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IASInstitute for Advanced Study

Faculty and Members 2012–2013

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

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

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

School of Natural Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

School of Social Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Program in Interdisciplinary Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Director’s Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Artist-in-Residence Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

Trustees and Officers of the Boardand of the Corporation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

Past Directors and Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81

Information contained herein is current as of September 24, 2012.

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 fundamental research in the sciences and human-ities—the original, often speculative thinking that produces advances inknowledge that change the way we understand the world. It provides forthe mentoring of scholars by Faculty, and it offers all who work there thefreedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions inany of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied atthe 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.

Dedicated to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, the Institute has hadpermanent impact, in both intellectual and practical terms, through thework of its Faculty and Members. One of the Institute’s unique strengthsis its permanent Faculty, whose broad interests and extensive ties to thelarger academic world are reflected in their own work and also in theguidance and direction they provide. The Faculty, numbering no morethan twenty-eight, selects and works closely with visiting Members anddefines the major themes and questions that become the focus of eachSchool’s seminars and other activities. Organized in four Schools(Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science),the Faculty and Members interact with one another without any depart-mental or disciplinary barriers. Each year the Institute awards fellowships

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to some 190 visiting Members from about one hundred universities andresearch institutions throughout the world. The Institute’s more than sixthousand former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientificleadership in the United States and abroad. Thirty-three Nobel Laureatesand thirty-eight out of fifty-two Fields Medalists, as well as many winnersof 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 depart ment, but rather supports all learning for which historical methodsare appropriate. The School embraces a historical approach to researchthroughout the humanistic disciplines, from socioeconomic develop-ments, political theory, and modern international relations, to the historyof art, science, philosophy, music, and literature. In geographical terms, theSchool concentrates primarily on the history of Western, Near Eastern,and Far Eastern civilizations, with emphasis on Greek and Roman civi-lization, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), theIslamic world, and East Asia. The School has also supported scholars whosework focuses on other regions, including Central Asia, India, Africa, andthe 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, the Schoolactively promotes interdisciplinary research and cross-fertilization of 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 the eighteenth-century French materialists)on the 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; thefirst five of six volumes were published in 2010–12.

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 vol-umes of his collected works appeared under the title Vis-ible Spirit (2007–09). A third volume is in press, “Berniniat St. Peter’s: The Pilgrimage,” as is an essay, “DivineGrace and the Remedy of the Imperfect: Michelangelo’sSignature on the St. Peter’s Pietà.”

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 transforma-tion of the history of ancient science and medicine, par-ticularly of the Hellenistic period. His current research ison the role of animals in ancient scientific theories andpractices, on genres of scientific and medical literaturein antiquity, and on 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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Nathanael AndradeRoman Imperial Near East · University of OregonThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Nathanael Andrade’s current research explores how the location ofRoman imperial Syria on commercial networks between the Mediter-ranean and Indian ocean worlds enhanced the prestige value of localor regional forms of language and culture and helped facilitate the dis-semination of Syriac as a mainstream Syrian language in late antiquity.

George Boys-StonesAncient Philosophy · Durham University · s

George Boys-Stones is working on a new study of so-called “Middle”Platonism (ca. 50 B.C.–A.D. 250). The aim is to make the case for thephilosophical sophistication of this seminal movement, not least bytracing its polemical interactions with the Hellenistic schools and withChristian philosophy.

Alessandro Maria BruniByzantium and Eastern Christianity · Institute for Advanced Study Edward T. Cone Member in Music Studies

Alessandro M. Bruni is working on the edition of an Old Georgiancodex from Mount Athos (X century), which contains liturgicalhymns with musical notation. In his work, he adopts a comprehensivehistorical-philological method of inquiry, based on interdisciplinary,comparative, and typological research.

Christer BruunRoman History · University of Toronto · fThe Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member

Christer Bruun’s research concerns the civic identity of Ostia, Rome’sharbor. He will study cultural and political trends in the town, thelargest in ancient Italy after Rome, with the aim to analyze how trade,immigration, and the influx of ideas and religions impacted the inhab-itants.

Mayke de JongMedieval History · Utrecht University · fFunding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Mayke de Jong’s project is about political thought, rhetoric, and actionin the decades after the rebellions against Louis the Pious in the 830s.Her focus is on the “Epitaphium Arsenii,” a major polemical narrativethat has been a mainstay for modern historiography about “the declineof the Carolingians.”

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André DombrowskiHistory of Art, Nineteenth-Century Europe · University of PennsylvaniaFunding provided by the Herodotus Fund

André Dombrowski’s research centers on French art in the late nine-teenth century, with an emphasis on the histories of science, politics,and psychology. He currently studies the intersections between Impres- sionism and modern technologies of time-keeping, such as the roleplayed by the advent of universal time in 1884 within the serried orderof Seurat’s pointillist technique.

Mark William DriscollEast Asian Intellectual and Political History · University of NorthCarolinaElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow; additional funding provided by

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Mark Driscoll’s research contests the standard historiography that Japan (from 1868) and China (from 1895) obediently adopted the templates ofWestern modernization. He argues that the historical experience of Japanand China shares much with recent calls for jihad/struggle against theWest.

Marco FantuzziClassicism, Greek Literature · Università degli Studi di Macerata · fFunding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Marco Fantuzzi is studying the “Rhesus,” a tragedy that the manu-scripts ascribe to Euripides. Rather than provide yet another attempt atconfirming or rejecting this alleged authorship, he is investigating howits style and content place it in the literary and historical milieubetween the end of the fifth and the first half of the fourth centuriesB.C.E.

Ingrid Maren FurnissChinese Art and Archaeology, Musicology · Lafayette College · sEdward T. Cone Member in Music Studies; additional funding provided by the

Hetty Goldman Membership Fund

Ingrid Furniss is studying the impact of Silk Road trade on one majoraspect of premodern Chinese society and culture: its music. She willargue that the lute, a musical instrument likely originating in the NearEast or Central Asia, was a highly charged object replete with associa-tions of ethnic and political identity, emotion, and gender in China.

Alex GottesmanClassics · Temple University · sFunding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Alex Gottesman is examining extrainstitutional forms of Atheniandemocratic politics. He suggests that by studying noninstitutional formsof political action (such as festivals, rituals, and various “publicity stunts”)and considering how they could be used to affect public opinion, wecan trace the outlines of a broader and more inclusive public sphere.

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Jeffrey Lawrence GouldLatin American History · Indiana UniversityGeorge Kennan Member

Jeffrey Gould is exploring the problematic relations between the LatinAmerican left and its grassroots bases. In particular, he is focusing onminor utopian experiments promoted by peasants and workers in ElSalvador during the 1970s and the ways in which the left leadershipreacted to those movements.

Yannis HamilakisGreek Archaeology, Classical Reception · University of SouthamptonHetty Goldman Member

Yannis Hamilakis is examining the social biographies of primarily clas-sical archaeological monuments, artifacts, and sites in Greece and thebroader eastern Mediterranean, from the early modern period to thepresent. He is focusing on local, vernacular attitudes, discourses, andpractices and their clash with and eventual transformation by national,modernist archaeology, and more recent globalized processes.

James A. HarrisEighteenth-Century British Intellectual History · University of StAndrewsHans Kohn Member; additional funding provided by the Elizabeth and

J. Richardson Dilworth Fellowship Fund

James Harris is completing an intellectual biography of David Hume.In particular, he will be working on Hume’s History of England and itshistoriographical and political contexts, and on the place of religion inHume’s intellectual career taken as a whole.

Charles HartmanChinese History · University at Albany, State University of NewYork · sThe Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member

Charles Hartman researches the historiography of the Chinese Songdynasty (960-1279). His present work explores the synergistic relation-ship between rhetorical appeals to precedent during debates on stateeconomic policy and the creation of the dynasty’s political history.

Helmut HeitPhilosophy · Technische Universität Berlin Dilthey Fellowship funded by Volkswagen Stiftung

Helmut Heit is interested in the context, content, and currency ofNietzsche’s philosophy of science. He is studying Nietzsche’s relationto nineteenth-century developments in the sciences and his receptionin the twentieth century. What (good) is science according to Nietzsche and what may he contribute to our ongoing dispute?

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Yitzhak HenEarly Medieval History · Ben-Gurion University of the NegevFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member; additional funding provided

by the Herodotus Fund

Yitzhak Hen is studying the nature and role of Arianism in the earlymedieval West. By looking at each of the post-Roman Barbarian king-doms, with an emphasis on the place of Arianism within each, he isseeking to offer a new perspective on the function of Arianism in lateantiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Yonglin JiangChinese History · Bryn Mawr College Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by the American Council of Learned

Societies

Yonglin Jiang’s research interest focuses on legal culture in imperialChina and ethnicity and law in contemporary China. At the Institute,he will explore how justice was constructed in local communities andhow local adjudication and social change affected each other.

Mark JurdjevicItalian Renaissance ·York UniversityFelix Gilbert Member; additional funding provided by the National Endowment for

the Humanities

Mark Jurdjevic studies the political and intellectual history of the Ital-ian Renaissance, focusing in particular on Machiavelli and the theoryand practice of Florentine republicanism. He is currently studyingMachiavelli’s correspondence with Francesco Guicciardini and otherFlorentine intellectuals and politicians and its impact on Machiavelli’slater political thought.

David KennedyRoman Archaeology · University of Western Australia · v, f

David Kennedy is studying Arabia Petraea, across which are the tracesof several thousand “sites” from roads through villages to field systems.The published data is extensive and now complemented by extensiveaerial survey, offering a rare opportunity to interpret and map, defineand explain the dynamics of an extensive “Roman” landscape.

Jungwon KimKorean History · University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Jungwon Kim is examining socio-cultural-legal aspects of late ChosonKorea (1392–1910) by locating legal agencies of the state, local author-ities, and clientele in the making of early modern Korean local courts.Her study utilizes legal archives as a lens through which to view theinteractions between local courts and society.

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Derek KruegerReligion, Late Ancient and Byzantine Studies · The University ofNorth Carolina at GreensboroFunding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities; additional

funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Derek Krueger is studying the representation of the self in ByzantineChristian ritual from the sixth to the ninth centuries. Hymns, architec-tural settings, devotional objects collected on pilgrimage, and theemerging cult of icons gave Christians the opportunity to enter thenarratives of the Bible and become the subjects of liturgy.

Anna KrylovaModern Russian History · Duke University · sGeorge Kennan Member

Anna Krylova specializes in intellectual, cultural, and social history ofmodern Russia. Her interests also include questions of historical inter-pretation and critical theory. Her new project turns the pivotal andseemingly obvious term of modern Russian history––the “Soviet”––into a historical problematic and rethinks the history of buildingsocialism in the age of globalization.

Stephen D. LambertAncient History, Greek Epigraphy · Cardiff UniversityFunding provided by the Patrons’ Endowment Fund

Stephen Lambert plans to write a monograph on the city of Athens inone of the most eventful periods of its history, from the perspective ofthe city’s inscribed laws and decrees. It represents the final phase of aproject that has also involved preparation of a new corpus of theseinscriptions.

