Annual Report 2010–11

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Report for the Academic Year 2010–2011

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. desire, that in the appointments to the staff and

faculty as well as in the admission of workers and

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

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

characteristic of America at its noblest, above all

the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any

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

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

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

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

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

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

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TABLEOFCONTENTS

5 Background and Purpose

6 Report of the Chairman

7 Report of the Director

9 Report of the School of Historical Studies

25 Report of the School of Mathematics

43 Report of the School of Natural Sciences

63 Report of the School of Social Science

71 Report of the Institute Libraries

72 The IAS Community

77 Reports of the Special Programs

88 Acknowledgments

96 Founders,Trustees, and Officers of the Board

and of the Corporation

97 Administration

98 Present and Past Directors and Faculty

99 Independent Auditors’ Report

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Background and Purpose

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

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

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

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

The Faculty defines the major themes and questions that become the focus of each School’s seminars andother activities, and selects and works closely with visiting Members. Organized in four Schools (HistoricalStudies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science), the Faculty and Members interact with one anoth-er without any departmental or disciplinary barriers.

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

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The founding of the Institute for Advanced Study originated in part with a question: “Have you everdreamed a dream?”Abraham Flexner, an expert on higher education, posed it to Samuel Leidesdorf, anaccountant and business adviser, and Herbert Maass, an attorney, who had approached Flexner on

behalf of philanthropists Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld. Flexner’s dream of estab-lishing an institution dedicated to the pursuit of curiosity-driven research prompted the Bambergers to donate$5 million to establish the Institute in 1930.

The Institute’s role in promoting and cultivating original scholarship in the sciences and humanities has beenunparalleled for more than eighty years. Today, it is of the utmost importance to sustain the work of theInstitute whose renown and reach draws leading scholars from around the world, providing them with the freedomto pursue their research in an environment dedicated to the advancement of ideas and knowledge.

My wife Lisa and I, together with James Simons, aVice Chairman of the Board, and his wife Marilyn, are honoredto play a role in contributing to the strong foundation for the Institute’s future with a $100 million unrestrictedchallenge grant from the Simons Foundation and the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences.Thisdonation will serve as the basis for a $200 million campaign to strengthen the Institute’s endowment. The Insti-tute must raise the remaining $100 million from other sources within the next four years, with all donationsmatched dollar for dollar by the Simons Foundation and the Simonyi Fund.

The $200 million campaign will ensure that the Institute is able to continue its essentialrole in fostering fundamental research that advances our understanding of the world. Themain goal of the campaign is to raise new endowment funds that will allow the Institute tokeep its draw on the endowment at an acceptable level over the long term.The stability andhealth of the Institute’s endowment is essential because the institution relies on endowmentincome for approximately three-quarters of its operating expenses. It is the endowment thatprovides the Institute with the financial independence necessary to guarantee academicfreedom and flexibility when it comes to choosing which lines of research to pursue, what-ever the changing priorities of governmental and other outside funding––an independencethat is becoming increasingly rare.

In the past year, the Board welcomed three new Trustees: Bruce Kovner, Founder andChairman of Caxton Associates; Cynthia Carroll, Chief Executive of Anglo American; and

Carmela Vircillo Franklin, Professor of Classics at Columbia University, who was nominated by the School ofHistorical Studies. Carmela succeeds David Hollinger, Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History at theUniversity of California, Berkeley, who served a five-year term as Trustee for the School. We are grateful toDavid for his enduring contribution to the Institute’s work and purpose.

Flexner’s dream for the Institute was not modest. “I am not unaware of the fact that I have sketched an edu-cational Utopia,” Flexner, as founding Director of the Institute, wrote in a 1931 confidential memorandum tothe Institute’s Board of Trustees, which included the Bambergers, Leidesdorf, and Maass. “I have deliberatelyhitched the Institute to a star; it would be wrong to begin with any other ambition or aspiration.”This elevatedobjective has led to cultural and practical benefits for humankind and continues to produce astoundingadvances in fundamental research––as evidenced by the talks and events held in honor of the Institute’s eight-ieth anniversary last fall and as articulated in the academic reports of the Schools in the following pages.

We are immensely grateful to the Centennial Council, the Institute’s most generous individual contributors,as well as the Friends of the Institute, who provide the Institute with its largest source of unrestricted income;the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study; and foundations, corporations, and otherbenefactors who support the Institute’s mission.

Flexner’s immodest ambition set the Institute on an intellectual course that is still in process, providing directionfor the decades ahead. It is with a great sense of purpose and dedication that the Board, the Director, Faculty,Staff, and the Institute’s many other supporters continue to work to realize the dreams of our founders—inFlexner’s words, to attempt “something much higher than is now attained.”

Charles SimonyiChairman

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In the fall of 2010, the Institute commemorated the eightieth anniversary of its founding by welcoming backpast Members on two weekends—the first on September 24–25, primarily for the Schools of Mathematics andof Natural Sciences, and the second on November 12–13, for the Schools of Historical Studies and of Social

Science—for programs of lectures, seminars, and celebratory dinners. Illustrating well both the breadth and theengagement of current research at the Institute, the topics covered the geometry of growth, the expanding universe,the possible inconsistency of the foundations of mathematics, the influence of gender on the reinterpretation of thefields of history and social science, the relevance of the classical world to current political phenomena, secularism,and human rights.

This fall, following on from our anniversary year, Princeton University Press will publish A Community of Scholars:Impressions of the Institute for Advanced Study, a collection of photographs that give a snapshot of a year, 2009–10, andessays by scholars who, collectively, have known the Institute over seven of its eight decades. Michael Atiyah, whoinitially came as a Member in 1955–56 and has returned many times since, spending 1969–72 as a Professor in theSchool of Mathematics, reflected that on his first visit, “Among the young, there was a heady mixture of new ideas,energy, and camaraderie. Friendships were formed and collaborations established that were to last a lifetime and survivedgeographical dispersion.”

It is such long-term assessments of the research done at the Institute and the impact that it has had on those who havespent time here that provide the ultimate means of judging its success. An institution suchas the Institute depends for its reputation in large part on the esteem in which it is held byits former Members. The increasing annual levels of donations made by former Memberstestify to the value many of them place on their time at the Institute. Similarly, donationsfrom the Friends of the Institute have also attained record levels. Together, these two groupscontributed nearly $1 million in the year that has just ended.

Such support, largely unrestricted as to purpose, is of vital importance to the Institute,and the generosity of the donors, when all of us are feeling the effects of the global finan-cial situation, is deeply appreciated. To meet the financial challenges of the last threeyears, the Institute has reduced expenditure wherever possible, while maintaining theessential quality of its academic life, and it has received extremely generous budgetarysupport from its Trustees. These measures have protected the Institute’s endowment, onwhich its ability to fulfill its mission depends, but they can only provide a temporary respite. It is essential that westrengthen the Institute’s endowment for the longer term so that it can continue its work with confidence in a lesscertain financial future.

To this end, the Institute has launched a $200 million campaign, and we are immensely thankful to James Simons, aViceChairman of the Institute’s Board of Trustees and a former Member of the Institute, and Charles Simonyi, Chairman ofthe Board, who have pledged a $100 million challenge grant, the largest gift in real terms since the founders’ gifts estab-lishing the Institute in the 1930s. To secure the grant, the Institute must match it with other gifts within four years. Alldonations and pledges will count toward this end, including those from Friends and former Members.

This year also brought sadness with the death on January 8 of a much-loved member of the Institute community,Oleg Grabar, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies. His research and teaching have had profoundimpact on the study of Islamic art and architecture, and his generosity of spirit, enthusiasm, and playful humor aregreatly missed.

Four members of the Faculty retired in June: Enrico Bombieri, IBM von Neumann Professor of Mathematics, afterthirty-four years on the Faculty; Arnold Levine, the Institute’s first Professor of Biology; Caroline Bynum, Professorof European Medieval History; and Avishai Margalit, George F. Kennan Professor in the School of Historical Studies.All of them have contributed greatly to the life and work of the Institute, and we look forward to their continuedinvolvement.

I am deeply grateful for the support that ourTrustees, Faculty, Members, Friends, and Staff give to the Institute.Thank youfor your friendship, for enriching the Institute community, and for helping to secure its future and broaden its horizons.

Peter GoddardDirector

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Lothar von Falkenhausen of the University of California, Los Angeles, spoke about archaeological perspectives on ethnicity in ancient Chinaas part of “DNA, History and Archaeology,” a workshop organized by Professor Nicola Di Cosmo.The workshop aimed to understand

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Yve-Alain Bois

CarolineWalker Bynum

Angelos Chaniotis

Patricia Crone, AndrewW. Mellon Professor

Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies

Jonathan Israel

Avishai Margalit, George F. Kennan Professor

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Glen W. Bowersock

Giles Constable

Oleg Grabar

Christian Habicht

Irving Lavin

Peter Paret

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

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

The School’s broad interpretation of the meaning of “Historical Studies” continued to be reflected in theresearch projects pursued by the forty Members and thirteen Visitors who joined the School for the aca-demic year 2010–11. Their research spanned a diverse range of historical subjects, including French opera,temples in India, and monks in Korea, as well as the history of race and hunger in America and the portrayalof youth in the ancient novel. The periods studied ranged from as far back as the second millennium B.C.E.to the late twentieth century. Research carried out in the School also extended over a wide geographicrange, including Europe, North America, the Middle East, and East and South Asia. Individual Membersreceived support both from the Institute’s own funds and from a variety of external sources, including theAndrewW. Mellon Foundation, the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation, and theNational Endowment for the Humanities.

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

ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

In 2010–11, Professor Yve-Alain Bois stayed almost entirely focused on hislong-term project, the catalogue raisonné of the paintings and sculpture ofthe American artist Ellsworth Kelly, which he hopes to complete by theend of the next academic year. As a result, he published only an essay on theRussian painter Kasimir Malevich and his American legacy for the cata-logue of an exhibition on this topic at the Larry Gagosian Gallery in NewYork, as well as an essay on Robert Rauschenberg’s gigantic print from1970, Current, for the Art Unlimited Project in Basel. He also edited agroup of essays on Julian Schnabel’s most recent film Miral, for the journalOctober, to which he contributed an introduction. The book he coauthoredin 1996 with Rosalind Krauss, Formless:A User’s Guide, appeared in Japanese.

In early fall, he gave a series of lectures in Japan: one on Barnett Newmanat the Kawamura Museum of Art, one on Matisse and Cézanne at the Insti-tute of Technology of the University of Tokyo, and one on pseudomor-phism at the University of Tokyo, followed there by a graduate seminar atthe Center for Philosophy. In December, he gave a lecture on the state ofart history in the United States at the three-day symposium on the human-ities organized by the Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. InFebruary, he participated in a daylong colloquium on abstraction at theMuseum of Modern Art in New York in preparation for an exhibition onthe topic curated by Leah Dickerman, scheduled for fall 2012. He contin-ued to work with Harvard University graduate students and served on sev-eral dissertation committees at Princeton University. At the Institute, heorganized a series of art-history seminars (either at lunch and reserved to

Members or in the evening and open to scholarsfrom neighboring institutions.) He also gave apresentation on “materiality” in Professor Caro-line Bynum’s Medieval Table.

In April 2011, Professor Caroline Bynum’s bookWonderful Blood (University of Pennsylvania Press,2007), which explores late medieval conceptionsof sacrifice, won the Haskins Medal given by theMedieval Academy of America for the best bookin medieval studies. Also in April, her bookChristian Materiality: An Essay on Religion in LateMedieval Europe appeared from Zone Books. Hercurrent research builds on this study of Christiandevotional objects in the Middle Ages and Ref-ormation to raise the larger question, why do

certain objects become holy? In thinking about an answer, she not onlyanalyzes ritual performance and the social, economic, and political settingof Christian phenomena but also tries to carry further the sort of cross-cul-tural comparison she began during her trip to India in 2009 and continuedin the workshop on relics she organized last summer with Julia Smith of theUniversity of Glasgow; in a course she taught at the Princeton Theological10

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Professor Angelos Chaniotis (right) gavean informal talk “From Achilles’ Rage to‘No Drama Obama’: Emotions and the

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Seminary in the fall of 2010 on icono-clasm and “holy things”; and in a paperfor a workshop on “divine materiality”held at the Institute for the Study of theAncient World at New York Universityin spring 2011.

Because she served as the ExecutiveOfficer of the School in 2010–11,Bynum traveled less than in previousyears. She gave public lectures at Prince-ton, Columbia University, and thePrinceton Theological Seminary andspoke about miracles as part of theColumbia Society of Fellows’ series onthe nature of evidence. In May 2011, shelectured at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin and at Ben-GurionUniversity in Israel. She also conducted a workshop for graduate students atthe Israel Historical Society in Jerusalem and, in June, she spoke to themedieval seminar at the University of Glasgow, which gave her an honorarydegree. She continued to serve as cochair of the Humanities Commissionin Israel. At the Institute, she ran theWednesday Medieval Table and chairedthe program “After Hours Conversations” with colleagues Piet Hut of theProgram in Interdisciplinary Studies and Helmut Hofer of the School ofMathematics. She retired on June 30 and moved to NewYork City, but shehopes to stay in touch with her many friends in Princeton. She is gratefulfor the seven-and-a-half years she spent among them and for both the quietresearch time and the stimulating conversations that the Institute provides.

Professor Angelos Chaniotis edited the collective volume Ritual Dynamicsin the Ancient Mediterranean:Agency, Emotion, Gender, Representation (Stuttgart,2011) and coedited Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum LVI (Leiden, 2010)and the conference proceedings Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual:Vol-ume II: Body, Performance,Agency, and Experience (Wiesbaden, 2010). He alsocompleted the study Festivals and Contests in the GreekWorld for the seriesThesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum (Los Angeles, forthcoming) and theeditorial work for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History, in which he wasresponsible for the Hellenistic World. His book Theatricality and Public Lifein the HellenisticWorld (in Greek) received in Greece the National LiteratureAward 2010.

Most of his time was devoted to The Social and Cultural Construction of Emo-tions: The Greek Paradigm, a project funded by the European ResearchCouncil. The work of his research team in Oxford involves the collectionand analysis of Greek sources that reveal how social and cultural parametersdetermine manifestations of emotions. A database will be launched in thefall of 2011 and the collective volume Unveiling Emotion: Sources and Meth-ods for the Study of Emotions in the GreekWorld is expected to be published in2011. During the Twenty-first International Congress of Historical Sciences(Amsterdam, August 2010) Chaniotis co-organized (with Pierre Ducrey)the round table “Emotions as Historical Factor.”

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(Epigraphic Research at Aphrodisias, 1995–2010 and From the City of Aphrodite tothe City of the Cross: Constructions andTransformations of Identity in Aphrodisias).

At the Institute, Chaniotis organized together with Danielle Allen, UPSFoundation Professor in the School of Social Science, the seminar “TheRelevance of the Classical World for Current Political Phenomena”(November 2010) and gave a Faculty lecture on “The Fear of God: AnEmotion and its Contexts” (December 2010). With the Ancient StudiesSeminar, he gave Members the opportunity to present their ongoingresearch (March 2010). Together with Anton Bierl, a Member in 2010–11,Chaniotis organized the workshop “Sacred Space” (April 2011), with theparticipation of Members and scholars from Spain. At Columbia Universi-ty, he taught the graduate seminar “Emotions in Texts and Images in theGreek World” (September–December 2010) with Ioannis Mylonopoulos.He also lectured in Athens, Berlin, Columbia University, Heidelberg,Mannheim, Münster, Oxford, Paris, Rome, and Toulouse.

