Faculty and Members 2011–12

IASInstitute for Advanced Study

Faculty and Members 2011–2012

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It is fundamental in our purpose, and our express desire, thatin the appointments to the staff and faculty as well as in theadmission of workers and students, no account shall be taken,directly or indirectly, of race, religion, or sex.We feel stronglythat the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above allthe pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditionsas to personnel other than those designed to promote the objectsfor which this institution is established, and particularly withno regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.

—Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld, in a letter datedJune 4, 1930, to the Institute’s first Board of Trustees

Cover Photo: Cliff Moore

Contents

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

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

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

School of Natural Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

School of Social Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

Program in Interdisciplinary Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Director’s Visitors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Artist-in-Residence Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Past Directors and Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75

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

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

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Information contained herein is current as of September 19, 2011.

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I N S T I T U T E F O R A D V A N C E D S T U D Y

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Mission and History

The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world’s leading centers fortheoretical 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,in 1947 by J. Robert Oppenheimer, in 1966 by Carl Kaysen, in 1976 byHarry Woolf, in 1987 by Marvin L. Goldberger, and in 1991 by Phillip A.Griffiths. In January 2004, Peter Goddard became the Institute’s eighthDirector.

Dedicated to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, the Institute hashad permanent impact, in both intellectual and practical terms, throughthe work of its Faculty and Members. One of the Institute’s uniquestrengths is its permanent Faculty, whose broad interests and extensiveties to the larger academic world are reflected in their own work and alsoin the guidance and direction they provide. The Faculty, numbering nomore than twenty-eight, selects and works closely with visiting Membersand defines the major themes and questions that become the focus ofeach School’s seminars and other activities. Organized in four Schools(Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science),


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the Faculty and Members interact with one another without any depart-mental or disciplinary barriers. Each year the Institute awards fellowshipsto 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. Twenty-six 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 120,000 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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Peter GoddardDirector

Peter Goddard, a mathematical physicist, is distinguish edfor his pioneering contributions in the areas of stringtheory, quantum field theory, and conformal field theory.Formerly Master of St. John’s College and Professor ofTheoretical Physics in the University of Cambridge,England, he played a key role in the establishment of theuniversity’s Isaac Newton Institute for MathematicalSciences, serving as its first Deputy Director, and the University of Cambridge Centre for Mathematical Sciences, one of the world’s largest centers for researchand teaching in the mathematical sciences.


School of Historical Studies

Administrative Officer: Marian Gallagher Zelazny

The School of Historical Studies was established in 1949 with the mergingof the School of Economics and Politics and the School of HumanisticStudies. It bears no resemblance to a traditional academic history department, but rather supports all learning for which historical 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,the School concentrates primarily on the history of Western, NearEastern, and Far Eastern civilizations, with emphasis on Greek andRoman civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, andmodern), the Islamic world, and East Asia. The School has also supportedscholars whose work focuses on other regions, including Central Asia,India, Africa, and the Americas.

The Faculty and Members of the School do not adhere to any one pointof view but practice a range of methods of inquiry and scholarly styles,both traditional and innovative. Uniquely positioned to sponsor work thatcrosses conventional departmental and professional boundaries, 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 identi-ty. Significant questions and dialogues in the field havegrown out of his contributions, which have helped toadvance understanding of previously unexplored aspectsof the ancient world.

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 history of therelations between China and Inner Asia from prehistoryto the early modern period. He is interested in thearchaeology 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 historiography, the early history of the Manchu state, andrelations between Europe and the Mongol empire.

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.

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.

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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 created the para-digm for the study of women’s piety that dominates thefield of medieval studies today and have helped propelthe history of the body into a major area of premodernhistory. She is currently working on the role of devo-tional objects in Christianity from the twelfth centuryto the early years of the sixteenth-century reformations.

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 is currently working on books on the four-teenth-century crusading propagandist William of Adamand on the California Gold Rush.

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 three of six volumes were published in 2010–11.

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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, andarchitecture of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.His interests have focused primarily on the correlationbetween form and meaning in the visual arts.

Peter ParetProfessor Emeritus • Modern European History

Peter Paret is a cultural and intellectual historian withparticular interests in the interaction of war and societysince the eighteenth century, the manner in which his-torians integrate war in their interpretation of otherhistorical forces, and the relationship between traditionand modernism in the art of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Central Europe. His most recent book, TheCognitive Challenge of War (2009), studies a Napoleoniccampaign as it was shaped by the society, militarythought, politics, and art of the time, and influenced theirfurther development in turn.

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,particularly of the Hellenistic period. His current researchis on the role of animals in ancient scientific theories andpractices, on genres of scientific and medical literature inantiquity, and on the “semantics of matter” in ancientscience and medicine.

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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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Mustafa AksakalOttoman and Turkish History • American University • sElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Mustafa Aksakal’s research on the Ottoman Empire during the FirstWorld War ties together operational history with the empire’s nationalmobilization and its sweeping domestic transformation. It treats thesewartime developments as vital to the understanding of the Republicof Turkey and the Arab Middle East.

Anna AnguissolaClassical Art and Archaeology • Ludwig-Maximilians-UniversitätMünchen • fThe Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member

Anna Anguissola is a classical archaeologist and a historian of Greekand Roman art. She works on the role of imitation in Roman visualculture. Her research focuses on the strategies and criteria that guidedthe exhibition, appreciation, and criticism of copies or quotationsfrom Greek masterpieces and styles.

Jérémie BarthasHistory, History of Political Thought • University of JohannesburgEdwin C. and Elizabeth A. Whitehead Fellow

Jérémie Barthas’s project concerns the relationship in early modernEurope between “liberality” (the moral obligation to give) and publicfinance. It starts by focusing on Machiavelli’s Prince, chapter 16 (OnLiberality and Parsimony), its historical background, theoretical mean-ing, and longue durée influence in both theory and practice.

Emmanuel BermonAncient Philosophy • Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3and Institut Universitaire de France • f

Emmanuel Bermon’s primary area of interest is the philosophy of lateantiquity. He is currently preparing a book on the correspondencebetween Augustine and his friend Nebridius, with a focus on theyoung Augustine’s philosophical knowledge and practice.

Peter BrooksComparative Literature • Princeton University • f

Peter Brooks is studying Flaubert’s Sentimental Education (the history ofhis generation, he said) in relation to both the Revolution of 1848and the Paris Commune of 1871, and, extending outward, to thenineteenth-century novel generally in relation to the representation ofhistorical event.

Members, Visitors, and Research Staff

f First Term • s Second Term • v Visitor • vp Visiting Professor • a Research Assistant

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Annemarie Weyl CarrArt History • Southern Methodist UniversityWilliam D. Loughlin Member

Annemarie Carr is studying the ways in which the Kykkotissa, aByzantine holy image still venerated as a miracle worker in itsoriginal monastic setting on Cyprus, has ceaselessly recalibrated itsappeal as a visual and charismatic medium over its eventful eight-hundred-year life.

Huaiyu ChenEast Asian Studies • Arizona State UniversityThe Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member

Huaiyu Chen is preparing a book manuscript on Buddhism andNestorian Christianity along the Silk Road, focusing on manuscriptsand archaeological materials from Dunhuang and Central Asia. He isalso working on a new book project exploring the roles and images ofanimals in medieval Chinese religious life.

Jeremy Cohen Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History • Tel Aviv UniversityFunding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Jeremy Cohen is studying The Rod of Judah (1520?), an anthology oftales of the Jewish past by Solomon ibn Verga who, expelled fromSpain and forcibly baptized in Portugal, engaged history in conversa-tion to chart new directions for European society and politics, and forhis Sephardic Jewish diaspora in Christendom.

James DelbourgoHistory of Science, Atlantic History • Rutgers, The State University ofNew Jersey • fThe Herodotus Fund

James Delbourgo is writing about Hans Sloane’s collections and NaturalHistory of Jamaica during the era of the Atlantic slave trade; the imperialorigins of the British Museum; and the use of specimens and objectsin abolitionism.

Lola Nazarsho DodkhudoevaCentral Asian History • Institute of Oriental Studies and WrittenHeritage, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan • sFund for Historical Studies

Lola Dodkhudoeva’s research is focused on the history of CentralAsia in medieval and early modern times, with forays into contem-porary affairs. She is presently working on a manuscript dedicated toa sixteenth-century ruler of Central Asia trying to model himself onChingiz Khan.


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John Curtis FranklinClassics, Ancient Near East • The University of Vermont • fElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow

John Franklin’s research deals mainly with early Greek cultural historyat the Near Eastern interface(s), especially the interaction of poetic/ musical traditions. At the Institute, he plans to complete a book exam-ining Kinyras, the mythical priest-king of pre-Greek Cyprus, againstNear Eastern evidence for the divinization of temple lyres (e.g.,Kinnaru of Ugarit).

Robert GeraciHistory of Russia • University of VirginiaElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Robert Geraci is researching the ethnonational diversity of traders andentrepreneurs in the Russian Empire (1700 to 1917), and its political,social, and cultural implications. His work documents conflict betweenexpectations of ethnic Russian control of the commercial economyon the one hand, and the considerable roles of foreigners and minori-ties on the other.

Israel GershoniHistory of Modern Egypt and the Arab Middle East • Tel Aviv UniversityAgnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member

Israel Gershoni specializes in intellectual and cultural history of mod-ern Egypt and the Arab Middle East. During the academic year2011–12, his research will examine the role of intellectuals in Egypt-ian parliamentary government, 1913–52. He locates this subject withinthe broader framework of the evolution of Egyptian liberalism in thetwentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Robert GerwarthEarly Twentieth-Century History • University College Dublin • sRosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders’ Circle Member

Robert Gerwarth is studying the profound difficulties involved indemobilizing millions of men from around the world after the FirstWorld War. His project seeks to explain why political, cultural, andmilitary demobilization failed in many parts of the world, giving riseto extremely violent movements of the extreme Left and Right.

Chad Alan GoldbergSociology • University of Wisconsin–MadisonMartin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member

Chad Goldberg is working on a book about the meanings conferredupon Jews and Judaism in the European and American sociologicaltraditions from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. His thesisis that Jews served as a touchstone for defining modernity as well asEuropean and American identities.


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Ruth HaCohenMusicology • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem • v, f

Ruth HaCohen has recently completed a study on the historical conflictsbetween Jewish and Christian conceptions of music. She is currentlyengaged in exploring the theological and aesthetic aspects of varietiesof religious sonic experience. She is also coauthoring a book on theuses and abuses of music in politics.

Tim HarrisEarly Modern European History • Brown UniversityThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Tim Harris is working on a study of the revolutionary upheavals inEngland, Scotland, and Ireland in the seventeenth century, examiningthe interaction of high and low politics to explore the extent towhich the failings of the Stuart monarchy were personal ones or dueto deeply rooted structural problems.

Paul Antony HaywardMedieval History • Lancaster UniversityGeorge William Cottrell, Jr. Member

Paul Hayward seeks to document and explain how and why the historyof the liturgy became a theme in world chronicles composed fromaround the 1060s onward, chiefly in Germany and England, and toexplore the relationship between this phenomenon and the rise of thehistorical approach to the study of the liturgy.

Samantha Kahn HerrickMedieval History • Syracuse University

Samantha Herrick studies the legends of medieval saints. She tracestheir overlapping content and their circulation through institutionalnetworks to discover how relationships among texts and communitiesinfluenced medieval Christians’ view of sacred history. Her researchadditionally asks whether sharing stories entailed a sort of collabora-tive imagination by communities constructing their pasts.

Susan L. HuntingtonArt History • The Ohio State UniversityThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Puzzled by the absence of figurative images of the Buddha in theearliest Buddhist art of India, nineteenth-century scholars theorized areligious prohibition as the cause. Susan Huntington’s project rejectsthis presupposition and reexamines the Buddha image in light ofnew artistic, textual, religious, and technical research.