Renée Levine MelammedMedieval History, Jewish Studies · The Schechter Institute of JewishStudies · sFunding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Renée Levine Melammed’s field of research is medieval Jewish historywith an emphasis on social history and gender analysis of communitiesin Spain and Islamic countries. She will be working on a project focus-ing on women’s lives in Mediterranean society on the basis of docu-ments located in the Cairo Genizah (950–1250).

Munkh-Erdene LhamsurenCentral Eurasian Studies · National University of MongoliaGeorge Kennan Member

Munkh-Erdene Lhamsuren is studying the interweaving effects of “scientific” knowledge and state power upon the construction of col-lective identity. In particular, he is examining how a Russo-Soviet eth-nically framed vision of Mongolia and the Mongolian state’s Soviet-imposed and -inspired nationality policy transformed modern Mongo-lia into a multiethnic polity.

f First Term · s Second Term · v Visitor · vp Visiting Professor

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Maria Hsiuya LohHistory of Art · University College LondonWillis F. Doney Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Maria Loh is interested in ghost stories and in the pathos of portraiture.The focus of her research is the perfidious nature of portraits, the per-ishable body of the artist, and the multiple lives that rise from the ashesof the dead.

Carolyn MerchantHistory of Science, Environmental History · University of California,Berkeley · fFunding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Carolyn Merchant is examining thinkers from medieval times throughthe seventeenth century who grappled with the tensions between natureas an active, uncontrollable, creative force (natura naturans) as experiencedin everyday life versus nature as created world (natura naturata) that couldbe rationally understood and controlled though the laws of nature.

Christian MeyerEast Asian Studies · Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergGerda Henkel Stiftung Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Christian Meyer is studying how the traditional Chinese formula shen-dao shejiao (by “theistic ways” establishing the (moral) teachings) playedan instrumental role in the processes of appropriating the new Westernconcept of “religion.” The project analyzes its use as an illuminatingexample of the conceptual history of “religion” in modern China.

Jan-Werner MüllerModern Intellectual History · Princeton University · s

Jan-Werner Müller is tracing three strategies for finding a place forChristianity––and Catholicism in particular––in the modern demo-cratic order: the creation of a Christian demos, a demos constrained byChristian institutions, and Christian Democratic party politics. He aimsto draw larger normative lessons from this history, especially for think-ing about the relationship between Islam and democracy.

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

Hyun Ok Park is completing an investigation of the ways that the taskof rapprochement of the two Koreas has been changed to the forma-tion of ethnic sovereignty in the post–Cold War era. It concerns ademocratic politics that imagines the market as a mechanism of repara-tion, peace, and human rights.

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Marcus M. PaykModern European History · Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinDilthey Fellowship funded by Volkswagen Stiftung

Marcus Payk is exploring the role of international law and interna-tional lawyers at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919–20. His workseeks to understand the procedures that define “politics” and “law” inmodern international relations and how this contributed to the emer-gence of international legal regimes in Europe.

Roberta PergherEuropean History, Fascism, Empire · Indiana University · sElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow

The Fascist regime dreamt of a nazione impero, a vision that sometimesimplied a greater Italy populated only by Italians and at other timesassumed a variety of peoples living under beneficent Roman rule.Roberta Pergher is exploring the character and contradictions of Italian expansionism, locating them in the dilemmas of imperial rule inthe interwar period.

Anne-Lise ReyPhilosophy, History of Science · Université Lille 1Funding provided by the Florence Gould Foundation Fund

Anne-Lise Rey is exploring how many thinkers of the first half of theeighteenth century, often from different perspectives, attempted tocombine two incommensurable paradigms: Leibniz’s natural philoso-phy, whose physics is based on metaphysics, and modern science, asembodied by Newton who “does not imagine hypotheses.”

Juhyung RhiArt History · Seoul National UniversityEdwin C. and Elizabeth A. Whitehead Fellow; additional funding provided by the

Herodotus Fund

Juhyung Rhi specializes in Buddhist art focusing on South Asia andKorea. He has worked primarily on the tradition of Gandhara and cur-rently is working on a book that explores diverse aspects in the rela-tionship between the Buddhist religion and its visual manifestations inthe region.

Marijana RiclAncient History, Greek Epigraphy · University of BelgradeMartin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member

Marijana Ricl is currently looking at available literary sources, inscrip-tions, coins, and material traces of known sacred places in her investi-gation of local sanctuaries as human communities, unities of personsand things, and not simply places of cult in the everyday life of severalAnatolian regions (e.g., Mysia, Lydia, Phrygia) in the Hellenistic andRoman period.

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Bruce RuskCultural History of Early Modern China · The University of BritishColumbia · fThe Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member

Bruce Rusk is examining the creation and assessment of authenticity inChina during the late Ming (1368–1644) and early Qing (1644–1911).He seeks to show how the ubiquitous concept of authenticity (zhen)was defined through its opposites, ubiquitous failures, and subversions.

Ortal-Paz SaarMiddle Eastern History, Judaic Studies · Tel Aviv UniversityAMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Ortal-Paz Saar researches Jewish cultural history with a focus on magicand rituals. She is developing a socioreligious textual typology ofBabylonian incantation bowls. These intriguing ritual objects fromlate-antique Mesopotamia reflect the relations between the variousreligious groups who employed them.

Adam SabraIslamic Studies · University of California, Santa BarbaraFunding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities; additional

funding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Adam Sabra is studying an aristocratic family in Ottoman Egypt (ca.1500–1800). Arguing that families can be considered historical actors,he will attempt to explain the success of one family in advancing andpreserving its political, economic, and cultural status over a period ofthree centuries.

Ron SelaHistory, Historiography of Islamic Central Asia · Indiana University · fFunding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Ron Sela is examining the formation, development, and range ofmeanings of Turkic identity in Central Asia in the Islamic period basedon expressions of self-representation in written sources from theregion, authored in Chaghatay Turkic, Persian, Russian, and Arabic.

Mitra SharafiHistory of Law and Medicine in South Asia · University ofWisconsin–Madison · fThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Mitra Sharafi is a lawyer and historian whose work focuses on colonialIndia. Her first major project examined the use of colonial law by anethnoreligious minority, the Parsis or Zoroastrians. At the Institute, shewill be working on medical jurisprudence in colonial India.

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Weirong ShenHistory, Philology, Buddist Studies · Renmin University of ChinaThe Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member

Weirong Shen, a philologist and Chinese historian of Tibetan Bud-dhism, is currently researching the history of Tibetan tantric Buddhismof central Eurasia from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries through tex-tual criticism.

Evrydiki SifnaiouEconomic and Social History · The National Hellenic ResearchFoundation · f Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Evrydiki Sifnaiou is investigating the social and economic networks ofthe eastern Mediterranean. She is focusing on Odessa, a “peripatetic”approach to a nineteenth-century port-city, and how its multiethnicsocial groups “shared,” competed, clashed, and cooperated by presentingcommon or distinctive experiences in the city’s space.

Nigel Scott SmithComparative Literature and History · Princeton University

Nigel Smith is writing about the relationship between state structureand performance and literary production in early modern Europe,with a comparative focus on cases in England, the Dutch Republic,France, Spain, and German and Italian states. He will explore the artic-ulation of ideas of freedom in poetry and drama written in the regionin the period 1500 to 1700.

Jörg SonntagMedieval History · Technische Universität Dresden · fGeorge William Cottrell, Jr. Member; additional funding provided by the Herodotus

Fund

Jörg Sonntag is examining the cultural potential in medieval monasti-cism for the innovation, reception, and transmission of games and playas well as their ethical, political, and theological meanings and messageswithin society.

Nicola TerrenatoRoman Art and Archaeology · University of Michigan · sWilliam D. Loughlin Member; additional funding provided by the Hetty Goldman

Membership Fund

Nicola Terrenato studies the early phases of Rome’s expansion(fourth–third centuries B.C.E.) through archaeological and textualsources. He thinks that a different model of imperialism can be pro-posed by focusing on elite negotiation and non-Roman agency.

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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 lettercutting of the second half ofthe fifth century B.C. and on the hands of the so-called Athenian Tribute Lists.

Francesca TrivellatoEarly Modern European History ·Yale University · fHans Kohn Member

Francesca Trivellato is studying the persistence and transformation ofChristian ideas about Jewish usury to understand changing attitudestoward credit in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe. She willalso examine how nineteenth-century views of medieval Jews shapedgrand narratives about the rise of Western capitalism when economichistory emerged as an academic discipline.

Frans van LiereMedieval History · Calvin CollegeAgnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member

Frans van Liere is exploring how medieval Christians’ encounter withJewish scripture shows that medieval Christians came to acknowledgethat Jewish textual traditions were neither written in stone nor frozenin time, an acknowledgement that deeply influenced their attitudestoward Jews in this period.

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 current-ly exploring innovative ways to overcome obstacles in peace processesposed by conflicting interpretations of history.

Anthony VidlerArchitecture and Urban Studies · The Cooper Union for theAdvancement of Science and Art · s

Anthony Vidler is completing a history of architecture from 1945 tothe present, commissioned by the Oxford History of Art, in its intellec-tual, social, and political contexts with an emphasis on the role ofarchitecture in urban development, from postwar reconstruction to themega-cities of global expansion.

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Adelheid VoskuhlHistory of Technology · Harvard University · sFunding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Heidi Voskuhl is studying how engineers first drew up “philosophiesof technology” in the period of high industrialism in Germany and theUnited States and examining how questions about the “consequences”of technology in society and engineers’ “social responsibilities” becamematters of systematic public and semi-public debates of contemporarymetaphysics, political theory, and ethics.

Aihe WangChinese Studies · The University of Hong Kong · sWillis F. Doney Member; additional funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon

Foundation

Aihe Wang is researching the underground art communities duringChina’s Cultural Revolution. Centered on the Wuming painters andother cultural groups active in the 1970s, she is exploring how theireveryday practice generated alternative communities, and how humancreativity engendered visions and forces for social transformation.

Ittai WeinrybHistory of Art · Bard Graduate CenterThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Ittai Weinryb is studying the art and material culture of the longtwelfth century. By focusing on a complex and highly creativemoment of technological development, he will examine the reemer-gence and spread of metal-casting techniques in medieval Europe.

Frédérique WoertherIslamic Philosophy · Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueWillis F. Doney Member

Frédérique Woerther works on Aristotle and the Aristotelian traditionin antiquity and in medieval Islamic philosophy. She is currently work-ing on the Latin translation of Averroes’s “Middle Commentary on theNicomachean Ethics.”

