranging from quantum states of black holes to dynamicsof gauge theories. He is interested in building new, mutually beneficialconnections between physics and mathematics, especially in the fieldsof algebraic geometry and knot theory.

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Ron DonagiAlgebraic Geometry and String Theory · University of Pennsylvania · v

Ron Donagi expects to focus on the geometry of super moduli spaceand its connections with string perturbation theory. He is also interestedin the geometric Langlands program, in heterotic and F-theoreticphenomenology, and in other areas of high-energy physics that connectwith algebraic geometry.

Cora DvorkinCosmology, Astrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Cora Dvorkin’s research focuses on connecting ideas in theoreticalphysics to observable phenomena in cosmology. She is interested in awide range of topics in theoretical cosmology, including inflation andits imprints in the cosmic microwave background, reionization, modelsof dark matter and methods to test them, and dark energy.

Thomas FaulknerTheoretical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Thomas Faulkner is interested in black holes and the holographic corre-spondence, in particular their use as tools for understanding stronglycorrelated phenomena in quantum field theory. He is excited byattempts to understand certain finite density phases of matter usingthese tools.

Raphael FlaugerTheoretical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Fund

Raphael Flauger’s research interests range from phenomenological ques-tions in cosmology and particle physics to formal questions in quantumfield theory and string theory. Currently, he is interested in extractingclues about fundamental physics from cosmological observations.

Vera GluscevicCosmology, Astrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member

Vera Gluscevic’s research focuses on using the cosmic microwave back-ground to test physical theories, including those invoked to explain darkenergy and inflation. She is also investigating a range of other topics,such as the direct detection of dark matter, probes of reionization, andthe origins of magnetic fields in the universe.

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Song HeParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyZurich Financial Services Member; additional funding provided by The AmbroseMonell Foundation

Song He is interested in quantum field theory, string theory, andquantum gravity. He is currently working primarily on the physicsand mathematics of scattering amplitudes and integrability in stringand gauge dualities.

Johannes HennParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced Study · mMarvin L. Goldberger Member; additional funding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

Johannes Henn’s research focuses on supersymmetric quantum field theoryand its relation to string theory. He is working on recently discovereddualities between scattering amplitudes, correlation functions of localoperators, and Wilson loops with the aim of finding new hidden struc-tures in the weak and strong coupling description of these objects.

Anson HookParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

Anson Hook works on various aspects of particle physics, includingsupersymmetry and collider physics. His interests range from optimizingLarge Hadron Collider search strategies for new physics to generalproperties of quantum field theories.

Yu-tin HuangParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Yu-tin Huang’s research focuses on general aspects of scattering ampli-tudes for quantum field theories in diverse dimensions. He plans tostudy the interplay between gravitational and gauge theory amplitudes,in addition to clarifying the constraints that consistency conditions oflow-energy scattering amplitudes impose on ultraviolet completion.

Veronika HubenyTheoretical Physics · Durham University · sFunding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation

Veronika Hubeny’s research concerns gravitational aspects of stringtheory, particularly within the context of gauge/gravity duality. She isespecially keen to understand how bulk locality and causality emergefrom dual field theory. She is also currently exploring the connectionbetween fluid/gravity, blackfold approach, and the membrane para-digm of black holes.

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Marina HuertaField Theory · Instituto Balseiro and Consejo Nacional deInvestigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · v, s

The focus of Marina Huerta’s research is on entanglement entropy inquantum field theory. This and other measures of information providea very useful tool to study certain aspects of the theory inaccessiblewith other approaches.

Boaz KatzAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced Study · mJohn N. Bahcall Fellow

While at the Institute, Boaz Katz plans to work on various problemswithin the field of high-energy astrophysics. In particular, he intendsto continue his study of the early emission from supernovae and theorigin of cosmic rays.

Vladimir KazakovQuantum Field Theory, String Theory, Statistical Mechanics, Integrability ·École Normale Supérieure, ParisFunding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation

Vladimir Kazakov is applying the integrability and AdS/CFT correspondencemethods to the study of the spectrum of anomalous dimensions, correlators,and other physical quantities in the maximally supersymmetric N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory. He is also interested in integrable quantum systems andmatrix model applications to statistical mechanics and string theory problems.

Bence KocsisAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by NASA and the W. M. Keck Foundation Fund

Bence Kocsis is interested in using black holes as astrophysical labora-tories to understand general relativity, accretion processes, disk-satelliteinteractions, and the corresponding observational signatures in electro-magnetic and gravitational wave bands. He plans to study dense stellarsystems hosting black holes and explore connections with statisticalmechanics and condensed matter physics.

Graham KribsParticle Physics · University of Oregon · fFunding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation

Graham Kribs is interested in theoretical particle physics beyond theStandard Model. The onset of experimental data from the LargeHadron Collider combined with experimental searches for dark matterare rapidly shaping and constraining physics beyond the StandardModel. Kribs expects to exploit these results to develop and under-stand what lies in the terascale and beyond.

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Doron KushnirAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Founders’ Circle Member

Doron Kushnir’s areas of interest include various problems within thefield of high-energy astrophysics and, in particular, deflagration-to-detonation transitions in supernova explosions of type Ia and nonthermalprocesses in galaxy clusters.

Brian LackiAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyNational Radio Astronomy Observatory Jansky Fellowship

Radio waves and gamma rays from galaxies come from cosmic rays,highly relativistic particles. Brian Lacki’s research involves understandingthis radiation: mapping the cosmic rays, especially in radio; galacticmagnetic fields; and whether this radiation makes up the cosmic back-grounds of radio waves and gamma rays.

Ramalingam LoganayagamParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced Study Funding provided by the United States Department of Energy

Ramalingam Loganayagam’s work is concerned with high-energyphysics, strongly correlated electrons, and nuclear theory.

Sergio LukicBiology · Institute for Advanced StudyAddie and Harold Broitman Member in Biology

Sergio Lukic is interested in the evolution of strongly interactingmolecular-genetic networks. To this end, he is developing mathematicaland statistical tools in population genetics to study the dynamics ofdemography, natural selection, epistasis, and recombination in patternsof genetic variation in natural populations.

Shiraz MinwallaQuantum Gravity, Quantum Field Theory, String Theory · Tata Instituteof Fundamental Research, MumbaiIBM Einstein Fellow

Shiraz Minwalla plans to study various aspects of gravitational dynamics,quantum field theory dynamics, and their interrelations via the AdS/CFTcorrespondence. He expects that he may work on the dyn amics ofvector matter–Chern Simons theories and the structure of the equationsof hydrodynamics as revealed by their dual gravity description.