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Juliette KennedyPhilosophy and History of Mathematics • University of HelsinkiOtto Neugebauer Fund

Juliette Kennedy is writing a monograph on the foundations andphilosophy of mathematics, with Kurt Gödel’s view of set-theoreticindependence as its main point of departure. She will also focus onsome recent developments, both philosophical and technical, thatgrow out of the effort to eliminate independence phenomena in settheory.

Christina KiaerArt History • Northwestern UniversityThe Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member

Taking the Soviet artist Aleksandr Deineka (1899–1969) as a case study,Christina Kiaer’s project aims to demonstrate how Socialist Realismoffered an alternate model of revolutionary cultural practice, ratherthan functioning always as the regressive, totalitarian other to theheroic Russian avant-garde, and to Western modernism.

Anne E. LesterMedieval History • University of Colorado • sThe Herodotus Fund

Anne Lester is studying the transmission of relics into Europe followingthe Fourth Crusade (1204). Focusing on the ways that fragments ofthe holy transformed religious practices, buildings, and devotion inFrance, she is exploring how material objects offer a new history ofthe crusade movement, gendered devotion, and the growth of affectivepiety.

Brandon LookHistory of Modern Philosophy • University of KentuckyHans Kohn Member

Brandon Look is working on a monograph that examines ImmanuelKant’s interpretation and critique of the metaphysics, epistemology,and natural philosophy of his great rationalist predecessor, GottfriedWilhelm Leibniz.

Vasileios MarinisArt and Architectural History • Yale UniversityLouise and John Steffens Founders’ Circle Member

Vasileios Marinis is investigating the intersection of architecture, ritual,and function in the Middle and Late Byzantine churches of Constan-tinople. He uses archaeological and archival data, hagiographic andhistorical sources, liturgical texts and commentaries, and monastictypika and testaments to integrate the architecture of these churcheswith liturgical and extraliturgical practices.


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Louise MarlowNear Eastern History • Wellesley College • s Willis F. Doney Member; additional funding provided by The Andrew W. MellonFoundation

Louise Marlow studies classical Arabic and Persian prose literature, withparticular attention to wisdom literature and advisory texts produced inPersianate environments between the ninth and fourteenth centuries.Her work seeks to situate specific writings in their historical and liter-ary contexts and to integrate them into current historical research.

James MatthewsModern European History • Institute for Advanced StudyGeorge Kennan Member

James Matthews is interested in the intersection of social and militaryhistory in twentieth-century Europe. His current objective is to setthe Spanish Civil War of 1936–39 in a new and immediately humancontext via comparative studies of low-ranking combatants on bothsides of the conflict.

Yair MintzkerModern and Early Modern European History • Princeton UniversityThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Yair Mintzker’s project examines the transformation of German citiesfrom walled to open places. While around 1700 practically all Germancities were still surrounded by a wall, little over a century later veryfew still had one. The project explores the causes of this transformationand its historical significance.

William MulliganModern European History • University College Dublin • sThe Herodotus Fund

William Mulligan is examining the transformation of peace––what itmeant, how it was imagined, how it was constructed and sustained––inthe crucible of the era of the First World War.

Ioannis MylonopoulosClassical Art and Archaeology • Columbia UniversityFunding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Ioannis Mylonopoulos is working on the modes of visualization of thedivine in ancient Greece. He is interested in how an abstract idea (thenotion of the divine) was visually construed into a concrete vision (thedivine image), and how the concrete vision affected the originalabstract idea by becoming part of visual memory.


Bilal Orfali Islamic Studies, Arabic Literature • American University of BeirutThe Herodotus Fund

Bilal Orfali’s interests in Arabic literature and Islamic studies merge inthe field of Sufi poetry. His research at the Institute will track the gen-esis and development of early Sufi poetry by examining the early Sufipoetic motifs in light of other genres of Arabic poetry such as wine,ghazal, and panegyric poetry.

David Allen Pietz Modern Chinese History • Washington State UniversityWillis F. Doney Member

David Pietz is working on a science and technology studies and envi-ronmental history project that addresses how hydraulic engineeringin post-1949 China was shaped by, and in turn shaped, state-building,national identity, and pursuit of communist modernity, and how theecology of the Yellow River valley was transformed by hydraulicengineering.

Francisco Pina PoloClassics • Universidad de Zaragoza • sFund for Historical Studies

Francisco Pina Polo, a specialist on the Roman Republic, is currentlyworking on foreign clientelae in the Western Roman Empire, theirrelevance as a means of integrating the provinces into the Empire, andtheir alleged significance as a support structure for certain Romanpoliticians to obtain power.

Kenneth PomeranzLate Imperial and Modern China • University of California, IrvineThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Kenneth Pomeranz is writing a book called “Why is China So Big?”that asks why a very large area and population in this region have beenpart of a single, generally expanding, polity for so much of history, andhow that unity has been reproduced in different eras. It includes his-torical discussions of ecology, political economy, war-making, culture,and ethnicity.

Adele Reinhartz First-Century Christianity and Judaism • University of OttawaHetty Goldman Member

Adele Reinhartz is working on a book project, “The Gospel of Johnand the Parting of the Ways,” which will develop a new hypothesis:that the Gospel does not reflect a parting of the ways that has alreadytaken place in the past but rather aims to produce such a separation.


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Gil H. RenbergClassical Studies, Ancient History • Institute for Advanced StudyAMIAS Member

Trained as a classicist, Gil Renberg works primarily on Greek andRoman religious beliefs and practices, exploring the documentarysources (i.e., inscriptions and papyri) in particular. While at the Institute,he will be completing two related books on inscriptions recordinggod-sent dreams and the role of such dreams in ancient religion.

Matthias L. RichterAncient Chinese Literature and Philosophy • University of Colorado The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Matthias Richter is writing a book on newly excavated fourth-to-second century B.C.E. Chinese manuscripts, exploring the identityand uses of texts at the time before Imperial librarians in the late firstcentury B.C.E. reconstructed their literary heritage and gave it theform it maintained in transmitted texts.

Vimalin Rujivacharakul East Asian Studies, Art History • University of DelawareThe Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Vimalin Rujivacharakul’s research raises questions about how humansconceive, perceive, and write about architecture in relation to theirown intellect. For her new book project, she examines the use of visualrhetoric in relation to written narratives in the construction of worldarchitectural discourse.

Behnam SadeghiIslamic History • Stanford UniversityFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member

Behnam Sadeghi is exploring early Muslim views about women’s rolein the public space, how ideas evolved in different localities, and whysome of them disappeared while others came to be enshrined in theclassical schools of law.

Charles SanftEast Asian Studies • Universität Münster • fThe Starr Foundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund Member

Charles Sanft’s project treats communication as a part of governance inChina during the early imperial period. He uses transmitted texts,paleographic materials, and archaeological research to demonstratehow authorities created knowledge of the polity across the realm withthe goal of integrating the unified empire.


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Mitra SharafiHistory of Law and Medicine in South Asia • University of WisconsinLaw SchoolThe 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, the themeof her next project.

W. Anthony SheppardMusicology • Williams CollegeEdward T. Cone Member in Music Studies; additional funding provided by TheAndrew W. Mellon Foundation

Tony Sheppard is investigating how composers and performers ofvocal music wielded timbre as a tool of expression in the mid-twenti-eth century. This historical project is based on a comparative analysisof art and popular examples and will offer new approaches to studyingthe role of musical timbre more generally.

Maria StavrinakiArt History • Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne • sGerda Henkel Stiftung Member

Maria Stavrinaki will be studying the temporal regimes––urban prim-itivism, Dada presentism, and historical simultaneism in Picasso or deChirico and the invention of prehistory by Surrealism––sustained bypractices in Europe from the eve of the First World War to the dawnof the Second.

Christopher StrayHistory • Swansea University • sRalph E. and Doris M. Hansmann Member

Christopher Stray’s research concerns the history and sociology ofclassical scholarship and teaching, largely in the United Kingdom butalso using comparative material. While at the Institute, he shall beworking on a comprehensive study of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon.

Nicola SuthorArt History • Universität Heidelberg • fGerda Henkel Stiftung Member

Nicola Suthor’s research focuses on the articulation of artistic intelli-gence in the visual language of painting. She intends to complete abook on the rapport between mimesis and fiction in early modernpainting with special emphasis on the concepts of chiaroscuro andnon finito.



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Bella TendlerIslamic History • Princeton University • a

Bella Tendler, a research assistant to Particia Crone, is interested inIslamic heterodoxy. Her current research focuses on secrecy, esoteri-cism, and initiation among the Nusayri-Alawis of Syria. In the comingyear, she will study the survival of libertine and antinomian rites insome Nusayri communities of the nineteenth century.

Stephen V. TracyGreek History, Epigraphy • The American School of Classical Studiesat Athens • v

Stephen Tracy is currently involved in preparing for the Berlin Acade-my a new edition of the decrees of Athens and Attica that date tothe years 229 to 168 B.C. He is also preparing a study of Athenianinscriptions of the early fourth century B.C.

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

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

Ping WangChinese Literature • Princeton UniversityThe Herodotus Fund

Ping Wang’s project questions the validity of a major literary categoryin Chinese literature called “landscape poetry” by examining pervasiveclaims made about its emergence and evolution. She argues that the“natural world” as found in the landscape poetry may very well beculturally constructed, historically conditioned, and textually dictated.

Joan Goodnick WestenholzAncient Near East • New York UniversityFelix Gilbert Member

Joan Westenholz is working to deduce the anatomical knowledge ofthe ancient Mesopotamians and to understand the corporeal humanbody in Mesopotamian thought. Her work focuses on a unique anat -omical lexical series, a compendium enumerating all known parts ofthe human anatomy and the fundamental characteristics of the humancondition.




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Christopher S. WoodArt History • Yale University • fElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow

Christopher Wood is writing about portraits of real, modern peopleembedded in depictions of sacred history, for example the nativity orcrucifixion of Christ, in late-medieval and Renaissance Europe.

Marjorie (Jorie) WoodsMedieval Studies • The University of Texas at AustinFunding provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Jorie Woods is analyzing teachers’ notes in the margins of fourteenth-and fifteenth-century manuscripts of two widely taught classical textsto determine how female characters were studied, interpreted, sympa-thetically assimilated, and performed in all-male classrooms. Herresearch will elucidate more general issues of gender, emotions,creativity, rhetoric, and performance.

Andrea WormArt History, Visual Studies • Universität Augsburg • fWillis F. Doney Member

Andrea Worm will work on a group of printed universal chronicles ofthe late fifteenth century, which take the form of genealogical historydiagrams. Her study will focus on how chronicles on the threshold ofthe early modern period rendered time, history, and geography asvisual categories.


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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 first Members.Today, the School is an international center for research in mathematics andcomputer science. Members discover new mathematical results and broadentheir interests through seminars and interactions with the Faculty and with each other. Several central themes in mathematics in the last seventy-fiveyears owe their major impetus to discoveries that took place at the Institute. Asan example, the creation of one of the first stored-program computers, whichvon Neumann built on the Institute’s campus, influenced the development oftoday’s computers and formed the mathematical basis for computer software.

During the 2011–12 academic year, Helmut Hofer, a Professor in the School, andJohn Mather of Princeton University will lead a program on symplectic dynam-ics. The mathematical theory of dynamical systems provides tools to understandthe complex behavior of many important physical systems. Of particularinterest are Hamiltonian systems. Since Poincaré’s fundamental contributions,many mathematical tools have been developed to understand such systems.Surprisingly, these developments led to the creation of two seemingly unrelatedmathematical disciplines: the fields of dynamical systems and symplectic geome-try. In view of the significant advances in both fields, it seems timely to have aprogram that aims at the development of the common core, which potentiallyshould lead to a new field with highly integrated ideas from both disciplines. Ofparticular interest will be the study of the dynamics of area-preserving disk maps,the ramifications of new symplectic techniques in three-dimensional hydrody-namics, and questions about the utility of the symplectic pseudoholomorphiccurve techniques in questions related to KAM and Aubry-Mather theory.There will be weekly seminars and several workshops.