Chen-Pang YeangHistory of Science and Technology · University of TorontoFunding provided by the Herodotus Fund

Chen-Pang Yeang works on the history of physics and technology intwentieth-century Western Europe and North America. At the Insti-tute, he plans to explore a broad history of noise in sound technology,statistical physics, mathematics of probability, and telecommunicationsengineering from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

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School of Mathematics

Administrative Officer: Mary Jane Hayes

The School of Mathematics, established in 1933, was the first School at theInstitute for Advanced Study. Oswald Veblen, Albert Einstein, John vonNeumann, and Hermann Weyl were the first Faculty appointments. KurtGödel, 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 mathematics inthe last seventy-five years owe their major impetus to discoveries that tookplace at the Institute. As an example, the creation of one of the first stored-program computers, which von Neumann built on the Institute’s campus,influenced the development of today’s computers and formed the mathe-matical basis for computer software.

During the 2012–13 academic year, the School’s special program will focuson univalent foundations of mathematics. The program activities will beorganized by Steve Awodey of Carnegie Mellon University, ThierryCoquand of the University of Gothenburg, and Vladimir Voevodsky of theInstitute. The main goal of the program will be to make available to awider mathematical audience the recent advances that may finally make itpractical for pure mathematicians to use “proof assistants” in their work.

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, andthe 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 TaylorProfessor

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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Peter AczelMathematical Logic · The University of Manchester · f

Peter Aczel has worked in mathematical logic, motivated by an interestin the foundations of mathematics. Among other topics, he is interest-ed in constructive set theory, a topic founded on dependent type theo-ry. He plans to contribute to the development of type theory as a uni-valent foundation.

Benedikt AhrensSemantics of Programming Languages · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Benedikt Ahrens is interested in the logic, syntax, and semantics ofprogramming languages, and the formalization of mathematics. Duringhis time at the Institute, he will participate in the development of uni-valent foundations.

Peter AlbersSymplectic Geometry · Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster · v

Peter Albers is working on symplectic geometry and Hamiltoniandynamical systems. During his visit at the IAS, he will mostly focus onworking on the polyfold theory developed by Hofer, Wysocki, andZehnder.

Thorsten AltenkirchComputer Science, Univalent Foundations · University of Nottingham · s

Thorsten Altenkirch researches type theory as a foundation of formalreasoning and its application to computer science, particularly categorytheory and constructive logic. He has formulated an extensional inten-sional type theory (LICS99,PLPv08), also called observational typetheory, which he would like to extend to a proof-relevant setting andalso capture Voevodsky’s univalence axiom.

Nalini AnantharamanMathematics · Université Paris-Sud 11 · vnf, sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation; additional funding provided

by the Fernholz Foundation

Nalini Anantharaman’s research explores the applications of the theoryof dynamical systems to the spectral theory of Schrödinger operators.She has been particularly interested in understanding “quantum chaos,”that is, the behavior of waves when the underlying classical dynamics ischaotic. Her current research program focuses on Laplacian eigenfunc-tions on large graphs.


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Stefanos AretakisPartial Differential Equations, Mathematical Physics · Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University · vri

Stefanos Aretakis is interested in hyperbolic partial differential equa-tions that arise in Einstein’s theory of general relativity. His main focushas been the study of stability and instability properties of the waveequation on black hole backgrounds. At the Institute, he plans to studythe black hole stability and uniqueness problem.

Steve AwodeyUnivalent Foundations · Carnegie Mellon UniversityFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member; additional funding provided

by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Steve Awodey is investigating connections between logic and homo-topy theory. He uses methods from higher category theory to relateconstructive type theories and Quillen model categories.

Nils A. BaasAlgebraic Topology, Systems Biology · Norwegian University ofScience and Technology · j, s

Nils Baas plans to study the use of higher order structures in topologyand geometry, especially in relation to new K-theories, generalizedbundles and cobordism categories. In systems biology, Baas plans tolook for structures in genomic data.

Bruno BarrasTheoretical Computer Science · Institut National de Recherche enInformatique et en Automatique · f

Bruno Barras is working on the formalization of set-theoretical mod-els of type theory. During his stay at the Institute, he will study theextension of the calculus of inductive constructions with Voevodsky’sunivalence axiom.

Andrej BauerLogic, Computation · University of Ljubljana · f

Andrej Bauer is broadly interested in computation and the computa-tional nature of mathematics, approaching the subject through logic,category theory, type theory, and constructive mathematics. He alsoworks on mathematical foundations of programming languages withemphasis on their mathematical semantics.

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Marius BeceanuPartial Differential Equations · Rutgers, The State University ofNew JerseyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Marius Beceanu studies the global behavior of solutions to evolutionpartial differential equations, such as the wave and Schrödinger‘s equa-tion. This includes questions related to the global existence, asymptoticstability, and scattering of large solutions.

Costante BellettiniMathematics and Geometric Analysis · Institute for Advanced Studyand Princeton University · vriFunding provided by the Giorgio and Elena Petronio Fellowship Fund and the

National Science Foundation

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 of man-ifolds and gauge theory.

Yves BertotComputer Science · Institut National de Recherche en Informatiqueet en Automatique · sFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Yves Bertot works on programming languages, foundations, type theo-ry, and formalized mathematics. He concentrates on the calculus ofconstructions as implemented in the Coq system and studies itsexpressive power, especially concerning real numbers, geometry, andthe termination of algorithms.

Marc BezemMathematical Logic, Computer Science · University of Bergen · s

Marc Bezem studies logic and computer science with an emphasis ontype theory, constructive mathematics, and the mechanization of rea-soning. At the Institute, he will work on the univalent foundations ofmathematics from the viewpoint of formalizing mathematics.

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.

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Jochen Wulf BrueningDifferential Geometry, Geometric Analysis · Humboldt–Universität zuBerlin · fFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Jochen Bruening will work on the spectral theory of Dirac operatorsdefined on compact Riemannian pseudomanifolds. The main objec-tives are localized index formulas and geometric properties that aredetermined by the spectrum; an important point concerns finding aconvenient description of the space of admissible metrics.

Aynur BulutPartial Differential Equations, Harmonic Analysis · Institute forAdvanced Study · fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation; additional funding provided


Aynur Bulut is working on problems concerning the local and globaltheory of nonlinear dispersive equations, particularly the nonlinear waveequation. She has developed an interest in the study of certain systems ofinfinitely many coupled partial differential equations arising in the deri-vation of dispersive equations from many-body quantum dynamics.

Marc BurgerLie Groups · Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich · s

At the Institute, Marc Burger plans to work on questions pertaining tothe realm of thin groups in the framework of higher Teichmüller theories.

Jing ChenComputer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyZurich Financial Services Member; additional funding provided by the National

Science Foundation

Jing Chen’s research is in theoretical computer science. Her maininterests are game theory and mechanism design. She is also interestedin cryptography, algorithms, computational complexity, and securehardware.

Tsao-Hsien ChenRepresentation Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Tsao-Hsien Chen is working on geometric Langlands in positive char-acteristic and representation of affine Lie algebra at critical level. Heplans to study geometric Hecke correspondence in positive character-istic and character formulas for irreducible highest weight modules atcritical level.

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Thierry CoquandType Theory and Constructive Mathematics · University ofGothenburgFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund and the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Thierry Coquand’s research is about the foundation and formalizationof mathematics, mainly using ideas from type theory. During his stay,he would like to understand if one can justify constructively Voevodsky’s axiom of univalence, and to explore the formalization ofmathematics in the univalent foundation.

Percy A. DeiftMathematical Physics · Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,New York University · sFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Percy Deift’s main interests are in integrable systems, random matrixtheory, and related areas. He is also interested in problems in partialdifferential equation with analysis.

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.

Klim EfremenkoComputer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation and the Charles Simonyi

Endowment

Klim Efremenko’s research areas are theoretical computer science,abstract algebra, and the interaction between them. He plans to developalgebraic tools that will allow him to study local properties of the errorcorrecting codes.

Eric Lee FinsterMathematics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Eric Finster’s research has focused on the connections between homotopytheory, higher category theory, and computer science. He is interestedin the formalization of homotopy theoretic ideas in proof assistants andthe relationship between type theories and coherence issues in highercategory theory, both of which he plans to pursue at the Institute.



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Charles FrancesConformal Geometry, Pseudo-Riemannian Geometry · Université Paris-Sud 11 · sThe Bell Companies Fellowship; additional funding provided by the Charles

Simonyi Endowment

Charles Frances is interested in rigid geometric structures in general,and more particularly in conformal geometry. He studies dynamicalproperties of the automorphism group, and the interplay between thedynamics and the underlying geometric structure.

Jürg FröhlichTheoretical and Mathematical Physics · Eidengenössische TechnischeHochschule Zürich · vpFunding provided by The Ambrose Monell 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.

Radhika GanapathyNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation; additional funding provided


Radhika Ganapathy’s research interests lie in the representation theoryof p-adic groups in the context of the Langlands program. Ganapathy’scurrent research focuses on understanding the local Langlands conjec-ture for the group GSp(4,F), where F is a nonarchimedean local fieldof characteristic p.

David GeraghtyNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity · vriFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

David Geraghty’s research to date has been concerned with modularityof Galois representations, particularly modularity lifting, and potentialmodularity. He plans to continue working on such questions as well asapplications to proving instances of Serre type conjectures on theweights of mod p Galois representations.

Marian GideaDynamical Systems · Northeastern Illinois University

Marian Gidea works in dynamical systems with applications to celestialmechanics, mathematical physics, and mathematical biology. The mainareas of his research are stability and instability in Hamiltonian systems,and the Arnold diffusion problem. He is planning to expand this workby using novel techniques from symplectic dynamics.



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Wushi GoldringNumber Theory, Galois Representations, Automorphic Forms · Institutefor Advanced Study · fFunding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund

Wushi Goldring studies parts of the relationship between Galois representations and automorphic forms, also known as the Langlandsprogram. More specifically, he is most interested in associating Galoisrepresentations to automorphic representations whose Archimedeancomponent is a limit of discrete series.

Mark GoreskyGeometry, Automorphic Forms · Institute for Advanced Study · mFunding provided by the James D. Wolfensohn Fund

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

Daniel GraysonMathematics · University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Daniel Grayson’s research focuses on algebraic K-theory and its connec-tion with motivic cohomology. He has also helped write mathematicalsoftware, including Mathematica and Macaulay2.At the Institute, he willhelp develop homotopy type theory and related software into a usefultool for verifying the proofs of modern mathematics.

Robert GuralnickGroup Theory and Representation Theory · University of SouthernCalifornia · v

Robert Guralnick works on the linear and permutation representationtheory of finite and algebraic groups. He is currently working onobtaining bounds for low degree cohomology with applications topresentations. Much of the motivation comes from problems in alge-braic and arithmetic geometry and number theory.

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

Height functions are useful for “bookkeeping” when solving diophan-tine equations but also have interesting intrinsic properties. Theyplayed an important role in resolving the Mordell conjecture and itsgeneralizations. Philipp Habegger’s research includes applications toconjectures on unlikely intersections and the distribution of heightvalues.



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Julia HartmannAlgebra · RWTH Aachen University · vnf, fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Julia Hartmann’s current research deals with local-global principles forGalois cohomology over arithmetic function fields, using so-calledpatching techniques. Her plan is to generalize these techniques tohigher dimensional situations and to obtain new applications. She isalso interested in differential algebra and invariant theory.