Patricia Crone, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, finished her book about theIranian revolts of the eighth to ninth centuries and the light they throw onsome persistent features of Iranian religion. She also reworked her Oxfordconference paper on Zoroastrian, Christian, and Jewish notions of pre-exis-tence for publication, and three of her articles appeared in print, one writ-ten with Masoud Jafarijaze, another with Adam Silverstein, and a third onher own. These activities apart, her year was dominated by a projectregarding the transmission of subversive ideas from the Islamic world toEurope. Historians normally do interdisciplinary work by presenting syn-theses to each other. Although this conveys a good sense of how things lookin foreign fields, one cannot work with other people’s syntheses unless oneknows the raw evidence, and one cannot work with other people’s raw evi-

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Historians normally dointerdisciplinary work by

presenting syntheses to eachother. Although this conveys agood sense of how things lookin foreign fields, one cannot

work with other people’ssyntheses unless one knows theraw evidence, and one cannot

work with other people’sraw evidence without some

knowledge of its context, biases,allusions, and current views on

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dence without some knowledge of its context,biases, allusions, and current views on its properinterpretation. Accordingly, the seminars relat-ing to this project dispensed with syntheticpapers. Instead, the participants were asked tocompile dossiers of all the evidence they couldfind on their particular, sharply defined ques-tions. These were circulated in advance. In thedaylong sessions, each dossier was introduced bya specialist who provided context and answeredquestions in the general discussion that fol-lowed. This took all of the morning and some-times part of the afternoon as well. Thereafter,the discussion moved on to the relationshipbetween the ideas on the Muslim and the European sides and the possibleroutes of transmission. The number of participants was deliberately keptsmall, and the discussion flowed easily, without the need for chairmen ormoderators. Each day was devoted to just one idea likely to have migratedfrom the East. There were some electric moments when participants sawthings that none could have seen on his or her own. One further session,perhaps two, will take place next year, when it is hoped that the group willbe ready for joint publication.

Crone also ran two of her normal groups at the Institute. One was theIslamicist seminar, which met whenever a Member felt moved to give apaper. The other was the Qur’an reading group, of which the core group hasnow been so decimated that sadly, it may have reached its end, at least for awhile. In addition, Crone presented lectures and seminars at the Universityof California, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Davis, and the University ofNorth Carolina at Asheville.

In October 2010, Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in EastAsian Studies, spoke at a conference on the Liao empire (New Haven/NewYork), presented a paper on legal pluralism in Chinese history (Rome), andparticipated in a conference on “Nomads and Plagues” (Leipzig). He alsoconvened a workshop at the Institute on “DNA, History, and Archaeology.”The goal was to gather specialists from all three fields to discuss how archae-ology and history may make use of ancient DNA studies and, vice versa,how biologists treat historical evidence. From a methodological viewpoint,it aimed to understand how historians can profit from a closer collaborationwith biologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists when formulatinghypotheses on the formation and evolution of ancient societies.

The East Asian Seminar, which he convenes every year, comprised threetalks in the fall and seven in the spring. In addition to Members in histori-cal studies, some social scientists also participated. His research activityfocused on three different projects: the translation and edition of a Manchugrammar from Japanese to English; a new study of ancient nomads thatcombines material, textual, and scientific evidence; and the study of Manchupolitical culture and institutions. The first should be completed during thecoming year, the second will result in a short monograph, and the last willrequire some more time to reach completion.

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Visitor Carolyn Abbate (right), seenwith Member Gabriel Gorodetsky, leda discussion during a modern historyworkshop, which focused on aspects ofeighteenth- and nineteenth-century history.Abbate’s project concerned the presenceand influence of French opéra-comique andopéra-bouffe in the construction of Germanmodernism from 1890 to 1933.


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Visitor StephenTracy (left) and ProfessorChristian Habicht (right) examine a squeeze

(an impression of an inscription) in theInstitute’s collection, one of the largest inthe world.The study of Greek and Romaninscriptions has been a primary focus of

historians at the Institute since theappointment of Benjamin Meritt in 1935.

several Chinese translations of his works: “Nurhaci’s Names,” in RepresentingPower in Ancient Inner Asia: Legitimacy,Transmission and the Sacred, edited byIsabelle Charleux (2010);Gudai Zhongguo yu qi qiang lin 古代中国与其强邻

(Beijing, 2010, translation of Ancient China and Its Neighbors); “Neiya shi shangde guojia xingxheng yu jieduanhua 内亚史上的国家形成与阶段划”(translation of “State Formation and Periodization in Inner Asian History”)in Xifang Zhongguo shi yanjiu (Western Studies on Chinese History), editedby Leo K. Shin (2011); and “Yu qiangpao he gan? Huoqi yu Qing diguo dexingcheng 与枪炮何干？火器和清帝国的形成 (translation of “Did GunsMatter? Firearms and the Qing Formation”) in Shijie shijian yu Dongyashijian zhong de Ming Qing bianqian 世界时间与东亚时间中的明清变迁

(World Historical and East Asian Times in the Ming-Qing Transition), editedby Lynn Struve (2009).

During 2010–11, Professor Jonathan Israel finalized the text for DemocraticEnlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750 –1790, thethird part of his general reinterpretation of the Enlightenment, whichOxford University Press will publish in September 2011. The five-partwork covers the history of the Western Enlightenment from the battle overthe Encyclopédie, in the 1750s, to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Healso began the research and writing for his next book, on the role of newphilosophical principles and ideas in the French Revolution, commissioned

by Princeton University Press.

At the Institute, with the help ofMember Thomas Kühne, he ranthe Modern History Workshopfocusing on aspects of eighteenth-and nineteenth-century history.He also began a collaborationwith Linda Colley and David Bellof the history department atPrinceton, jointly organizing thefirst four sessions of the newEighteenth-Century Seminar,attracting scholars from Princetonand neighboring universities. Theorganizers agreed to continue thiscollaboration over the next severalyears.

On December 15, Israel wasawarded the Franklin Medal, an award made annually by the London RoyalSociety of Arts (founded 1754), for his work on the Enlightenment. Hedelivered lectures abroad on various aspects of the Western Enlightenmentin Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Bordeaux, Brussels, Leiden, Madrid, and Toledoand twice in London. In the United States, he gave lectures at Holy CrossCollege, Harvard University, Middlebury College, and on two occasions atthe University of Notre Dame as well as at a Liberty Fund Conference onMontesquieu and Rousseau at Hermosa Beach, Los Angeles.

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edited by Wilken Engelbrecht and B.Hamers (Olomouc, Czech Republic, 2010);“Le contexte philosophique du criticismebiblique radical de Hermann SamuelReimarus” in Orthodoxie et héterodoxie. Lib-ertinage et religion en Europe au temps desLumières, edited by Marie-Hélène Queval(Saint-Étienne, 2010); and “Tolerancia eintolerancia en los escritos de los Antiphilo-sophos franceses (1750–1780)” in Forjadoresde la tolerancia, edited by Maria JoséVillaverde Rico and J. C. Laursen (Madrid,2011). His A Revolution of the Mind: RadicalEnlightenment and the Intellectual Originsof Modern Democracy (Princeton, 2010)appeared in Italian translation under the title Una Rivoluzione della mente(Turin, 2011).

Avishai Margalit, George F. Kennan Professor, conducted in the secondterm of the year a research seminar for Members in the School of Histori-cal Studies on twentieth-century history. In May, Margalit received theLeopold Lucas Prize at the University of Tubingen in Germany. The juryreport stated: “he sheds a profound light on important conditions of humanlife . . . thereby helping to increase our powers of political decision-making.”Margalit’s prize lecture was on apostasy.

Margalit was made an honorary fellow of the Queen’s College, Oxford, andin May he delivered the Pears Lecture at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Thetitle of the lecture was “Reflection on the Arab Revolution.”

Professor Emeritus Glen W. Bowersock went to Brussels four times in thesecond half of 2010 to chair a humanities panel of the European ResearchCouncil for awarding “advanced grants” to senior scholars. In addition,he continued his service as Presidente of the Consiglio Scientifico of theIstituto Italiano di Studi Umanistici in Florence, but in March 2011 hedecided that the time had come to vacate this position after many years. Heremained, however, on the Advisory Committee of the Institute for theStudy of the Ancient World at NewYork University and agreed to serve asa Senior Fellow. He similarly remained on the Advisory Board of JaakkoFrösen’s Center of Excellence in Helsinki, funded by the Finnish Academy,and he attended a meeting in Helsinki to review the progress of the publi-cation of the Petra Papyri and the excavation at the Jebel Haroun in Petra.In late November, he returned to Jordan to visit the excavations at Ummal-jimal, Petra, and Humeima.

In April 2011, Bowersock spent two weeks in Jerusalem as a guest of theHistorical Society of Israel to deliver three lectures in memory of Mena-hem Stern on “Collision of Empires in Late Antiquity: 1) Byzantium,Ethiopia, and the Jewish Kingdom of South Arabia; 2) The Capture ofJerusalem; and 3) Heraclius’ Gift to Islam—the Death of the PersianEmpire.” During the academic year, Bowersock published reviews in theNew York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and the LondonReview of Books, as well as an illustrated homage to the great Frenchepigraphist Louis Robert in the Comptes Rendus of the Académie des 15

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Member Peter Campbell (center; withProfessor Avishai Margalit, left, andProfessor Jonathan Israel, right) studiedthe relationship between ideology andpolitics in France from Louis XIV to theRevolution.

Among Professor Bowersock’sscholarly contributions were ananalysis of the terrorist charityknown as Parabalani thatmurdered the mathematicianHypatia in the fifth centuryand a paper on iatrosophists,who were doctors that gavevirtuoso public demonstrationsof their skills.


Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. He wrote a memoir about the late BernardKnox for the New Republic. Among his scholarly contributions were ananalysis of the terrorist charity known as Parabalani that murdered themathematician Hypatia in the fifth century and a paper on iatrosophists,who were doctors that gave virtuoso public demonstrations of their skills.His paper on a funerary epigram inscribed on a stone from Laodicea inTurkey was based on a squeeze of the inscription in the archive given to theInstitute by Jeanne Robert.

During the academic year 2010–11, Professor Emeritus Giles Constablepublished one book, one article, and one review. A previously publishedarticle was reprinted. Three books are in course of publication. In additionto attending several conferences, he gave a lecture at Harvard Universityand spoke at the meeting in honor of the eleven hundredth anniversary ofthe foundation of Cluny (September 2010) and at the meeting of the Inter-national Congress of Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo (May 2011). Hepresided at sessions of meetings at Ohio State University and PrincetonUniversity. He was a member of the Advisory Board of The Oxford Diction-ary of the Middle Ages, which was published this year. He continues to serveon the editorial boards of several book series and scholarly journals, as areviewer for the American Philosophical Society, and on the selection com-mittee of the Delmas Foundation.

The late Professor Emeritus Oleg Grabar was presented with the AgaKhan Award for Architecture in Doha, Qatar, in November 2010. He wasalso the winner of the World Book Prize for the Book of the Year of theIslamic Republic of Iran for his book Images en terre d’Islam. The book waspublished in English in 2009 as Masterpieces of Islamic Art: The DecoratedPage. The School mourns the passing of Professor Grabar, who died onJanuary 8, 2011.

Professor Emeritus Christian Habicht read proofs for volumes three andfour of the new edition of Polybius and for an edition in modern Greek ofhis 1985 book on Pausanias. He continued his work on Ancient Cyzicusand participated in an international colloquium on Cyzicus in Antiquity

held in March 2011 at the Universityof Metz, where he spoke on “Cyzicus:The Epigraphic Evidence.”

His publications were volume 3(books 5–8) of the Loeb Polybius,published in April, and the Greekedition of his Pausanias and His Guideto Greece, published in Athens in Jan-uary. Other publications were: “ZumProblem thessalischer Phratrien” inOnomatologos: Studies in Greek Person-al Names Presented to Elaine Matthews(Oxford 2010); “Stephen Tracy theEpigraphist” and “The City ofKyzikos, Client of Oracles” in Studiesin Greek Epigraphy and History inHonor of Stephen V. Tracy (Bordeaux2010); and a Greek translation of his16

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paper “Ambrakia and the Thessalian Leaguein the Time of the War against Perseus,” inThessaliko Hemerologio 59, 2011. Other paperswere accepted for publication.

Professor Emeritus Irving Lavin gave hisannual seminar in Italian at the Istituto Ital-iano per gli Studi Filosofici in Naples, Italy.He participated in a spring seminar with thearchitect Frank Gehry and Arnold Levine,Professor in the School of Natural Sciences,sponsored by the Institute’s Simons Center forSystems Biology, which explored the strikingsimilarities frequently found between archi-tectural forms and biological structures onthe molecular level. He presented a paper devoted to structures consistingof interlacing linear components. In a month-long program centered onGehry’s visit to the Institute, Lavin lectured on the phenomenon of move-ment in Gehry’s architecture, and he and Marilyn Aronberg Lavin togethergave a lecture on the Institute’s seal, “Truth and Beauty at the Institute forAdvanced Study.” In a series inaugurating the new Mandel Center for theHumanities at Brandeis University, he lectured on the provocative and enig-matic pedestals of Bernini’s famous baldachin over the high altar of St.Peter’s in Rome. A major monograph on Bernini’s work at St. Peter’s is incourse of publication. There appeared a new Italian edition of a book edit-ed by Lavin, Erwin Panofsky:Three Essays on Style (Milan, 2011).

On October 15, Professor Emeritus Peter Paret opened a conference at theHumboldt University in Berlin on the intellectual and political history ofmilitary education in the Western world with a talk on the course of lec-tures Clausewitz began at the BerlinWar Academy on October 15, 1810. Anexpanded version of his talk, “Clausewitz’ Vorlesungen über den kleinenKrieg,” was published in the Jahrbuch der Clausewitz-Gesellschaft VI (2010),and in English translation, “Clausewitz:‘Half against my will, I have becomea Professor,’” in the Journal of Military History LXXV (April 2011). Paret’sessay “Internationalism for the Nation:Max Liebermann as Cultural Politi-cian” in imperial andWeimar Germany, appeared in Max Liebermann, edit-ed by Marion Deshmukh, et al. (Berghahn Books, 2011), and his essay“Aufklärung und Preussische Reform” appeared in the Festschrift für HerfriedMünkler, edited by Marcus Llanque, et al. (Akademie-Verlag, 2011). Paretalso revised and expanded his article “Clausewitz” for the 2011 edition ofThe Oxford Companion to Politics in theWorld, and wrote reviews in the Jour-nal of Interdisciplinary History and Central European History. He was awardedthe Historical Society’s Jack Miller Center Prize for his essay on MarcBloch and Clausewitz, “Two Historians on Defeat inWar and its Causes,” inHistorically Speaking XI (June 2010). A German text will appear in the 2011Jahrbuch der Clausewitz-Gesellschaft. Under license of Princeton UniversityPress, the Folio Society published a luxury edition of his and MichaelHoward’s translation of Clausewitz’s OnWar and World Affairs Press, Bei-jing, published a Chinese translation, supplementing its 2001 English lan-guage edition, of Makers of Modern Strategy, a collection of twenty-nineessays, three by Paret, on strategic thinkers, first published in 1986. Paret isnow preparing lectures for the coming academic year, beginning this Octo-

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ber with the keynote address on the place of Frederick the Great in the his-tory of ideas, politics, and war at the German Historical Institute in Lon-don, part of the 2011 International Colloquium on the monarch.

In July 2010, Professor Emeritus Heinrich von Staden contributed akeynote address to the annual meeting of the Society for the Social Histo-ry of Medicine in England, and in September, he gave a paper in Oslo at aconference on the genres and purposes of medical texts in antiquity. Inearly October, he participated in a colloquium on René Chartier(1572–1654) in Paris, organized by former Institute Member Jacques Jouan-na and by Véronique Boudon-Millot, in collaboration with the Académiedes Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres and the Bibliothèques Interuniversitairesde Médecine (Université Paris Descartes). From the beginning of Novem-ber to mid-December 2010, he served as a visiting professor in the Facultyof Arts and Letters at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, where hetaught a course and a seminar on ancient Greek and Roman biology andmedicine. In addition, he gave several public lectures in Lausanne, includingtwo in the Faculty of Biology and Medicine and two at the École Poly-technique Fédérale de Lausanne. In November, he also gave a lecture at theFondation Martin Bodmer in Geneva, at a colloquium organized in con-junction with an exhibition of medieval manuscripts (“Ancient Medicine,from the Body to the Stars”). In the spring, he taught a graduate seminar atPrinceton University on animals in ancient science, natural history, andmedicine. From January to April, he also gave lectures at the University ofNebraska in Lincoln (Departments of Classics and Religious Studies), Uni-versity of South Florida (Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies andAmerican Foundation for Greek Language and Culture), University ofNotre Dame (Institute for Advanced Study), Tulane University (Depart-ment of Classical Studies), and Oregon State University (at a workshop on“Experimenting with Animals from Antiquity to the Enlightenment”).