Other programs associated with the School are the Institute for AdvancedStudy/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), an innovative program inte-grating mathematics research and mathematics education, and the Programfor Women and Mathematics, jointly sponsored with Princeton University,which brings together research mathematicians with women undergraduateand graduate students for an intensive ten-day workshop held on campus.

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Faculty

Jean BourgainIBM von Neumann Professor

Jean Bourgain’s work touches on many central topics ofmath ematical analysis: the geometry of Banach spaces,harmonic analysis, ergodic theory, spectral problems, andnonlinear partial differential equations from mathematicalphysics and combinatorial number theory. His contributionssolved longstanding problems in convexity theory andhar monic analysis such as Mahler’s conjecture and thelambda-p set problem. His work also had important conse-quences in theoretical computer science and on exponentialsums in analytic number theory. In Hamiltonian dynamics,he developed the theory of invariant Gibbs measures andquasi-periodicity for the Schrödinger equation.

Helmut HoferProfessor

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

Robert MacPhersonHermann Weyl Professor

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

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Peter SarnakProfessor

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

Thomas SpencerProfessor

Thomas Spencer has made major contributions to thetheory of phase transitions and the study of singularitiesat the transition temperature. In special cases, he and hiscollaborators have proved universality at the transitiontemperature. Spencer has also 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 Taylor (from January 1, 2012)Professor

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

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Faculty

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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Robert P. LanglandsProfessor Emeritus

Robert Langlands’s profound insights in number theoryand representation theory include the formulation ofgeneral principles relating automorphic forms and alge-braic number theory; the introduction of a general class ofL-functions; the construction of a general theory ofEisenstein series; the introduction of techniques for deal-ing with particular cases of the Artin conjecture (whichproved to be of use in the proof of Fermat’s theorem);the introduction of endoscopy; and the development oftechniques for relating the zeta functions of Shimura vari-eties to automorphic L-functions. Mathematicians havebeen working on his conjectures, the Langlands Program,for the last three decades. He has spent some of his timein recent years studying lattice models of statistical physicsand the attendant conformal invariance.

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 Direc-tor of 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.

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Members and Visitors

Peter AlbersSymplectic Geometry, Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems • PurdueUniversity • vnfFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Peter Albers is working on symplectic geometry and applications toHamiltonian dynamical systems.

Noga AlonCombinatorics • Tel Aviv University • vp, fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Noga Alon is working on questions in discrete mathematics and the-oretical computer science, focusing on problems in extremal andprobabilistic combinatorics, information theory, combinatorial numbertheory, and discrete probability. He expects to combine combinatorialtools with algebraic and probabilistic techniques.

Dima ArinkinAlgebraic Geometry, Geometric Langlands Program • The University ofNorth Carolina at Chapel Hill • vnfFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Dima Arinkin works on algebro-geometric questions motivated bythe geometric Langlands program. He studies the moduli spaces ofvector bundles (possibly with additional structures such as connections)on curves and the categories of sheaves on these spaces.

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

Costante Bellettini’s research focuses on regularity questions in geomet-ric measure theory. In particular, he is interested in calibrated currentsand on the role that they play in several geometric problems, such asinvariants of manifolds and gauge theory. Other topics that interest himinclude calculus of variations and elliptic partial differential equations.

Abed BounemouraMathematical Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Abed Bounemoura is interested in the perturbation theory of integrableHamiltonian systems. He plans to further investigate, theoretically andon concrete examples, the stability and instability properties of thosesystems.

f First Term • s Second Term • m Long-term Member • v Visitordvp Distinguished Visiting Professor • vp Visiting Professor

vri Veblen Research Instructorship • vnf von Neumann Fellowship

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Barney BramhamSymplectic Geometry • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Barney Bramham will continue developing a new framework forstudying the dynamics of area-preserving disc maps, using the theoryof foliations by pseudoholomorphic curves. During his stay, he alsohopes to learn more about such successful theories as those of Aubry-Mather and KAM.

David BrydgesMathematical Physics • The University of British Columbia • f

David Brydges has recently been working on the asymptotics of theend- to-end distance of self-avoiding walks in four and more dimen-sions. He will use his time at the Institute to make progress on otherapproaches to the analysis of critical points, including the SjoestrandHelffer convexity ideas used by Thomas Spencer.

Aynur BulutPartial Differential Equations, Harmonic Analysis • Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

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 systemsof infinitely many coupled partial differential equations arising in thederivation of dispersive equations from many-body quantum dynamics.

Francesco CellarosiDynamical Systems, Number Theory • Institute for Advanced Study • fFunding provided by the Giorgio and Elena Petronio Fellowship Fund and theNational Science Foundation

Francesco Cellarosi is interested in limit theorems for dynamical systemsof number theoretical origin, such as continued fractions and exponen-tial sums, and their applications. In particular, he works on homoge-neous dynamics for theta sums and correlations in quantum mechanicalsystems, and on a probabilistic model for square-free integers.

Yuri ChekanovSymplectic Topology, Contact Topology • Moscow Center for ContinuousMathematical Education • v, s

Yuri Chekanov will continue studying classification problems forLagrangian tori in symplectic manifolds such as complex vector spacesand complex projective spaces. He also plans to study the homotopytype of the space of contact structures, both tight and overtwisted, onthree-manifolds such as the sphere, the torus, and the lens spaces.



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Weimin ChenDifferential Geometry and Topology • University of MassachusettsAmherst • fFunding provided by the S. S. Chern Foundation for Mathematics Research Fundand the National Science Foundation

Weimin Chen’s research focuses on the application of gauge theoryand pseudoholomorphic curves to problems in low-dimensionaltopology or symplectic geometry.

Kai CieliebakSymplectic Geometry • Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München • v, s

Kai Cieliebak’s research interests lie in symplectic geometry and itsinteractions with other subjects such as Hamiltonian dynamics, com-plex geometry, and physics. Recently, his research has mostly beencentered around the development of symplectic field theory. At theInstitute, he plans to work on applications of symplectic techniques toclassical questions in celestial mechanics and hydrodynamics.

Zsuzsanna DancsoQuantum Algebra and Knot Theory • Institute for Advanced Study • fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Zsuzsanna Dancso’s research so far has focused on the connectionsbetween quantum algebra (Drinfel’d associators, quantum groups) andtopology, more specifically knot theory (Kontsevich integral, finitetype invariants). She has recently started learning about categorifica-tion and would like to explore more in this direction in the future.

Serguei DenissovAnalysis • University of Wisconsin–Madison • fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Serguei Denissov’s research in analysis is focused on linear partial dif-ferential equations (evolution equations, scattering theory), nonlinearpartial differential equations in fluid dynamics (2D Euler and SQG),and some classical problems in the general theory of orthogonal poly-nomials along with various applications to mathematical physics andspectral theory.

Hakan EliassonDynamical Systems • Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu,Université Paris Diderot • s

Hakan Eliasson’s research focuses on quasiperiodic dynamics andsmall-divisor problems; KAM and multiscale analysis in perturbationtheory; Hamiltonian partial differential equations; and localization anddiffusion in quasiperiodic Schrödinger operators.



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Alexander FelshtynDynamical Systems, Topology, Group Theory • University of Szczecin • s

Alexander Felshtyn is interested in the relationship between Floerhomology, Nielsen-Thurston theory, and a categorification of dynam-ical zeta functions. He is working also on twisted Burnside-Frobeniustheory and groups with property R-infinity.

Daniel FiorilliAnalytic Number Theory • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

During his stay at the Institute, Daniel Fiorilli is working on linksbetween the following three entities: random matrix theory, the dis-tribution of zeros of families of L-functions, and questions related toprimes in arithmetic progressions and elliptic curves.

Nicola GambinoMathematical Logic and Theoretical Computer Science • Università degliStudi di Palermo • fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Nicola Gambino’s research focuses on mathematical logic and theoret-ical computer science. At the Institute, he plans to investigate furtherthe connections between type theory and homotopy theory that haveemerged in recent years, especially in connection with VladimirVoevodsky’s univalent foundations program.

David GeraghtyNumber Theory • Institute for Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity • vri

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.

Giambattista GiacominApplied Mathematics • Université Paris Diderot • fFunding provided by the Giorgio and Elena Petronio Fellowship Fund

Giambattista Giacomin’s research focuses on the role and the effect ofdisorder on the critical behavior of statistical mechanics systems. Heaims at pursuing this research activity also in the direction of under-standing some biological phenomena, like synchronization phenomena.



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Marian GideaAnalysis • Northeastern Illinois UniversityFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Marian Gidea works in dynamical systems with applications to celes-tial mechanics, mathematical physics, and mathematical biology. Themain areas of his research are stability and instability in Hamiltoniansystems, and the Arnold diffusion problem. He is planning to expandthis work by using novel techniques from symplectic dynamics.

Viktor GinzburgSymplectic Geometry, Symplectic Topology, Dynamical Systems •

University of California, Santa Cruz • v, s

Viktor Ginzburg’s current work focuses on the existence (or nonexis-tence) of periodic orbits of general Hamiltonian systems, looked atfrom a symplectic topological perspective; the use of symplectic topo-logical methods to study more specific systems; and the symplectictopology of coisotropic submanifolds.

Oded GoldreichTheory of Computation • Weizmann Institute of Science • v

Oded Goldreich is interested in the interplay between randomnessand computation, which is at the heart of modern cryptography andplays a fundamental role in the design of algorithms and in complexitytheory at large. He is particularly interested in probabilistic proofsystems, various notions of pseudorandomness, and sublinear-timealgorithms.

Mark GoreskyGeometry, Automorphic Forms • Institute for Advanced Study • mFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Mark Goresky’s main interest this year concerns a book, written jointlywith Jayce Getz (McGill University), on Hilbert modular forms withcoefficients in intersection homology, generalizing some well-knownclassical results of Fritz Hirzebruch and Don Zagier.

Marcel GuardiaDynamical Systems • Institute for Advanced Study • sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Marcel Guardia is interested in Hamiltonian systems of both finite andinfinite dimension, particularly the problem of Arnol’d diffusion andthe exponentially small phenomena related to it in models comingfrom celestial mechanics. He also plans to work in the growth ofSobolev norms in some Hamiltonian partial differential equations.



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Mikko HaatajaTheoretical Materials Physics and Biophysics • Princeton University • s

Mikko Haataja works at the intersection between theoretical materialsphysics and biophysics. His research focuses on evolving microstruc-tures in hard and soft matter systems, including structurally disorderedmetallic glasses and lipid bilayer membranes.

Dennis A. HejhalAnalytic Number Theory and Automorphic Forms • University ofMinnesota • sThe Bell Company Fellowship

Dennis Hejhal’s recent research has focused on studying value distri-bution properties of general L-functions near the critical line Re(s)=1/2and utilizing those results to obtain information about the dis tributionof zeros of linear combinations of L-functions. At the Institute, he willalso be continuing his work on the Selberg Archive Project.

Nancy Hingston Differential 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 algebraof loop products.

Sonja Hohloch Symplectic Geometry and Dynamical Systems • Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Sonja Hohloch is interested in symplectic geometry and dynamicalsystems, in particular Floer homology and its application to symplecticdynamics.

Umberto Leone Hryniewicz Symplectic Geometry • Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro • fFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Umberto Hryniewicz has been studying global phenomena in Ham -iltonian dynamics using the theory of pseudoholomorphic curves insymplectic manifolds. For example, he is interested in the existenceof global surfaces of section, dynamical characterizations of contactmanifolds, and the existence of periodic orbits.