Doris HeinSymplectic Geometry · University of California, Santa CruzFunding 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.

Hugo HerbelinComputer Science · Institut National de Recherche en Informatiqueet en Automatique · f

Hugo Herbelin’s research focuses on the correspondence betweenproofs and programs. On a foundational side, he is currently investigat-ing the relations between forcing and memory effects and betweenchoice and lazy evaluation. On a more applied side, he is contributingto the implementation of proof assistants, such as Coq.

Nancy HingstonDifferential Topology and Geometry · The College of New Jersey

Nancy Hingston’s research concerns the interplay between Hamilton-ian dynamics and the topology of loop spaces in Morse theory. Whileat the Institute, she plans to study resonance phenomena and the algebra of loop products.

Yi HuAnalysis · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

During his stay at the Institute, Yi Hu will study the discrete Fourierrestriction phenomenon on paraboloids and spheres, as well as thewell-posedness and long-time behavior of some associated periodicpartial differential equations.



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Hao HuangCombinatorics, Theoretical Computer Science · Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

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.

Alessandra IozziLie Groups · Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich · sFunding provided by the Robert and Luisa Fernholz Visiting Professorship Fund

Alessandra Iozzi currently is interested in these topics of research: 1)higher Teichmüller theories (generalizations to Hermitian Lie groupsof properties or characterizations of classical Teichmüller space) 2)actions on CAT(0) cube complexes 3) multiplicative representations offree groups, virtually free groups, and more generally Gromov hyper-bolic groups.

André JoyalCategory Theory, Homotopy Theory, Logic · Université du Québec àMontréal · sFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

André Joyal is working on the applications of category theory tohomotopy theory, higher category theory, operads, and Koszul duality.He is interested in the foundation of homotopical logic. He plans tocollaborate with Steve Awodey, Thierry Coquand, and VladimirVoevodsky in the univalent foundations program.

Tasho KalethaGroup Theory, Automorphic Forms · Institute for Advanced Study andPrinceton University · vri

Tasho Kaletha’s research interests include the stable topological traceformula, the local Langlands correspondence and endoscopy for p-adicgroups, and the asymptotic behavior of divisibility functions for arith-metic groups. Currently, he is focusing on endoscopic character identi-ties for L-packets on p-adic groups.

Payman KassaeiArithmetic Geometry · King’s College London · v, f

Payman Kassaei investigates the geometry of arithmetic varieties andemploys them to study automorphic forms, especially from a p-adicviewpoint. A major theme in his work has been to devise methods toprove the classicality of p-adic automorphic forms. At the Institute, hewill further pursue this line of work and its recent generalizations.



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Gillat KolTheory of Computation · Weizmann Institute of Science · v, f

Gillat Kol is interested in complexity theory, with a focus on interac-tive proofs, probabilistically checkable proofs, and hardness of approxi-mation.

Dieter KotschickGeometry and Topology · Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenFunding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund

Dieter Kotschick expects to work on the topology of complex alge-braic varieties and Kähler manifolds, studying questions on characteris-tic classes and Hodge structures, on rational domination, and on fun-damental groups.

Ravishankar KrishnaswamyTheoretical Computer Science · Princeton University · v

Ravishankar Krishnaswamy’s interests are in theoretical computer sci-ence. More specifically, he is interested in exploring the approximabil-ity of basic problems that arise in combinatorial optimization.

Pierre Le BoudecNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Pierre Le Boudec’s research has been so far mainly focused on thestudy of the distribution of rational points on algebraic varieties. He isalso interested in analytic number theory in a broad sense.

Michael LesnickApplied Algebraic Topology · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Michael Lesnick’s research focuses on the theoretical foundations oftopological data analysis. Currently, he is interested in studyingpseudometrics on diagrams of topological spaces, called interleavingdistances, which arise naturally in the study of topological inference.



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Dong LiMathematical Physics, Fluid Dynamics · The University of BritishColumbia · vnfFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

At the Institute, Dong Li will work on interrelated problems in molec-ular dynamics, mathematical physics, and fluid dynamics.

Jing LiApplied Mathematics · Institute for Advanced Study · v

Jing Li’s research in applied mathematics is concerned with usingmathematical techniques (e.g., ordinary differential equations, partialdifferential equations, delay differential equations, game theory, etc.) todescribe, understand, and predict the dynamics of biological systems ina variety of settings related to epidemiology, ecology, and immunology,as well as in the study of economic and logistical issues involved ininfectious disease management.

Dan LicataComputer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation and the Oswald Veblen Fund

Dan Licata will work on the theory and implementation of proofassistants for homotopy type theory, including the computational con-tent of the univalence axiom and higher-dimensional inductive types,and applications in computer science to generic programming.

Shachar LovettComputer Science · Institute for Advanced Study · fFunding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund

Shachar Lovett is interested in all aspects of theoretical computer sci-ence, particularly computational complexity, pseudorandomness, cod-ing theory, algebraic constructions, and lower bounds. He is also inter-ested in additive combinatorics and its connections to theoreticalcomputer science.

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

Peter Lumsdaine’s main work this year is in Voevodsky’s univalentfoundations group, on the formalization and proof theory of homo-topy type theory. Other interests include higher category theory, tradi-tional constructive logic, and categorical approaches to quantum com-puting.



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Assia MahboubiTheoretical Computer Science · Institut National de Recherche enInformatique et en Automatique · vnf, fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Assia Mahboubi is interested in the foundations of mathematics, par-ticularly in type theory. She works on the formalization of mathemat-ics as computer checked libraries using proof assistants.

Per Martin-LöfLogic · Stockholm University · f

While at the Institute, Per Martin-Löf will work on extending hisconstructive type theory with spreads and choice sequences, the keynotions of the novel approach to topology that Brouwer conceivedduring the First World War, soon after Hausdorff ’s introduction of set-theoretic topology in 1914.

Mark McLeanDifferential Geometry · Institute for Advanced Study · s

Mark McLean is interested in the interaction between symplecticgeometry and algebraic/analytic geometry.

Or MeirComputer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation and the Oswald Veblen

Fund

Or Meir is interested in all areas of theoretical computer science, par-ticularly in complexity theory, probabilistically checkable proofs, cod-ing theory, and derandomization.

Raghu MekaTheoretical Computer Science · Institute for Advanced Study · v

Raghu Meka’s main interests are in complexity theory, pseudoran-domness, and algorithms. More generally, he is interested in probabili-ty- and combinatorics-related problems.



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Sergey MelikhovGeometric Topology, Homotopy Type Theory · Steklov MathematicalInstitute, Russian Academy of Sciences · s

Sergey Melikhov works in geometric topology, focusing recently oncombinatorial embedding theory, algebraic topology of the group ofp-adic integers, and foundational issues. At the Institute, he intends tostudy geometric aspects of homotopy type theory, aiming at a morecombinatorial setup and at clarifying the role of simple homotopy.

Manor MendelMetric Geometry, Theoretical Computer Science · The Open Universityof Israel · vnfFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Manor Mendel currently is interested mostly in metric invariants andapplications of metric geometry to theoretical computer science.

Ankur MoitraComputer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Ankur Moitra will work on questions in theoretical computer science.In particular, he is interested in applying mathematical tools to prob-lems in algorithms and learning theory.

Sophie MorelShimura Varieties · Princeton University · v

Sophie Morel is studying the automorphic representations appearingin the intersection cohomology of the Baily-Borel compactification ofShimura varieties. One of her main tools will be Arthur’s stable traceformula.

Jelani NelsonTheoretical Computer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Jelani Nelson is working to develop algorithms for processing massiveamounts of data and specifically algorithms that use very little memoryand require only one pass over the data (so-called streaming algorithms).



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Stefan PatrikisNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Stefan Patrikis is interested in the relationships between automorphicforms, Galois representations, and motives. He has worked on a parallellifting problem in the three settings, and on understanding examplesthat reflect the limits of the conjectural dictionaries between them. Aclosely related interest is monodromy of l-adic Galois representations.

Alvaro PelayoSymplectic Geometry, Special Theory of Integrable Systems · WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis · v/f, sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Alvaro Pelayo is researching completely integrable systems, Hamilton-ian dynamics and symplectic geometry, and geometric aspects of par-tial differential equations.

Andrew PolonskyComputer Science · Institute for Advanced Study · sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Coming from a background in untyped lambda calculus, AndrewPolonsky is interested in all topics of modern type theory. During hisstay at the Institute, he intends to work on the computational interpre-tation of univalence.

Gopal PrasadLie Groups, Algebraic Groups, Arithmetic Groups · University ofMichigan · f

Gopal Prasad works on Lie and algebraic groups, arithmetic groups,geometry of locally symmetric spaces, and the representation theory ofreductive p-adic groups.

Sivaguru RavisankarSeveral Complex Variables · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the James D. Wolfensohn Fund

Sivaguru Ravisankar’s research interests broadly lie in several complexvariables. He plans to explore the tangential gain in regularity for aholomorphic function near the boundary of a smoothly boundeddomain in mathbb{C}n. Specifically, he is interested in studying thisgain in Lipschitz, L_P, and Sobolev regularity classes.



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Ran RazComputational Complexity · Weizmann Institute of Science · vp, f Neil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Founders’ Circle Visiting Professor;

additional funding 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, com-munication complexity, propositional proof theory, probabilisticallycheckable proofs, quantum computation and communication, and ran-domness and derandomization.

Arul ShankarNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Arul Shankar is interested in number theoretic questions in the field ofarithmetic statistics. In graduate school, he worked on questionsregarding the distributions of the discriminants and class numbers ofnumber fields, and the distribution of the ranks and sizes of Selmergroups of elliptic curves.

Tatyana ShcherbinaMathematical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation; additional funding provided


Tatyana Shcherbina works in random matrix theory. She plans to studythe local spectral properties of band matrices, in particular the localasymptotic behavior of the products of the characteristic polynomials.

Nick SheridanSymplectic Geometry · Institute for Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity · vriFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

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, like symplectic coho-mology and the Fukaya category.

Michael ShulmanMathematics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Michael Shulman is interested in higher category theory and homo-topy theory and their applications to the rest of mathematics. At theInstitute, he plans to study homotopical type theory and univalentfoundations, particularly as a foundational system and as an internallanguage for higher toposes.



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Ali Kemal SinopTheoretical Computer Science · Institute for Advanced Study · v

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

Christopher SkinnerNumber Theory · Princeton University · v

Christopher Skinner’s research focuses mainly on Galois representationsand automorphic forms and their applications to algebraic numbertheory, especially special values of L-functions.

Anders SödergrenNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Anders Södergren works in analytic number theory and dynamicalsystems on homogeneous spaces. While at the Institute, he plans toaddress questions about the geometry of numbers and automorphicfunctions in high dimension.