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Mehrdad MirbabayiAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Mehrdad Mirbabayi’s research focuses on early universe cosmology andthe theory of gravity, particularly the effective field theory of inflation,infrared modifications of gravity, and the field theoretic description offluids and condensed media. Recently, he has been working on S-matrixtheory and the flat space limit of AdS/CFT correspondence.

Jonathan MitchellAstrophysics · University of California, Los Angeles · fIBM Einstein Fellow

Jonathan Mitchell seeks to understand the physics of observed planetaryphenomena. The primary emphasis of his recent work has been toexplore the role of methane thermodynamics in atmospheric dynamics,climate dynamics, surface features, and the spin of Titan, Saturn’slargest moon.

Kohta MuraseAstroparticle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudySpace Telescope Science Institute Hubble Fellow

Kohta Murase works on revealing the origins of high-energy particlespropagating in the universe and understanding the underlying mecha-nisms. In particular, he intends to continue his study of violent cosmicexplosions, including gamma-ray bursts and supernovae. He is alsointerested in exploring novel probes of dark matter and cosmic rays.

Jean-Claude NicolasBiology · Université Pierre et Marie CurieFunding provided by the Florence Gould Foundation Fund

Jean-Claude Nicolas is interested in LINE elements, which are selfishgenes that move in the human genome to new locations over thelifetime of the host. Mapping these movements and locations anddetermining the consequences has become possible in the last year.Computational approaches to this task are being developed.

Tatsuma NishiokaParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced Study

Tatsuma Nishioka works in string theory, quantum gravity, and quantum field theory. He is especially interested in gauge/gravity dualityand understanding the microscopic origin of black hole entropy andstrongly coupled quantum field theories.

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Luca PelitiStatistical Physics · Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II · f

Luca Peliti is interested in the physical processes of thermodynamicequilibrium based on information handling that relate to the basicworkings of life––maintenance, growth, and reproduction. He plans toexploit the recent progresses in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics toobtain a more fundamental understanding of their behavior from aphysical point of view.

Vasily PestunTheoretical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyRoger Dashen Member; additional funding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Vasily Pestun is interested in nonperturbative dynamics of stronglyinteracting nonabelian gauge theories, particularly exact results insupersymmetric gauge theories related to integrability, gauge-stringcorrespondence, and topological field theories.

Rami PugatchBiology · Institute for Advanced StudyEric and Wendy Schmidt Member in Biology

Rami Pugatch’s research focuses on how cells process external infor-mation to grow while maintaining their metabolic homeostasis. He isinterested particularly in the inherent tension between efficiency(yield) and growth rate and the way it is regulated as a function of theavailable information.

Mukund RangamaniParticle Physics · Durham University · sFunding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation

Mukund Rangamani’s research interests are in the field of string theoryand its applications to quantum gravity. Focused on obtaining a betterunderstanding of the holographic correspondence between quantumfield theories and strings theories, he plans to continue studying rela-tivistic hydrodynamics, entanglement entropy, and black hole dynamicsat the Institute.

Leonardo RastelliQuantum Field Theory, String Theory · Stony Brook University, TheState University of New York · f

Leonardo Rastelli’s research lies at the intersection of string theory andquantum field theory, from foundational aspects of string theory andholography to purely field theoretical problems. He is currently inter-ested in exploring and charting the space of superconformal field theories in various dimensions, especially with the tools of the modernbootstrap program.

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Shlomo RazamatTheoretical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Member; additional funding provided by theNational Science Foundation

Shlomo Razamat’s research interests concern different aspects of quantumfield theory and string theory and the interplay between them. He ismainly working on gauge/string (gravity) duality and on studyingproperties of strongly coupled supersymmetric field theories.

Amit SeverString Theory, Quantum Field Theory · Perimeter Institute forTheoretical Physics · sFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

Amit Sever is working to solve the simplest example of an interactingquantum field theory in four dimensions: N=4 SYM, which is an inter-acting conformal gauge theory with maximal supersymmetry. He isfocusing on computing scattering amplitudes using integrability and hasstarted computing correlation functions, the next step in complexity.

David Simmons-DuffinParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

David Simmons-Duffin’s work concerns conformal field theories indiverse dimensions with interest in both their phenomenologicalapplications and implications for quantum gravity.

David S. SpiegelExoplanetary Science · Institute for Advanced StudyAMIAS Member

Dave Spiegel, whose interests range from X-ray studies of the inter-galactic medium to understanding the origin of highly magnetic whitedwarf stars, is focusing on theoretical studies of the climates of, andradiative transfer in, exoplanetary atmospheres; on habitability modelsof terrestrial exoplanets; and on radiation-dynamical models of gasgiant planets.

Rashid SunyaevAstrophysics · Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik · vpMaureen and John Hendricks Visiting Professor

Rashid Sunyaev has made major contributions in the fields of physicalcosmology and high-energy astrophysics. His current research interestsinclude the cosmological recombination of hydrogen and helium, the physics of gas accretion onto neutron stars and black holes, theproblem of matter, and radiation interaction under extreme astrophysicalconditions.

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Tiberiu TesileanuBiology · Institute for Advanced StudyCharles L. Brown Member in Biology

Tiberiu Tesileanu is currently working on understanding the statisticalproperties of sequences of proteins that share a common evolutionaryhistory, and the connections between these properties and proteinstructure and function. He is also starting to think about mentalexploration in artificial neural networks.

Tsvi TlustyBiology · Institute for Advanced StudyMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in Biology

Tsvi Tlusty is interested in what distinguishes living matter from thelifeless and looking at living systems as evolvable molecular informationprocessors. He is focused on how the function of proteins as informa-tion channels that operate under distinct biochemical constraints mayexplain the unique physical properties of this state of matter.

Jihad ToumaApplied Mathematics, Astrophysical Dynamics · American Universityof Beirut · v

Jihad Touma studies planetary and galactic dynamics. He plans to pursuejoint work with Scott Tremaine on the statistical mechanics of self-gravitating stellar clusters around supermassive black holes in galacticnuclei.

Brian M. WillettParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

Brian Willett’s research interests focus on quantum field theory andstring/M-theory. In particular, he studies nonperturbative techniquesin quantum field theories in order to understand strong-couplingphenomena such as dualities, a subject that has strong interactionswith string/M-theory.

Dan XieParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

Dan Xie’s research focuses on string theory and quantum field theoryand the mathematical structure behind these physical theories. At theInstitute, he will continue studying dynamics of quantum field theoryin various dimensions and their phenomenological applications.