In June 2011, the Université Paris-Sorbonne awarded von Staden an hon-orary doctorate at a ceremony in the Grand Amphithéâtre of the Sorbonne.During his brief stay in Paris, he also gave a lecture at a meeting of theÉcole Doctorale Mondes Anciens et Médiévaux. In addition to some bookreviews, he published several articles during the academic year, most recent-ly “How Greek was the Latin Body? The Parts and the Whole in Celsus’Medicina,” in Body, Disease and Treatment in a ChangingWorld: Latin Texts andContexts in Ancient and Medieval Medicine, edited by David Langslow andBrigitte Maire (Lausanne, 2010). Most of his research remained focused onthe role of animals in the development of ancient science and medicine.

Professor Morton White has been revising the manuscript of a book thatnow bears the title “Reflections on the Roots of Rationalism,” a criticalexposition of views on necessary truth in the writings of Descartes,Hobbes, Leibniz, and Kant.When completed it will be submitted to a pub-lisher. Furthermore, a book he first published in 1962 with the late LuciaPerry White––The Intellectual versus The City: From Thomas Jefferson to FrankLloyd Wright––may soon be republished with a new introductory essay byN. S. Slabbert.


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MEMBERS AND VISITORS

f First Term � s Second Term � vVisitor �

a Research Assistant

Carolyn AbbateMusic History � University of Pennsylvania � v

Asad Q.AhmedIslamic Studies �Washington University in St.LouisFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

JuhnAhnEast Asian Studies � University of TorontoFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Thomas AhnertEarly Modern Intellectual History �TheUniversity of EdinburghRosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders’ CircleMember; additional funding provided byTheHerodotus Fund

Abdulrahman al-SalimiIslamic Studies � Ministry of Endowments andReligious Affairs, Sultanate of Oman � sFunding provided byThe Patrons EndowmentFund

Mehmet-Ali AtaçArt of the Ancient Near East and Egypt � BrynMawr CollegeHetty Goldman Member

Dirk BaltzlyAncient Greek Philosophy � Monash UniversityFunding provided by the National Endowment forthe Humanities

Yelena BarazClassics � Princeton University � v

Anton BierlClassics � Universität BaselGerda Henkel Stiftung Member

Constance Brittain BouchardMedieval History � The University of Akron � v

Daniela L. CagliotiModern Sociopolitical History � Università degliStudi di Napoli Federico II � sElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow inHistorical Studies

Peter R. CampbellEarly Modern French History � Institut d’ÉtudesCulturelles, Université deVersailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines � fElizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow inHistorical Studies

Joan Breton ConnellyClassical Archaeology � NewYork UniversityHetty Goldman Member; additional fundingprovided byThe AndrewW.Mellon Foundation

François de BloisHistory of the Near East and Central Asia �

School of Oriental and African Studies,University of London � sThe Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member

Janet DownieClassics � Princeton University � v

Glenn DynnerEarly Modern European History � SarahLawrence CollegeHans Kohn Member

Darby EnglishArt History �The University of ChicagoFunding provided by the National Endowment forthe Humanities

Menachem FischHistory and Philosophy of Science �Tel AvivUniversityFriends of the Institute for Advanced StudyMember; additional funding provided byTheAndrewW.Mellon Foundation

Sharon E. J. GerstelMedieval History,Art History � University ofCalifornia, Los AngelesFunding provided by the Fund for HistoricalStudies andThe AndrewW.Mellon Foundation

Jessica L. GoldbergMedieval History � University ofPennsylvania � v, f

Jack GoodySocial Anthropology � University ofCambridge � v, s

Gabriel GorodetskyRussian and British History �All Souls College,University of OxfordFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fund

Laurie GreenModern U.S. History �The University of Texasat AustinMartin L. and Sarah F. Leibowitz Member

John HermanLate Imperial China �Virginia CommonwealthUniversityThe Starr Foundation East Asian StudiesEndowment Fund Member

Regina HöscheleClassics � University of Toronto � sFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Padma KaimalHistory of South Asian Art � Colgate UniversityLouise and John Steffens Founders’ Circle Member;additional funding provided byThe StarrFoundation East Asian Studies Endowment Fund

Katrin Kogman-AppelArt History � Ben-Gurion University of theNegev � v

Denis KozlovRussian History � Dalhousie UniversityFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professors

Thomas KühneCultural History � Clark University � v

Norman KutcherLate Imperial China � Syracuse UniversityFunding provided by the Fund for HistoricalStudies

Margaret LarkinArabic Literary History � University ofCalifornia, BerkeleyThe Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Member;additional funding provided by the Elizabeth andJ. Richardson Dilworth Fund

Eléonore Le JalléPhilosophy � Université Lille 3 � v, f

Wilferd MadelungIslamic Studies � University of Oxford � sFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fund

Stephen MennAncient and Medieval Philosophy and Science �

McGill University � v, f

Micah S. MuscolinoChinese History � Georgetown UniversityFunding provided byThe AndrewW.MellonFoundation Fellowships for Assistant Professorsand the National Endowment for the Humanities

Stefania PastoreEarly Modern History � Scuola NormaleSuperiore di Pisa � fFunding provided byThe Herodotus Fund

Susan PedersenModern International History � ColumbiaUniversity � sFunding provided by the Association of Membersof the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS);additional funding provided byThe AndrewW.Mellon Foundation

Marcus PlestedMedieval History andTheology � Universityof CambridgeGeorgeWilliam Cottrell, Jr. Member


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Alessio PonzioModern European History � Università degliStudi RomaTre � sFunding provided byThe Herodotus Fund

Himanshu Prabha RayAncient Indian History and Archaeology �

Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityFelix Gilbert Member

Ricardo SallesAncient Greek Philosophy � Instituto deInvestigaciones Filosóficas, UniversidadNacional Autónoma de MéxicoFunding provided by theWillis F. DoneyMembership

Martha A. (Marni) SandweissAmerican History andVisual Culture �

Princeton University � v, f

Paul SchubertClassics, Papyrology � Université de Genève � v, f

Justin E. H. SmithHistory of Early Modern Philosophy � ConcordiaUniversity, Montreal � sFunding provided by theWillis F. DoneyMembership andThe Herodotus Fund

Kirill SoloninBuddhism, East Asian Studies � Fo GuangUniversity � sThe Starr Foundation East Asian StudiesEndowment Fund Member

Rachel St. JohnNorth American History � Harvard University � fAgnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member

Dimitris StamatopoulosBalkan History, Late Ottoman History �

University of Macedonia

RichardTawsArt History � University College London � fFunding provided byThe Herodotus Fund

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

Karl UblMedieval History � Eberhard Karls UniversitätTübingenEdwin C. and Elizabeth A.Whitehead Fellow;additional funding provided byThe HerodotusFund

Peter UrquhartRenaissance Music � University of NewHampshire � fEdwardT. Cone Member in Music Studies

Peter van AlfenNumismatics,Ancient Monetary Systems �

American Numismatic Society � sAgnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Member;additional funding provided by the Elizabeth andJ. Richardson Dilworth Fund

JosephWitztumIslamic History � Princeton University � a

AndreaWormArt History,Visual Studies � UniversitätAugsburg � sFunding provided by theWillis F. DoneyMembership

RECORD OF EVENTS

October 6Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

General Discussion of Approaches to MedievalStudies at IAS � Padma Kaimal, ColgateUniversity; Member, School of HistoricalStudies, and CarolineWalker Bynum,Professor, School of Historical Studies

October 11Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Writing History under a Fatwa: Stalin aTsar Reincarnated or a Prophet Armed? � GabrielGorodetsky,All Souls College, University ofOxford; Member, School of Historical Studies

October 12Art History Lunch Seminar � GeneralDiscussion � Yve-Alain Bois, Professor,School of Historical Studies


Sacred Space andTime in Byzantine and RomanChurches � Sharon E. J. Gerstel, Universityof California, Los Angeles; Member, School ofHistorical Studies, and ErikThunø, Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey

October 18Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � The Marrano, the Philosopho, and theCulture of Skepticism: Spain and Italy through theEyes of Diego Hurtado de Mendoza � StefaniaPastore, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa;Member, School of Historical Studies

October 19Art History Lunch Seminar � Social Experimentswith Modernism � Darby English,TheUniversity of Chicago; Member, School ofHistorical Studies


“Quota Generatione Christiani cum Propinquis inConiugium Convenire Possint”:A HithertoUnknownText by Hrabanus Maurus? � Karl Ubl,Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Member,School of Historical Studies

Modern HistoryWorkshop � Rethinking theOrigins of the French Revolution � Peter R.Campbell, Institut d’Études Culturelles,Université deVersailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines; Member, School of Historical Studies

October 22Workshop:DNA, History, and Archaeology �

The First Emperor’s Home Base:ArchaeologicalPerspectives on Ethnicity in Ancient China �

Lothar von Falkenhausen, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles

October 23Workshop:DNA, History, and Archaeology �

Introduction � Nicola Di Cosmo, LuceFoundation Professor in East Asian Studies,School of Historical Studies � ArchaeologicalDNA Studies in the OldWorld � DavidAnthony, Hartwick College � Nomads andSedentaries of Iran in the First Millennium B.C.:Identifying Persians,Medes,Dahae, Sagartians,Mardians,Derbikes,Tapyrians, and Cadusians inthe Historical,Archaeological, and BiologicalRecord � Dan Potts,The University ofSydney � Reconstructing Prehistory Using DNA:Population Movement Into andAround theAmericas � Frederika Kaestle, IndianaUniversity � High-Resolution Y ChromosomeAnalysis:A GeneticTool for History andArchaeology � Paolo Francalacci, Universitàdegli Studi di Sassari � Genetic History andMigrations inWestern Eurasia: 500–1000 �

Patrick Geary, University of California, LosAngeles � Migrations intoWestern Europe:TwoExamples from ca. 3000 B.C. and 500A.D.Genetic Evidence � Nick Patterson,Massachusetts Institute of Technology andHarvard University � Working with Geneticists:A Historian’s Comments on GenomicArchaeologyandArchaeoscience in 2010 � MichaelMcCormick, Harvard University � GeneralDiscussion � Lothar von Falkenhausen,University of California, Los Angeles � NinoLuraghi, Princeton University � Arnold J.Levine, Professor, School of Natural Sciences

October 25Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Jews in the Polish LiquorTrade � GlennDynner, Sarah Lawrence College; Member,School of Historical Studies

November 1Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Religious Intolerance and the Secular Statein the Early German Enlightenment:The Case ofSamuel Pufendorf � ThomasAhnert,TheUniversity of Edinburgh; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

November 3Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

Rituals and (Art) History � Katrin Kogman-Appel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev;Visitor, School of Historical Studies


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November 8Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � TheTheme (Skopos) of a PlatonicDialogue and the Maintenance of TextualCommunities in Late Antique Platonism � DirkBaltzly, Monash University; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies

November 9East Asian Studies Seminar � Ortai and the QingState’s Land Reclamation Program in SouthwestChina: 1725–35 � John Herman,VirginiaCommonwealth University; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies

November 10Art History Lunch Seminar � Seeing OutsideTime:The Goddess Durga in the Eighth CenturyTemple � Padma Kaimal, Colgate University;Member, School of Historical Studies

Art History Seminar � Barnett Newman’sJewishness � Yve-Alain Bois, Professor, Schoolof Historical Studies

Modern HistoryWorkshop � Protest andModernization:The Urban Jewish LiquorTraders �

Glenn Dynner, Sarah Lawrence College;Member, School of Historical Studies

November 15Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � A Promiscuous Eunuch in Eighteenth-Century China � Norman Kutcher, SyracuseUniversity; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

November 16Art History Lunch Seminar � The ExoticSanctuary:TheTile Decoration in St.Nicholas,Fountoukli,Rhodes (1497–98) � Sharon E. J.Gerstel, University of California, LosAngeles;Member, School of Historical Studies

November 17Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

Buddhist GoddessTara:Context,Concept, andCommunity � Himanshu Prabha Ray,Jawaharlal Nehru University; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies

November 22Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � From Mystery to Initiation:A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel—Even in Apuleius’s GoldenAss? � AntonBierl, Universität Basel; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

November 23Art History Lunch Seminar � Performing theBastille: Pierre-François Palloy and the MemoryWork of the French Revolution � RichardTaws,University College London; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies

November 29Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Struggling for Beauty: BodyAesthetics andSocial Conflict in Modern History � ThomasKühne, Clark University;Visitor, School ofHistorical Studies

November 30Art History Lunch Seminar � “The CanticumCanticorum,” a Dutch Blockbook, ca. 1465,Thirty-TwoWoodcuts on the Song of Songs � MarilynAronberg Lavin, Princeton University

December 1Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

SeeingTime and Escaping It with the Help ofthe Goddess � Padma Kaimal, ColgateUniversity; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

December 6Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Necessity andAlternative Actions inAristotle:A Study of Metaphysics, Book 9,Chapter 5 � Ricardo Salles, Instituto deInvestigaciones Filosóficas, UniversidadNacional Autónoma de México; Member,School of Historical Studies

December 7East Asian Studies Seminar � MilitaryMetabolism:The Ecology ofWar and China’s HenanFamine of 1942–43 � Micah S. Muscolino,Georgetown University; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

Art History Lunch Seminar � Archaeologies ofPerformance:Ritual Movement through Greek SacredSpace � Joan Breton Connelly, NewYorkUniversity; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

December 8Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

Drogo Magnus, or Don’t Be the Older Brother �

Constance Brittain Bouchard,TheUniversity of Akron;Visitor, School ofHistorical Studies

December 13Historical Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Series �

Financing Empire in Southwest China: Land, State-Building, and Local Society, 1650–1750 � JohnHerman,Virginia Commonwealth University;Member, School of Historical Studies

December 15Modern HistoryWorkshop � Overlooking theEphemeral � CarolynAbbate, University ofPennsylvania;Visitor, School of HistoricalStudies

January 10Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Introductions � CarolineWalkerBynum, Professor, School of HistoricalStudies

January 12Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

The Byzantine Icon and Models ofText Reception �

Marcus Plested, University of Cambridge;Member, School of Historical Studies

January 17Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � The Damnation of Mignon � CarolynAbbate, University of Pennsylvania;Visitor,School of Historical Studies

January 18East Asian Studies Seminar � Facets ofTangutBuddhism � Kirill Solonin, Fo GuangUniversity; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

January 19Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

Putting Medieval KoreanTemples on the Map �

JuhnAhn, University of Toronto; Member,School of Historical Studies

Art History Seminar � Approaching the Meaningof the Investiture Painting from the Palace at Mari �

Mehmet-AliAtaç, Byrn Mawr College;Member, School of Historical Studies

Modern HistoryWorkshop � The RadicalEnlightenment Critique of the AmericanRevolution � Jonathan Israel, Professor,School of Historical Studies

January 20TheTwentieth-Century Discussion Group �

Introductory Session � Avishai Margalit,George F. Kennan Professor, School ofHistorical Studies

January 24Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Charlemagne and the “Mystical Authority”of the Frankish Law Code � Karl Ubl, EberhardKarls Universität Tübingen; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

January 25East Asian Studies Seminar � From the Mediato the Clinic:The Production of Desire in UrbanBeijing � EverettYuehong Zhang,Princeton University

January 31Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Language and Longitude: Leibniz’s Mapof the Russian Empire � Justin E. H. Smith,Concordia University, Montreal; Member,School of Historical Studies

February 2Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

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February 3TheTwentieth-Century Discussion Group �

Mussolini’s and Hitler’s Youths:How Fascist Italyand Nazi GermanyTried to Create a Society of“Obedient Fighters” and “Blind Believers” �

Alessio Ponzio, Università degli Studi RomaTre; Member, School of Historical Studies

February 7Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Expelling,Denaturalizing, Interning:Enemy Civilians, Emergency Powers, and PublicOptions in Europe and the United States duringWorldWar I � Daniela L. Caglioti, Universitàdegli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Member,School of Historical Studies

February 8East Asian Studies Seminar � Temples forDragons and OtherWildThings: Buddhism andUrbanization in Premodern Korea � JuhnAhn,University of Toronto; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

Islamicists Seminar � The Kalam of Abdallahb.Yazid al-Fazari � Wilfred Madelung,University of Oxford; Member, School ofHistorical Studies, and Abdulrahmanal-Salimi, Ministry of Endowments andReligious Affairs, Sultanate of Oman; Member,School of Historical Studies

February 9MedievalTable Lunchtime Colloquium �

Material Culture and“Thing-Theory” � Generaldiscussion led by Sharon E. J. Gerstel,University of California, LosAngeles; Member,School of Historical Studies, and Yve-AlainBois, Professor, School of Historical Studies