Matthieu SozeauComputer Science · Institute for Advanced Study · fFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Matthieu Sozeau is one of the main developers of the Coq proof-assis-tant, currently used as the basis of the univalent foundations program.His plan is to work on adapting the theory and implementation ofCoq to homotopy type theory, including an adequate universe systemand facilities for rewriting and proving in this new setting.

Bas SpittersMathematics and Computer Science · Radboud University Nijmegen · s

Bas Spitters’s research interests are in the use of logic, type theory, andtopos theory, in analysis and topology. He applies these methods to theformalization of mathematics and the foundations of quantum physics.



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Christine J. TaylorEvolutionary Game Theory, Evolution of Cooperation · Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton UniversityFunding provided by the Fernholz Foundation

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.

Mina TeicherAlgebraic Geometry · Bar-Ilan University · v

Mina Teicher is interested in line arrangements, the structure of thebraid group, and its application to cryptography. In parallel, she is inter-ested in neural computations (including methods from geometry,graph theory, and statistics) for theoretical questions as well as brainimaging for applications to epilepsy and depression.

Benno van den BergMathematics · Utrecht University · s

Benno van den Berg’s research is in mathematical logic and categorytheory, with applications to mathematics and computer science. Dur-ing his stay, he will work on Voevodsky’s univalent foundations formathematics with the purpose of developing its semantics, its connec-tions with higher-dimensional category theory, as well as its imple-mentation as a proof assistant.

Ilya VolkovichTheoretical Computer Science · Technion–Israel Institute ofTechnology · v

Ilya Volkovich’s research interests lie in the area of theoretical computerscience, more specifically, the question of derandomization, the roles ofrandomness and algebraic tools in computation, and algebraic problemsin computer science. His interests also include some aspects of gametheory.

Xin WanNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the S. S. Chern Foundation for Mathematics Research Fund

and the National Science Foundation

Xin Wan is interested in the relations between special values of L-functions and Selmer groups, more concretely, the Bloch-Kato conjec-tures and Iwasawa main conjectures for unitary groups.



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Fang WangMicrolocal Analysis, Geometric Scattering Theory, General Relativity,Partial Differential Equations · Institute for Advanced Study andPrinceton University · vriFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Fang Wang is currently working on the asymptotic behavior of solutionsto Einstein vacuum equations by applying the geometric scatteringtheory.

Michael A. WarrenComputer Science, Homotopy Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund

Michael Warren’s research is in logic, higher-dimensional categorytheory, and homotopy theory. He is interested in connections betweenthese areas, and he will take part in the development of Voevodsky’sunivalent foundations during his time at the Institute. He is also inter-ested in stacks and nonabelian cohomology.

Jun YuComputer Science · Institute for Advanced Study · sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Jun Yu is interested in branching problem for representations; currently,he is working on applying the idea of stability and moment map to thestudy of this problem. He is also interested in some questions aboutalgebraic vector bundles and diophantine approximations.

Eduard ZehnderAnalysis, Dynamical System, Symplectic Geometry · EidgenössischeTechnische Hochschule ZürichFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Eduard Zehnder’s fields of interests are dynamical systems, in particularHamiltonian systems and symplectic geometry. He plans to continuethe joint work with Helmut Hofer and Kris Wysocki on the symplec-tic field theory.

Noam ZeilbergerComputer Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Noam Zeilberger is interested broadly in the connections betweenlogic and language and computation, and will participate in the univa-lent foundations project during his stay at the Institute. His work hasfocused on understanding computational duality and the problem ofside-effects within the context of type theory.



Aleksey ZingerSymplectic Topology and Algebraic Geometry · Stony Brook University,The State University of New York

Aleksey Zinger’s research primarily concerns Gromov-Witten invari-ants and is often motivated by predictions arising from string theory.While at the Institute, he plans to focus on studying analytic propertiesof pseudoholomorphic maps with an eye toward applications in Gro-mov-Witten theory and elsewhere in symplectic topology.

David ZywinaNumber Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

David Zywina works in arithmetic geometry with strong influencesfrom Galois theory and analytic number theory. He is currently study-ing the images of Galois representations arising from abelian varietieswith a particular focus on elliptic curves.

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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.

Areas of current interest in theoretical physics include elementary parti-cle physics, particle phenomenology, string theory, and quantum theoryand quantum gravity and their relationship to geometry. The astrophysicsgroup combines theory with modern observational studies to understanda wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. The research in mathematicalphysics and string theory benefits from synergistic collaborations with theSchool of Mathematics. The programs in physics and astronomy are close-ly integrated with corresponding activities at Princeton University viajoint seminars and lunches, as well as frequent informal contacts.

The Simons Center for Systems Biology takes an interdisciplinaryapproach to biology, conducting research at the interface of molecularbiology and the physical sciences and drawing researchers from an arrayof disciplines, including mathematics, physics, astrophysics, molecularbiology, and chemistry. The Center encourages collaborations with otheracademic and clinical groups as well as with research scientists from phar-maceutical, biotechnology, and computer companies to pool biologicaldata and to confirm theoretical models. The Center hosts a variety ofjoint “lab meetings,” seminars, symposia, and public lectures that takeplace during the year.

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 is currently developing newalgorithms for 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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Ofer Haim AharonyParticle Physics · Weizmann Institute of ScienceIBM Einstein Fellow

Ofer Aharony will continue his research work in theoretical high-energy physics, focusing on a better understanding of strongly coupledfield theories, string theories, and the relations between them. Heintends to work on confinement in strongly coupled gauge theories(such as quantum chromodynamics) and the dual string theorydescription of free field theories.

Yacine Ali-HaïmoudTheoretical Astrophysics, Cosmology · Institute for Advanced StudyFrank and Peggy Taplin Member; additional funding provided by the National

Science Foundation

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

Nils A. BaasAlgebraic Topology, Systems Biology · Norwegian University ofScience and Technology · s

Nils Baas plans to study the use of higher order structures in topologyand geometry, especially in relation to new K-theories, generalizedbundles, and cobordism categories. In systems biology, Baas plans tolook for structures in genomic data.

Till BargheerQuantum Field Theory, String Theory · Uppsala University · sEuropean 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.

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

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.

f First Term · s Second Term · m Long-term Memberv Visitor · vp Visiting Professor · j Joint Member School of Mathematics

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

the 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.

Simon Caron-HuotMathematical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, String Theory, SupersymmetryInstitute for Advanced Study · mMarvin L. Goldberger Member; additional funding provided by the National

Science Foundation

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

Lucy J. ColwellApplied Mathematics and Biology · MRC Laboratory of MolecularBiology

Lucy Colwell is interested in using and developing mathematical tech-niques to better understand the relationship between biologicalsequence and phenotype, in particular at the level of proteins and pro-tein complexes.

Nathaniel CraigParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Nathaniel Craig’s research concerns high-energy theoretical physics.He is interested principally in studying connections between quantumfield theory, string theory, and particle phenomenology with an eyetoward their potential experimental signatures.

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Tudor Dan DimofteMathematical and Particle Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyWilliam D. Loughlin Member; additional funding provided by the United States

Department of Energy

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

Subo DongAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced Study · mRalph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Member

Subo Dong works on extrasolar planet searches with gravitationalmicrolensing. While at the Institute, he plans to develop new numeri-cal techniques for interpreting microlensing observations and toexplore the frequency and distribution of planets. He also hopes tostudy other areas of astrophysics, with an emphasis on dynamics.

Cora DvorkinCosmology, Astrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the W. M. Keck Foundation Fund and 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, mod-els of dark matter and methods to test them, and dark energy.

Thomas FaulknerTheoretical Physics · University of California, Santa BarbaraFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Thomas Faulkner is interested in black holes and the holographic cor-respondence, 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.

Rodrigo FernandezAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced Study · mFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Rodrigo Fernandez is interested in theoretical astrophysics at the stel-lar scale. His research makes use of numerical simulations to gaininsight into complex astrophysical systems. Currently, he works on theexplosion mechanism of core-collapse supernovae, the X-ray emissionfrom neutron stars, and the nuclear physics of compact object mergers.

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Guido FestucciaHigh-Energy Theoretical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyMarvin L. Goldberger Member; additional funding provided by the National

Science Foundation

Guido Festuccia’s primary interest is quantum field theory. Recently,he has worked on supersymmetry, its breaking, and applications to par-ticle-physics phenomenology. He also plans to study the correspon-dence between string and gauge theory, particularly its consequencesfor black hole physics.

Raphael FlaugerTheoretical Physics · Institute for Advanced Study

Raphael Flauger’s research interests range from phenomenologicalquestions in cosmology and particle physics to formal questions inquantum field theory and string theory. Currently, he is interested inextracting clues about fundamental physics from cosmological obser-vations.

Benjamin GreenbaumBiology · Institute for Advanced Study · mEric and Wendy Schmidt Member in Biology

Benjamin Greenbaum will be working on patterns in the evolution ofviruses and how those patterns relate to host biology. Specifically, he isinterested in using viruses to better understand the innate immune sys-tem.

Daniel GrinCosmology, Theoretical Astrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by NASA

Daniel Grin is interested in a variety of topics in theoretical cosmolo-gy, including cosmological recombination, inflationary perturbations,the cosmic microwave background more generally, axions, dark matterhalo profiles, nonstandard thermal histories for the early universe,modifications to general relativity, gravitational lensing, and Lymanlimit absorbers.

Thomas HartmanParticle Physics, String Theory · Institute for Advanced StudyCorning Glass Works Foundation Member; additional funding provided by the

United States Department of Energy

Thomas Hartman’s research is on string theory, black holes, and theholographic correspondence relating quantum gravity to gauge theory.He is interested in both theoretical and phenomenological questionsin quantum gravity.

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Johannes HennParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced Study · mAMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the United States Department of

Energy

Johannes Henn’s research focuses on supersymmetric quantum fieldtheory and its relation to string theory. He is working on recently dis-covered dualities between scattering amplitudes, correlation functionsof local operators, and Wilson loops with the aim of finding new hid-den structures in the weak and strong coupling description of theseobjects.

Anson Z. Y. HookParticle Physics · Stanford UniversityFunding 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 optimiz-ing Large Hadron Collider search strategies for new physics to generalproperties of quantum field theories.

John J. HopfieldBiology · Princeton University · vpMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Visiting Professor in Biology

Physical systems with a large number of simple interacting parts typi-cally exhibit robust collective dynamics. Brains are large systems whosecellular properties and interactions have evolved to yield activitydynamics that solve computational problems relevant to survival. JohnHopfield’s current research examines issues such as “thinking” and“perception” in the intersection between these two ideas.

Boaz KatzAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced Study · mJohn N. Bahcall Fellow; additional funding provided by the NASA Einstein

Fellowship Program

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

Nakwoo KimTheoretical Physics · Kyung Hee University · f

Nakwoo Kim’s main research area is superstring theory and supergrav-ity. More specifically, Kim has worked on both quantum field theoret-ical and gravitational problems with AdS/CFT in mind. Kim is inter-ested in constructing explicit supergravity solutions, classification ofsupersymmetric solutions, and the study of string duality in generalthrough matrix model of M-theory.