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Po HuAlgebraic Topology • Wayne State University • sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Po Hu’s research areas include equivariant and motivic stable homo-topy theory, as well as the mathematical foundations of string theoryin physics. In particular, she is interested in conformal field theoriesand elliptic cohomology.

Russell ImpagliazzoComputational Complexity • University of California, San Diego • vpFunding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund and the National Science Foundation

Russell Impagliazzo specializes in computational complexity, the roleof randomness in computation, proof complexity, average-case com-plexity, the foundations of cryptography, and the exact complexity ofNP-complete problems.

Tasho Kaletha Group Theory, Automorphic Forms • Institute for Advanced Study andPrinceton University • vri

Tasho Kaletha’s main research interests include the stable topologicaltrace formula on the one hand, and the local Langlands correspon-dence and endoscopy for p-adic groups on the other hand. Another ofhis interests is the asym p totic behavior of divisibility functions forarithmetic groups. Currently, he is focusing on endoscopic characteridentities for L-packets on p-adic groups.

Vadim Kaloshin Hamiltonian Dynamics and Celestial Mechanics • The PennsylvaniaState University • sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Vadim Kaloshin’s research concerns stabilities versus instability inHamiltonian systems and celestial mechanics, as well as Aubry-Mathertheory, weak KAM theory, and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation withapplications to Arnold diffusion, and planar billiards in convexdomains.

Michael KhanevskySymplectic Geometry and Dynamics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Michael Khanevsky’s research is concentrated on Hofer’s geometryand on symplectic invariants coming from Floer and symplectichomology. He will participate in the special year for symplecticdynamics.



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Boris Khesin Topological Hydrodynamics, Infinite-Dimensional Groups, IntegrableSystems • University of Toronto • sFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Boris Khesin’s research focuses on the geometry of various infinite-dimensional groups and related Hamiltonian systems, geometric meth-ods in completely integrable systems, and topological and group-theo-retical approaches to hydrodynamics and optimal mass transport viathe study of the geometry of diffeomorphism groups.

Swastik KoppartyTheoretical Computer Science • Rutgers, The State University ofNew Jersey • v

Within theoretical computer science, Swastik Kopparty is interested incoding theory, pseudorandomness, and complexity theory. While atthe Institute, he plans to think about ways we can cope with, benefitfrom, and understand randomness in computation.

Igor KrizAlgebra • University of Michigan • sFunding provided by the James D. Wolfensohn Fund

Igor Kriz works in algebra and algebraic topology, on subjects relatedto K-theory and equivariant and algebraic homotopy theory, as well asconformal field theory and vertex algebras.

Kai-Wen LanNumber Theory, Shimura Varieties • Institute for Advanced Study andPrinceton University • v

Kai-Wen Lan plans to study cohomologies of Shimura varieties andrelated locally symmetric spaces with methods related to arithmetictoroidal compactifications. One of his aims is to understand relationsbetween automorphic forms coming from geometric objects of verydifferent natures.

Menachem (Emanuel) LazarMathematical Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Menachem Lazar’s work focuses on the evolution and long-termsteady states of dynamical cell structures, in particular those thatevolve via mean curvature flow. This work has important conse-quences in the understanding of polycrystalline materials.



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Anthony Michael Licata Representation Theory • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Anthony Licata works in geometric representation theory and cate-gorification. In particular, he is interested in representation-theoreticconstructions in algebraic/symplectic geometry and the categorificationsarising from these constructions.

Joan E. LicataTopology and Contact Geometry • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Joan Licata’s research focuses on invariants of knots and three-mani-folds, with a particular emphasis on contact geometry and HeegaardFloer theory. During her time at the Institute, she plans to study con-structions coming from symplectic field theory.

Victor Daniel LieAnalysis • Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University • vri

Victor Lie’s main area of interest is harmonic analysis. More specifically,his work has developed in the subfields of time-frequency analysisand subjects related to the Kakeya problem. Additionally, he plans toexplore the rich connections between harmonic analysis and ergodictheory, partial differential equations, and additive combinatorics.

László LovászDiscrete Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science • Eötvös LorándUniversity • vpNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Founders’ Circle Visiting Professor;additional funding provided by the National Science Foundation

László Lovász is interested in connections between discrete mathematicsand other branches of mathematics. In recent years, he has been inter-ested in a theory of very large graphs and limits of growing graphsequences.

Shachar LovettComputer Science • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Shachar Lovett is interested in all aspects of theoretical computerscience, particularly computational complexity, pseudorandomness,coding theory, algebraic constructions, and lower bounds. He is alsointerested in additive combinatorics and its connections to theoreticalcomputer science.



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John MatherHamiltonian Dynamics • Princeton UniversityFunding provided by the Ambrose Monell Foundation

John Mather is working on questions relating to Arnold diffusion.He hopes to finish writing up results concerning the existence ofdiffusing orbits in two and one half degrees of freedom. In addition,he expects to work on open problems concerning the existence ofarea-preserving mappings with positive metric entropy.

Benjamin MatschkeAlgebraic Topology, Discrete Geometry • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Benjamin Matschke uses equivariant topology to study discretegeometry problems with natural symmetries, such as Tverberg-typepartition problems. At the Institute, he wants to extend the machineryto quantitative settings in order to apply it to Ramsey theory, enumer-ative combinatorics, and possibly number theory.

Chen MeiriGroup Theory • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Chen Meiri’s research focuses on determining the density of subsetsof finitely generated groups. The main tools for this study come fromfinite and algebraic group theory, number theory, and additive combi-natorics.

Raghu MekaTheoretical Computer Science • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Raghu Meka’s main interests are in complexity theory, pseudo -random ness, and algorithms. More generally, he is interested inprobability- and combinatorics-related problems.

Roman Mikhailov Algebra, Topology • Institute for Advanced Study • vnfFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Roman Mikhailov’s research interests include derived functors ofnonadditive functors and their application to homotopy theory,homotopy groups of spheres, group and group ring theory, algebraicK-theory, and homotopical algebra.



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Gerard MisiolekGlobal Analysis, Partial Differential Equations • University of Notre DameFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member; additional funding providedby the James D. Wolfensohn Fund

Gerard Misiolek’s main interests are in analysis and geometry of non-linear partial differential equations arising in fluid dynamics, groups ofdiffeomorphisms, and infinite-dimensional Hamiltonian systems.

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.

Jelani NelsonTheoretical Computer Science • Institute for Advanced Study • v

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).

Alexandru OanceaDifferential Geometry • CNRS and Université de StrasbourgFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Alexandru Oancea’s field of research is symplectic and contact geom-etry, with an emphasis on symplectic invariants constructed frompseudoholomorphic curves. He is currently interested in the symplec-tic topology of Stein manifolds, which he plans to study using ideasfrom low-dimensional topology and singularity theory.

Yong-Geun OhSymplectic Geometry, Mathematical Physics • University ofWisconsin–Madison • s

Yong-Geun Oh’s current interests include symplectic topology andHamiltonian dynamics up to the continuous category; Floer homolo-gy theory, both in closed and open string contexts and their applica-tions to symplectic topology and mirror symmetry; and analysis ofdegenerate pseudoholomorphic curves in various contexts of sym-plectic, contact geometry and open Gromov-Witten theory.



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Alvaro PelayoSymplectic Geometry, Special Theory of Integrable Systems • Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

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

Gopal PrasadLie Groups, Algebraic Groups, Arithmetic Groups • University ofMichigan • s

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

Julia RuscherProbability Theory • Institute for Advanced Study • v

Julia Ruscher is interested in path properties of Brownian motionwith drift and Hausdorff dimension of random fractal sets.

Sheila SandonSymplectic and Contact Topology • Institute for Advanced Study • sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Sheila Sandon’s research interests are in symplectic and contact topology.In particular, she applies classical Morse theory to generating functionsof Legendrian submanifolds to study global rigidity phenomena incontact topology.

Shubhangi SarafComplexity Theory, Pseudorandomness • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

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Grant SchoenebeckTheoretical Computer Science • Institute for Advanced Study • v

Grant Schoenebeck is interested in computational complexity theory andthe intersection of computer science, social networks, and economics.

Mira Shamis Mathematical Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

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

Alexander ShnirelmanFluid Dynamics, Geometry, Dynamical Systems • Concordia University,MontrealAMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the Charles SimonyiEndowment

Alexander Shnirelman studies dynamics of ideal incompressible fluidin connection with the geometry of infinite-dimensional groups anddynamical systems. He plans to write a book during his stay at theInstitute.

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.

Sasha SodinMathematical Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Sasha Sodin works on random matrices. He is currently trying to studythe local spectral properties of band matrices using a perturbationexpansion.



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Srikanth SrinivasanComputational Complexity • Institute for Advanced Study • v

Srikanth Srinivasan’s research is mainly focused on topics in compu-tational complexity, particularly on problems motivated by questionsin arithmetic and boolean circuit complexity and pseudorandomness.

Nikhil SrivastavaTheoretical Computer Science • Institute for Advanced Study • v, s

Nikhil Srivastava is interested in spectral graph theory and linearalgebra. He is working on problems regarding cuts and distances inspanning trees of graphs, and on constructing matrices with variouskinds of desirable spectral properties.

Andrew StimpsonAlgebraic Topology • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Andrew Stimpson is interested in differential cohomology and how itrelates to physics. He seeks to answer how higher categories can be usedto classify multiplicative differential cohomology theories and what thisimplies for the string theory, in which they have applications.

Andras Istvan Stipsicz Topology, Low-Dimensional Topology • Alfréd Rényi Institute ofMathematics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, BudapestFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

At the Institute, Andras Stipsicz plans to continue research in three-dimen-sional contact topology, and its relation to Heegaard Floer theory. Parallel tothese studies, he also plans to classify surface singularities with smoothingsof simple topological properties and use these results to understand exoticsmooth structures on closed 4-manifolds with small Euler characteristic.

Balazs SzegedyLimits of Discrete Structures • University of Toronto • vnf, f; v, sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

In the frame of a limit theory, very large discrete structures are viewedas approximations of infinite measurable objects. Ergodic theory, graphlimit theory, and higher-order Fourier analysis can all be described aslimit theories. Balazs Szegedy’s recent research is in this area.



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Christine J. TaylorEvolutionary Game Theory, Evolution of Cooperation • Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University

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

Richard TaylorNumber Theory • Harvard University • dvp, f

Richard Taylor, with his collaborators, has developed powerful newtechniques for use in solving longstanding problems, including theShimura-Taniyama conjecture, the local Langlands conjecture and theSato-Tate conjecture. Currently, Taylor is interested in the relationshipbetween l-adic representations for automorphic forms—how to constructl-adic representations for automorphic forms and how to prove givenl-adic representations that arise in this way.

Mohammad Farajzadeh TehraniSympletic Geometry • Institute for Advanced Study • v

Mohammad Tehrani’s research is focused on the symplectic geometryaspects of Calabi-Yau threefolds. He studies these objects from thepoint of view of Gromov-Witten theory, Floer theory, and in generalany subject which is related to A-side of mirror symmetry.

Mina Teicher Algebraic Geometry • Bar-Ilan UniversityFunding provided by the Oswald Veblen Fund

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

Karen Uhlenbeck Gauge Theory • The University of Texas at Austin • vp, sThe Robert and Luisa Fernholz Visiting Professor; additional funding provided bythe Oswald Veblen Fund

Karen Uhlenbeck primarily works in the area of geometric partialdifferential equations. She has worked in the areas of the calculus ofvariations, minimal surfaces, harmonic maps, gauge theory, and integ -rable systems. She is currently interested in flat complex connectionsand moduli spaces of geometric structures on complex connections.



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Adrian VasiuNumber Theory • Binghamton University, The State University ofNew York • f

Adrian Vasiu is working toward finalizing two books and getting feed-back on them. He is also restarting his work on the Mumford-Tateconjecture, as well as refreshing and improving his knowledge of theTate and Hodge conjecture for abelian varieties over finite fields andnumber fields (respectively).