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BingKan XueBiology · Institute for Advanced Study

BingKan Xue works in systems biology and studies the evolutionarymechanisms for microbial populations to adapt to varying environments.He is interested in theorizing the possibility and advantage of inducingphenotypic variations and carrying nongenetic inheritance in responseto sudden environmental stress.

Masahito YamazakiParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced Study

Masahito Yamazaki is working on theoretical high-energy physics,particularly supersymmetric gauge theories and string theory. Recently,he has been studying exact results in supersymmetric gauge theoriesand mathematical structures therein.

Kazuya YonekuraParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced Study

Kazuya Yonekura’s research concerns quantum field theory and particlephysics phenomenology. He mainly is interested in studying strongdynamics of supersymmetric gauge theories and their applications tomodels beyond the Standard Model.

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Founded in 1973, the School of Social Science takes as its mission the analy-sis of societies and social change. It is devoted to a multidisciplinary, compar-ative, and international approach to social research.

Professors of the School have participated actively in the most importantcontemporary debates about the meaning of the “interpretive turn” in anthropology, history, and political theory; about the centrality of culture, language,ritual, and moral understandings in the study of society; about the characterand direction of social change; about the explanatory power of rational choicein the analysis of political decision-making and economic exchange; andabout the epistemological and theoretical issues related to critical thinking.Although each is rooted in his or her own discipline, all do work that transcendsdisciplinary boundaries. The School operates under the guiding principles ofinformality and collegiality and with a shared understanding that the socialsciences are not to be narrowly defined. Each year, the School brings togetherscholars from various fields—including political science, economics, law,psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, philosophy, and literary criticism —to examine historical and contemporary problems.

In an attempt to create a sense of community among the Members, the Schooldesignates an annual theme, which is neither exclusive nor excluding. Thetheme for the 2013–14 academic year is “The Environmental Turn and theHuman Sciences.” The widespread perception that humanity faces a seriesof related environmental challenges—climate change, growing human pop-ulation, food security, energy crisis, shortage of fresh water, and so on—hasspurred many disciplines to attempt to make the environment a central con-cern of their foundational paradigms. Economists, sociologists, historians,policy scientists and others have begun to address the issue of sustainabilityand the question of “the commons” in human affairs. Anthropologists andevolutionary biologists have begun to study communities facing environ-mental disruption while new and interdisciplinary areas of investigation haveemerged under the rubric of “environmental humanities.” Historians havebegun to write long-term histories of energy consumption and to connectenvironmental histories to histories of capitalism, empires, and globalization.During 2013–14, we hope to develop a shared conversation on the strate-gies that different disciplines are adopting to deal with the challenge ofenvironmental crises. This seminar will be jointly led by Didier Fassin, JamesD. Wolfensohn Professor, and Joan Wallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor.

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Danielle S. AllenUPS Foundation Professor

Danielle Allen is a political theorist who has published broad-ly in democratic theory, political sociology, and the historyof political thought. As a democratic theorist and historianof political thought, she investigates core values such asequality, non-domination or freedom, and trustworthiness.As a political sociologist, she analyzes relations among legalstructures, political values, and power dynamics, as well asfoundational practices such as punishment, deliberation,opinion formation, and citizenship generally. She is currentlyworking on books on citizenship in the digital age andpolitical equality.

Didier Fassin James D.Wolfensohn Professor

Didier Fassin is an anthropologist and a sociologist who hasconducted field studies in Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa, andFrance. Trained as a physician in internal medicine and publichealth, he dedicated his early research to medical anthropology,illuminating important dimensions of the AIDS epidemic,mortality disparities, and global health. More recently, he hasdeveloped a new field of research, critical moral anthropolo-gy, which explores the historical, social, and political sig-nification of moral forms involved in everyday judgmentand action as well as international humanitarianism orasylum granting. He is currently conducting an ethnogra-phy of several institutions that deal mostly with immi-grants and minorities, namely police, justice, and prison, andanalyzes the possible contribution of the social sciences to apublic debate regarding security, punishment, and inequality.

Dani Rodrik Albert O. Hirschman Professor

Dani Rodrik is a political economist whose work bridges therealms of theory and public policy by combining rigorousresearch with an innovative examination of ideas across thefield of economics—from the consequences of globalizationto the role of national institutions, the challenges of in -equality, and the tensions between the market and the state.Rodrik’s current research centers on the future of eco nom icgrowth and the role of ideas in political economy. He maintains that successful institutional design is customizable,underpinned by effective basic principles but flexible inimplementation, taking into account local conditions.

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Joan Wallach Scott Harold F. Linder Professor

Joan Scott’s groundbreaking work has challenged thefoundations of conventional historical practice, includingthe nature of historical evidence and historical experienceand the role of narrative in the writing of history. Herrecent books have focused on the vexed relationship of theparticularity of gender to the universalizing force ofdemocratic politics. More broadly, the object of her work isthe question of difference in history: its uses, enunciations,implementations, justifications, and transformations in theconstruction of social and political life.

Michael WalzerProfessor Emeritus

One of America’s foremost political thinkers, MichaelWalzer has written about a wide variety of topics inpolitical theory and moral philosophy, including politicalobligation, just and unjust war, nationalism and ethnicity,economic justice, and the welfare state. In addition to writ-ing frequently about war and terrorism, he is currentlyaddressing questions of pluralism, ethnicity, cultural rights,and multiculturalism. He continues to work on volumesthree and four of a major collaborative project focused onthe history of Jewish political thought.

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Nikhil AnandAnthropology, Geography · University of MinnesotaWolfensohn Family Member

Nikhil Anand’s research focuses on the politics and ecology of urbaninfrastructures, and the social and material relations these entail. At theInstitute, he plans to explore how settlers and other marginalized resi-dents overcome the structural exclusions of limited liberal governmentto claim water in Mumbai.

Cristina BeltránPolitical Science · New York University

Cristina Beltrán is drawing on classic and contemporary political theory,affect theory, and work on party politics, aesthetics, and representationto explore how conservative leaders and organizations attract Latinovoters through emotive and aesthetic appeals that resonate with voters’desires and ambitions while sometimes eclipsing questions of ideologyand policy preference.

Elizabeth Popp BermanSociology · University at Albany, State University of New YorkRichard B. Fisher Member

Elizabeth Popp Berman studies how expert knowledge is producedand used and how we think about markets and the economy. Specifi-cally, she is examining how the intellectual tools of economics shapedU.S. public policy in three domains—science, antitrust, and antipovertypolicy—from 1960 to 1985.