February 14Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � War, Environment, and Displacementin North China, 1937–45 � Micah S.Muscolino, Georgetown University;Member, School of Historical Studies

Workshop:TheTransmission of SubversiveIdeas from the IslamicWorld to Europe, ca.1200–1650;The Impostor Theme � The LateAntique and Muslim Material � Patricia Crone,AndrewW. Mellon Professor, School ofHistorical Studies � The Medieval EuropeanCases � Robert Lerner, NorthwesternUniversity � The Jewish Material � JamesRobinson,The University of Chicago �

The Category “Averroism” � Luca Bianchi,Università degli Studi del PiemonteOrientale � Views and Discussion � PatriciaCrone,AndrewW. Mellon Professor, Schoolof Historical Studies � Robert Lerner,Northwestern University � JamesRobinson,The University of Chicago �

Luca Bianchi, Università degli Studi delPiemonte Orientale

February 15Workshop:TheTransmission of SubversiveIdeas from the IslamicWorld to Europe, ca.1200–1650; Historical Astrology and Pre-Adamites � The Muslim Material � Kevin vanBladel, University of Southern California �

The Late Medieval and Renaissance Material �

Martin Mulsow, University of Oxford �

The Jewish Material � Reimund Leicht,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem � TheArabic Material in LatinTranslation � CharlesBurnett,TheWarburg Institute, University ofLondon � Views and Discussion � Kevin vanBladel, University of Southern California �

Martin Mulsow, University of Oxford �

Reimund Leicht,The Hebrew Universityof Jerusalem


Memory � Constance Brittain Bouchard,The University of Akron;Visitor, School ofHistorical Studies � Karl Ubl, Eberhard KarlsUniversität Tübingen; Member, School ofHistorical Studies � Margaret Larkin,University of California, Berkeley; Member,School of Historical Studies

February 17TheTwentieth-Century Discussion Group �

EnemyAliens inWorldWar I and the Problemof MakingTransnational History � Daniela L.Caglioti, Università degli Studi di NapoliFederico II; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

February 22East Asian Studies Seminar � Toward aReconstruction ofTantric Buddhism inTenth-Century Dunhuang � Amanda Goodman,University of Toronto


SomeThoughts on the Learned Practices ofChinese Buddhist RitualTexts fromTenth-CenturyDunhuang � Amanda Goodman, Universityof Toronto

Art History Seminar � Medieval JewishApproaches to the Image: Examples from theLeipzig Mahzor � Katrin Kogman-Appel,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev;Visitor,School of Historical Studies

Modern HistoryWorkshop � Orthodox Churchand Secularization in the Balkans � DimitrisStamatopoulos, University of Macedonia;Member, School of Historical Studies

February 28Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Believe.Obey. Fight.How FascismWorkedto Create a New Italian � Alessio Ponzio,Università degli Studi RomaTre; Member,School of Historical Studies

March 1Ancient Studies Seminar � Honestus’s HeliconianFlowers: Epigrammatic Offerings to the Muses ofThespiae � Regina Höschele, University ofToronto; Member, School of Historical Studies

Islamicists Seminar � al-Biruni’s Chronology:A Report onWork in Progress � François deBlois, School of Oriental and African Studies,University of London; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

March 2Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium � Art,Ritual, and Civic Identity in Medieval South Italy �

Nino Zchomelidse, Princeton University

Eighteenth-Century Seminar � Saving Grace:Religion andVirtue in Enlightenment Scotland �

ThomasAhnert,The University ofEdinburg; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

March 3TheTwentieth-Century Discussion Group �

Discovering Hunger in America:The Politics ofRace, Poverty, and Malnutrition after the Fall of JimCrow � Laurie Green,The University ofTexas at Austin; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

March 7Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Patronage,Debate Culture, and MuslimIntellectual History in India � Asad Q.Ahmed,Washington University in St. Louis; Member,School of Historical Studies

March 8Islamicists Seminar � Defending Muhammad’sFinality: Preliminary Reflections onTheologicalDiscourse and Sectarian Identity in Nineteenth-Century India � Asad Q.Ahmed,WashingtonUniversity in St. Louis; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

March 9Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

Visualizing in theTwelfth Century:Hugh ofSantiVictor’s “Chronicon” and Peter of Poitiers’“Compendium Historiae in Genealogia Christ” �

AndreaWorm, Universität Augsburg;Member, School of Historical Studies

March 14Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Joel ben Simeon:A Scribe-Artist as anAgent of Cultural Exchange � Katrin Kogman-Appel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev;Visitor, School of Historical Studies

March 15Ancient Studies Seminar � Problems in theMonopolization of Archaic Coin Production �

Peter vanAlfen,American NumismaticSociety; Member, School of Historical Studies


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East Asian Studies Seminar � Moral Politics in theMencius � Yang Xiao, Kenyon College;Visitor,School of Social Science

TheTwentieth-Century Discussion Group �

Diary of Ivan Maisky,A RedAmbassador to theCourt of St. James’s � Gabriel Gorodetsky,All Souls College, University of Oxford;Member, School of Historical Studies

March 21Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Parthenon Revisited:Daughters,Democracy, and the Ultimate Sacrifice � JoanBreton Connelly, NewYork University;Member, School of Historical Studies

March 22Ancient Studies Seminar � Discourse of Kingshipin Late Republican Invective � Yelena Baraz,Princeton University;Visitor, School ofHistorical Studies

East Asian Studies Seminar � Revisiting theManchu Conquest:AWork in Progress � NicolaDi Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in EastAsian Studies, School of Historical Studies

Islamicists Seminar � The Poetics of CulturalIdentity: al-Mutanabbi among the Buyids �

Margaret Larkin, University of California,Berkeley; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

March 23Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium �

The Royal Destiny:Conceptions of Power inAshurbanipal’s “Garden Party”Reconsidered �

Mehmet-Ali Ataç, Byrn Mawr College;Member, School of Historical Studies

Art History Seminar � Many Paths to the Divine:Dynamics ofVision in a HinduTemple � PadmaKaimal, Colgate University; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies

Modern HistoryWorkshop � Newton in theGerman-Speaking Lands � ThomasAhnert,The University of Edinburg; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies

March 28Historical Studies Lunchtime ColloquiaSeries � Archaeology and Empire: BuddhistMonuments in Colonial India � HimanshuPrabha Ray, Jawaharlal Nehru University;Member, School of Historical Studies

March 29Ancient Studies Seminar � Agroikos Sophia:The Mythic Landscape of Philostratus’s Heroicus �

Janet Downie, Princeton University;Visitor,School of Historical Studies

March 30Medieval Table Lunchtime Colloquium � ThePoetics of Cultural Identity: al-Mutanabbi amongthe Buyids � Margaret Larkin, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

March 31TheTwentieth-Century Discussion Group �

A New History of the Mandates System of theLeague of Nations � Susan Pedersen,Columbia University; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

April 4Workshop:TheTransmission of SubversiveIdeas from the IslamicWorld to Europe, ca.1200–1650;The Origin of Government �

The Muslim Material � Patricia Crone,AndrewW. Mellon Professor, School ofHistorical Studies � Marsiglio � GianlucaBriguglia, Centre National de la RechercheScientifique, Paris � The Byzantine Material �

Maria Mavroudi, University of California,Berkeley � The Latin Medical Material � MarcoViniegra, Harvard University � Views onTransmission � Patricia Crone,AndrewW.Mellon Professor, School of HistoricalStudies � Gianluca Briguglia, CentreNational de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris �

Maria Mavroudi, University of California,Berkeley � MarcoViniegra, HarvardUniversity

April 5Workshop:TheTransmission of SubversiveIdeas from the IslamicWorld to Europe, ca.1200–1650;The Social Utility of Religion �

The Muslim Material � Patricia Crone,AndrewW. Mellon Professor, School ofHistorical Studies � John of Salisbury �

QuentinTaylor, Rogers State University �

The Jewish Material � James Robinson,TheUniversity of Chicago � Marsiglio � GianlucaBriguglia, Centre National de la RechercheScientifique, Paris � Views onTransmission �

Patricia Crone,AndrewW. Mellon Professor,School of Historical Studies � GianlucaBriguglia, Centre National de la RechercheScientifique, Paris � QuentinTaylor, RogersState University � James Robinson,TheUniversity of Chicago

April 7Workshop: Sacred Space � Introduction:RitualDynamics and the Shaping of Sacred Space � JoanBreton Connelly, NewYork University;Member, School of Historical Studies �

Itinerant Sacred Places:Wanderers as Creators ofPersonal Religious Space in Classical Greece �

Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, UniversidadComplutense de Madrid � The “Space of Death”in the Family Rituals of the MediterraneanWorld �

Paola Corrente, Universidad Complutensede Madrid � The Geography of Paradise: Elysium,Isles of the Blest, and Hyperboreans � MarcoA.Santamaría, Universidad de Salamanca �

Spatial Ambiguity in Plutarch fr. 178 Sandbach andthe Derveni Papyrus � Alberto Bernabé,Universidad Complutense de Madrid �

Oreibasia:The Mountain as Sacred Space inDionysian Cults � Ana Jiménez, UniversidadComplutense de Madrid � Where DionysusDwells:GreekVases as aVirtual Sacred Space �

Fátima Díez Platas, Universidad deSantiago de Compostela � The Sacred Spaceof the Byzantine Church: Rites and Passage �

Sharon E. J. Gerstel, University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles; Member, School ofHistorical Studies � Women on the Acropolis andMental Mapping:Comic Body-Politics, Ritual, andMetaphor in Aristophanes’“Lysistrata” � AntonBierl, Universität Basel; Member, School ofHistorical Studies

April 11TheTwentieth-Century Discussion Group �

The Readers of “Novyi mir,” 1945–70:Twentieth-Century Experience and Soviet HistoricalConsciousness � Denis Kozlov, DalhousieUniversity; Member, School of HistoricalStudies

April 12East Asian Studies Seminar � The ReligiousEcology of ConfuciusTemples in ContemporaryChina:An Empirical Investigation � Anna Sun,Kenyon College; Member, School of SocialScience

April 13Art History Seminar � Mapping the Historyof Salvation:The Map of the Holy Land in the“Rudimentum Novitiorum” of 1475 � AndreaWorm, Universität Augsburg; Member, Schoolof Historical Studies

Modern HistoryWorkshop � Hunger in Americaand the “Power ofTelevision”: Spring 1968 �

Laurie Green,The University of Texas atAustin; Member, School of Historical Studies

May 3Islamic Roundtable � Syriac Christian, LatinChristian, and MuslimViews of the Origin ofPaganism � AnnaAkasoy, University ofOxford � Kevin van Bladel, University ofSouthern California � John Marenbon,University of Cambridge � Richard Payne,Mount Holyoke College � Patricia Crone,AndrewW. Mellon Professor, School ofHistorical Studies

May 4Islamicists Seminar � The Problem of Paganismin the Middle Ages � John Marenbon,University of Cambridge


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During the 2010–11 academic year, the School of Mathematics held a special program on Galoisrepresentations and automorphic forms. The program was organized by the School’s DistinguishedVisiting Professor, Richard Taylor of Harvard University.

The program had about thirty-three School participants, and many other people visited for shorter periods.Six mini-courses, two weekly seminars, and a one-week workshop were organized. In addition, participantsin the program took advantage of the joint Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University number the-ory seminars and the Institute Members seminars. All these activities (except the workshop and Membersseminars) took place onWednesday afternoons andThursdays.This allowed the participants to concentrate ontheir own work for the rest of the week and also made it easier for scholars from neighboring universities toattend the events.

Program participants included Taylor; von Neumann Fellows Francesco Calegari, Jean-Francois Dat,ThomasHaines, and Elena Mantovan;Veblen Research Instructors David Geraghty,Tasho Kaletha, Kai-Wen Lan, andYichao Tian; Members Laurent Clozel, Pierre Colmez, Jean-Marc Fontaine, Michael Harris, Florian Herzig,Andrei Jorza, Chandrashekhar Khare, Ruochuan Liu,Tong Liu, Sophie Morel, James Newton,Yiannis Sakel-laridis, Sug Woo Shin, Christopher Skinner, Eric Urban, and Jared Weinstein; and Visitors Abnik Ganguli,Wieslawa Niziol, and Andrew Wiles. In addition, both Matthew Emerton of Northwestern University andPeter Scholze of the University of Bonn made more than one visit, and there were several students fromPrinceton University who attended regularly. Students involved with program activities from Harvard Uni-versity were Ana Caraiani, Lawrence Chung,Wushi Goldring, Bao Le Hung, and Jack Thorne.

In the fall, Colmez gave a mini-course on his work on the p-adic local Langlands correspondence, Calegarigave a mini-course on completed cohomology, and Emerton gave a mini-course on local-global compatibil-ity in the p-adic Langlands program. In the spring, Skinner gave a mini-course on his work with Urban onthe Iwasawa main conjecture for GL(2); Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor Emeritus, gave a mini-course on auto-morphic cohomology; and Geraghty and Taylor gave a mini-course on recent advances in automorphy/potential automorphy of Galois representations.

School of MathematicsFaculty

Enrico Bombieri, IBM von Neumann Professor

Jean Bourgain

Helmut Hofer

Robert MacPherson, HermannWeyl Professor

Peter Sarnak

Thomas Spencer

VladimirVoevodsky

AviWigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor

Professors Emeriti

Pierre Deligne

Phillip A. Griffiths

Robert P. Langlands


Of the thirty-four seminars given during the year, particular highlights ofthe seminar program were Weinstein’s beautiful breakthrough on semistablemodels for modular curves of all levels and Scholze’s exciting new take on

the local Langlands conjecture for GL(n).

The talks in the workshop were of an extremelyhigh standard, and there were well over a hundredattendees. Speakers were selected to ensure thatthe talks addressed what was thought to be themost interesting recent developments. Some ofthe most exciting advances reported were thework of Vincent Pilloni and Benoit Stroh, et al.,on eigenvarieties for higher-dimensional Shimuravarieties; Scholze’s introduction of perfectoidspaces and his use of them to both re-prove p-adiccomparison theorems and to attack the weight-monodromy conjecture; the ideas of Calegari andGeraghty on proving modularity lifting theoremsover imaginary quadratic fields (and probably

other settings, where the original approach seemed to break down); andMahesh Kakde’s proof of the non-abelian main conjecture for charactersover totally real fields.

Some breakthroughs that were announced and discussed were Weinstein’sinitial breakthrough on the four-decades-old problem of finding semistablemodels for all modular curves.While this progress took place before the startof the special year,Weinstein had extensive discussions with other membersof the program, and his results have taken on a more natural form (for exam-ple, more systematically passing to a limit over all level structures), and he hasbegun to generalize them beyond GL(2).

Calegari and Geraghty, who were here for the whole year, have announceda breakthrough on modularity lifting theorems. All modularity lifting theo-rems to date only work in the “regular, odd, conjugate self-dual” case, wherethe universal deformation ring and the Hecke algebras are as large as possi-ble. This seemed to be a major restriction on the Taylor-Wiles method. (It issomehow easier to prove two things are equal when they are both as big asthey can possibly be.) However, Calegari and Geraghty, working togetherduring the special year, appear to have found a way to treat other cases. Atthe moment, their results are restricted to some important special cases, butit seems plausible that this is just the start.

In a smaller activity devoted to some very recent developments in symplecticgeometry, Member Claude Viterbo of École Polytechnique gave a graduatecourse, “Introduction to Symplectic Topology through Sheaf Theory,“ andlong-term Member Mark Goresky and Professor Helmut Hofer ran a workinggroup on sheaf-theoretic methods in symplectic topology during the secondterm. In addition to the mini-course “Microlocal Theory of Sheaves andApplications to Non-Displaceability” by Pierre Schapira of the University ofParis VI (www.math.ias.edu/seminars/abstract?event=40585), there was aworkshop on sheaf-theoretic methods in symplectic topology from May 9–12,organized by Hofer and Viterbo (www.math.ias.edu/workshop-stmst). Thenew ideas presented during these activities are potentially relevant for theprogram on symplectic dynamics in 2011–12, and the workshop served to26

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RichardTaylor (right), DistinguishedVisiting Professor, organized a special

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Lan (left) aimed to understand relationsbetween automorphic forms coming

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evaluate the feasibility of a larger program. Hofer also organized a weeklyseminar on geometry and dynamical systems. In preparation for the 2011–12academic year activity on symplectic dynamics, Hofer gave a graduatecourse on the same subject at Princeton University. Symplectic dynamics isan envisioned new field studying classes of (conservative) dynamical systemsby highly integrated methods from symplectic geometry and dynamical sys-tems. It is the hope that the new resulting methods should make it possibleto attack problems that so far seem to be out of reach. Member BarneyBramham and Hofer wrote a paper, “First Steps in Symplectic Geometry,”which describes some of the problems and ideas.