Vera Vértesi3- and 4-Manifold Invariant • Institute for Advanced Study • v, f

Vera Vértesi is working on low-dimensional topology. In particular, sheis interested in Legendrian and transverse knots, and knot invariantscoming form the recently defined Heegaard Floer homologies. She iscurrently trying to give gluable, completely combinatorial descriptionof a tangle invariant in Heegaard Floer homology.

Katalin VesztergombiGraph Theory, Combinatorial Geometry • Eötvös Loránd University

One of Katalin Vesztergombi’s interests is combinatorial properties ofdistance graphs of planar point sets. In recent years, she has worked inthe theory of limits of graph sequences.

Rafael von KänelNumber Theory • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Rafael von Känel works in number theory, in particular in Diophan-tine geometry. He is interested in problems arising in the context ofthe abc conjecture and the effective Mordell conjecture.

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.



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Michael A. WarrenComputer Science, Homotopy Theory • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Michael Warren’s research is in logic, higher-dimensional categorytheory, and homotopy theory. He is particularly interested in connec-tions between these areas, and he will take part in the development ofVoevodsky’s univalent foundations during his time at the Institute. Heis also interested in stacks and nonabelian cohomology.

Katrin Wehrheim Symplectic Geometry, Low-Dimensional Topology, Gauge Theory •

Massachusetts Institute of Technology • vnfFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Katrin Wehrheim plans to learn more about dynamics; think aboutnonsqueezing in symplectic Hilbert spaces; develop a theory of holo-morphic curves in symplectic Hilbert spaces that may help with thefirst two items; and turn a lot of drafts (on pseudoholomorphic quiltsand their topological applications) into papers.

Anna WienhardGeometry • Princeton University • v

Anna Wienhard plans to investigate higher Teichmüller spaces. Manypotentially interesting structures are yet to be discovered for higherTeichmüller spaces and the relation to the moduli space of Riemannsurfaces still needs to be clarified.

Robert F. WilliamsTopology, Dynamical Systems • The University of Texas at Austin • s

Robert Williams is a topologist working specifically in dynamicalsystems. Recently, he has worked in tiling theory. This, and perhapssome work in knotted periodic orbits of ordinary differential equa-tions in three dimensions, will probably be his concern while at theInstitute.

Gisbert WüstholzNumber Theory, Transcendence Theory • Eidgenössische TechnischeHochschule Zürich • f

Gisbert Wüstholz will continue to work on an adelic extension ofBaker’s theory, one of the basic techniques in transcendence theory, inwhich there will be no multiplicity estimates any longer. A secondresearch topic will deal with a 1-motive version of the Kontsevichconjecture on periods.



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Kris WysockiSymplectic Geometry, Contact Geometry, Hamiltonian Dynamics • ThePennsylvania State UniversityFunding provided by the Ellentuck Fund

Kris Wysocki is working on a polyfold theory and a generalized Fred-holm theory on polyfolds. At the Institute, he plans to work on appli-cations of polyfold theory to the Gromov-Witten theory and thesymplectic field theory.

Eduard ZehnderMathematics, Dynamical Systems, Symplectic Geometry • EidgenössischeTechnische Hochschule ZürichFunding provided by the Charles Simonyi Endowment

Eduard Zehnder’s fields of interest are dynamical systems, in parti -cular, Hamiltonian systems and symplectic geometry. He is workingjointly with Helmut Hofer and Kris Wysocki to establish the mathe-matical foundations of the symplectic field theory.

Ke ZhangDynamical Systems • Institute for Advanced Study • sFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Ke Zhang is interested in the stability and instability of Hamiltoniansystems, in particular, the question of Arnold diffusion. He plans towork on questions concerning generic Arnold diffusion and speed ofArnold diffusion, using variational methods started by Mather.

Aleksey Zinger Symplectic Topology and Algebraic Geometry • Stony Brook University,The State University of New YorkFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Aleksey Zinger’s research primarily concerns Gromov-Witten invariantsand is often motivated by predictions arising from string theory. Whileat the Institute, he plans to focus on studying analytic proper ties ofpseudoholomorphic maps with an eye toward applications in Gromov-Witten theory and elsewhere in symplectic topology.

David ZuckermanComputer Science • The University of Texas at Austin Funding provided by the National Science Foundation

David Zuckerman’s research focuses on the role of randomness in com -putation, especially pseudorandomness and randomness extraction. Heis also interested in coding theory, cryptography, approximability, andother aspects of computational complexity.

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School of Natural Sciences

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 the School of Mathematics. The programs in physics and astronomy areclosely integrated with corresponding activities at Princeton Universityvia joint 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 withother academic and clinical groups as well as with research scientistsfrom pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and computer companies, to poolbiological data and to confirm theoretical models. The Center hosts avariety of joint “lab meetings,” seminars, symposia, and public lecturesthat take place 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, relativeto other forces of nature, might be explained by the exis-tence of extra dimensions of space, and how the structureof comparatively 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.

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 functionin bacteria, he and his laboratory colleagues are beginningto understand how individual components can give riseto complex, collective phenomena.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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, thefaint glow of radiation generated by the Big Bang. Hisrecent research has focused on intergalactic hydrogen gasin the early universe, and he is at the forefront of devel-oping machinery to study this gas using the spectral linefrom neutral 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.

Freeman J. DysonProfessor Emeritus • Mathematical Physics andAstrophysics

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 current researchtries to answer the question of whether any conceivablethought-experiment could detect a single graviton.

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Peter Goldreich Professor Emeritus • Astrophysics

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

Arnold J. LevineProfessor Emeritus • Biology

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

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Yacine Ali-HaïmoudTheoretical Astrophysics, Cosmology • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding 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.At the Institute, he plans on exploring new areas of theoretical astro-physics and cosmology such as gravity theories and the reionizationepoch.

Katrin BeckerString Theory, Particle Physics, Cosmology • Texas A&M University • fFunding provided by the Ambrose Monell Foundation

Katrin Becker’s research deals with fundamental aspects of stringtheory. In recent years, her work has focused on proving the existenceand studying the geometric properties of corresponding mathematicalspaces in string theory. The properties of the vast majority of mathe-matical spaces, the so-called torsional spaces, are still to be uncovered.

Vladimir BelyiBiology • The Cancer Institute of New Jersey • v

Vladimir Belyi is interested in the study of genome evolution, struc-ture-sequence relation, and optimization of genomic code. While atthe Institute, he will be working on combining tools of statisticalmechanics and comparative genomics to test for novel gene functions,look for pressures associated with genetic drift, and study evolution ofthe transcriptional regulation.

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

Simeon Bird’s research focuses on the early universe and the inter-galactic medium. He works on simulations of the Lyman-alpha and ofthe matter power spectrum, focusing on the impact of cosmologicalparameters. He is also interested in inflation.

Kfir Blum Particle and Astroparticle Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

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

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Jo Bovy Cosmology, 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.

Curtis CallanBiology • Princeton University • v

Curtis Callan is a theoretical physicist with broad interests in quantumfield theory and statistical physics. He is currently working on prob-lems in biology, with a focus on gene regulation: how it works mech-anistically, how it manages to achieve rather precise results in the faceof noise, and how it evolved (and evolves).

Simon Caron-HuotMathematical Physics, Statistical Mechanics, String Theory,Supersymmetry • Institute for Advanced StudyMarvin L. Goldberger Member; additional funding provided by the NationalScience Foundation

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

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

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

Tudor Dan DimofteMathematical and Particle Physics • Institute for Advanced Study • fFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member; additional funding providedby 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 dynamicsof gauge theories. He is interested in building new, mutually beneficialconnections between physics and mathematics, especially in the fieldsof algebraic geometry and knot theory.


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Subo Dong Astrophysics • Institute for Advanced StudyNASA Exoplanet Institute Carl Sagan Fellowship Program

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

Nicholas DoreyQuantum Field Theory, String Theory • University of Cambridge • sFunding provided by the Ambrose Monell Foundation

Nicholas Dorey is currently interested in understanding the conse-quences of integrability in planar gauge theories and in their dualstring theory descriptions. A particular goal is to understand thequantization of string theory in backgrounds with constant curvaturein which classical string motion is integrable.

Cora Dvorkin Cosmology, Astrophysics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

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

Anatoly DymarskyCosmology, String Theory, Supersymmetry, Particle Physics • Institute forAdvanced StudyFrank and Peggy Taplin Member; additional funding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

Anatoly Dymarsky’s research is focused on the gauge/string theorycorrespondence that provides a novel approach to address long-stand-ing open questions in field theory. He will apply this approach tocontemporary problems of cosmology and particle physics.

Rouven EssigParticle Physics • Stanford University • v

Over the next few years, data from various experiments may teach usthe identity of the dark matter particle and uncover new fundamentalparticles, forces, and symmetries of nature. Rouven Essig’s researchwill focus on the implications of this data for physics beyond theStandard Model and also explore new experimental probes for newphysics.

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Rodrigo FernandezAstrophysics • Institute for Advanced StudyNASA Einstein Fellowship Program

Rodrigo Fernandez is interested in theoretical astrophysics at thestellar scale, with a focus on using numerical simulations to understandcomplex systems. His current research topics include the explosionmechanism of core-collapse supernovae and the physics of neutronstars.

Guido FestucciaHigh-Energy Theoretical Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding 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 toparticle-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 StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Raphael Flauger’s research interests range from phenomenologicalquestions in cosmology and particle physics to formal questions inquantum field theory and string theory. He is currently particularlyinterested in extracting clues about fundamental physics from cosmo-logical observations.

Davide GaiottoParticle Physics • Institute for Advanced Study • mRoger Dashen Member; additional funding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

The semiclassical description of black holes in quantum gravity predictssome surprising facts and some sharp contradictions. String theorypotentially provides a detailed explanation of both. At the Institute,Davide Gaiotto will continue his work on black hole physics and jointhe investigations of the surprising connections to field theory.

Daniel GreenCosmology, String Theory, Supersymmetry, Phenomenology, MathematicalPhysics, Statistical Mechanics • Institute for Advanced StudyMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Member; additional funding provided by theUnited States Department of Energy

Daniel Green is interested in both the formal developments of quantumfield theory and string theory and their connections to particle physicsand cosmology. He is currently interested in nonperturbative solutionsto theoretical problems in both particle physics and cosmology.

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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 immunesystem.

Daniel GrinCosmology, Theoretical Astrophysics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by NASA; additional funding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Daniel Grin is interested in a variety of topics in theoretical cosmology,including cosmological recombination, inflationary perturbations, thecosmic microwave background more generally, axions, dark matter haloprofiles, nonstandard thermal histories for the early universe, modificationsto general relativity, gravitational lensing, and Lyman limit absorbers.

Thomas HartmanParticle Physics, String Theory • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

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

Jonathan Jacob HeckmanString Theory, Phenomenology • Institute for Advanced StudyWilliam D. Loughlin Member; additional funding provided by the NationalScience Foundation

Jonathan Heckman’s research concerns high-energy theoreticalphysics. He is interested in both formal and phenomenological aspectsof string theory, particle physics, and cosmology, as well as potentialinterrelations between these areas.

Tobias Heinemann Astrophysics • Institute for Advanced StudyIBM Einstein Fellow

Tobias Heinemann’s research interests are broadly in the field of astro-physical fluid dynamics. During his stay at the Institute, he intends tofurther the understanding of, among other things, wave dynamics anddynamo processes in accretion discs, and will do so from an appliedmathematics perspective.

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Johannes Henn Particle Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyVerizon 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 recentlydiscovered dualities between scattering amplitudes, correlation func-tions of local operators, and Wilson loops with the aim of finding newhidden structures in the weak and strong coupling description of theseobjects.