Milton CameronPhilosophy · The Australian National University · v

Milton Cameron is researching ways in which modern architects andarchitectural historians sought to associate themselves with Albert Einsteinto gain intellectual credibility for their own work, or attempted to useaspects of Einstein’s theories as metaphors for their own thoughtprocesses or as catalysts for paradigm shift within architectural design.

Brandice Canes-WronePolitical Science · Princeton UniversityRoger W. Ferguson, Jr., and Annette L. Nazareth Member

Brandice Canes-Wrone is interested in research areas that encompassdomestic politics and political economy. At the Institute, she plans toinvestigate the relationship between political uncertainty and economicoutcomes; analyze the effects of judicial selection procedures on courtrulings; and look at the impact of campaign finance procedures onelite-level polarization.

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Filippo CesaranoEconomics · Institute for Advanced Study · v, f

Filippo Cesarano is exploring the main forces driving the evolution ofmonetary arrangements, particularly how the quantum leap in infor-mation technology triggered a wave of innovation in money andfinance that raised a variety of issues, both theoretical and institutional,as yet largely unanswered.

Yvonne ChiuPolitical Science · The University of Hong Kong

Although war is often perceived as the epitome of conflict, YvonneChiu argues that modern warfare is a cooperative enterprise, duringfighting and in its use as a tool for conflict resolution. At the Institute,she plans to explore the history, development, and contemporarynature of that cooperation.

Nitsan ChorevSociology · Brown UniversityAMIAS Member

Nitsan Chorev is studying the pharmaceutical markets in Kenya, Tanza-nia, and Uganda to explore the conditions for social development andeconomic growth.

Elizabeth Anne DavisAnthropology · Princeton University

Elizabeth Davis’s research concerns secrecy, transparency, and statecraftin Cyprus following its division into Greek-Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot regions in 1974. She plans to focus on three domains ofknowledge production where suspicions about the violent events ofthe 1960s–70s are being transformed into evidence: forensic science,conspiracy theory, and documentary film.

Omar DewachiAnthropology · American University of Beirut · v, f

Omar Dewachi’s research interrogates the tensions between thenecropolitics of war and the biopolitics of statehood in post-U.S.-invasion Iraq. He plans to explore the rise and fall of state-sponsoredmedicine and its role in the formation, governing, and transformationof state and citizenship under historical conditions of post-colonialismand contemporary neoliberal warfare.


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Pinar DoganEconomics · Institute for Advanced Study · v

Pinar Dogan’s research interests include economics of networks, regu-lation, and competition policy with an emphasis on the telecommu-nications industry. Her recent research focuses on the impact of accesspolicies on investment and social welfare.

James DoylePhilosophy · Institute for Advanced Study · v

James Doyle is working on a book on Plato’s Gorgias. This will give ananalysis of the main arguments of the dialogue and an account of theuse to which Plato puts the dialogue form, as leveling an implicit critique of Socrates’s conception of philosophical method and his associated doctrine of “intellectualism.”

Jeffrey FlynnPhilosophy · Fordham University

Jeffrey Flynn works on human rights and humanitarianism. His currentproject on humanitarianism combines empirical and normative per spec-tives to analyze the historical rise of the humanitarian sentiment andorganized forms of humanitarianism in the modern West in conjunctionwith critical reflection on contemporary responses to distant suffering.

David I. GrazianSociology · University of Pennsylvania

David Grazian is a cultural sociologist and urban ethnographer whostudies landscapes of entertainment and popular culture in cities.Drawing on four years of fieldwork, he is completing a book manuscriptthat examines the contradictions that have come to define the socialworld of the contemporary American metropolitan zoo.

Mark GreifLiterature, Intellectual History · The New School

Mark Greif is researching the rhetoric of radical reform and moralappeal in the United States and Western Europe from the late nine-teenth century to the early twenty-first century, as reformers developedlanguages to connect nonhuman objects to new conceptions of thehuman subject.

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Wendy GriswoldSociology · Northwestern UniversityRosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders’ Circle Member

Wendy Griswold is studying literature and American cultural “region-alism,” which denotes distinctive, place-based cultural forms at anylevel. Her research, which extends from the nineteenth century to thepresent, supports the thesis that literature—not just works but authors,institutions, and readers—produces the understandings and practicesassociated with enduring cultures of place.

Joseph D. HankinsAnthropology · University of California, San Diego

Joseph Hankins’s research unpacks labor as an exchange point shapinghuman/human and human/nonhuman relations. He plans to examinethe politics of stigmatized forms of labor in Japan, e.g., leather and meatproduction, and explore labor-based projects to “reclaim life” from acapitalism understood as environmentally and ethically corrosive.

Dagmar HerzogHistory · The Graduate Center, The City University of New York · v, s

Although psychoanalysis is often taken to be ahistorical in its view ofhuman nature, Dagmar Herzog’s contention is the opposite. Situated atthe intersections of psychoanalysis and the social sciences, her researchconcerns the uneasy encounters of Freudian theories about aggression,trauma, desire, fear, and pleasure––and the very nature of the humanself and its motivations––with the calamitous events of World War IIand beyond.

Gabrielle Benette JacksonPhilosophy · University of Toronto · v

Gabrielle Jackson’s research concerns the areas of overlap amongphilosophy of mind, cognitive science, and phenomenology. She isgrappling with such questions as what do pathologies of movementreveal about normal human action, how do skillful actions structureperceptual space, and how might bodily habits shape gender norms.

Dale JamiesonEnvironmental Studies, Philosophy · New York University

Dale Jamieson plans to analyze why we have failed to successfullyaddress the problems of climate change, say what we should learn fromour mistakes, and propose ways of living with the consequences.


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Joseph P. MascoCultural Anthropology, Science Studies · The University of ChicagoRalph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Member

How can we reconceive “security” in an age of planetary ecologicalcrisis? Joseph Masco’s research considers how the cumulative impactsof industry on the global biosphere challenge longstanding conceptu-alizations of nature, modernity, and progress. Attending to new formsof local and global environmental threat, his research calls for a post- national form of security.

Ann McGrathHistory · The Australian National UniversityLouise and John Steffens Founders’ Circle Member

Ann McGrath’s research concerns Lady Mungo, who lived in Australiaapproximately fifty thousand years ago, particularly how after her“discovery” in 1968, relations of research, politics, and kinship betweenscientists, pastoralists, and Aboriginal custodians created a complex storypromising reconceptualizations for the history discipline.