In 2010, it became clear that methods in symplectic geometry (holomorphiccurve theories/symplectic field theory) can be used to obtain a deeperinsight into problems in celestial mechanics that are, among other things,useful in fuel-efficient orbit designs for scientific space missions. Togetherwith Peter Albers of Purdue University and Urs Frauenfelder of SeoulNational University, Hofer started a research project to study the restrictedthree-body problem that is known to show chaotic behavior. This projectgrew and currently involves Joel Fish of Stanford University, Gabriel Pater-nain of the University of Cambridge, and Otto van Koert of Seoul Nation-al University. The results so far show precise organizing principles for thechaos, which is potentially useful since it is precisely this chaos that isresponsible for the existence of fuel-efficient orbits. Frauenfelder will presentsome of the results at the NASA/ESA-sponsored conference, “New Trendsin Astrodynamics and ApplicationsVI,” during an invited lecture. Hofer con-tinued his work on symplectic field theory and polyfolds jointly withKrzysztof Wysocki of Pennsylvania State University and Eduard Zehnder ofEidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich.

During the second term, Members Bramham, Larry Guth, Matthew Kahle,and Melissa Tacy initiated “Mathematical Conversations.”This is a new ideafor mathematical communication that we hope will broaden the mathemat-ical horizons of all participants.

The program on computer science and discrete mathematics continued toflourish. Breakthroughs achieved by some former Members were highlightedin the one-day workshop on pseudorandomness in April. Speakers were cur-rent Members Guth and Swastik Kopparty, Visitor Zeev Dvir of PrincetonUniversity, Peter Varju of Princeton University, and former Member AlexKontorovich of Stony Brook University, the StateUniversity of NewYork.

In December, Curtis McMullen of Harvard Universi-ty delivered the Ruth and Irving Adler ExpositoryLecture, “Entropy, Algebraic Integers, and Moduli ofSurfaces.”

With Pierre Deligne, Professor Emeritus; RobertMacPherson, HermannWeyl Professor; and Goreskyin attendance, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in theSchool of Natural Sciences, gave weekly seminars onsome Feynman diagrams that arise in N=4SUSYgauge theories and reduce to just a few integrals oncombinatorial spaces. These seminars often continued 27

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In 2010, it became clear thatmethods in symplectic geometry(holomorphic curve theories/symplectic field theory) can beused to obtain a deeper insightinto problems in celestialmechanics that are, amongother things, useful in fuel-efficient orbit designs forscientific space missions.


for up to four hours. As a result of this activity, these four individuals havebeen able to make mathematical insights with potential applications to physics.

Guth and Nets Katz, who visited from Indiana University for a short timeduring the year, solved the long-standing (from 1946) Erdös distinct distanceconjecture in the plane. Guth’s lecture is available on the Institute website(http://video.ias.edu/csdm/guth), as are many other breakthroughs achievedby Members andVisitors in the School.

Member Igor Rivin has investigated the interesting concept and propertiesof random elements in lattices of Lie groups and applied this to deduceproperties of random three manifolds.

Member Pierluigi Falco made important advances in proving universality ofthe low-density two-dimensional Coulomb gas. He developed a rigorousrenormalization group technique to analyze the Kosterlitz-Thouless line thatseparates the dipole phase from the plasma phase. Although the existence ofthis transition has been known for some time, the behavior along the criti-cal line had been an open problem for many years.

Nigel Pitt, a Member during the second term, madedecisive progress on his long-term project on thebehavior of coefficients of a modular form on thesequence p-1, p a prime, and he is in the process ofpreparing a paper regarding his progress.

Working with Professor Peter Sarnak, Peng Zhau, aNational Science Foundation Mathematical SciencesInstitutes Fellow, is completing the computing of thefull variance for the quantization of the geodesicflow on the modular surface.

Professor Jean Bourgain and Sarnak together withformer Members Alexander Gamburd of the Univer-sity of California, Santa Cruz, and Kontorovich have

completed a series of papers on “thin groups,” the affine sieve, and expanders.These developments will be reported at conferences around the world (Bour-baki, American Mathematical Society, and Clay Mathematics Institute).

The topology program organized by MacPherson, Randall Kamien of theUniversity of Pennsylvania, and Konstantin Mischaikow of Rutgers, the StateUniversity of New Jersey, continued with six workshops held during theyear.Three workshops were held each term alternating between the campus-es of the Institute, Rutgers, and the University of Pennsylvania. Improve-ments in information technology have revolutionized the way scientists andengineers record and simulate complicated phenomena.The organization andunderstanding of this data requires new techniques. On the mathematicalside, topology provides concepts and computational tools for studying non-linear objects and transformations. The goal of this seminar series was todirect and expand these concepts and tools toward the above-mentionedapplications. There was a mix of lectures by topologists, by scientists in fieldswith topological applications, and by people doing topological computations.The talks were aimed at a broad interdisciplinary audience and were intend-ed to provide a forum for discussing current and future applications of topo-logical techniques, both theoretical and computational.

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and understanding of thisdata requires new techniques.On the mathematical side,topology provides concepts

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Professor Vladimir Voevodsky gave aseminar on the univalent foundations

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First-term talks were given by Frederick Cohen of the University ofRochester, Nigel Goldenfeld of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ali Jadbabaie of the University of Pennsylvania, MemberMatthew Kahle, Eleni Katifori of the Rockefeller University, MemberJeremy Mason, Ivan Smalyukh of Rutgers, and TanmayVachaspati of ArizonaState University.

Second-term lectures were given by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in theSchool of Natural Sciences, Javier Arsuaga of San Francisco State Univer-sity, Steve Ellis of Columbia University, Menachem Lazar of PrincetonUniversity, Andrea Liu of the University of Pennsylvania, Member WalterNeumann of Barnard College, Vin de Silva of Pomona College, DennisSullivan of Stony Brook University, and Mark Trodden of the Universityof Pennsylvania.

Bourgain was elected a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciencesand AviWigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor, was elected to the AmericanAcademy of Arts and Sciences.

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MEMBERS ANDVISITORS

f First Term � s Second Term � m Long-termMember � vVisitor � dvp DistinguishedVisiting Professor � vpVisiting Professor �

j Joint Member School of Natural Sciences �

vriVeblen Research Instructorship �

vnf von Neumann Fellowship

NogaAlonCombinatorics � Tel Aviv University � vp, fFunding provided by the Bell CompaniesFellowship andThe OswaldVeblen Fund

JohnArthur BaldwinKnotTheory, Low-dimensionalTopology � Institutefor Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity � vri

Paul BeameComputational Complexity � University ofWashingtonFunding provided byThe Ellentuck Fund and theNational Science Foundation

JonathanWilliam BoberNumberTheory � Institute for AdvancedStudy � fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Barney BramhamSymplectic Geometry � Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Francesco CalegariNumberTheory � Northwestern University � vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation andThe James D.Wolfensohn Fund

Inna CapdeboscqGroupTheory � University of WarwickFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Yves CapdeboscqPartial Differential Equations � University ofOxford � vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Laurent ClozelAutomorphic Forms,Galois Representations �

Université Paris-Sud 11 � sNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron Chriss Founders’Circle Member; additional funding provided by theEllentuck Fund, the Florence Gould FoundationFund, andThe James D.Wolfensohn Fund

Frederick R. CohenTopology � University of Rochester • s

Alina CojocaruNumberTheory � University of Illinois atChicago � fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

From left: Michael Atiyah, former Memberand Professor, gave the seminar, “BeautyandTruth in Mathematics: ATribute toAlbert Einstein and HermannWeyl”;ChristineTaylor, Member, spoke on “SomeEquations and Games in EvolutionaryBiology”; and Jeremy Mason, Member,addressed “Fundamental Groups ofRandom Simplicial Complexes”


Pierre ColmezNumberTheory � CNRS and Institut deMathématiques de Jussieu, Université ParisDiderot � fRalph E. and Doris M.Hansmann Member;additional funding provided by the Florence GouldFoundation Fund

Jean-Francois DatArithmetic Geometry, RepresentationTheory �

Université Pierre et Marie Curie � vnf, fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Michael DavisTopology,Geometric GroupTheory � The OhioState University

Fred DiamondGalois Representations,Automorphic Forms �

King’s College London � v, s

Dominic DotterrerCombinatorial Geometry � Institute forAdvanced Study � v, sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Zeev DvirComputer Science � Institute for AdvancedStudy � v

Richard EhrenborgAlgebraic Combinatorics � University ofKentucky

Pierluigi FalcoMathematical Physics � Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the Giorgio and ElenaPetronio Fellowship Fund

Jean-Marc FontaineAlgebraic Geometry, NumberTheory � UniversitéParis-Sud 11 � fFunding provided by the Florence GouldFoundation Fund

Elena FuchsNumberTheory � Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Abhik GanguliNumberTheory � Institute for Advanced Studyand Rutgers,The State University of NewJersey � v

David GeraghtyNumberTheory � Institute for Advanced Studyand Princeton University � vriFunding provided by the National Science Foundation

Samuel GitlerAlgebraicTopology,ToricTopology � Centro deInvestigación del Instituto PolitécnicoNacional, Mexico City

Mark GoreskyGeometry,Automorphic Forms � Institute forAdvanced Study � mFunding provided by the Bell CompaniesFellowship

Anna GourevitchAlgebraic Geometry, SingularityTheory � Institutefor Advanced Study � v, f

Thomas GraberAlgebraic Geometry � California Institute ofTechnologyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Zihua GuoHarmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations �

Institute for Advanced StudyZurich Financial Services Member; additionalfunding provided by the S. S. Chern Foundation forMathematics Research Fund and the NationalScience Foundation

Larry GuthGeometry, Harmonic Analysis � University ofTorontoFunding provided by the Ambrose MonellFoundation and the National Science Foundation

Thomas J. HainesRepresentationTheory,Arithmetic AlgebraicGeometry � University of Maryland � vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Michael HarrisNumberTheory,Automorphic Forms � UniversitéParis Diderot � sFunding provided by the Association of Members ofthe Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS)

Florian HerzigNumberTheory � Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

David HuseTheoretical Condensed Matter Physics, StatisticalPhysics � Princeton University � v, f

John Z. ImbrieMathematical Physics � University of Virginia

Russell ImpagliazzoComputational Complexity � University ofCalifornia, San Diego � vpFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member;additional funding provided byThe Ellentuck Fundand the National Science Foundation

Nathan JonesNumberTheory � The University ofMississippi � v, f

Andrei JorzaNumberTheory � Institute for AdvancedStudy � fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Matthew KahleTopology, Probability, Combinatorics � Institute forAdvanced Study

Tasho KalethaGroupTheory,Automorphic Forms � Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University � vriFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Ralph KaufmannAlgebraicTopology,Algebraic Geometry � PurdueUniversity � fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Chandrashekhar KhareNumberTheory � University of California, LosAngelesFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Menachem KojmanCombinatorics � Ben-Gurion University of theNegev

Swastik KoppartyTheoretical Computer Science � Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

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

Kai-Wen LanNumberTheory, ShimuraVarieties � Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University � vri

Thái Hoàng LêAdditive and Combinatorial NumberTheory �

Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Victor Daniel LieAnalysis � Institute for Advanced Study andPrinceton University � vriFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Ruochuan Liup-adic HodgeTheory, p-adic Local LanglandsProgram � Institute for Advanced Study � fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

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Tong LiuArithmetic Geometry,Galois Representations, p-adicHodgeTheory � Purdue University � sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Shachar LovettComputer Science � Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Elena MantovanArithmetic Geometry � California Institute ofTechnology � vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Simon MarshallNumberTheory � Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Jeremy MasonMathematical Physics � Institute for AdvancedStudy

Guowu MengMathematical Physics � The Hong KongUniversity of Science andTechnology � jQiu Shi Science andTechnologies FoundationMember

Sophie MorelShimuraVarieties � Harvard UniversityFunding provided by the Minerva ResearchFoundation; additional funding provided by theFriends of the Institute for Advanced Study

Walter NeumannGeometry,Topology � Barnard College � s

James NewtonNumberTheory � Institute for AdvancedStudy � sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Wieslawa NiziolArithmetic Algebraic Geometry � University ofUtah � v, f

Ryan O’DonnellTheoretical Computer Science � Carnegie MellonUniversity � vnfFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Alvaro PelayoSymplectic Geometry, SpecialTheory of IntegrableSystems � Institute for Advanced Study � sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Nigel J. E. PittAutomorphic Forms,Analytic NumberTheory �

University of Brasilia � s

Margaret A. ReaddyAlgebraic Combinatorics � University ofKentucky

Igor RivinGeometry, Computation,NumberTheory,Geometric GroupTheory, Physics, Chemistry �

Temple University

Guy Nathanel RothblumComputer Science � Institute for AdvancedStudy � v

Yiannis SakellaridisAutomorphic Forms, RepresentationTheory,NumberTheory � Institute for AdvancedStudy � sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Shubhangi SarafComplexityTheory, Pseudorandomness � Institutefor Advanced Study � v

Grant SchoenebeckComplexityTheory, Intersection of ComputerScience � Institute for Advanced Study andPrinceton University � v, s

Mira ShamisMathematical Physics � Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

SugWoo ShinNumberTheory, ShimuraVarieties � Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Christopher SkinnerNumberTheory � Princeton University

Anders SödergrenNumberTheory � Institute for AdvancedStudy � sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Alexander SodinMathematical Physics � Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Srikanth SrinivasanComputational Complexity � Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Nikhil SrivastavaTheoretical Computer Science � Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Junecue SuhAlgebraic Geometry, NumberTheory � Institutefor Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

MelissaTacyAnalysis � Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Abdolreza ShadiTahvildar-ZadehMathematical Physics, Partial DifferentialEquations � Rutgers,The State University ofNew Jersey � s

Christine J.TaylorEvolutionary GameTheory, Evolution ofCooperation � Harvard UniversityFunding provided by the Minerva ResearchFoundation

Laurence R.TaylorAlgebraic and GeometricTopology � University ofNotre Dame � s

RichardTaylorNumberTheory � Harvard University � dvpFunding provided byThe Charles SimonyiEndowment and the OswaldVeblen Fund

YichaoTianArithmetic Algebraic Geometry � Institute forAdvanced Study and Princeton University � vri

JacquesTilouineNumberTheory,Galois Representations, p-adicModular Forms,Modularity � Université Paris13 � v, s

MadhurTulsianiTheoretical Computer Science � Institute forAdvanced Study � v

Eric Jean-Paul UrbanNumberTheory � CNRS and ColumbiaUniversity � sFunding provided by the Florence GouldFoundation Fund

SophiaVassiliadouComplexVariables, Complex Geometry �

Georgetown UniversityFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

ClaudeViterboSymplectic Geometry � École Polytechnique,Palaiseau, France � fFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

FangWangMicrolocal Analysis, Geometric ScatteringTheory,General Relativity, Partial Differential Equations �

Institute for Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity � vri

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JaredWeinsteinNumberTheory � Institute for Advanced Study

AnnaWienhardGeometry � Princeton University � v

AndrewWilesAlgebraic NumberTheory � PrincetonUniversity � v

Peng ZhaoNumberTheory and Automorphic Forms �

Institute for Advanced Study and PrincetonUniversity � vFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

RECORD OF EVENTS

September 20Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Dependent Random Choice andApproximate Sidorenko’s Conjecture � BennySudakov, University of California, LosAngeles

September 21Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Invariance Principles inTheoreticalComputer Science � Ryan O’Donnell,Carnegie Mellon University; von NeumannFellowship, School of Mathematics

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members � NewComputations of the Riemann Zeta Functions �

JonathanWilliam Bober, Member, Schoolof Mathematics � NewTools for an Old Problem:the Dynamics of Area Preserving Disc Maps �

Barney Bramham, Member, School ofMathematics � Extended Scaling Relations forWeak-Universal Models � Pierluigi Falco,Member, School of Mathematics � Automorphyof Galois Representations � David Geraghty,Princeton University;Veblen ResearchInstructorship, School of Mathematics