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.John Hopfield’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 EinsteinFellowship Program

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

Woong-Tae KimAstrophysics • Seoul National University • f

Woong-Tae Kim works on astrophysical gas dynamics and magneto-hydrodynamics using numerical simulations. His current interestsinclude galactic star formation, gas dynamics in barred-spiral galaxies,gaseous dynamical friction, and cooling flows in galaxy clusters.

Igor R. KlebanovField Theory and Strings • Princeton UniversityIBM Einstein Fellow

Igor Klebanov has made progress on the foundational aspects of thegauge/gravity duality and on its applications to embedding cosmicinflation into string theory. He also works on various general issues inquantum field theory, such as the color confinement or measures ofthe number of degrees of freedom.

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Zohar KomargodskiString Theory, Supersymmetry, Phenomenology • Institute for AdvancedStudy • mCorning Glass Works Foundation Member; additional funding provided by theNational Science Foundation

Zohar Komargodski’s research concerns quantum field theories. He isinterested in their connection to string theory and to particle physicsphenomenology. In particular, he intends to work on supersymmetryand its breaking.

Brian Cameron LackiAstrophysics • Institute for Advanced StudyNational Radio 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.

Ning LeiBiology • Institute for Advanced Study

Autism is a clinically and etiologically heterogeneous developmentaldisorder. Genetics plays a major role in the etiology of autism asevidenced from twin and family studies. Ning Lei is carrying out afamily-based association study using the Autism Genetic ResourceExchange database to identify specific genes with a major effect ondisease risk.

Albert LibchaberBiology • The Rockefeller University • vpFlorence Gould Foundation Visiting Professor

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.

Marilena LoVerdeCosmology, Astrophysics • Institute for Advanced StudyAMIAS Member; additional funding provided by the National Science Foundation

Marilena LoVerde is interested in all topics related to the origin andevolution of structure in the universe. At the Institute, she plans todevelop techniques to study gravitational lensing and non-Gaussianityand to explore astrophysical probes of fundamental physics.

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Sergio LukicGenetics • Institute for Advanced StudyThe Rita Allen Foundation Member in Biology

Sergio Lukic is broadly interested in the evolution of strongly inter-acting molecular-genetic networks. To this end, he is developingmathematical and statistical tools in population genetics to study thedynamics of demography, natural selection, epistasis, and recombina-tion in patterns of 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 structuresin biological systems using the mathematical framework of hyper-structures. She will also begin to study the influence of gene regula-tion in cancer and other diseases.

Gregory MooreMathematical Physics • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey • sFunding provided by the Ambrose Monell Foundation

Gregory Moore’s work focuses on mathematical physics, with an em -phasis on string theory, M-theory, and gauge theories more generally.His work places particular emphasis on the underlying mathematicalstructures and applications to and from modern mathematics.

Arvind MuruganBiology • Institute for Advanced StudyAddie and Harold Broitman Member in Biology

Arvind Murugan plans to work on problems in biophysics, fromproblems involving the thermal nature of biochemistry to evolutionand population dynamics.

Jean-Claude NicolasBiology • Université Pierre et Marie CurieSusan and Jim Blair Member in Biology

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

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Vasily PestunTheoretical Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding 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.

David PolandPhysics Beyond the Standard Model, Conformal Field Theories •

Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

David Poland is interested in physics beyond the Standard Model andits connection to electroweak symmetry breaking and dark matter. Heis also interested in developing new methods to learn about stronglycoupled field theories and in particular the role that near-conformaldynamics might play in new physics.

Rafael A. PortoTheoretical Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy; additional fundingprovided by the National Science Foundation

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.

Shlomo S. RazamatTheoretical Physics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Shlomo Razamat’s research interests concern different aspects ofquantum field theory and string theory and the interplay betweenthem. He is mainly working on gauge/string (gravity) duality and onstudying 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 systems.During his stay at the Institute, he intends to work on analytic modelsand large-scale numerical simulations to explain the dynamical config-uration of exoplanets and our own solar system.

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Adam Rej AdS/CFT Correspondence and Integrable Models • Institute forAdvanced StudyEuropean Commission Madame 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.

Amit Sever String Theory, Quantum Field Theory • Perimeter Institute forTheoretical PhysicsFunding provided by the United States Department of Energy

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

Joan SimonTheoretical Physics • The University of Edinburgh • v, s

Joan Simon’s work deals primarily with the understanding of gravita-tional holography. In particular, he is interested in its relation to ther-modynamics beyond black holes physics, the emergence of classicalgeometry, and the extension of holographic ideas in time-dependentsituations such as in cosmology or thermalization processes.

Tracy Slatyer Particle 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; additional funding provided by the Ambrose Monell Foundation

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 Study Funding provided by the National Science Foundation

Dave Spiegel, whose interests range from X-ray studies of the inter-galactic medium to understanding the origin of highly magneticwhite dwarf stars, is focusing on theoretical studies of the climates of,and radiative transfer in, exoplanetary atmospheres; on habitabilitymodels of terrestrial exoplanets; and on radiation-dynamical models ofgas giant planets.

Matthew SudanoParticle Physics • Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of theUniverse, Kashiwa, Japan • v, f

Matthew Sudano’s work has primarily been devoted to understandingsupersymmetry and how it might interface with the real world. Heplans to continue studying relatively tractable systems, including super-symmetric and conformal field theories, while deriving inspirationfrom observation.

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

Rashid Sunyaev has made major contributions in the fields of physicalcosmology and high-energy astrophysics. His current research interestsinclude the cosmological recombination of hydrogen and helium, 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 biologicalsystems, and to draw parallels with artificial computation.

Tsvi TlustyBiology • Weizmann Institute of ScienceMartin 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 that may reveal their fundamental principles. In partic-ular, he is focused on how the function of proteins as informationchannels that operate under distinct biochemical constraints mayexplain the unique physical properties of this state of matter.

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Alexei VazquezBiology • The Cancer Institute of New Jersey • v

At the Institute, Alexei Vazquez will continue to work on developingstatistical frameworks to analyze large biological datasets and to under-stand the organization of biological systems. He will also study themetabolism of cancer cells.

Dan XieParticle Physics • Institute for Advanced Study Zurich Financial Services Member; additional funding provided by the UnitedStates 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.

Amit Pratap Singh YadavCosmology, Astrophysics • Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by NASA

Amit Yadav’s research focuses on the Cosmic Microwave Background(CMB) temperature and polarization, and the early universe. Specifictopics of his research include connecting primordial non-Gaussiansignatures in CMB to specific classes of inflationary models, weakgravitational lensing, and extracting primordial B-modes.


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School of Social Science

Administrative Officer: Donne Petito

Founded in 1973, the School of Social Science takes as its mission theanalysis of societies and social change. It is devoted to a multi disciplinary,comparative, and international approach to social research.

Professors of the School have participated actively in the most importantcontemporary debates about the meaning of the “interpretive turn” 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 economicex change; 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 under theguiding 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 politicalscience, economics, law, psychology, sociology, anthropology, history, philoso-phy, and literary criticism––to examine historical and contemporary problems.

In an attempt to create a sense of community among the Members, theSchool designates an annual theme, which is neither exclusive nor excluding.The theme for the 2011–12 academic year is “Morals and Moralities.”Moral arguments and moral sentiments are constantly mobilized in policydecisions. Philosophers have always dealt with morality; historians, sociolo-gists, anthropologists, and economists have analyzed moral norms and values;and emerging fields, such as moral psychology and neuroethics, proposeinnovative understandings. But how can we articulate these paradigms?How could the study of morality move beyond formal dilemmas tocomprehend the ordinary functioning of social action? How could theinterpretation of moralities resist reduction to relativism or universalism?How are moral economies negotiated and transformed? How are moraland political issues increasingly associated, particularly around human rightsand humanitarian intervention? How can social scientists continue todevelop their critical approach when accounting for situations and facts somorally loaded? Under the direction of Didier Fassin, James D. WolfensohnProfessor, 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, an anthropologist and a sociologist, trained asa physician in internal medicine and public health. He dedi-cated his early research to medical anthropology, illuminatingim portant issues about the AIDS epidemic, social inequalitiesin health, and the changing landscape of global health. Morerecently, he has developed a new domain of inquiry he terms“political and moral anthropology,” analyzing the reformu-lation of injustice and violence as suffering and trauma,the expansion of an international humanitarian government,and the contradictions in the contemporary politics of life.His present project explores the political and moral treatmentof disadvantaged groups, including immigrants and refugees,through an ethnography of police, justice, and prison.

Eric S. Maskin (through December 31, 2011)Albert O. Hirschman Professor

Eric Maskin is probably best known for his work on thetheory of mechanism design, for which he shared the 2007Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics. He has made contri-butions to many other areas of economics as well, includinggame theory, social choice theory, and political economy.

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Joan Wallach Scott Harold F. Linder Professor

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

Albert O. HirschmanProfessor Emeritus

During his retirement years, Albert Hirschman continuedto work and write on problems of economic develop-ment in Latin America as well as on more general social-science subjects. Lately, health problems have forced himto retire from 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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Celeste Arrington Political Science • The George Washington UniversityGinny and Robert Loughlin Founders’ Circle Member

Celeste Arrington is studying mechanisms of inclusion and exclusionin democratic politics in South Korea and Japan. Her book projectanalyzes state responsiveness to victim redress movements. She is alsoexamining how conflicts over what constitutes morally just-and-fairredress are mediated by legal institutions, moral codes, framing, andpower dynamics.

Gail BedermanHistory • University of Notre Dame

Gail Bederman’s project is focused on a set of interwoven narrativesabout the lives and writings of William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft,and T. R. Malthus between 1792 and 1803, which provide a sort ofgenealogy of the naturalized logics and political premises underlyingcontemporary U.S. disputes over the morality of abortion.

Elizabeth BernsteinSociology • Barnard College

Elizabeth Bernstein is researching the construction of “sex trafficking”as a moral and political issue within the contemporary United Statesand transnationally. She is considering the moral politics of conserva-tive Christians, secular feminists, and bipartisan state officials who havesuccessfully framed their concerns around sexual slavery and forcedmigration into broad-ranging discourses and policies.

Andreas Blume Economics • University of PittsburghRoger W. Ferguson Jr. and Annette L. Nazareth Member

Andreas Blume studies strategic communication. He currently isfocused on reconciling the intuition of frequent disagreement aboutmeaning with the fact that in the equilibria of communicationgames the uses of messages are known. The aim is to understandhow language compatibility shapes organizations and institutionssuch as contracting and expert advice.

Jonathan CaverleyPolitical Science • Northwestern University • v

Jonathan Caverley is completing a book, “Death and Taxes: The PoliticalEconomy of Democratic Militarism,” which examines the distributionof the costs of defense within democracies, and its contribution tomilitary aggressiveness. He also studies the globalization of the defenseindustry and the role of technology in international politics.

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Wendy Hui Kyong ChunNew Media Studies • Brown University

Wendy Chun’s work on new media addresses the interrelationsbetween media, culture, and technology. Her newest book project,“Imagined Networks,” focuses on the importance of the imaginationand images to the experience and conception of networks.

Thomas J. Csordas Anthropology • University of California, San Diego

Thomas Csordas works on issues of embodiment and the transfor -mation of meaning in illness and healing. He is examining (with JanisH. Jenkins) the moral valence of adolescent mental health care, par -ti c ularly the experiential immediacy of young people’s lives and theinstitutional structure of care available to them and their families.

Jeremiah Dittmar Economics • American UniversityDeutsche Bank Member

The printing press was the great innovation in early modern informa-tion technology and arguably provides the closest historical parallel tothe Internet. Jeremiah Dittmar’s research documents how the informa-tion technology revolution of the Renaissance transformed the eco-nomic geography of Europe and contributed to the emergence ofmodern economic growth.