Ramah McKayAnthropology · University of Minnesota · v

Ramah McKay’s current project explores how contemporary experi-ences of transnational medical assistance in Mozambique have given riseto a unique form of medical governance, one in which the presence ofmultiple institutions, actors, and epistemologies of health are an everydaypart of health policy and care.

Vanessa OgleInternational and Global History · University of Pennsylvania

In the increasingly interconnected world of the nineteenth century,Europeans and Americans launched numerous campaigns for scientific,legal, and other standards. Vanessa Ogle seeks to demonstrate howimposing universal norms like uniform time in societies that livedby other standards paradoxically had the unintended consequence ofcreating even more difference.

John F. PadgettPolitical Science · The University of ChicagoDeutsche Bank Member

John Padgett’s research concerns the coevolution of political, eco-nomic, and kinship networks in Renaissance Florence from 1300 to1500, the emergence of organizational novelty in a wide range ofsettings from medieval Tuscany to contemporary Silicon Valley, andthe coevolution of production and communication networks fromthe perspective of autocatalysis.

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Manuela Lavinas PicqPolitical Science · Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Manuela Picq is questioning common understandings of nature—how we define it and locate it outside cosmopolitanism—to defyassumptions of political modernity. Through a historical reading of theinternational relations of the Amazon, she is exploring what modernitylooks like when not attached to or governed by states.

Noah SalomonReligion · Carleton College

Noah Salomon’s research examines the project of the “Islamic state” incontemporary Sudan through exploring its interventions into four keydomains: politics, aesthetics, epistemology, and subjectivity. His workdepicts Islamic revival in Sudan not merely as a response to modernsecular politics and modes of being, but as a node in a much longerconversation in Islamic thought, augmented and reappropriated as stateprojects of Islamic reform became objects of debate and controversy.

Kim Lane ScheppeleLaw · Princeton University · j

Kim Scheppele’s research tracks the debate over the Holy Crown of St.Stephen—the twentieth-century interwar irredentist symbol fore-ground in Hungary’s new nationalist constitution of 2012. She tracesthe debate back to its medieval sources and reworks its origin story byexploring the twin ideas of abjection and awe in the construction ofconstitutional community.

Sverker SörlinEnvironmental History, History of Science · KTH Royal Institute ofTechnology, Stockholm

Sverker Sörlin is interested in how work in the environmental human-ities has tried to make sense of human-nature relationships during theAnthropocene, or the last two hundred years. Sörlin will focus on howretemporalization and inventing new pasts and futures take place in theface of climate and global change.

Ellen StroudU.S. Urban and Environmental History · Bryn Mawr CollegeFrederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by the American Council of LearnedSocieties

Ellen Stroud’s research focuses on unexpected connections betweensocial processes and both built and natural environments. Her currentbook project, an environmental history of the modern Americancorpse, examines the role of dead human bodies in the shaping oftwentieth-century American landscapes.


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Joanna Tokarska-Bakir Cultural and Historical Anthropology · Polish Academy of Sciences,Warsaw · v, f

Joanna Tokarska-Bakir specializes in the anthropology of blood libeland anti-Jewish violence. She is currently working on a project onpostwar pogroms in Eastern Europe.

Henning TrüperHistory · Centre de Recherches Historiques, École des HautesÉtudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Henning Trüper’s research revisits European Orientalism as philology andexplores the fragmentation of the ontological commitments of philologyin regard to its objects of research (natural languages, grammars, texts,scripts, histories, antiquities). This perspective entails abandoning theunity of Orientalism and opens novel ways of understanding its rolefor European modernity.

Richard YorkSociology · University of OregonFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member

Richard York’s research examines how structural characteristics ofsocieties (e.g., demographic, economic, and technological factors)influence the quantity and types of energy use. He is interested in theextent to which the development of non-fossil-fuel energy sourcesdisplaces fossil fuels and how this differs across nations.

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Program in Interdisciplinary Studies

The Program in Interdisciplinary Studies explores different ways of viewing theworld, spanning a range of disciplines from physics and astrophysics, geology,paleontology, and biology, to artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, andphilosophy. The most recent interdisciplinary focus is on questions related to origins of life and the nature of complexity. The program is headed byProfessor Piet Hut.

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Piet HutProfessorOne focus of Piet Hut’s research is computational astro-physics, in particular multiscale multiphysics simulations ofdense stellar systems. Another focus is interdisciplinaryexplorations in the areas of cognitive science and philoso-phy of science centered around questions involving thenature of knowledge. A third focus is the question of theorigins of life, on Earth as well as elsewhere in the universe,for which he is a foreign Principle Investigator at ELSI, theEarth-Life Science Institute at the Tokyo Institute of Tech- n ology. The author of more than two hundred publications,Hut was honored in 2004 when a main-belt asteroid wasnamed “17031 Piethut” by the International AstronomicalUnion’s Committee on Small Body Nomenclature.

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Henderson James Cleaves IIChemistry · Carnegie Institution of Washington · v

Henderson Cleaves is studying the origin of life on Earth and else-where, specifically with the question of how chemistry becomesbiology. He is interested in how simple organic compounds areproduced from cosmically abundant inorganic compounds undergeochemically plausible conditions and how these compoundsself-organize to form more complex and potentially self-repli-cating systems.

Douglas S. DuckworthPhilosophy · Temple University · v, f

Douglas Duckworth works on the relationship between ontologyand epistemology in Buddhist philosophy. He is interested in theintersections of phenomenological and ontological approachesto meaning. His research involves inquiry into the nature ofsubjectivity and cognition and the ways each are constituted,enacted, and constructed.

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Yuka FujiiPlanetary Science · Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute ofTechnology · v, f

Yuka Fujii explores methods to gain insight into detailed properties ofexoplanets by astronomical observations, primarily focusing on a varietyof potentially habitable planets. She also studies coevolution of life andthe planet to examine possible forms of life and their observablesignatures.

Jon LindsaySecurity Studies · University of California, San Diego · v

Jon Lindsay studies the impact of the information revolution on inter-national security, especially cybersecurity, deterrence strategy, militaryinnovation, and information security in China. At the Institute, he isworking with Piet Hut to investigate the parallels between cultural andbiological evolution.

Hyun Ok ParkEast Asian Studies · York University · v, f

Hyun Ok Park is completing an investigation of how the task of rap-prochement of the two Koreas has been changed by the formation ofethnic sovereignty in the post–Cold War era and concerns democraticpolitics that imagines the market as a mechanism of reparation, peace,and human rights.