September 22Special Mathematical Physics Seminar � TheNonlinear Schrödinger Equation (NLSE) with aRandom Potential: Effective Noise and ScalingTheory � Shmuel Fishman,Technion–IsraelInstitute of Technology

September 23Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members � TheWell-Posedness for the KdV and MKdVEquations � Zihua Guo, Member, School ofMathematics � Families and Congruences betweenModular Forms � Andrei Jorza, Member,School of Mathematics � The FundamentalGroup of Random 2-Complexes � MatthewKahle, Member, School of Mathematics � L-Packets and Endoscopy for p-adic Groups � TashoKaletha, Princeton University;VeblenResearch Instructorship, School ofMathematics � Topics in Randomness and Error-

Correcting Codes � Swastik Kopparty,Member, School of Mathematics � AdditiveStructures in the Primes � Thái Hoàng Lê,Member, School of Mathematics

September 27Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � The Condition Number of a RandomMatrix: from von Neumann–Goldstine toSpielman-Teng � VanVu, Rutgers,The StateUniversity of New Jersey

Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members � SomeAspects inTime-Frequency Analysis � VictorDaniel Lie, Princeton University;VeblenResearch Instructorship, School ofMathematics � p-adic Galois Representations and(ϕΓ)-Modules � Ruochuan Liu, Member,School of Mathematics � Correlation Bounds forPolynomials � Shachar Lovett, Member,School of Mathematics � The Cohomology ofArithmetic Groups � Simon Marshall,Member, School of Mathematics � Resolutionof Singularities on ShimuraVarieties, and the LocalLanglands Correspondence � JaredWeinstein,Member, School of Mathematics � TheStructure of Materials � Jeremy Mason,Member, School of Mathematics

September 28Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � High-Rate CodesWith SublinearTime Decoding � Swastik Kopparty,Member, School of Mathematics

September 29Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members � TheSpectrum of the Critical Almost MathieuOperator � Mira Shamis, Member, School ofMathematics � Geometric Realization of the LocalLanglands Correspondence � SugWoo Shin,Member, School of Mathematics � PerturbationSeries for Band Matrices and for the AndersonModel � Alexander Sodin, Member, Schoolof Mathematics

September 30Short Talks by Postdoctoral Members � SomeQuestions Regarding Arithmetic Circuits �

Srikanth Srinavasan, Member, School ofMathematics � Sparce Approximation of PSDMatrices � Nikhil Srivastava, Member,School of Mathematics � Torsion-Freeness ofCertain Cohomology Groups of PEL-TypeShimuraVarieties � Junecue Suh, Member,School of Mathematics � Lp Concentration ofSemiclassical Quasimodes � MelissaTacy,Member, School of Mathematics

October 4Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Super-Uniformity of theTypicalBilliard Path (Proof Included) � Jozsef Beck,Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey

Members Seminar � Potential Automorphy �

RichardTaylor, Harvard University;DistinguishedVisiting Professor, School ofMathematics

October 5Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Pseudorandom Generators forCCO[p] and the Fourier Spectrum of Low-DegreePolynomials over Finite Fields � ShacharLovett, Member, School of Mathematics �

Geometry and Cell Complexes:Topology ofRandom Simplicial Complexes � MatthewKahle, Member, School of Mathematics

Workshop onTopology: Identifying Order inComplex Systems � Control of Liquid CrystalDefects Using Optical Phase Singularities � IvanSmalyukh, University of Colorado � LoopyNetworkTopology and LeafVein Architecture �

Eleni Katifori,The Rockefeller University �

Configuration Spaces of Hard Disks � MatthewKahle, Member, School of Mathematics

October 7Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Overview of the p-adic LocalLanglands Correspondence for GL(2,Qp) �

Pierre Colmez, CNRS and Institut deMathématiques de Jussieu, Université ParisDiderot; Member, School of Mathematics

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar � AnIntegral Eisenstein-Sczech Cocycle on GLn(Z) andp-adic L-Functions ofTotally Real Fields � SamitDasgupta, University of California, SantaCruz

October 8Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Imaging of Small Inhomogeneities, Homogenizationand Super Resolution � Yves Capdeboscq,University of Oxford; von NeumannFellowship, School of Mathematics

October 11Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � The Complexity of theNoncommutative Determinant � SrikanthSrinivasan, Member, School of Mathematics

Members Seminar � SymplecticHomogenization � ClaudeViterbo, ÉcolePolytechnique, Palaiseau, France; Member,School of Mathematics

October 12Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Approximating the LongestIncreasing Subsequence in PolylogarithmicTime �

Michael Saks, Rutgers,The State Universityof New Jersey

Geometry and Cell Complexes � Descriptionsof the Grain-Growth Structure � JeremyMason, Member, School of Mathematics

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October 13Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Mini-Course � The CompletedCohomology of Arithmetic Groups � FrancescoCalegari, Northwestern University; vonNeumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics

October 14Lecture Series on Some Aspects of the p-adicLocal Langlands Correspondence forGL(2,Qp) � Lecture 1 � Pierre Colmez,CNRS and Institut de Mathématiques deJussieu, Université Paris Diderot; Member,School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � The Fundamental Curve of p-adicTheory � Jean-Marc Fontaine,Université Paris-Sud 11; Member, School ofMathematics

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar �

Even Galois Representations and the Fontaine-Mazur Conjecture � Francesco Calegari,Northwestern University; von NeumannFellowship, School of Mathematics

October 18Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � A Unified Framework forTestingLinear-Invariant Properties � ArnabBhattacharyya, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology

Members Seminar � Metaphors in SystolicGeometry � Larry Guth, University ofToronto; Member, School of Mathematics

October 19Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Rank Bounds for Design MatricesWith Applications to Combinatorial Geometry andLocally Correctable Codes � Zeev Dvir,Visitor,School of Mathematics

Geometry and Cell Complexes � Invariants ofGraphs,Their Associated Clique Complexes andRight-Angled Coxeter Groups � MichaelDavis,The Ohio State University; Member,School of Mathematics

October 20Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Splitting of Iwasawa Modulesand Leopoldt Conjecture � Jean-PierreWintenberger, Université de Strasbourg

October 21Lecture Series on Some Aspects of the p-adic Local Langlands Correspondence forGL(2,Qp) � Lecture 2 � Pierre Colmez,CNRS and Institut de Mathématiques deJussieu, Université Paris Diderot; Member,School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Non-Abelian Lubin-TateTheory � Jean-Francois Dat, UniversitéPierre et Marie Curie; von NeumannFellowship, School of Mathematics


Expanding the Scope of Irreducibility � ChrisHall, University of Wyoming

October 22Geometry and Cell Complexes � SpectralGeometry of Random Graphs � Igor Rivin,Temple University; Member, School ofMathematics

Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar �

Global Stringy Orbifold Cohomology, K-Theory,and de RhamTheory with Possible Applications toLandau-GinzburgTheory � Ralph Kaufmann,Purdue University; Member, School ofMathematics

October 25Members Seminar � Values of L-Functions andModular Forms � Christopher Skinner,Princeton University; Member, School ofMathematics

October 26Geometry and Cell Complexes � ToricArrangements � Margaret A. Readdy,University of Kentucky; Member, School ofMathematics

Special Seminar � Nodal Lines of RandomWaves � Alexander Sodin, Member, Schoolof Mathematics

Special Mathematical Physics Seminar � AStationary Phase Method for a Class of NonlinearEquations � Yen Do, Georgia Institute ofTechnology

October 27Lecture Series on Some Aspects of the p-adicLocal Langlands Correspondence forGL(2,Qp) � Lecture 3 � Pierre Colmez,CNRS and Institut de Mathématiques deJussieu, Université Paris Diderot; Member,School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � A Semistable Model for theTower of Modular Curves � JaredWeinstein,Member, School of Mathematics

October 28Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Explicit SerreWeightConjectures � Florian Herzig, Member,School of Mathematics


Constructing AbelianVarieties over Qbar NotIsogenous to a Jacobian � JacobTsimerman,Princeton University

October 29Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Semiclassical Eigenfunction Estimates � MelissaTacy, Member, School of Mathematics

November 1Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � On the Structure of Cubic andQuartic Polynomials � Elad Harmaty,Technion–Israel Institute of Technology

Members Seminar � ShimuraVarieties, LocalModels, and Geometric Realizations of LanglandsCorrespondences � Elena Mantovan,California Institute of Technology; vonNeumann Fellowship, School of Mathematics

November 2Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Fourier Spectrum of Polynomials overFinite Fields � Shachar Lovett, Member,School of Mathematics

Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � 3/2 Firefighters Are Not Enough �

Rani Hod,Tel Aviv University

Geometry and Cell Complexes � TheTopologyof Restricted Partition Posets � RichardEhrenborg, University of Kentucky;Member, School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Mini-Course � Local-GlobalCompatibility in the p-adic Langlands Program forGL(2) over Q � Matthew Emerton,Northwestern University

November 3Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Mini-Course � Local-GlobalCompatibility in the p-adic Langlands Program forGL(2) over Q � Matthew Emerton,Northwestern University

Workshop onTopology Identifying Order inComplex Systems � Defects andTopology inLiquid Crystals � GarethAlexander,University of Pennsylvania � TopologicalMethods for Distributed CoverageVerification inMobile Sensor Networks � Ali Jadbadaie,University of Pennsylvania � Spaces of Particles,Their Applications and Connections � FrederickR. Cohen, University of Rochester

November 4Lecture Series on Some Aspects of the p-adicLocal Langlands Correspondence forGL(2,Qp) � Lecture 4 � Pierre Colmez,CNRS and Institut de Mathématiques deJussieu, Université Paris Diderot; Member,School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � A Satake IsomorphismMod.p � Guy Henniart, UniversitéParis-Sud 11

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November 5Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Ground States of the 2D Edwards-Anderson SpinGlass � Michael Damron, PrincetonUniversity

November 8Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � The Graph Removal Lemma �

Jacob Fox, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology

Members Seminar � Beauty andTruth inMathematics; ATribute to Albert Einstein andHermannWeyl � Sir Michael Atiyah,TheUniversity of Edinburgh

November 9Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � An Elementary Proof of theRestricted InvertibilityTheorem � NikhilSrivastava, Member, School of Mathematics

November 10Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � On the Realization of SomeDegenerate Automorphic Forms on CertainGriffiths-SchmidVarieties � Henri Carayol,Université de Strasbourg

November 11Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Algebraic Cycles on PicardModuli Spaces of AbelianVarieties � MichaelRapoport, Universität Bonn

Lecture Series on Some Aspects of the p-adicLocal Langlands Correspondence forGL(2,Qp) � Lecture 5 � Pierre Colmez,CNRS and Institut de Mathématiques deJussieu, Université Paris Diderot; Member,School of Mathematics


Periods of Special Cycles and Derivatives of L-Series � Shou-Wu Zhang, ColumbiaUniversity

November 12Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar � ARigorous Renormalization Group Study of a p-adicQuantum FieldTheory � AbdelmalekAbdesselam, University of Virginia

November 15Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Fractional Perfect Matchings inHypergraphs � Andrzej Rucinski,AdamMickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, andEmory University

Members Seminar � Configuration Spaces ofHard Discs in a Box � Matthew Kahle,Member, School of Mathematics

November 16Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Planar Convexity, Infinite PerfectGraphs, and Lipschitz Continuity � MenachemKojman, Ben Gurion University of theNegev; Member, School of Mathematics

November 17Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � A NewApproach to the LocalLanglands Correspondence for GLn over p-adicFields � Peter Schloze, Universität Bonn

November 18Lecture Series on Some Aspects of the p-adicLocal Langlands Correspondence forGL(2,Qp) � Lecture 6 � Pierre Colmez,CNRS and Institut de Mathématiques deJussieu, Université Paris Diderot; Member,School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Potential Automorphy forCompatible Systems of L-Adic GaloisRepresentations � David Geraghty, PrincetonUniversity;Veblen Research Instructorship,School of Mathematics


EndoscopicTransfer of Depth-Zero SupercuspidalL-Packets � Tasho Kaletha, PrincetonUniversity;Veblen Research Instructorship,School of Mathematics

November 19Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar �

PerturbationTheory for Band Matrices �

Alexander Sodin, Member, School ofMathematics


Implied Existence for 3D Dynamics � Al Momin,Purdue University

November 22Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � CombinatorialTheorems in RandomSets � David Conlon, University ofCambridge

Members Seminar � Modularity of GaloisRepresentations � Chandrashekhar Khare,University of California, Los Angeles

November 23Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Counting Pattern AvoidingPermutations via Integral Operators � RichardEhrenborg, University of Kentucky;Member, School of Mathematics


Special Gamma, Zeta,MultizetaValues, andAndersonT-Motives � DineshThakur,TheUniversity of Arizona

November 29Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � The Permanents of GaussianMatrices � Scott Aaronson, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology

Members Seminar � (Some) Generic Properties of(Some) Infinite Groups � Igor Rivin,TempleUniversity; Member, School of Mathematics

Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar � Self-Correction, Distance Estimation,and LocalTesting of Codes � DanaMoshkovitz, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology

November 30Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Hardness Escalation and the Rank ofPolynomialThreshold Proofs � Paul Beame,University of Washington; Member, School ofMathematics

December 1Workshop onTopology: Identifying Order inComplex Systems � Characteristics of CoarseningCellular Structures in 2D � Jeremy Mason,Member, School of Mathematics �

Fundamental Groups of Random SimplicialComplexes � Eric Babson, University ofCalifornia, Davis � Patterns, Universality, andComputational Algorithms � Nigel Goldenfeld,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

December 2Lecture Series on Some Aspects of the p-adicLocal Langlands Correspondence forGL(2,Qp) � Lecture 7 � Pierre Colmez,CNRS and Institut de Mathématiques deJussieu, Université Paris Diderot; Member,School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Relative p-adic HodgeTheory �

Ruochuan Liu, Member, School ofMathematics

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar � TheIwasawa Main Conjectures for Modular Forms �

Christopher Skinner, Princeton University;Member, School of Mathematics

December 3Introduction to the Univalent Foundationsof Mathematics � ConstructiveTypeTheory andHomotopy � SteveAwodey, CarnegieMellon University

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Localization andThermalization in Highly ExcitedMany-Body Quantum Systems � David Huse,Princeton University;Visitor, School ofMathematics


A Reidemeister-Singer Conjecture for SurfaceDiagrams � JonathanWilliams, Universityof California, Berkeley

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December 6Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Nonlinear DvoretzkyTheory �

Assaf Naor, Courant Institute ofMathematical Sciences, NewYork University

Members Seminar � ShimuraVarieties andthe Bernstein Center � Thomas J. Haines,University of Maryland; von NeumannFellowship, School of Mathematics

December 7Introduction to the Univalent Foundations ofMathematics/Computer Science and DiscreteMathematics Seminar II � Introduction to theCoq Proof Assistant � AndrewAppel,Princeton University

Fourth Ruth and Irving Adler ExpositoryLecture in Mathematics � Entropy,AlgebraicIntegers, and Moduli of Surfaces � CurtisMcMullen, Harvard University

December 8Lecture Series on Some Aspects of the p-adicLocal Langlands Correspondence forGL(2,Qp) � Lecture 8 � Pierre Colmez,CNRS and Institut de Mathématiques deJussieu, Université Paris Diderot; Member,School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � On Families of Filtered PhiModules and Crystalline Representations �

Eugen Hellmann, Universität Bonn

December 9Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � VanishingTheorems forTorsionAutomorphic Sheaves � Kai-Wen Lan,Princeton University;Veblen ResearchInstructorship, School of Mathematics


Parahoric Subgroups and SupercuspidalRepresentations of p-adic Groups � Dick Gross,Harvard University

December 10Introduction to the Univalent Foundationsof Mathematics � Univalent Foundations ofMathematics � VladimirVoevodsky,Professor, School of Mathematics

Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar: �

A Classical Approximation Point ofView on SomeResults in the SpectralTheory of Jacobi Matrices �

Mira Shamis, Member, School ofMathematics


Understanding Area Preserving Disk MapsThroughHolomorphic Curves � Barney Bramham,Member, School of Mathematics

December 13Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � ColoringTournaments � PaulSeymour, Princeton University

Members Seminar � Questions about theReductions Modulo Primes of an Elliptic Curve �

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

Special Lecture � Mathematical Foundationsof Population Genetics � Charles Epstein,University of Pennsylvania

Special Members Seminar � UniformWell-Posedness and Inviscid Limit for theBenjamin-Ono-Burgers Equation � Zihua Guo,Member, School of Mathematics

December 14Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Erdos Distinct Distance Problemin the Plane � Larry Guth, University ofToronto; Member, School of Mathematics

December 15Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Ramification in IwasawaModules � Chandrashekar Khare,University of California, Los Angeles;Member, School of Mathematics

December 16Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Two-Dimensional GaloisRepresentations over Imaginary Quadratic Fields �

Andrei Jorza, Member, School ofMathematics


Weyl’s Sums for Roots of Quadratic Congruences �

Henryk Iwaniec, Rutgers,The StateUniversity of New Jersey

December 17Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Universality and Chaos inTwo-DimensionalClassical Ising Spin Glasses � David Huse,Princeton University;Visitor, School ofMathematics

January 10Members Seminar � Moment-Angle Complexes,Spaces of Hard-Disks andTheir Associated StableDecompositions � Frederick R. Cohen,University of Rochester; Member, Schoolof Mathematics

January 13Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � TheTaylor-Wiles Method forCoherent Cohomology � Michael Harris,Université Paris Diderot; Member, School ofMathematics

January 17Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Cross-Validation and Mean-SquareStability � SergeiVassilvitskii,Yahoo!Research, NewYork

January 18Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Efficiently Learning Mixtures ofGaussians � Ankur Moitra, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology

January 19Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar �

Contacting the Moon � Urs Frauenfelder,Seoul National University � Weak StabilityBoundary and Capture in theThree-Body Problem �

Edward Belbruno, NASAAppliedInformation Systems Research and InnovativeOrbital Design, Inc.