James DoylePhilosophy • University of Bristol • v

James Doyle is working on a book on Plato’s Gorgias. This will givean analysis of the main arguments of the dialogue, and an account ofthe use to which Plato puts the dialogue form, as leveling an implicitcritique of Socrates’ conception of philosophical method and hisassociated doctrine of “intellectualism.”

Sherine F. HamdyAnthropology • Brown UniversityThe Wolfensohn Family Member

Sherine Hamdy’s current project treats sensational media reports about strange medical cases and new forms of bodily interventionin contemporary Egypt as moments that can shed light on dramatictransformations in Egypt’s sociopolitical landscape. She is particularly inter ested in shifting gender norms and everyday ethical dilemmas thatemerge in overlooked and marginalized segments of Egyptian society.

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Alexander L. HintonAnthropology • Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Alex Hinton’s research focuses on genocide and mass violence. Hisearly work explored the origins of genocide and perpetrator motivation.His more recent research examines the aftermaths of genocide, withan emphasis on trauma, memory, and transitional justice. His currentbook project focuses on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia.

Beth Kiyoko JamiesonPolitical Science • Institute for Advanced Study • v

Kiki Jamieson studies the ways gender is defined and enforced throughlegal and political institutions. She explores issues of discriminationand punishment related to gender identity and expression, with par-ticular emphasis on the force of law felt by gender nonconformingpeople in institutions ranging from prisons to schools to marriage.

Janis H. Jenkins Anthropology • University of California, San Diego

Janis Jenkins studies subjectivity, cultural meaning, and sociopoliticaldimensions of mental health and illness. She is examining (withThomas J. Csordas) the moral subjectivities of youths and familiesliving under conditions of structural violence and personal crisis,particularly the lived experience of institutional arrangements forcare, containment, and management of adolescent mental health.

Andrew JohnstonArchitecture, Cultural Geography • Xi’an Jiaotong-LiverpoolUniversity, Suzhou, China • v

Andrew Johnston is working on a book, “Quicksilver Landscapes:Space, Power, and Ethnicity in the Mercury Mining Industry in Cali-fornia and the West, 1845–1890.” This book reconstructs the culturallandscapes of the mercury industry in the context of race, technology,the organization of labor, and everyday life.

Amy KaplanAmerican Studies • University of Pennsylvania

Amy Kaplan is writing a book, “American Zionism,” historicizing thepresumption that the United States and Israel have a timeless bondrooted in common traditions and values. She focuses on U.S. cultureas the medium in which this relationship grew. Beyond the politicalalliance, Kaplan explores how cultural identification with Israel upheldcherished American myths.

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Eugene KontorovichConstitutional and International Law • Northwestern UniversitySchool of LawDeutsche Bank Member

Eugene Kontorovich will examine the lessons of piracy for interna-tional criminal law. Piracy is the oldest international crime, a revivedsecurity challenge, and the conceptual model for the modern interna-tional criminal regime. Thus it offers a yardstick for measuring theprogress of international law from the eighteenth century to today.

Jennifer S. Light History • Northwestern University

Jennifer Light is writing about the historical and contemporary signif-icance of the junior republic movement, 1895–1945, when childrenjoined self-governing communities for civic and character education.A book will expand the historiography of educational simulations.A companion article will address technology designers seeking toeducate today’s youth using digital simulation tools.

Jennifer LondonPolitical Science • Institute for Advanced Study • v

Jennifer London is a political theorist working on Arabic models ofthe just world. She will complete a manuscript on the politicalthought of the Persian secretary Ibn al-Muqaffa‘––a luminary of earlyArabic prose. She will analyze how Ibn al-Muqaffa‘ introduced Persianpolitical ideas at the ‘Abbasid court to achieve greater authority.

Steven LukesSociology • New York University

Steven Lukes is writing a book that aims to reconstruct the history ofsociological and anthropological thinking about morality, surveys theways in which morals have been understood historically and cross-culturally, and seeks to bring a sociological perspective to the currentdiscussions of morality among evolutionary biologists, neuroscientists,and geneticists.

William Bentley MacLeodEconomics • Columbia UniversityLeon Levy Foundation Member

W. Bentley MacLeod studies the design of contracts for the supply ofcomplex goods and services, particularly labor and education. He plansto complete the book “The Economics of Incentive Contracts” forMIT Press. In addition, he will continue work on the economics ofeducation with Miguel Urquiola at Columbia University.

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Karuna Mantena Political Science • Yale University

Karuna Mantena’s project reconsiders Gandhi’s political thought fromthe standpoint of a realist theory of political means. Though Gandhiis often taken to be the exemplary figure of a form of convictionpolitics, Mantena will explore how Gandhi’s politics were connectedto a contextual and consequentialist theory of political violence.

Andrew MoravcsikPolitical Science, International Relations, European Studies • PrincetonUniversity • v

In two parallel projects on the European Union and on global multi-lateral institutions, Andrew Moravcsik is looking at how internationallaw and organization––which are said to distance individuals from thepublic decisions that shape their lives––can sustain, and often evenenhance, the legitimate functioning of national democracies.

Angel Adams ParhamSociology • Loyola University New Orleans

In her work, Angel Parham argues that theories of race in the UnitedStates need to better account for the ways local experiences are oftenshaped by past or present ties to transnational regions. Her projectexamines the impact of Louisiana’s historical ties to St. Dom ingue/Haiti on current understandings of race in Louisiana.

In-Uck ParkEconomics • University of BristolRichard B. Fisher Member

In-Uck Park’s research uses game-theoretic approaches and aims tofurther our understanding of how agents communicate informationand coordinate actions in various situations involving conflict of inter-ests. Currently, he is studying the interrelationship between verticalinequality within organizations and the structure of organizations tobe formed endogenously.

Nancy Scheper-Hughes Anthropology • University of California, BerkeleyFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member

Nancy Scheper-Hughes is writing a book, “The Ghosts of Montes deOca,” which is based on archival and ethnographic research between2000–11 and analyzes the cultural-ideological, political, and psych -iatric forces that created a death-camp-like environment withinArgentina’s national asylum for the profoundly mentally deficientduring the Dirty War, and why it continued through 2007.

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Jessica E. SewellArchitectural History • Boston University

Jessica Sewell’s work focuses on the intersection between gender andarchitecture, cities, and material culture. Her book, “Manly Things:Masculine Interiors and Domestic Objects in the Postwar UnitedStates,” will explore the relationship between masculine interiors anddomestic objects, masculinity, and the shift to consumption-basedidentity in the postwar United States.

Judith SurkisHistory • Institute for Advanced Study • v

Judith Surkis is writing a book about how ideas of religious and sexualdifference underwrote the plural and hierarchical juridical system thatoperated in colonial Algeria. Her project offers a new vantage fromwhich to understand the entangled history of French and “Muslim”law.

Kabir Tambar Anthropology • Stanford University

Kabir Tambar is completing a book that examines the institutionalpressures and risks that shape the moral experience of modernity incontemporary Turkey, focusing specifically on the Alevi community.The book illuminates the stakes of challenging, as well as of yieldingto, the seductions of modernity in the contemporary Muslim world.

Kimberly TheidonAnthropology • Harvard University

Kimberly Theidon is exploring how the former combatants withwhom she works in Colombia conceptualize not only killing, butalso justice, reparations, and reconciliation. In the context of sustainedlethal violence, what are the resources individuals and collectivesmarshal to bring violence to a halt? Once the killing stops, how dopeople live together again?

Peter VanderschraafPhilosophy • University of California, Merced

Peter Vanderschraaf is exploring the relationship between morality andconvention. His work is intended to form part of an ancient but rela-tively underdeveloped tradition in philosophy that analyzes justice andother large parts of morality as subsets of the systems of conventionsthat regulate human societies.

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Justus von DanielsLaw and Religion, Sociology of Law • Benjamin N. Cardozo Schoolof Law,Yeshiva University • v

Justus von Daniels is analyzing the processes and mechanisms ofpracticed legal interaction of religious law and state law in the UnitedStates. His study aims to explain some dynamics of legal pluralism: inthe case of religious law, different forms of hybrid norms, weak legalautonomy, and procedural cooperation evolve from a context-sensitivecoordination.

Jarrett ZigonAnthropology • University of AmsterdamAMIAS Member

Utilizing an anthropological theory of moralities that he has devel-oped over the last ten years, Jarrett Zigon will do a genealogical-discursive analysis on the sociopolitical context of the rise of humanrights as a moral discourse, and consider the results of ongoingtransnational ethnographic research in four HIV/AIDS prevention andtreatment programs.


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Program in Interdisciplinary Studies

The Program in Interdisciplinary Studies explores different ways of viewingthe world, spanning a range of disciplines from physics—especially computa-tional astrophysics, geology, and paleontology—to artificial intelligence, cogni-tive psychology, 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 simulations ofdense stellar systems. In addition, he is actively involved ininterdisciplinary explorations in the areas of cognitive sci-ence and philosophy of science centered around questionsinvolving the nature of knowledge. In both areas, he hasrecently 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 edu-cation, to facilitate experiential learning and add an element ofplay, and in scientific research, especially for collaborative datavisualization and simulation.

Monica ManolescuAmerican Literature and Art • Université de Strasbourg • v

Monica Manolescu has done research on Vladimir Nabokov andon contemporary American literature. She is now working on abook about the geographical imagination of recent Americanwriters and artists who are using maps and mapmaking in theirwork.

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Philip OrdingMathematics • Medgar Evers College, The City University of NewYork • v, s

Philip Ording is a New York-based mathematician writing a manu-script comprising a variety of proofs of a single theorem. Inspired byRaymond Queneau’s Exercises in Style, the work explores the notionof mathematical style.

Edwin TurnerAstrophysics • Princeton University • v

Edwin Turner will be working on statistical biases and estimators forsamples of exoplanets detected using various techniques; on theSEEDS project (Subaru exoplanet studies); and on implications ofcomplexity 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. Scholars froma variety of fields, including areas not represented in the Schools, are invited tothe Institute for varying periods of time, depending on the nature of their work.

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Tom Phillips comes with a few tasks for default reassurance but alwaysends up thinking along new lines or even embarking on new projectsin the here and now. Stimulation comes from the woods and from thewords of people who shine small torches on the infinite.

Subhankar BanerjeePhotographer, writer

Subhankar Banerjee is an Indian-born American photographer, writer,and activist, and the founder of ClimateStoryTellers.org. His ongoingwork, land-as-home, focuses on ecocultural rights issues in the arcticand desert ecoregions of North America and Siberia. At the Institute,he will begin his study of forest ecoregion of the Global South.

Louise DolanProfessor, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Louise Dolan’s work is on string theory and non-Lagrangian formu-lations of gauge theories; and she continues her computations ofinfinite-dimensional symmetries in relativistic field theories and theirapplications to exact solvability.


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Artist-in-Residence Program

The Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1994 to create a musicalpresence within the Institute community, and to have in residence a person whosework could be experienced and appreciated by scholars from all disciplines.Derek Bermel continues as Artist-in-Residence, organizing “The Har monic Series,”the 2011–12 Edward T. Cone Concert Series, while pursuing his scholarly andcreative interests and developing major work.

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

Derek Bermel, who was nominated for a Grammy Awardin 2010, directs the Edward T. Cone Concert Series at theInstitute. He has composed a new work combining the en -sembles Music from China and Music from Copland House,to be premiered at the Freer Gallery in Washington, D.C.,in October 2011. He will be performing Aaron Copland’sClarinet Concerto at Carnegie Hall with the AmericanComposers Orchestra in February 2012, and he has receiveda comission from SummerStage in New York City for a large-scale work for the ensemble Alarm Will Sound.