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Matthew KlebanParticle Physics · New York UniversityFunding provided by the W. M. Keck Foundation Fund

During his stay at the Institute, Matthew Kleban plans to focus onthose aspects of string theory most relevant to cosmology with theultimate goal of uncovering stringy effects that can be observed. Inaddition, he will study the physics of black hole and cosmologicalhorizons and singularities using string theory dualities and othermethods.

Zohar KomargodskiString Theory, Supersymmetry, Phenomenology · Institute for AdvancedStudy · mFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Zohar Komargodski’s research concerns quantum field theories. Heis interested in their connection to string theory and to particlephysics phenomenology. In particular, he intends to work on super-symmetry and its breaking.

Graham KribsParticle Physics · University of Oregon · sFunding 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.

Doron KushnirAstrophysics · Weizmann Institute of ScienceFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

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

Brian Cameron 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 understand-ing this 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.

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Paul LangackerParticle Physics · Institute for Advanced Study · v

Paul Langacker will explore the physics implications of concrete stringconstructions. This will include possibilities for extended gauge, Higgs,fermion, quasi-hidden sectors for collider physics, and nonstandardmechanisms for generating neutrino mass. He is also completing anadvanced textbook on “The Standard Model and Beyond.”

Albert LibchaberBiology · The Rockefeller University · vp

Albert Libchaber studies mathematical patterns in biology at themolecular, cellular, and organismal levels. His work examines RNAmolecular structure; the minimal conditions needed to produce anartificial cell; and the interactions and dynamics between organism andenvironment, including the effects of moving boundary conditions onfluid flow.

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 mathemati-cal and statistical tools in population genetics to study the dynamics ofdemography, natural selection, epistasis, and recombination in patternsof genetic variation in natural populations.

Elke Katrin MarkertBiology · Institute for Advanced Study · mBristol-Myers Squibb Member in Biology

Elke Markert’s research background is in algebraic topology, where shehas been studying structures emerging from mathematical quantumfield theory. She is working on the analysis of higher-level structures inbiological systems using the mathematical framework of hyperstruc-tures. She will also begin to study the influence of gene regulation incancer and other diseases.

Gregory MooreMathematical Physics · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · fFunding provided by The Ambrose Monell Foundation

Gregory Moore’s work focuses on mathematical physics with anemphasis on string theory, M-theory, and gauge theories more gen-erally. His work places particular emphasis on the underlying mathe-matical structures and applications to and from modern mathematics.

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Kohta MuraseAstroparticle Physics · The Ohio State UniversitySpace 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 Curie

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

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

Foundation

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

Rafael A. PortoTheoretical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation and the United States

Department of Energy

Broadly speaking, Rafael Porto is a theoretical physicist working onthe fundamental and observational aspects of gravity and quantumfield theory. His interests include black holes, gravitational waves, cos-mology, high-energy physics, and all the connections between them.

Frans PretoriusTheoretical Physics · Princeton University · v

Frans Pretorius’s research area is general relativity, focusing on numeri-cal modeling of astrophysical sources of gravitational waves and othertopics of more theoretical interest, including higher dimensional blackholes and AdS spacetimes.

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Rami PugatchBiology · Institute for Advanced Study

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.

Shlomo S. RazamatTheoretical Physics · Institute for Advanced StudyMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Member; additional funding provided by the

National Science Foundation

Shlomo Razamat’s research interests concern different aspects of quan-tum field theory and string theory and the interplay between them.He is mainly working on gauge/string (gravity) duality and on study-ing properties of strongly coupled supersymmetric field theories.

Hanno ReinTheoretical Astrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Hanno Rein is studying the formation and evolution of planetary sys-tems. During his stay at the Institute, he intends to work on analyticmodels and large-scale numerical simulations to explain the dynamicalconfiguration of exoplanets and our own solar system.

Adam RejAdS/CFT Correspondence and Integrable Models · Institute forAdvanced StudyEuropean Commission Marie Curie Fellowship

Adam Rej’s research focuses on diverse aspects of integrable systems,nonperturbative methods in gauge and string theory, and strong/weakcoupling dualities. He is particularly interested in the integrable andsolvable structures emerging in the planar AdS/CFT correspondence.

James RhoadsAstrophysics · Arizona State University · v, s

James Rhoads studies galaxy formation, galaxy evolution, the reioniza-tion of intergalactic hydrogen by early galaxies. He also studies thenature of gamma-ray bursters through the physics and phenomenologyof their long wavelength afterglow emission.

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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 interact-ing quantum field theory in four dimensions: N=4 SYM, which isan interacting conformal gauge theory with maximal supersymme-try. He is focusing on computing scattering amplitudes using inte-grability and has started computing correlation functions, the nextstep in complexity.

David Simmons-DuffinParticle Physics · Harvard UniversityFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

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

David SkinnerMathematical Physics, Quantum Field Theory · University ofCambridgeIBM Einstein Fellow; additional funding provided by The Ambrose Monell

Foundation

David Skinner is interested in quantum field theory and in gravity.More particularly, he is studying the rich geometric structure thatlies behind gauge and gravitational scattering amplitudes, and intheir relation to twistor theory and string theory.

Tracy SlatyerParticle Physics, Astrophysics · Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

At the Institute, Tracy Slatyer will continue her work on novel modelsof dark matter and their astrophysical and cosmological consequences.She is also interested in model-building and experimental probes forphysics beyond the Standard Model more generally, and in exploringnew research directions in high-energy theoretical physics.

Aristotle SocratesAstrophysics · Institute for Advanced Study · mJohn N. Bahcall Fellow

Aristotle Socrates is interested in high-energy astrophysics, particularlythe physical processes that underlie accretion onto black holes andneutron stars. He is exploring the effects of cosmic ray production onthe mass and luminosity of galaxies and their respective black holes,and studying the tidal and thermal evolution of extrasolar giant planets.

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David S. SpiegelExoplanetary Science · Institute for Advanced StudyFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study 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 Institute 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, thephysics of gas accretion onto neutron stars and black holes, the prob-lem of matter, and radiation interaction under extreme astrophysicalconditions.

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

Tiberiu Tesileanu is currently working on developing thermodynamicmodels of transcriptional regulation in bacteria and in mammaliancells. While at the Institute, he plans to work on understanding howcomputation with unreliable components is achieved in biological sys-tems and to draw parallels with artificial computation.

Tsvi TlustyBiology · Institute for Advanced StudyMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Founders’ Circle Member

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

Brian M. WillettParticle Physics · California Institute of TechnologyFunding 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-coupling phe-nomena such as dualities, a subject that has strong interactions withstring/M-theory.

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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.

Kazuya YonekuraParticle Physics · University of TokyoFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

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

Kathryn ZurekParticle Physics · University of Michigan · v, f

Kathryn Zurek works on theories of dark matter and ways that itcan be detected in the lab by dark matter-nucleus interactions, atcolliders through high-energy collisions, and in the galaxy by darkmatter self-annihilations.


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School of Social ScienceAdministrative Officer: Donne Petito

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, com-parative, and international approach to social research.

Professors of the School have participated actively in the most important contemporary debates about the meaning of the “interpretive turn” inanthropology, history, and political theory; about the centrality of culture, language, ritual, and moral understandings in the study of society; about thecharacter and direction of social change; about the explanatory power ofrational choice in the analysis of political decision-making and economicexchange; and about the epistemological and theoretical issues related tocritical thinking. Although each is rooted in his or her own discipline, all dowork that transcends disciplinary boundaries. The School operates underthe guiding principles of informality and collegiality and with a shared under-standing that the social sciences are not to be narrowly defined. Each year, the School brings together scholars 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 2012–13 academic year is “Economics and Politics.” Economicand political matters are obviously closely connected. Indeed, the disciplines ofeconomics and political science have their common origin in the field of polit-ical economy, which was premised on this inter-relationship. For many decades,however, each discipline took rather little notice of the other; the subjectsevolved in more-or-less parallel universes. That has changed in recent years,which have seen a renaissance in the study of economics and politics togeth-er. Thus, for example, scholars have been investigating how political alignmentsinduce and constrain economic policy—and, conversely, how economic con-ditions shape the growth of political movements and coalitions. A diversegroup of eight to twelve scholars will examine positive issues like these, andnormative questions, such as which political systems best promote economicwelfare, as well as research on the history of political economy and politicaleconomists, the theories advanced in that field and their pertinence to whatcounts as political economy today. Under the direction of Visiting ProfessorMarco Battaglini, these are some issues the seminar will examine.

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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 and edu-cation and equality.

Didier Fassin James D. Wolfensohn Professor

Didier Fassin is an anthropologist and a sociologist who hasconducted field studies in Senegal, Ecuador, South Africa,and France. Trained as a physician in internal medicine andpublic health, he dedicated his early research to medicalanthropology, illuminating important issues about the AIDSepidemic, social inequalities in health, and the changinglandscape of global health. More recently, he has developedpolitical and moral anthropology, a new domain of inquirythat analyzes the reformulation of injustice and violence assuffering and trauma, the expansion of an internationalhumanitarian government, and the contradictions in thecontemporary politics of life. His present project exploresthe political and moral treatment of disadvantaged groups,including immigrants and refugees, through an ethnographyof police, justice, and prison.

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 of dem-ocratic politics. More broadly, the object of her work is thequestion of difference in history: its uses, enunciations,implementations, justifications, and transformations in theconstruction of social and political life.

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Albert O. HirschmanProfessor Emeritus

During his retirement years, Albert Hirschman continuedto work and write on problems of economic developmentin Latin America as well as on more general social-sciencesubjects. Lately, health problems have forced him to retirefrom active academic work.

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 towriting frequently about war and terrorism, he is cur-rently addressing questions of pluralism, ethnicity, culturalrights, and multiculturalism. He continues to work onvolumes three and four of a major collaborative projectfocused on the history of Jewish political thought.

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Marco BattagliniEconomics · Princeton University · vp

Marco Battaglini is an economic theorist who has worked on prob-lems of strategic communication, contractual design, and collectivechoice. His current research is focused on the study of dynamiceconomies with special emphasis on the political economy determi-nants of public investments, public debt, and taxation.

Lucas BessireAnthropology · University of Oklahoma

Lucas Bessire studies the contradictory ways that indigenous kinds ofhumanity are defined and governed in Latin America in order todescribe how the category of culture increasingly delimits a reductivepolitics of legitimate life. How might we conceptualize an alternativefoundation for a publicly relevant anthropology of indigeneity?

Venkataraman BhaskarEconomics · University College LondonRoger W. Ferguson Jr. and Annette L. Nazareth Member

Venkataraman Bhaskar’s research will use matching models to under-stand the economic and social consequences of sex ratio imbalances inEast and South Asia: on the position of women, the balance of powerbetween sexes, and on parental investments in children. He also will ana-lyze dynamic models of contracting that combine moral hazard withlearning.