January 20Analysis and Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Fluctuations of the Nodal Line Length of LaplaceEigenfunctions on the ArithmeticTorus � IgorWigman, KTH Royal Institute ofTechnology, Stockholm

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Local-Global Compatibilityand Monodromy � Ana Caraiani, HarvardUniversity

Special Seminar � Mechanizing the Odd OrderTheorem: Local Analysis � Georges Gonthier,Institut National de Recherche en Informatiqueet en Automatique

January 21Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar � TheCartan Geometry of the Rotating Kepler Problem �

OttoVan Koert, Seoul National University

January 24Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Universal One-Way Hash Functionsvia Inaccessible Entropy � HoeteckWee,Queens College,The City University ofNewYork

Members Seminar � Groups of EvenTypeof Medium Size � Inna Capdeboscq,University of Warwick; von NeumannFellowship, School of Mathematics

January 25Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Learning with BooleanThresholdFunctions, a Statistical Physics Perspective �

Rémi Monasson, Laboratoire de PhysiqueThéorique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris;Member, School of Natural Sciences

January 26Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar �

Periodic Bounce Orbits of Prescribed Energy �

Peter Albers, Purdue University

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J-Curves in Degenerating Manifolds � Joel Fish,Stanford University

January 27Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Presentation of an IwasawaAlgebra; The Case of the Level 1 Subgroup ofSL(2,Zp) � Laurent Clozel, Université Paris-Sud 11; Member, School of Mathematics

January 28Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Generic Local L-Bounds for Conformal Familiesof Laplace Operators � JohnToth, McGillUniversity

January 31Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Parsifying and Derandomizing theJohnson-LindenstraussTransform � JelaniNelson, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology

Members Seminar � MicrolocalTheory of Sheavesand Applications to Nondisplaceability � PierreSchapira, Université Paris 6

February 1Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � On the Complexity of ComputingRoots and Residuosity over Finite Fields �

Swastik Kopparty, Member, Schoolof Mathematics

Geometry and Cell Complexes � TopologicalAnalysis of Grain Boundaries � SrikanthPatala, Masachusetts Institute of Technology

Special Lecture in Geometry/Topology �

MicrolocalTheory of Sheaves and Applicationsto Nondisplaceability II � Pierre Schapira,Université Pierre et Marie Curie

February 2Special Lecture in Geometry/Topology �

MicrolocalTheory of Sheaves and Applicationsto Nondisplaceability III � Pierre Schapira,Université Pierre et Marie Curie

Mathematical Conversations � Randomness inNumberTheory � Peter Sarnak, Professor,School of Mathematics

February 3The Iwasawa Main Conjecture for GL(2)Mini-Course � Lecture 1 � ChristopherSkinner, Princeton University; Member,School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Automorphy Lifting for GaloisRepresentations with Small Residual Image �

JackThorne, Harvard University

February 4Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Generalized Kepler Problems � Guowu Meng,The Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology; Joint Member, Schools ofMathematics and Natural Sciences

February 7Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Fast Random Projections � EdoLiberty,Yahoo! Research, Haifa, Israel

Members Seminar � Recursively ApplyingConstructive Dense ModelTheorems andWeakRegularity � Russell Impagliazzo,University of California, San Diego;VisitingProfessor, School of Mathematics

February 8Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Bypassing UGC from SomeOptimal Geometric Inapproximability Results �

Rishi Saket, Princeton University

February 9Workshop onTopology: Identifying Orderin Complex Systems � Jamming in SpherePackings � Andrea Liu, University ofPennsylvania � Topological Methods for Analyzing“Functional Connectivity” in Brain ActivityTimeSeries � Steve Ellis, Columbia University �

Computing Arithmetic Invariants of Hyperfolic 3-Manifolds � Walter Neumann, BarnardCollege; Member, School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Completed Cohomology ofShimura Curves and a p-adic Jacquet-LanglandsCorrespondence � James Newton, Member,School of Mathematics

Mathematical Conversations � The IsoperimetricInequality � Larry Guth, University ofToronto; Member, School of Mathematics

February 10The Iwasawa Main Conjecture for GL(2)Mini-Course � Lecture 2 � ChristopherSkinner, Princeton University; Member,School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Eisenstein Congruences andEuler Systems � Eric Jean-Paul Urban,CNRS and Columbia University; Member,School of Mathematics


Impossible Intersections for Elliptic Curves �

David Masser, Universität Basel

February 11Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar � TheKPZ Universality Class and Equation � IvanCorwin, Courant Institute of MathematicalSciences, NewYork University

February 14Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � An Elementary Proof ofAnticoncentration of Polynomials in GaussianVariables � Shachar Lovett, Member, Schoolof Mathematics

Members Seminar � Some Equations and Gamesin Evolutionary Biology � Christine J.Taylor,Harvard University; Member, School ofMathematics

February 15Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Automatizability and SimpleStochastic Games � Toniann Pitassi,University of Toronto

February 16Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Automorphic Cohomology I(GeneralTheory) � Phillip A. Griffiths,Professor Emeritus, School of Mathematics

Mathematical Conversations � WhatWe CanDoWithWaves � MelissaTacy, Member,School of Mathematics

February 17The Iwasawa Main Conjecture for GL(2)Mini-Course � Lecture 3 � ChristopherSkinner, Princeton University; Member,School of Mathemtics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Automorphic Cohomology II(Carayol’sWork and an Application) � Phillip A.Griffiths, Professor Emeritus, School ofMathematics


Heuristics for Lambda Invariants � Sonal Jain,NewYork University

February 21Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Information CostTradeoffs forAugmented Index and Streaming LanguageRecognition � Amit Chakrabarti, DartmouthCollege

February 22Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � LocalTesting and Decoding of SparseLinear Codes � Shubhangi Saraf,Visitor,School of Mathematics

February 23The Iwasawa Main Conjecture for GL(2)Mini-Course � Lecture 4 � ChristopherSkinner, Princeton University; Member,School of Mathemtics

Mathematical Conversations � Error-CorrectingCodes � Swastik Kopparty, Member,School of Mathematics

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February 24Mini-Course on Automorphy � GaloisRepresentations Attached to Automorphic Forms �

RichardTaylor, Harvard University;DistinguishedVisiting Professor, School ofMathematics

Mini-Course on Automorphy � Deformationsof Galois Representations � David Geraghty,Princeton University;Veblen ResearchInstructorship, School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � OnAutomorphy of CertainGalois Representations of GO4 � Tong Liu,Purdue University; Member, School ofMathematics


Whittaker Functions and Characters � DanielBump, Stanford University

February 28Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � A CompletenessTheorem forPseudolinear Functions with Applications to UCSecurity � Charanjit Jutla, IBMThomasJ.Watson Research Center, Hawthorne,NewYork

Members Seminar � Does Infinite CardinalArithmetic Resemble NumberTheory? �

Menachem Kojman, Ben-GurionUniversity of the Negev; Member, Schoolof Mathematics

March 1Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � PropertyTesting Lower Bounds viaCommunication Complexity � Eric Blais,Carnegie Mellon University

March 2Workshop onTopology: Identifying Orderin Complex Systems � Topological Defects inCosmology � MarkTrodden, University ofPennsylvania � Grassmannians, Polytopes, andQuantum FieldTheory � NimaArkani-Hamed, Professor, School of NaturalSciences � Periodic Foams and Manifolds �

Frank Lutz,Technische Universität Berlin

March 3Mini-Course on Automorphy � Deformationsof Galois Representations (continued) � DavidGeraghty, Princeton University;VeblenResearch Instructorship, School of Mathematics

Mini-Course on Automorphy � AutomorphyLiftingTheorems I � David Geraghty,Princeton University;Veblen ResearchInstructorship, School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Statistics for Families ofAutomorphic Representations � SugWoo Shin,Member, School of Mathematics


Periods of Quaternionic ShimuraVarieties �

Kartik Prasanna, University of Michigan

March 7Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � A Randomized Rounding Approachfor Symmetric TSP � Mohit Singh, McGillUniversity

Members Seminar � Self-AvoidingWalkand Branched Polymers � John Z. Imbrie,University of Virginia; Member, School ofMathematics

March 8Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Relativized Separations ofWorst-Case and Average-Case Complexities for NP �

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

March 9Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Galois RepresentationsAssociated to Holomorphic Limits of DiscreteSeries � Wushi Goldring, Harvard University

March 10Mini-Course on Automorphy � AutomorphyLiftingTheorems I (continued) � DavidGeraghty, Princeton University;VeblenResearch Instructorship, School ofMathematics

Mini-Course on Automorphy � PotentialAutomorphyTheorems I � RichardTaylor,Harvard University; DistinguishedVisitingProfessor, School of Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Analytic Geometry over F1 �

Vladimir Berkovich,Weizmann Instituteof Science


Affine Sieve and Expanders � AlirezaGolsefity, Princeton University

March 11Working Group on Symplectic Topology

March 14Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � On the Fourier Spectrum ofSymmetric Boolean Functions � Amir Shpilka,Technion–Israel Institute of Technology andMicrosoft Research New England

Members Seminar � On Functoriality, on theCorrespondence, and onTheir Relation, Part 1 �

Robert P. Langlands, Professor Emeritus,School of Mathematics

March 15Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � A PRG for Gaussian PolynomialThreshold Functions � Daniel Kane, HarvardUniversity

Question Session on Grassmannians, Polytopes,and Quantum Field Theory � NimaArkani-Hamed, Professor, School of Natural Sciences

March 16Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Periods over SphericalSubgroups:An Extension of Some of the LanglandsConjectures � Yiannis Sakellaridis, Member,School of Mathematics

Mathematical Conversations � The(Unreasonable) Effectiveness of (Hyperbolic)Geometry � Igor Rivin,Temple University;Member, School of Mathematics

March 17Mini-Course on Automorphy � AutomorphyTheorems II � David Geraghty, PrincetonUniversity;Veblen Research Instructorship,School of Mathematics � Applications �

RichardTaylor, Harvard University;DistinguishedVisiting Professor, Schoolof Mathematics

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � p-adic Analytic Continuationof Genus 2 Overconvergent Hilbert Eigenforms inthe Inert Case � YichaoTian, PrincetonUniversity;Veblen Research Instructorship,School of Mathematics


Niebur Integrals and Mock Automorphic Forms �

Wladimir DeAzevedo Pribitkin, Collegeof Staten Island,The City University ofNewYork

March 18Analysis/Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Shape Fluctuations of Growing Droplets andRandom MatrixTheory � Herbert Spohn,Technische Universität München

Working Group on Symplectic Topology


March 21Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Pareto Optimal Solutions for SmoothAnalysts � Ryan O’Donnell, CarnegieMellon University; von Neumann Fellowship,School of Mathematics

Workshop on Galois Representations andAutomorphic Forms � The Proof of the Burger-Sarnak Conjecture � Laurent Clozel,Université Paris-Sud 11; Member, School ofMathematics � Supercuspidal L-Packets � Tasho

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Kaletha, Princeton University;VeblenResearch Instructorship, School ofMathematics � Construction of Eigenvarietiesand Coherent Cohomology � Vincent Pilloni,Columbia University � An OverconvergentEichler-Shimura Map � Adrian Iovita,Corcordia University, Montreal

March 22Workshop on Galois Representationsand Automorphic Forms � Local-GlobalCompatibility and Monodrom � Ana Caraiani,Harvard University � Intersection Cohomology IsUseless � Sophie Morel, Harvard University;Member, School of Mathematics � PerfectoidSpaces � Peter Schloze, Universität Bonn �

A Semistable Model for theTower of ModularCurves � JaredWeinstein, Member, Schoolof Mathematics

March 23Workshop on Galois Representations andAutomorphic Forms � Minimal ModularityLiftingTheorems for Imaginary Quadratic Fields �

Francesco Calegari, NorthwesternUniversity; von Neumann Fellowship, Schoolof Mathematics � p-adic Hodge-TheoreticProperties of Etale Cohomology with Mod PCoefficients and the Cohomology of ShimuraVarieties I � Matthew Emerton,Northwestern University � p-adic Hodge-Theoretic Properties of Etale Cohomology with ModP Coefficients and the Cohomology of ShimuraVarieties II � Toby Gee, NorthwesternUniversity � Local-Global Compatibility atPrimes Dividing 1 � David Geraghty,Princeton University;Veblen ResearchInstructorship, School of Mathematics

March 24Workshop on Galois Representations andAutomorphic Forms � From General Etale(phi,Gamma)-Modules to Representations ofG(Qp) � Marie-FranceVigneras, Institutde Mathématiques de Jussieu, Université ParisDiderot � The Image of Colmez’s MontrealFunctor � Vytautas Paskunas, UniversitätBielefeld � Locally AlgebraicVectors in thep-adic Langlands Correspondence � GabrielDispinescu, École Polytechnique, Palaiseau,France


Random Maximal Isotropic Subspaces and SelmerGroups � Bjorn Poonen, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology

March 25Workshop on Galois Representations andAutomorphic Forms � Vanishing of the µ-Invariant of p-adic Hecke L Functions � HaruzoHida, University of California, Los Angeles �

Recent Developments in Noncommutative IwasawaTheory II � Mahesh Kakde, UniversityCollege London � Recent Developments inNoncommutative IwasawaTheory I � DavidBurns, King’s College London


March 28Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � NonnegativelyWeighted #CSPs:an Effective Complexity Dichotomy � Xi Chen,Columbia University

Members Seminar � Mumford-Tate Groups andDomains � Phillip A. Griffiths, ProfessorEmeritus, School of Mathematics

March 29Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � General Hardness Amplification ofPredicates and Puzzles � Grant Schoenbeck,Princeton University

Special Lecture � Uniqueness of Enhancementsfor Categories � Dmitry Orlov, SteklovMathematical Institute, Russian Academy ofSciences

Special Lecture � LimitTheorems for the MöbiusFunction and Statistical Mechanics � FrancescoCellarosi, Princeton University

March 30Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Reductions of Local GaloisRepresentations Arising from Hilbert ModularForms � Fred Diamond, King’s CollegeLondon;Visitor, School of Mathematics

Mathematical Conversations � ExpanderGraphs:Why NumberTheorists Might Care aboutNetwork Optimization � Elena Fuchs,Member, School of Mathematics

March 31Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Local Universal Lifting RingsWhen l≠p � Suh-Hyun Choi, KoreaAdvanced Institute of Science and Technology


April 1Working Group on Symplectic Topology

April 4Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Improved Bounds for the RandomizedDecisionTree Complexity of Recursive Majority �

Ashwin Nayak, University of Waterloo

Members Seminar � Symplectic Dynamicsof Integrable Hamiltonian Systems � AlvaroPelayo, Member, School of Mathematics

April 5Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Zero-One Rounding of SingularVectors � Nikhil Srivastava, Member, Schoolof Mathematics