Edwin L. TurnerAstrophysics · Princeton University · v

Edwin Turner will be working on statistical biases and estimators forsamples of exoplanets detected using various techniques; on the StrategicExploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope project;and on implications of complexity in cellular automata systems for thelimits of reductionism, as well as related topics in the philosophy ofscience.

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Director’s Visitors contribute much to the vitality of the Institute. Scholarsfrom a variety of fields, including areas not represented in the Schools, areinvited to the Institute for varying periods of time, depending on the natureof their work. Funding for the Director’s Visitors program for 2012–13 and2013–14 has been generously provided by Maureen and John Hendricks.

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Nickolas BarrisFeature Film Writer-Producer, Imaginary Films; Founder, Foundationfor Lorentz & Einstein Media Research and ApplicationNickolas Barris is exploring how curiosity and scientific imagina-tion foster innovation and cultural progress, as well as the role ofmusic, art, and nature to inspire scientific creativity. With AlbertEinstein and Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz as key models, hewill explore the courage required to create new frontiers of science.

Graham FarmeloWriter; Adjunct Professor of Physics, Northeastern University; Bye-Fellow, Churchill College, University of CambridgeGraham Farmelo is completing his book “Churchill’s Bomb,” forthcoming in October 2013, which concerns Winston Churchill’srole in developing nuclear weapons, his relationships with severalnuclear physicists, and his work on nuclear policy. He is alsobeginning research for his next book about the symbiotic relationships between pure mathematics and fundamental physics.

Ulrich RaulffDirector, Deutsches Literaturarchiv MarbachUlrich Raulff is writing a history of the study of humanities andsocial sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study between thestart of the Cold War in the mid-1940s and the establishment ofthe School of Social Sciences in the mid-1970s, when a thorough- going change in the dominant discourses took root.

Siobhan RobertsWriter, JournalistFunding provided by the Otto Neugebauer FundSiobhan Roberts is working on a book with Professor HelmutHofer about the mathematician Andreas Floer. She is also editingher biography of Princeton mathematician John Horton Conway,forthcoming with Bloomsbury/Walker & Company.

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Artist-in-Residence Program

The Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1994 to create amusical presence within the Institute community and to have in residencea person whose work could be experienced and appreciated by scholarsfrom all disciplines.

As of July 1, 2013, composer Sebastian Currier has joined the Institutecommunity as Artist-in-Residence. He will curate the Edward T. ConeConcert series and host conversations with artists, while pursuing his creativeand intellectual work as part of the Institute’s community of scholars.

Sebastian CurrierComposer

Sebastian Currier is a composer of complex and imaginativeworks, which have been performed by such eminent artistsand ensembles as Anne-Sophie Mutter, Berlin Philhar m onic,Kronos Quartet, and the New York Philharmonic. A recip-ient of the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, Currier hasreceived numerous honors including the Berlin Prize, theRome Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an AcademyAward from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,and he has held residencies at the MacDowell and Yaddocolonies. He received a D.M.A. from the Juilliard School,and from 1997–2007 he taught at Columbia University. Inthe 2013–14 season, three new works will be premiered:Cadence, Fugue, Fade, commissioned by the American BrassQuintet, Artificial Memory, written for the Paul DresherEnsemble, and Parallel Worlds, commissioned by the ChamberMusic Society of Lincoln Center.

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Cynthia CarrollLondon, England

Neil A. ChrissFounder and Chief Investment OfficerHutchin Hill Capital, LPNew York, New York

Robbert DijkgraafDirector and Leon Levy ProfessorInstitute for Advanced StudyPrinceton, New Jersey

Mario DraghiPresident, European Central BankFrankfurt, Germany

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr.President and Chief Executive OfficerTIAA- CREFNew York, New York

E. Robert FernholzFounderChairman of the Investment CommitteeINTECHPrinceton, New Jersey

Carmela Vircillo FranklinProfessor of Classics, Columbia University New York, New York

Benedict H. GrossGeorge Vasmer Leverett Professor of MathematicsHarvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts

Jeffrey A. HarveyEnrico Fermi Distinguished Service ProfessorEnrico Fermi Institute and Department of PhysicsThe University of ChicagoChicago, Illinois

John S. HendricksFounder and ChairmanDiscovery CommunicationsSilver Spring, Maryland

Trustees and Officers ofthe Board and of the Corporation

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Charles SimonyiChairman of the Board

Martin L. LeibowitzVice Chairman of the Board and President of the Corporation

James H. SimonsVice Chairman of the Board

Brian F. WrubleTreasurer of the Corporation

John MastenAssistant Treasurer

Nancy S. MacMillanSecretary of the Corporation

Michael GehretAssistant Secretary

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Spiro J. LatsisPresident, SETE SAGeneva, Switzerland

Martin L. LeibowitzManaging Director, Morgan StanleyNew York, New York

Nancy S. MacMillanPublisher, Princeton Alumni WeeklyPrinceton, New Jersey

David F. MarquardtPartner, August CapitalMenlo Park, California

Nancy B. PeretsmanManaging DirectorAllen & Company LLCNew York, New York

Martin ReesProfessor Emeritus of Cosmology and AstrophysicsAstronomer Royal and Fellow of Trinity College University of CambridgeCambridge, England

David M. Rubenstein Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer The Carlyle Group Washington, D.C.

James J. SchiroChairman of the Group Management Board andCEO of Zurich Financial Services (retired)New York, New York

Eric E. SchmidtExecutive Chairman, Google Inc.Mountain View, California

William H. Sewell, Jr.Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service ProfessorEmeritus of Political Science and History The University of ChicagoChicago, Illinois

Harold T. ShapiroPresident Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public AffairsPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey

James H. SimonsChairman of the Board, Renaissance Technologies LLC, and President, Euclidean Capital LLCNew York, New York

Charles SimonyiChairman and Chief Technology Officer Intentional Software CorporationBellevue, Washington

Peter SvennilsonFounder and Managing PartnerThe Column GroupSan Francisco, California

Shelby WhiteTrustee, Leon Levy FoundationNew York, New York

Marina v.N. WhitmanProfessor of Business Administration and Public PolicyGerald R. Ford School of Public Policy University of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan

Brian F. WrubleChairman EmeritusThe Jackson LaboratoryKey West, Florida

Richard B. BlackMartin A. ChooljianSidney D. Drell Vartan GregorianRalph E. HansmannHelene L. Kaplan

David K.P. LiHamish MaxwellRonaldo H. Schmitz Michel L. VaillaudLadislaus von HoffmannJames D. WolfensohnChairman Emeritus

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Robbert DijkgraafDirector and Leon Levy Professor