João BiehlAnthropology · Princeton University · v

João Biehl is interested in the ethnography of global health interven-tions, and his current research explores the role of the Brazilian judici-ary in the administration of public health. He also is writing the histo-ry of a religious war—the Mucker war—that took place among Ger-man immigrants in nineteenth-century Brazil.

Eric ChaneyEconomics · Harvard University

Eric Chaney will investigate the mechanisms through which exploita-tive institutions both persist and dampen growth using microlevelinstitutional variation from the Kingdom of Valencia, Spain, from 1575until the present day. Preliminary results suggest that these institutionalarrangements decreased incomes, stymied the development of thenonagricultural sector, and increased criminal activity.

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Alev CinarPolitical Science · Mugla University

Alev Cinar is examining the intellectual basis for the Islam-based poli-tics of the ruling AKP in Turkey, and argues that its immense electoralsuccess partly is due to its unique ideology that merges globalized/ Western political thought with local Islamic knowledge.

Randall CurrenPhilosophy · University of RochesterGinny and Robert Loughlin Founders’ Circle Member

Randall Curren’s work explores relationships between education,ethics, law, responsibility, and citizenship, often from starting points inthe works of Plato and Aristotle. His current project concerns humanflourishing and its educational enhancement. It theoretically integratesphilosophical and psychological research on well-being and develops ageneral account of educational justice.

John M. de FigueiredoEconomics · Duke UniversityAMIAS Member

John de Figueiredo is studying how the policies of administrativeagency are affected by employee expertise, politicization, and interestgroup participation. This research, which integrates recent work inpolitical science and personnel economics, will complement his con-tinuing work on money in politics and interest group lobbying of leg-islatures.

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 cri-tique of Socrates’s conception of philosophical method and his associ-ated doctrine of “intellectualism.”

Vincent DuboisPolitical Sociology · Université de StrasbourgFunding provided by the Florence Gould Foundation Fund

Vincent Dubois’s sociological approach to public policy includes cul-tural sociology and policy, language policy, poverty and welfare. Hiscurrent research program on welfare control and anti-fraud policiesprovides an original contribution to the analysis of the new balancebetween politics, economics, and morals that define the contemporarysocial state.


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David L. EngLiterature · University of Pennsylvania

David Eng is investigating reparations and human rights in Cold WarAsia. Focusing on unexamined links between political and psychicgenealogies of reparation, he is exploring the possibilities and limits ofrepairing war, violence, and colonialism in the wake of changing con-ceptions of the human being after genocide and nuclear holocaust.

Ruben EnikolopovEconomics · New Economic School, MoscowDeutsche Bank Member

Ruben Enikolopov is analyzing the effect of the largest community-based development program in Afghanistan on improving the attitudesof villagers toward state institutions and government and examiningwhether newly created councils assume responsibilities of legitimatelocal governments and if their creation improves the quality of localgovernance.

Sara R. FarrisSociology · University of Cambridge

Sara Farris is researching the contemporary mobilization of feministideas by right-wing nationalist parties in Europe, particularly its anti-Islamic dimensions. She calls this discursive formation “Femonational-ism.” She aims to reconstruct, analyze, and interpret this phenomenonwith an interdisciplinary (sociological, political, and political-econom-ic) framework.

Jessica GoldbergMedieval History · University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Goldberg uses mercantile records to explore medieval geogra-phy not from the high culture of the literary record but as a practicalproblem. The business records of two twelfth-century communities––Jewish businessmen of Cairo and merchants of Genoa––show theMediterranean from the eyes of those whose professions depended onthe connections between places.

Neve GordonPolitical Science · Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Recently, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has assumed an increasinglypronounced economic dimension. Neve Gordon intends to examinethe economic apparatuses (dispositif) of occupation, i.e., forms of gov-ernance and resistance deployed to harness or arrest the population’senergy so as to achieve a series of sociopolitical objectives.

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Jens GroßerPolitical Science, Economics · Florida State University

Jens Großer’s project has two pillars: first, the development of a unifiedmodel of electoral competition and, second, a fundamental analysis ofthe coexistence of elections and markets. His objective is to contributeto a more fundamental knowledge of the political economy-at-large,using game theory and laboratory experiments.

Alexander L. HintonAnthropology · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · v, f

Alex Hinton’s research focuses on genocide and mass violence. Hisearly work explored the origins of genocide and perpetrator motiva-tion. His more recent research examines the aftermaths of genocide,with an emphasis on trauma, memory, and transitional justice. His cur-rent focus is on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia.

Alexander V. HirschPolitical Science · Princeton University

Alexander Hirsch uses game-theoretic methods to analyze how politi-cal actors identify and develop effective public policies despite theirdiffering goals and beliefs. Currently, he is analyzing how legislativeveto players can encourage entrepreneurial political actors to investcostly resources to develop high-quality legislation.

Moon-Kie JungSociology · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Moon-Kie Jung’s research focuses on racial inequality and domination.He is analyzing deeply naturalized practices of racism and deeply natu-ralized assumptions in the social-scientific study of racism.

Sheena KangPolitical Theory · The University of Chicago · a

Sheena Kang is interested in the relationship between language andpolitics, especially the role of official apologies in addressing historicinjustice. She will explore themes such as recognition, responsibility,and political forgiveness in looking at states’ willingness or reluctanceto apologize.


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Karin Knorr CetinaSociology · The University of Chicago · v

Karin Knorr Cetina studies (sometimes extreme) expert systems. She iscompleting a book on institutional currency markets as a global cul-tural and social form that is based on scopic media mechanisms andpartial organization. She is also interested in the financial imaginationas characterized by counterfactual thinking and in market morality.

Patchen MarkellPolitical Science · The University of Chicago

Patchen Markell is completing a study of Hannah Arendt’s classic 1958work of political theory, The Human Condition, placing her book into avariety of historical and intellectual contexts in order to draw out,among other things, its surprisingly radical critical engagement withFordist capitalism.

Jens MeierhenrichPolitical Science · London School of Economics and Political ScienceLouise and John Steffens Founders’ Circle Member

Jens Meierhenrich’s project is an ethnography of the InternationalCriminal Court through which he hopes to lay the foundations for asocial theory of international law. It is dedicated to understanding (in aWeberian sense) the “social lives” of international courts and tribunalsmore generally.

Nicola PeruginiAnthropology · Al Quds Bard Honors College for Liberal Arts andSciencesRichard B. Fisher Member

Nicola Perugini is exploring the dynamics of appropriation of thehuman rights discourses and practices by Israeli settlers in contempo-rary Israel/Palestine, focusing on how human rights discourses andpractices progressively reduced the distance between violence perpe-trators and victims in this study area.

Laurence RalphAnthropology · Harvard University

Laurence Ralph is preparing an ethnography that will cultivate a newanalysis of the myriad effects of injury in the twenty-first century. Itcombines African-American studies, the scholarship on disability, andthe field of critical medical anthropology to show how injury plays acentral, though underexamined, role in the daily lives of poor urbanblacks.

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Michael RalphAnthropology · New York UniversityThe Wolfensohn Family Member

Michael Ralph uses the concept of forensics to examine the criteriathat international governing and lending agencies use to determinewhether an individual, firm, or polity is credit-worthy or law-abiding.He is completing research on Senegal in which he explores the rela-tionship between risk and liability that lies at the heart of moderngovernance.

Catherine RottenbergHarlem Renaissance Studies, Jewish American Studies · Ben-GurionUniversity of the Negev · v

Catherine Rottenberg’s research bridges the fields of Jewish-AmericanStudies and African-American Studies, focusing on early twentieth-century Jewish-American and African-American fiction. Her currentproject utilizes “the city” as an analytical category for examining thetransformation of Jewish-American and African-American femaleidentity during the Jazz Age.

Wen-Ching SungMedical Anthropology · University of Toronto · v

Wen-Ching Sung is a medical anthropologist working on biomedicineand Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). She plans to work on abook manuscript, “Producing Credits and Profits: Scientists’ FlexibleIdentities and Moral Economies in China,” based on her fieldwork atBeijing Genomics Institute (BGI).

Caroline ThomasEconomics · University of Texas at AustinDeutsche Bank Member

Caroline Thomas’s research focuses on game-theoretical models ofstrategic experimentation and learning when individuals compete foraccess to information. She currently is investigating the efficiency oftwo-sided matching-markets with signaling and studying information-aggregation and herding in sequential elections.

Peter D. ThomasPolitical Philosophy · Brunel University · v

Peter Thomas’s research at the Institute focuses on three central themesin the work of Gramsci, Laclau, Schmitt, and Foucault: the nature ofpolitics and processes of politicization, the relationship between politicsand the political, and the concept of the political subject.


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Deva WoodlyPolitical Science · The New SchoolFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member

Deva Woodly’s research focuses on the impact of civic discourse ondemocratic practice, especially from the point of view of ordinary citi-zens, political advocates, and social movements. Her current project isa discursive comparison of two contemporary social movements: thefight for marriage equality and the struggle for a living wage.

Everett ZhangAnthropology · Princeton University

By comparing the Tangshan earthquake in 1976 and the Sichuanearthquake in 2008, Everett Zhang is exploring how different ways ofmourning the loss of life make a huge difference in producing life’sworthiness or unworthiness in China and how public grieving hasbecome a crucial site of struggle for justice and well-being.

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The Program in Interdisciplinary Studies explores different ways of viewing theworld, spanning a range of disciplines from physics—especially computationalastrophysics, geology, and paleontology—to artificial intelligence, cognitivepsychology, and philosophy. The program is headed by Professor Piet Hut.

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Piet HutProfessor

The focus of Piet Hut’s research is computational astro-physics, in particular multiscale multiphysics simulationsof dense stellar systems. In addition, he is actively involvedin interdisciplinary explorations in the areas of cognitivescience and philosophy of science centered around ques-tions involving the nature of knowledge. In both areas, hehas recently started to explore the use of virtual worlds toenable remote online collaborative research throughsimultaneous “lab meetings” with colleagues from Europe,Japan, the United States, and elsewhere.

Jeff AmesComputer Science · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · v

Jeff Ames is interested in the potential of virtual worlds in educa-tion, to facilitate experiential learning and add an element ofplay, and in scientific research, especially for collaborative datavisualization and simulation.

Jos de MulPhilosophy · Erasmus University Rotterdam · v, f

Jos de Mul’s work is on the interface of philosophical anthropolo-gy (and its history), philosophy of technology, and aesthetics. Oneof his main themes is the impact of information technologies onour worldview and self-understanding.

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Hyun Ok ParkComparative and Historical Sociology, Political Economy, Critical Theory,Postcolonial Theory, Migration, Diaspora ·York University · v, f

Hyun Ok Park is completing an investigation of the ways that thetask of rapprochement of the two Koreas has been changed to theformation of ethnic sovereignty in the post–Cold War era. It con-cerns a democratic politics that imagines the market as a mecha-nism of reparation, peace, and human rights.