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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

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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 • 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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Jeffrey P. BezosFounder and CEOAmazon.comSeattle, Washington

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

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

Cynthia CarrollChief ExecutiveAnglo American plcLondon, England

Mario DraghiGovernor, Bank of ItalyRome, Italy

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

E. Robert FernholzFounder and Chief Investment OfficerINTECHPrinceton, New Jersey

Carmela Vircillo FranklinProfessor of ClassicsColumbia University New York, New York

Peter GoddardDirector, Institute for Advanced StudyPrinceton, New Jersey

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

John S. HendricksFounder and ChairmanDiscovery CommunicationsSilver Spring, Maryland

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

Trustees and Officers ofthe Board and of the Corporation

Board and Corporate Officers

Charles SimonyiChairman

Martin L. LeibowitzVice Chairman and President of the Corporation

James H. SimonsVice Chairman

Brian F. WrubleTreasurer of the Corporation

John MastenAssistant Treasurer

Nancy S. MacMillanSecretary of the Corporation

Michael GehretAssistant Secretary

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Bruce KovnerFounder and ChairmanCaxton Associates 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 Managing Director 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 ChairmanGoogle 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

Andrew J. WilesJames S. McDonnell Distinguished UniversityProfessor of MathematicsPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey

Brian F. WrubleChairman Emeritus, The Jackson LaboratoryBar Harbor, Maine

Richard B. BlackMartin A. ChooljianSidney D. Drell Ralph E. HansmannHelene L. KaplanImmanuel KohnDavid K.P. Li

Hamish MaxwellRonaldo H. Schmitz Martin E. SegalMichel L. VaillaudLadislaus von HoffmannJames D. WolfensohnChairman Emeritus

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Peter GoddardDirector

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

Roberta GernhardtManager 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 NewcombeSenior Development Officer

Kelly Devine ThomasSenior Publications Officer

Library Administration

Momota GanguliLibrarian, Mathematics and Natural Sciences

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

Computing, Telecommunications, and NetworkingAdministration)

Christine Di BellaArchivist

School Administration

Mary Jane HayesAdministrative Officer School of Mathematics

Donne PetitoAdministrative Officer School of Social Science

Michelle SageAdministrative Officer School of Natural Sciences

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


Marian Gallagher ZelaznyAdministrative Officer

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Catherine E. GiesbrechtProgram Officer, IAS/Park City

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Jeffrey BerlinerManager of Computing

Brian EpsteinComputer Manager Network and Security

Jonathan PeeleComputer Manager

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James StephensComputer Manager


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Edna WigdersonManager

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IndexAdler, Stephen L. (SNS), 47Aksakal, Mustafa (SHS), 10Albers, Peter (SM), 26Ali-Haïmoud, Yacine (SNS), 49Allen, Danielle S. (SSS), 62Alon, Noga (SM), 26Ames, Jeff (IS), 71Anguissola, Anna (SHS), 10Arinkin, Dima (SM), 26Arkani-Hamed, Nima (SNS), 45Arrington, Celeste (SSS), 64Banerjee, Subhankar (DV), 73Barthas, Jérémie (SHS), 10Becker, Katrin (SNS), 49Bederman, Gail (SSS), 64Bellettini, Costante (SM), 26Belyi, Vladimir (SNS), 49Bermel, Derek (AiR), 74Bermon, Emmanuel (SHS), 10Bernstein, Elizabeth (SSS), 64Bird, Simeon Paul (SNS), 49Blum, Kfir (SNS), 49Blume, Andreas (SSS), 64Bois, Yve-Alain (SHS), 5Bombieri, Enrico (SM), 24Bounemoura, Abed (SM), 26Bourgain, Jean (SM), 22Bovy, Jo (SNS), 50Bowersock, Glen W. (SHS), 6Bramham, Barney (SM), 27Brooks, Peter (SHS), 10Brydges, David (SM), 27Bulut, Aynur (SM), 27Bynum, Caroline Walker (SHS), 7Callan, Curtis (SNS), 50Caron-Huot, Simon (SNS), 50Carr, Annemarie Weyl (SHS), 11Caverley, Jonathan (SSS), 64Cellarosi, Francesco (SM), 27Chaniotis, Angelos (SHS), 5Chekanov, Yuri (SM), 27Chen, Huaiyu (SHS), 11Chen, Weimin (SM), 28 Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong (SSS), 65Cieliebak, Kai (SM), 28 Cohen, Jeremy (SHS), 11

Constable, Giles (SHS), 7 Craig, Nathaniel (SNS), 50 Crone, Patricia (SHS), 5 Csordas, Thomas J. (SSS), 65 Dancso, Zsuzsanna (SM), 28 Delbourgo, James (SHS), 11 Deligne, Pierre (SM), 25 Denissov, Serguei (SM), 28 Di Cosmo, Nicola (SHS), 6Dimofte, Tudor Dan (SNS), 50Dittmar, Jeremiah (SSS), 65Dodkhudoeva, Lola Nazarsho (SHS), 11Dolan, Louise (DV), 73Dong, Subo (SNS), 51Dorey, Nicholas (SNS), 51Doyle, James (SSS), 65Dvorkin, Cora (SNS), 51Dymarsky, Anatoly (SNS), 51Dyson, Freeman J. (SNS), 47Eliasson, Hakan (SM), 28Essig, Rouven (SNS), 51Fassin, Didier (SSS), 62Felshtyn, Alexander (SM), 29Fernandez, Rodrigo (SNS), 52Festuccia, Guido (SNS), 52Fiorilli, Daniel (SM), 29Flauger, Raphael (SNS), 52Franklin, John Curtis (SHS), 12Gaiotto, Davide (SNS), 52Gambino, Nicola (SM), 29Geraci, Robert (SHS), 12Geraghty, David (SM), 29Gershoni, Israel (SHS), 12Gerwarth, Robert (SHS), 12Giacomin, Giambattista (SM), 29Gidea, Marian (SM), 30Ginzburg, Viktor (SM), 30Goddard, Peter (D), 3Goldberg, Chad Alan (SHS), 12Goldreich, Oded (SM), 30Goldreich, Peter (SNS), 48Goresky, Mark (SM), 30Green, Daniel (SNS), 52Greenbaum, Benjamin (SNS), 53Griffiths, Phillip A. (SM), 25Grin, Daniel (SNS), 53

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Leibler, Stanislas (SNS), 45Lester, Anne E. (SHS), 14Levine, Arnold J. (SNS), 48Libchaber, Albert (SNS), 55Licata, Anthony Michael (SM), 34Licata, Joan E. (SM), 34Lie, Victor Daniel (SM), 34Light, Jennifer S. (SSS), 67London, Jennifer (SSS), 67Look, Brandon (SHS), 14Lovász, László (SM), 34LoVerde, Marilena (SNS), 55Lovett, Shachar (SM), 34Lukes, Steven (SSS), 67Lukic, Sergio (SNS), 56MacLeod, William Bentley (SSS), 67MacPherson, Robert (SM), 22Maldacena, Juan (SNS), 45Manolescu, Monica (IS), 71Mantena, Karuna (SSS), 68Marinis, Vasileios (SHS), 14Markert, Elke Katrin (SNS), 56Marlow, Louise (SHS), 15Maskin, Eric S. (SSS), 62Mather, John (SM), 35Matschke, Benjamin (SM), 35Matthews, James (SHS), 15Meiri, Chen (SM), 35Meka, Raghu (SM), 35Mikhailov, Roman (SM), 35Mintzker, Yair (SHS), 15Misiolek, Gerard (SM), 36Moitra, Ankur (SM), 36Moore, Gregory (SNS), 56Moravcsik, Andrew (SSS), 68Mulligan, William (SHS), 15Murugan, Arvind (SNS), 56Mylonopoulos, Ioannis (SHS), 15Nelson, Jelani (SM), 36Nicolas, Jean-Claude (SNS), 56Oancea, Alexandru (SM), 36Oh, Yong-Geun (SM), 36Ording, Philip (IS), 72Orfali, Bilal (SHS), 16Paret, Peter (SHS), 8Parham, Angel Adams (SSS), 68Park, In-Uck (SSS), 68Pelayo, Alvaro (SM), 37



Pestun, Vasily (SNS), 57Phillips, Tom (DV), 73Pietz, David Allen (SHS), 16Poland, David (SNS), 57Polo, Francisco Pina (SHS), 16Pomeranz, Kenneth (SHS), 16Porto, Rafael A. (SNS), 57Prasad, Gopal (SM), 37Razamat, Shlomo S. (SNS), 57Rein, Hanno (SNS), 57Reinhartz, Adele (SHS), 16Rej, Adam (SNS), 58Renberg, Gil H. (SHS), 17Richter, Matthias L. (SHS), 17Rujivacharakul, Vimalin (SHS), 17Ruscher, Julia (SM), 37Sadeghi, Behnam (SHS), 17Sandon, Sheila (SM), 37Sanft, Charles (SHS), 17Saraf, Shubhangi (SM), 37Sarnak, Peter (SM), 23Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (SSS), 68Schoenebeck, Grant (SM), 38Scott, Joan Wallach (SSS), 63Seiberg, Nathan (SNS), 46Sever, Amit (SNS), 58Sewell, Jessica E. (SSS), 69Shamis, Mira (SM), 38Sharafi, Mitra (SHS), 18Sheppard, W. Anthony (SHS), 18Shnirelman, Alexander (SM), 38Simon, Joan (SNS), 58Slatyer, Tracy (SNS), 58Socrates, Aristotle (SNS), 58Södergren, Anders (SM), 38Sodin, Sasha (SM), 38Spencer, Thomas (SM), 23Spiegel, David S. (SNS), 59Srinivasan, Srikanth (SM), 39Srivastava, Nikhil (SM), 39Stavrinaki, Maria (SHS), 18Stimpson, Andrew (SM), 39Stipsicz, Andras Istvan (SM), 39Stray, Christopher (SHS), 18Sudano, Matthew (SNS), 59Sunyaev, Rashid (SNS), 59Surkis, Judith (SSS), 69Suthor, Nicola (SHS), 18

Szegedy, Balazs (SM), 39Tambar, Kabir (SSS), 69Taylor, Christine J. (SM), 40Taylor, Richard (SM), 23, 40Tehrani, Mohammad Farajzadeh (SM), 40Teicher, Mina (SM), 40Tendler, Bella (SHS), 19Tesileanu, Tiberiu (SNS), 59Theidon, Kimberly (SSS), 69Tlusty, Tsvi (SNS), 59Tracy, Stephen V. (SHS), 19Tremaine, Scott (SNS), 46Turner, Edwin (IS), 72Uhlenbeck, Karen (SM), 40van Walt van Praag, Michael (SHS), 19Vanderschraaf, Peter (SSS), 69Vasiu, Adrian (SM), 41Vazquez, Alexei (SNS), 60Vértesi, Vera (SM), 41Vesztergombi, Katalin (SM), 41Voevodsky, Vladimir (SM), 24von Daniels, Justus (SSS), 70von Känel, Rafael (SM), 41von Staden, Heinrich (SHS), 8Walzer, Michael (SSS), 63Wang, Fang (SM), 41Wang, Ping (SHS), 19Warren, Michael A. (SM), 42Wehrheim, Katrin (SM), 42Westenholz, Joan Goodnick (SHS), 19White, Morton (SHS), 9Wienhard, Anna (SM), 42Wigderson, Avi (SM), 24Williams, Robert F. (SM), 42Witten, Edward (SNS), 46Wood, Christopher S. (SHS), 20Woods, Marjorie (Jorie) (SHS), 20Worm, Andrea (SHS), 20Wüstholz, Gisbert (SM), 42Wysocki, Kris (SM), 43Xie, Dan (SNS), 60Yadav, Amit Pratap Singh (SNS), 60Zaldarriaga, Matias (SNS), 47Zehnder, Eduard (SM), 43Zhang, Ke (SM), 43Zigon, Jarrett (SSS), 70Zinger, Aleksey (SM), 43Zuckerman, David (SM), 43

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