Karen CuozzoAssistant to the Director

Sile BaoSpecial Assistant to the Director

John MastenAssociate Director for Finance

and Administration

Anthony Bordieri, Jr.Manager of Facilities

Michael CicconeManager of Administrative Services

Michael Klompus Manager of Human Resources

Mary MazzaComptroller

Michel ReymondChef/Manager, Dining Services

Michael GehretAssociate Director for Development

and Public Affairs

Christine FerraraSenior Public Affairs Officer

Catherine G. FlemingSenior Development Officer

Pamela HughesSenior Development Officer

Kelly Devine ThomasSenior Publications Officer

Library Administration

Momota GanguliLibrarian, Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Marcia TuckerLibrarian, Historical Studies and Social Science(also Coordinator of Information Access for

Computing, Telecommunications, and NetworkingAdministration)

Christine Di BellaArchivist

School Administration

Mary Jane HayesAdministrative Officer School of Mathematics

Donne PetitoAdministrative Officer School of Social Science

Michelle SageAdministrative Officer


Suzanne P. ChristenExecutive Director and Administrator The Simons Center for Systems Biology


Marian Gallagher ZelaznyAdministrative Officer

School of Historical Studies

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Catherine E. GiesbrechtProgram Officer, IAS/Park City

Mathematics Institute

Arlen K. HastingsExecutive Director

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Jeffrey BerlinerManager of Computing

Brian EpsteinComputer Manager Network and Security

Kevin KellyComputer Manager School of Mathematics

Jonathan PeeleComputer Manager

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James StephensComputer Manager


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Past Directors(in order of service)

ABRAHAM FLEXNER • FRANK AYDELOTTE

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER • CARL KAYSEN • HARRY WOOLF

MARVIN L. GOLDBERGER • PHILLIP A. GRIFFITHS • PETER GODDARD

Past Faculty

JAMES W. ALEXANDER • ANDREW E. Z. ALFÖLDI • MICHAEL F. ATIYAH

JOHN N. BAHCALL • ARNE K. A. BEURLING • ARMAND BOREL

LUIS A. CAFFARELLI • HAROLD F. CHERNISS • MARSHALL CLAGETT

JOSÉ CUTILEIRO • ROGER F. DASHEN • EDWARD M. EARLE

ALBERT EINSTEIN • JOHN H. ELLIOTT • CLIFFORD GEERTZ

FELIX GILBERT • JAMES F. GILLIAM • KURT GÖDEL • HETTY GOLDMAN

OLEG GRABAR • HARISH-CHANDRA • ERNST HERZFELD

ALBERT O. HIRSCHMAN • LARS V. HÖRMANDER

ERNST H. KANTOROWICZ • GEORGE F. KENNAN TSUNG-DAO LEE

ELIAS A. LOWE • AVISHAI MARGALIT • ERIC S. MASKIN

JACK F. MATLOCK, Jr • MILLARD MEISS • BENJAMIN D. MERITT

JOHN W. MILNOR • DAVID MITRANY • DEANE MONTGOMERY

MARSTON MORSE • J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER • ABRAHAM PAIS

ERWIN PANOFSKY • TULLIO E. REGGE • WINFIELD W. RIEFLER

MARSHALL N. ROSENBLUTH • ATLE SELBERG

KENNETH M. SETTON • CARL L. SIEGEL • WALTER W. STEWART

BENGT G. D. STRÖMGREN • HOMER A. THOMPSON • KIRK VARNEDOE

OSWALD VEBLEN • JOHN von NEUMANN • ROBERT B. WARREN

ANDRÉ WEIL • HERMANN WEYL • HASSLER WHITNEY

FRANK WILCZEK • ERNEST LLEWELLYN WOODWARD

CHEN NING YANG • SHING-TUNG YAU

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Adler, Stephen L. (SNS), 44Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine (SNS), 46Allen, Danielle S. (SSS), 59Alon, Noga (SM), 26Ambainis, Andris (SM), 26Anand, Nikhil (SSS), 61Ansari, Hassan Farhang (SHS), 10Anthony, Sean William (SHS), 10Aretakis, Stefanos (SM), 26Arkani-Hamed, Nima (SNS), 42Baldauf, Tobias (SNS), 46 Bargheer, Till (SNS), 46 Barris, Nickolas (DV), 70Bauerschmidt, Roland (SM), 26Beach, Alison (SHS), 10Beem, Christopher John (SNS), 46 Bellettini, Costante (SM), 26Beltrán, Cristina (SSS), 61Berkovich, Vladimir (SM), 27Berman, Elizabeth Popp (SSS), 61Beuzart-Plessis, Raphaël (SM), 27Bhatt, Bhargav (SM), 27Bhatt, Ravindra (SNS), 46 Bird, Simeon Paul (SNS), 47 Blum, Kfir (SNS), 47 Bois, Yve-Alain (SHS), 5Bojanowska, Edyta (SHS), 10Bombieri, Enrico (SM), 24Boreczky, Anna (SHS), 10Bourgade, Paul (SM), 27Bourgain, Jean (SM), 22Bourneuf, Annie (SHS), 11Bovy, Jo (SNS), 47 Bowersock, Glen W. (SHS), 7Brandt, Timothy David (SNS), 47 Branner, David Prager (SHS), 11Brav, Chris (SM), 27Brosseder, Ursula Birgit (SHS), 11Brunner, Rainer (SHS), 11Byfield, Judith Ann-Marie (SHS), 11Bynum, Caroline Walker (SHS), 7Cadoret, Anna Gwenaelle (SM), 28Cameron, Milton (SSS), 61Canes-Wrone, Brandice (SSS), 61

Caraiani, Ana (SM), 28Caravale, Giorgio (SHS), 12Caron-Huot, Simon (SNS), 47 Casini, Horacio (SNS), 48 Cesarano, Filippo (SSS), 62Chaniotis, Angelos (SHS), 5Chiu, Yvonne (SSS), 62Chorev, Nitsan (SSS), 62Cleaves, Henderson James II (IS), 68Colwell, Lucy J. (SNS), 48 Constable, Giles (SHS), 7Creminelli, Paolo (SNS), 48 Cristofaro-Gardiner, Daniel (SM), 28Crone, Patricia (SHS), 5Cruse, Mark (SHS), 12Currier, Sebastian (AiR), 71D’Agnolo, Raffaele Tito (SNS), 48 Davis, Elizabeth Anne (SSS), 62De, Anindya (SM), 28Deligne, Pierre (SM), 25Dewachi, Omar (SSS), 62Di Cosmo, Nicola (SHS), 6Dijkgraaf, Robbert (D), 3Dimofte, Tudor Dan (SNS), 48 Dogan, Pinar (SSS), 63Donagi, Ron (SNS), 49 Doyle, James (SSS), 63Drandaki, Anastasia (SHS), 12Drucker, Andrew (SM), 28Duckworth, Douglas S. (IS), 68Dvorkin, Cora (SNS), 49 Dweck, Yaacob (SHS), 12Dyson, Freeman J. (SNS), 45Ebrey, Patricia (SHS), 12Effros, Bonnie (SHS), 13Erdös, László (SM), 29Esders, Stefan (SHS), 13Fallahzadeh, Mehrdad (SHS), 13Farmelo, Graham (DV), 70Fassin, Didier (SSS), 59Faulkner, Thomas (SNS), 49 Filmus, Yuval (SM), 29Fish, Joel (SM), 29Flauger, Raphael (SNS), 49