Edwin TurnerAstrophysics · Princeton University · v

Edwin Turner will be working on statistical biases and estimatorsfor samples of exoplanets detected using various techniques; on theSEEDS project (Subaru exoplanet studies); and on implications ofcom plexity in cellular automata systems for the limits of reductionism,as well as related topics in the philosophy of science.

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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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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. Derek Bermel continues as Artist-in-Residence,organizing “The Harmonic Series,” the 2012–13 Edward T. ConeConcert Series, while pursuing his scholarly and creative interests anddeveloping major work.

Derek BermelComposer, clarinetist, conductor, and jazz and rock musician

Derek Bermel, who was nominated for a GrammyAward in 2010, directs the Edward T. Cone ConcertSeries at the Institute. His orchestral piece A Shout, aWhisper, and a Trace will be performed by multipleorchestras throughout the year, including in Richmond,Tacoma, and Kalamazoo. A recording of his largerensemble music performed by the group Alarm WillSound will be released in October by CantaloupeMusic. He will host a panel at the prestigious Outputelectric-guitar festival in Amsterdam in December, andhe is writing a commission for the JACK Quartet to beperformed at Wolf Trap in January. This year Bermelwill also serve as Composer-in-Residence at MannesCollege the New School for Music, and he is creatingan intensive all-scholarship annual workshop and men-toring program for young composers, CULTIVATE,based at Copland House.

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Victoria B. BjorklundHead, Exempt-Organizations GroupSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPNew York, New York

Curtis CallanJames S. McDonnell Distinguished UniversityProfessor of PhysicsPrinceton University Princeton, New Jersey

Cynthia CarrollChief ExecutiveAnglo American plcLondon, 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 ClassicsColumbia University New York, New York

Vartan GregorianPresident, Carnegie Corporation of New YorkNew York, New York

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

John S. HendricksFounder and ChairmanDiscovery CommunicationsSilver Spring, Maryland

Trustees and Officers ofthe Board and of the Corporation

Board and Corporate Officers

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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Peter R. Kann Chairman and CEO (retired)Dow Jones & Company, Incorporated New York, New York

Bruce KovnerChairmanCaxton Alternative Management LPNew York, New York

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 AstrophysicsMaster of Trinity College University of CambridgeCambridge, England

David M. Rubenstein Co-Founder and Co-CEO 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 TechnologiesLLC, 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 Emeritus, The Jackson LaboratoryKey West, Florida

Richard B. BlackMartin A. ChooljianSidney D. Drell Ralph E. HansmannHelene L. KaplanImmanuel Kohn

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

Robert RuggieroSpecial Assistant to the Director

John MastenAssociate Director for Finance

and Administration

Anthony Bordieri, Jr.Manager of Facilities

Ashvin ChhabraChief Investment Officer

Michael CicconeManager of Administrative Services

Michael Klompus (effective October 2012)

Manager of Human Resources

Mary MazzaComptroller

Michel ReymondChef/Manager, Dining Services

Michael GehretAssociate Director for Development

and Public Affairs

Susannah ColemanSenior Development Officer

Christine FerraraSenior Public Affairs Officer

Pamela HughesSenior Development Officer

Catherine G. FlemingSenior Development Officer

Kelly Devine ThomasSenior Publications Officer

Library Administration

Momota GanguliLibrarian, Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Marcia TuckerLibrarian, Historical Studies and Social Science

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Christine Di BellaArchivist

School Administration

Mary Jane HayesAdministrative Officer


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

Jonathan PeeleComputer Manager

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James StephensComputer Manager


Thomas Howard UphillComputer Manager


Edna WigdersonManager

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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

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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Aczel, Peter (SM), 26Adler, Stephen L. (SNS), 48Aharony, Ofer Haim (SNS), 50Ahrens, Benedikt (SM), 26Albers, Peter (SM), 26Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine (SNS), 50Allen, Danielle S. (SSS), 63Altenkirch, Thorsten (SM), 26Ames, Jeff (IS), 72Anantharaman, Nalini (SM), 26Andrade, Nathanael (SHS), 10Aretakis, Stefanos (SM), 27Arkani-Hamed, Nima (SNS), 46Awodey, Steve (SM), 27Baas, Nils A. (SM/SNS), 27, 50Bargheer, Till (SNS), 50Barras, Bruno (SM), 27Battaglini, Marco (SSS), 65Bauer, Andrej (SM), 27Beceanu, Marius (SM), 28Bellettini, Costante (SM), 28Bermel, Derek (AiR), 75Bertot, Yves (SM), 28Bessire, Lucas (SSS), 65Bezem, Marc (SM), 28Bhaskar, Venkataraman (SSS), 65Bhatt, Bhargav (SM), 28Biehl, João (SSS), 65Bird, Simeon Paul (SNS), 50Blum, Kfir (SNS), 51Bois, Yve-Alain (SHS), 5Bombieri, Enrico (SM), 24Bourgain, Jean (SM), 22Bowersock, Glen W. (SHS), 7Bovy, Jo (SNS), 51Boys-Stones, George (SHS), 10Bruening, Jochen Wulf (SM), 29Bruni, Alessandro Maria (SHS), 10Bruun, Christer (SHS), 10Bulut, Aynur (SM), 29Burger, Marc (SM), 29Bynum, Caroline Walker (SHS), 7Caron-Huot, Simon (SNS), 51Chaney, Eric (SSS), 65Chaniotis, Angelos (SHS), 5

Chen, Jing (SM), 29Chen, Tsao-Hsien (SM), 29Cinar, Alev (SSS), 66Colwell, Lucy J. (SNS), 51Constable, Giles (SHS), 7Coquand, Thierry (SM), 30Craig, Nathaniel (SNS), 51Crone, Patricia (SHS), 5Curren, Randall (SSS), 66de Figueiredo, John M. (SSS), 66de Jong, Mayke (SHS), 10de Mul, Jos (IS), 72Deift, Percy A. (SM), 30Deligne, Pierre (SM), 25Di Cosmo, Nicola (SHS), 6Dijkgraaf, Robbert (D), 3Dimofte, Tudor Dan (SNS), 52Dombrowski, André (SHS), 11Dong, Subo (SNS), 52Doyle, James (SSS), 66Driscoll, Mark William (SHS), 11Drucker, Andrew (SM), 30Dubois, Vincent (SSS), 66Dvorkin, Cora (SNS), 52Dyson, Freeman J. (SNS), 49Efremenko, Klim (SM), 30Eng, David L. (SSS), 67Enikolopov, Ruben (SSS), 67Fantuzzi, Marco (SHS), 11Farmelo, Graham (DV), 74Farris, Sara R. (SSS), 67Fassin, Didier (SSS), 63Faulkner, Thomas (SNS), 52Fernandez, Rodrigo (SNS), 52Festuccia, Guido (SNS), 53Finster, Eric Lee (SM), 30Flauger, Raphael (SNS), 53Frances, Charles (SM), 31Fröhlich, Jürg (SM), 31Furniss, Ingrid Maren (SHS), 11Ganapathy, Radhika (SM), 31Geary, Patrick J. (SHS), 6Geraghty, David (SM), 31Gidea, Marian (SM), 31Goddard, Peter (SNS), 46

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Knorr Cetina, Karin (SSS), 69Kol, Gillat (SM), 35Komargodski, Zohar (SNS), 55Kotschick, Dieter (SM), 35Kribs, Graham (SNS), 55Krishnaswamy, Ravishankar (SM), 35Krueger, Derek (SHS), 14Krylova, Anna (SHS), 14Kushnir, Doron (SNS), 55Lacki, Brian Cameron (SNS), 55Lambert, Stephen D. (SHS), 14Langacker, Paul (SNS), 56Langlands, Robert P. (SM), 25Lavin, Irving (SHS), 8Le Boudec, Pierre (SM), 35Leibler, Stanislas (SNS), 46Lesnick, Michael (SM), 35Levine, Arnold J. (SNS), 49Levine Melammed, Renée (SHS), 14Lhamsuren, Munkh-Erdene (SHS), 14Li, Dong (SM), 36Li, Jing (SM), 36Libchaber, Albert (SNS), 56Licata, Dan (SM), 36Loh, Maria Hsiuya (SHS), 15Lovett, Shachar (SM), 36Lukic, Sergio (SNS), 56Lumsdaine, Peter LeFanu (SM), 36MacPherson, Robert (SM), 22Mahboubi, Assia (SM), 37Maldacena, Juan (SNS), 47Markell, Patchen (SSS), 69Markert, Elke Katrin (SNS), 56Martin-Löf, Per (SM), 37McLean, Mark (SM), 37Meierhenrich, Jens (SSS), 69Meir, Or (SM), 37Meka, Raghu (SM), 37Melikhov, Sergey (SM), 38Mendel, Manor (SM), 38Merchant, Carolyn (SHS), 15Meyer, Christian (SHS), 15Moitra, Ankur (SM), 38Moore, Gregory (SNS), 56Morel, Sophie (SM), 38Müller, Jan-Werner (SHS), 15Murase, Kohta (SNS), 57Nelson, Jelani (SM), 38Nicolas, Jean-Claude (SNS), 57

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Sozeau, Matthieu (SM), 41Spencer, Thomas (SM), 23Spiegel, David S. (SNS), 60Spitters, Bas (SM), 41Sung, Wen-Ching (SSS), 70Sunyaev, Rashid (SNS), 60Taylor, Christine J. (SM), 42Taylor, Richard (SM), 23Teicher, Mina (SM), 42Terrenato, Nicola (SHS), 18Tesileanu, Tiberiu (SNS), 60Thomas, Caroline (SSS), 70Thomas, Peter D. (SSS), 70Tlusty, Tsvi (SNS), 60Tracy, Stephen V. (SHS), 19Tremaine, Scott (SNS), 47Trivellato, Francesca (SHS), 19Turner, Edwin (IS), 73van den Berg, Benno (SM), 42van Liere, Frans (SHS), 19van Walt van Praag, Michael (SHS), 19Vidler, Anthony (SHS), 19Voevodsky, Vladimir (SM), 24Volkovich, Ilya (SM), 42von Staden, Heinrich (SHS), 9Voskuhl, Adelheid (SHS), 20Walzer, Michael (SSS), 64Wan, Xin (SM), 42Wang, Aihe (SHS), 20Wang, Fang (SM), 43Warren, Michael A. (SM), 43Weinryb, Ittai (SHS), 20White, Morton (SHS), 9Wigderson, Avi (SM), 24Willett, Brian M. (SNS), 60Witten, Edward (SNS), 48Woerther, Frédérique (SHS), 20Woodly, Deva (SSS), 71Xie, Dan (SNS), 61Yeang, Chen-Pang (SHS), 20Yonekura, Kazuya (SNS), 61Yu, Jun (SM), 43Zaldarriaga, Matias (SNS), 48Zehnder, Eduard (SM), 43Zeilberger, Noam (SM), 43Zhang, Everett (SSS), 71Zinger, Aleksey (SM), 44Zurek, Kathryn (SNS), 61Zywina, David (SM), 44

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