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Knowles, Antti (SM), 32Kocsis, Bence (SNS), 51 Kol, Gillat (SM), 32Kontorovich, Alex (SM), 32Kret, Arno (SM), 33Kribs, Graham (SNS), 51 Kupiainen, Antti (SM), 33Kushnir, Doron (SNS), 52 Lacki, Brian (SNS), 52 Langlands, Robert P. (SM), 25Lavin, Irving (SHS), 8Lebowitz, Joel (SM), 33Lei, Sean Hsiang-lin (SHS), 15Lei, Zhen (SM), 33Leibler, Stanislas (SNS), 42Levin, Brandon (SM), 33Levine, Arnold J. (SNS), 45Lewko, Allison (SM), 34Lewko, Mark (SM), 34Li, Xue-Mei (SM), 34Lindsay, Jon (IS), 69Loganayagam, Ramalingam (SNS), 52 Lukic, Sergio (SNS), 52 Lumsdaine, Peter LeFanu (SM), 34MacPherson, Robert (SM), 22Maldacena, Juan (SNS), 43Masco, Joseph P. (SSS), 65Matteini, Michele (SHS), 15McGrath, Ann (SSS), 65McKay, Ramah (SSS), 65Meir, Or (SM), 34Meshel, Naphtali S. (SHS), 15Minwalla, Shiraz (SNS), 53 Mirbabayi, Mehrdad (SNS), 53 Mitchell, Jonathan (SNS), 53 Mosca, Matthew W. (SHS), 15Murase, Kohta (SNS), 53 Nelson, Jo (SM), 35Nenzi, Laura (SHS), 16Nicolas, Jean-Claude (SNS), 53 Nishioka, Tatsuma (SNS), 53 Nishry, Alon (SM), 35Ogle, Vanessa (SSS), 65Oshima, Yoshiki (SM), 35Padgett, John F. (SSS), 65Pankenier, David William (SHS), 16Paret, Peter (SHS), 8Park, Hyun Ok (IS), 69

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Parslow, Christopher Charles (SHS), 16Parzanchevski, Ori (SM), 35Peliti, Luca (SNS), 54 Pestun, Vasily (SNS), 54 Picq, Manuela Lavinas (SSS), 66Pocovnicu, Oana (SM), 35Prignitz, Sebastian (SHS), 16Pugatch, Rami (SNS), 54 Quastel, Jeremy (SM), 36Radziwill, Maksym (SM), 36Rangamani, Mukund (SNS), 54 Rastelli, Leonardo (SNS), 55 Raulff, Ulrich (DV), 70Raz, Ran (SM), 36Razamat, Shlomo (SNS), 55 Reiterer, Michael (SM), 36Restall, Matthew B. (SHS), 16Roberts, Siobhan (DV), 70Robinson, David (SHS), 17Robles, Colleen (SM), 36Rodrik, Dani (SSS), 59Romani, Roberto (SHS), 17Salomon, Noah (SSS), 66Sarnak, Peter (SM), 23Schenker, Jeffrey (SM), 37Scheppele, Kim Lane (SHS/SSS), 17, 66Schlein, Benjamin (SM), 37Schmidtke, Sabine (SHS), 17Schnelli, Kevin (SM), 37Scott, Joan Wallach (SSS), 60Seiberg, Nathan (SNS), 43Sever, Amit (SNS), 55 Shamis, Mira (SM), 37Shao, Peng (SM), 37Sheridan, Nick (SM), 38Shoemaker, Stephen J. (SHS), 17Simmons-Duffin, David (SNS), 55 Sinop, Ali Kemal (SM), 38Sörlin, Sverker (SSS), 66Spencer, Thomas (SM), 23Spiegel, David S. (SNS), 55 Spiess, Michael (SM), 38Spohn, Herbert (SM), 38Sprung, Florian (SM), 38Stroud, Ellen (SSS), 66Sunyaev, Rashid (SNS), 55 Taylor, Christine (SM), 39Taylor, Richard (SM), 23

Tesileanu, Tiberiu (SNS), 56 Thür, Gerhard (SHS), 18Tlusty, Tsvi (SNS), 56 Tokarska-Bakir, Joanna (SSS), 67Tor, Deborah (SHS), 18Touma, Jihad (SNS), 56 Tracy, Stephen V. (SHS), 18Tremaine, Scott (SNS), 43Trüper, Henning (SSS), 67Tsu, Jing (SHS), 18Tsyrempilov, Nikolay Vladimirovich

(SHS), 18Turner, Edwin L. (IS), 69van Nierop, Henk (SHS), 19van Walt van Praag, Michael (SHS), 19Voevodsky, Vladimir (SM), 24von Reden, Sitta (SHS), 19von Staden, Heinrich (SHS), 9Voutiras, Emmanuel (SHS), 19Walker, Barbara (SHS), 19Walzer, Michael (SSS), 60Wang, Xi (SHS), 20Warzel, Simone (SM), 39Weibel, Charles (SM), 39West, Stephen H. (SHS), 20White, Morton (SHS), 9Wigderson, Avi (SM), 24Willett, Brian M. (SNS), 56 Witten, Edward (SNS), 44Wogan-Browne, Jocelyn (SHS), 20Xie, Dan (SNS), 56Xue, BingKan (SNS), 57 Yamazaki, Masahito (SNS), 57 Yanikdag, Yücel (SHS), 20Yau, Horng-Tzer (SM), 39Yin, Jun (SM), 39Yonekura, Kazuya (SNS), 57 York, Richard (SSS), 67Yu, Jun (SM), 40Zakharevich, Inna (SM), 40Zaldarriaga, Matias (SNS), 44

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