April 6Workshop on Topology: Identifying Orderin Complex Systems � The Evolution ofCellular Structures via Mean Curvature Flow �

Menachem Lazar, Princeton University �

Using Computational AlgebraicTopology toCharacterize Chromosome Instability in Cancer �

Javier Arsuaga, San Francisco StateUniversity � Persistent Cohomology and CircularCoordinates � Vin De Silva, Pomona College

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Automorphic Cohomology II(Carayol’sWork and an Application) � Phillip A.Griffiths, Professor Emeritus, School ofMathematics

Special Lecture � Infinite Generation ofNoncocompact Lattices on Right-Angled Buildings �

AnneThomas,The University of Sydney

Mathematical Conversations � “We KnowThatGod Exists Because Mathematics Is Consistent andWe KnowThat the Devil Exists BecauseWeCannot Prove the Consistency.”—AndréWeil �

Menachem Kojman, Ben GurionUniversity of the Negev; Member, Schoolof Mathematics

April 7Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Overconvergent IgusaTowerand Overconvergent Modular Forms � JacquesTilouine, Université Paris 13;Visitor, Schoolof Mathematics



Geometry/Dynamical Systems Seminar � TheDehn Function of SL(n;Z) � RobertYoung,Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,NewYork University, and University ofToronto

April 11Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Graph Sparsification by Edge-Connectivity and Random SpanningTrees �

Nick Harvey, University of Waterloo

April 13Mathematical Conversations � Atiyah’sConnectivity,MorseTheory, and Solution Sets �

Alvaro Pelayo, Member, School ofMathematics

April 14Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � The Bernstein Center of theCategory of Smooth W(k)[GLn(F)]-Modules �

David Helm,The University of Texasat Austin

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April 18Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Quantum FingerprintsThat KeepSecrets � Dmitry Gavinsky, NECLaboratories America, Princeton, New Jersey

April 19Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � NewTools for Graph Coloring �

Rong Ge, Princeton University

April 20Special Mathematical Physics Seminar �

Universality in the 2D Coulomb Gas � PierluigiFalco, Member, School of Mathematics

Mathematical Conversations � The UniqueGames Conjecture � Ryan O’Donnell,Carnegie Mellon University; von NeumannFellowship, School of Mathematics

April 21Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar �

Algebraic Cycles and Euler Systems for RealQuadratic Fields � Henri Darmon, McGillUniversity

April 22Mini-Workshop on Pseudorandomness �

RandomWalks in Linear Groups � PeterVarju,Princeton University � The Correlation ofMultiplicative Characters with Polynomials overFinite Fields � Swastik Kopparty, Member,School of Mathematics � The PolynomialMethod and Applications from Finite Field Kakeyato Distinct Distances � Larry Guth, Universityof Toronto; Member, School of Mathematics �

Monotone Expanders—Constructions andApplications � Zeev Dvir, Princeton University;Visitor, School of Mathematics � On Zaremba’sConjecture � Alex Kontorovich, Stony BrookUniversity,The State University of NewYork


April 25Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar I � Learning andTesting K-ModelDistributions � Rocco Servidio, ColumbiaUniversity

April 26Computer Science and Discrete MathematicsSeminar II � Quadratic Goldreich-LevinTheorems � MadhurTulsiani,Visitor, Schoolof Mathematics

April 27Mathematical Conversations � ComputerScience and HomotopyTheory � VladimirVoevodsky, Professor, School ofMathematics

April 28Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � Classification of Representations �

JimArthur, University of Toronto

Galois Representations and AutomorphicForms Seminar � On the Comparison ofTraceFormulas � JimArthur, University of Toronto


Serre’s Conjectures on the Number of RationalPoints of Bounded Height � Per Salberger,Chalmers University of Technology,Gothenburg, Sweden


May 3Question Session on Grassmannians, Polytopes,and Quantum Field Theory � InformalTalk �

Alexander Goncharov,Yale University

May 4Mathematical Conversations � “Mathemagical” �

Richard Ehrenborg, University ofKentucky; Member, School of Mathematics,and ChristineTaylor, Harvard University;Member, School of Mathematics

May 6Working Group on Symplectic Topology

May 9Workshop on Sheaf-Theoretic Methods inSymplectic Topology � MicrolocalTheory ofSheaves and Link with Symplectic Geometry �

Stephane Guillermou, Université deGrenoble � Quasimap Floer Cohomology andSingular Symplectic Quotients � ChrisWoodward, Simons Center for Geometryand Physics, Stony Brook University,The StateUniversity of NewYork, and Rutgers,TheState University of New Jersey � WrappedFukaya Categories of Punctured Spheres andHomological Mirror Symmetry � Denis Aurous,University of California, Berkeley

May 10Workshop on Sheaf-Theoretic Methods inSymplectic Topology � MicrolocalTheory ofSheaves and Link with Symplectic Geometry II �

Stephane Guillermou, Université deGrenoble � A Stable Infinity-Category ofLagrangian Cobordisms � David Nadler,Northwestern University � Microlocal Categoryfor a Closed Symplectic Manifold � DmitryTamarkin, Northwestern University �

MicrolocalTheory of Sheaves and Link withSymplectic Geometry III � StephaneGuillermou, Université de Grenoble

May 11Workshop on Sheaf-Theoretic Methods inSymplectic Topology � Generation Criteriafor the Fukaya Category � MohammedAbouzaid, Massachusetts Institute of

Technology � Microlocal Category for a ClosedSymplectic Manifold II � DmitryTamarkin,Northwestern University � Coherent-Constructible Correspondence and HomologicalMirror Symmetry I � Bohan Fang, ColumbiaUniversity

May 12Workshop on Sheaf-Theoretic Methods inSymplectic Topology � Coherent-ConstructibleCorrespondence and Homological Mirror SymmetryII � Melissa Liu, Columbia University �

Generation Criteria for the Fukaya Category II �

MohammedAbouzaid, MassachusettsInstitute of Technology


Relative HomotopyType and Obstructions to theExistence of Rational Points � Tomer Schlank,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem


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The eighteenth annual Program forWomen and Mathematics was held at the Institute during May 16–27, 2011. Program activities were supported by the Institute, Princeton University, and the NationalScience Foundation.

The goal of the program is to encourage undergraduate and graduate students to continue their math edu-cation. The topic of this year’s program was “Sparsity and Computation.”The schedule consisted of lectures,seminars, problem-solving sessions, computer labs, mentoring, and networking discussions. An introductionto career opportunities was also offered.

This year’s program attracted sixty-nine participants. Included in that number were four postdoctoral stu-dents, twenty-two graduate students, and thirty-two undergraduates. All participants were accommodated inthe Institute’s housing complex, giving them an opportunity to not only meet Institute math Members butMembers from other Schools as well.

Organizers were Ingrid Daubechies of Duke University, Karen Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas atAustin, and Tanya Khovanova,research affiliate at the Massachu-setts Institute of Technology.

Advanced course lectures weregiven by Anna Gilbert of theUniversity of Michigan and SofyaRaskhodnikova of the Pennsyl-vania State University. RachelWard of New York University’sCourant Institute of Mathemat-ical Sciences and Rebecca Wil-lett of Duke University gave thebeginning course lectures.

Teaching assistants for the ad-vanced course were ShubhangiSaraf, a Visitor in the School ofMathematics, and Mary Wootersof the University of Michigan.Assistants for the beginningcourse lectures were Sarah Con-stantin of Yale University andKalyani Krishnamurthy of DukeUniversity.

Research seminars were as fol-lows: Po-Ling Loh, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley, “InverseCovariance Matrix Estimation forGaussian Graphical Models in the

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Some sixty-nine students and scholarsparticipated in the Program forWomen andMathematics. This year’s program on“Sparsity and Computation” includedadvanced course lectures by Anna Gilbert(bottom, right) of the University of Michigan.


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Presence of Noise”; Anna Ayzenshtat, the Uni-verstiy of Texas at Austin, “The AlternatingDirection Method of Multipliers (ADMM)”;Carmeliza Navasca, Clarkson University,“Numerical Multilinear Algebra and Applica-tions”; Yihe Dong, Princeton University,“Modular Forms”; and Maria Nastasescu,Princeton University, “Numerical Simulationsof the Nodal Domains of Gaussian SphericalHarmonics.”

During the program, there were sevenWomen-in-Science seminars. On the first full day therewas an introductory seminar. On the followingdays Steven Miller of Williams College gave an“Introduction to Matlab”; Alexander Jones ofNewYork University, talked about “Women ofAncient Mathematics”; and Deborah Lockhartof the National Science Foundation gave “AnIntroduction to the National Science Founda-tion and Funding Opportunities.”There was “AChat With Karen Uhlenbeck, Antonella Grassi[University of Pennsylvania] and NancyHingston [College of New Jersey]”; and twopanel discussions, “A Day in the Life” and “TheNext Step.”

Two colloquia were given, one by Daubechies,“Finding (Dis)Similarities between SurfacesUsing Conformal Geometry,” and the secondby David Brady of Duke University, “ForwardModel Coding in Compressive OpticalImagers.”

On the last day of the program, Richard Ehren-borg of the University of Kentucky, a Member in the School of Mathematics, gave a special talk on “Math-ematical Magic.”

On Monday, May 23, the program participants visited Princeton University, where they had lunch, dinner,and a tour of the campus. The highlights of the day’s activities were talks by John Conway of Princeton Uni-versity and Peter Sarnak, Professor in the School.

The Institute and the School of Mathematics appreciate the dedication of the senior women who gracious-ly have given their time and talents since the inception of the program in 1994. Organizers, program com-mittee members, lecturers, and Institute staff have all contributed to the growth and success of the women’sprogram. In the past eighteen years, many women in the field of mathematics or contemplating entering thefield have been encouraged and supported by Uhlenbeck, the program founder, and her collaborator and co-organizer Chuu-Lian Terng. Their commitment to the goals of the program has been unparalleled.

At the conclusion of the activities, participants were asked to complete a questionnaire regarding the mate-rial level of the lectures, the structure and organization of the program, and the quality of the facilities. Everyresponse expressed appreciation for the opportunity to participate, the exceptional talks, and the fine facilities.One participant wrote, “The program allowed me to step back and put my life in perspective. It was reallyrefreshing to meet people with similar goals, insecurities, and interests, and I [returned home] with a reneweddesire to be a part of the mathematical community.”

Po-Ling Loh of the University of California, Berkeley, led the researchseminar “Inverse Covariance Matrix Estimation for Gaussian GraphicalModels in the Presence of Noise.”


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The main interest of Professor EdwardWitten (center) in 2010–11 was to develop a gauge theory approach to Khovanov homology of knots. In October,he gave a high-energy theory seminar on Chern-Simons theory from four dimensions.


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In the past year, Professor NimaArkani-Hamed continued his work on understanding the amazing struc-ture of scattering amplitudes in gauge theories, a subject that holds the promise of transforming ourunderstanding of quantum field theory. Over the past two years, he has been intensively exploring a

remarkably simple mathematical structure—represented as a contour integral over the Grassmannian—thatseems to lie at the heart of some of the physics, seen at first in a dual picture for all the “leading singularities”of the scattering amplitudes to loop orders. Last August, he found an explicit recursive formula for the all L-loop integrand for scattering amplitudes in N=4 SYM in the planar limit, manifesting an infinite-dimensional“Yangian” symmetry of the theory that is otherwise invisible.This also provides a new physical picture for themeaning of quantum “loop” corrections, which arise from the “entangled” removal of pairs of particles, andnaturally represents loop amplitudes as integrals in twistor space. This research has stepped toward a long-standing goal of providing a completely new definition of the theory where words like "space-time,""Lagrangian,” “path integral,” and “gauge symmetry” do not make an appearance.

Arkani-Hamed further explored the systematics of these objects in a pair of December papers. The newmethods have reduced the computation of multiloop integrands in the theory to a routine exercise. Forinstance, certain “2-loop” amplitudes were computed in August 2009 and written in terms of eight pages ofcomplicated expressions, while the form obtained from the new methods represents this as essentially a sin-gle term.The simplicity of these results is very striking, and strongly suggests further deep organizing princi-ples at work. A rough picture that is emerging is that the Grassmannian formulation itself has a dualdescription where amplitudes are “volumes” of “polytopes.” To compute the volume, the polytope needs tobe triangulated, and different triangulations make different physical properties manifest. For instance, space-time locality and quantum-mechanical unitarity are made manifest by different choices of triangulations.

During the 2010–11 academic year, Professor Stanislas Leibler continued to focus on studies of the func-tional constraints in protein families and associated “protein sectors,” and on a study of error corrections inbiological systems.

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NimaArkani-Hamed

Stanislas Leibler

Arnold J. Levine

Juan Maldacena

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ScottTremaine, Richard Black Professor

EdwardWitten, Charles Simonyi Professor

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Stephen L.Adler

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The latter topic was developed in collaboration with Member ArvindMurugan. In particular, Leibler and Murugan studied a kinetic proofreadingscheme, proposed many years ago by John Hopfield, currently a VisitingProfessor at the Institute. They obtained new insights about the interplaybetween error rate, reaction completion time, and energy consumption inthese important biochemical phenomena.

Recent work of Hopfield on neurodynamics in the hippocampus has moti-vated Members Rémi Monasson and Simona Cocco to study statisticalmechanics models of the so-called place cells. They also continued their the-oretical work on inverse statistical problems, with applications to neurobiol-ogy and protein sectors.

Finally, Monasson, Cocco, Leibler, and Doeke Hekstra of the RockefellerUniversity collaborated to develop theoretical methods to analyze popula-tion time series from quantitative ecological experiments. These general sta-tistical methods should be applicable to a wide range of biological data.

During the academic year 2010–11, Professor Arnold J. Levine’s researchfocused on areas in virology, immunology, cancer, and autism. A study, con-tinuing collaboration with Member Benjamin Greenbaum and the laborato-ry of Nina Bhardwaj at NewYork University, predicted that the particularnucleotide phrases avoided by influenza viruses when they evolve in humancells stimulate the human immune system—likely through binding to a Toll-like receptor that can recognize single-stranded RNA. (“OligonucleotideMotifs that Disappear during the Evolution of Influenza in Humans IncreaseIFN-1 Secretion by Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cells,” Journal of Virology, inpress). In further collaboration with Greenbaum and others, viruses wereintroduced to human dendritic cells containing these particular phrases (thedinucleotide CpG in an A/U context), and as predicted, they caused anaberrant immune response. This finding supports theories that the patho-genicity of many viruses stems from an abnormal amount of non-self-signaling when a virus changes host. A separate project with Greenbaum has

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found that one HIV gene organizes itsgenome in an unusual fashion compared toother HIV genes and compared to mosthuman genes. Further research will explorethe hypothesis that the virus does so to con-trol degradation of RNA associated withthis gene. Another study with Greenbaumand Member Asad Naqvi has been lookingat whether copy number variation in humangenes has selected certain genes in the innateimmune system for dosage effects.

In the area of cancer research, a project withMember Elke Markert andVisitor and formerMember Alexei Vazquez has been develop-ing strategies to differentiate prostate cancerpatients based on patterns of gene expressionin prostate tumor tissue. A separate projectwith Vazquez and others is developing a methodology to identify chemicalcompounds with increased anticancer activity in tumors with p53 mutations,and validate those predictions in cell lines and mouse models.

Finally, projects in autism included a study of homozygotic twins discordantfor autism to identify de novo copy number variations (CNVs) that areunique to each twin, with Members Chang Chan and Ning Lei, to be fol-lowed by whole-genome sequencing of the twins. Additional projects withLei and others sought to identify small-scale and trans-acting mutationsinherited or de novo in the NCAM2 gene, which is associated with autism,and to explore de novo copy number variation in the at-risk alleles of severalsingle nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in about twenty genes involved inDNA homologous repair pathways, whose frequency is significantlyenriched in either maternal or paternal genomes of families in the AutismGenetic Research Exchange database.

During the past academic year, Professor Juan Maldacena’s main researcheffort has been on the gauge/string duality, with particular emphasis onunderstanding some aspects of gauge theory dynamics. Maldacena, withlong-term Member Davide Gaiotto, studied the gravity description for alarge class of N=2 supersymmetric quantum field theories.The complete setof equations and boundary conditions that determine a geometry dual to agiven quantum field theory was given. Some special cases were constructedexplicitly. This gravity description was in precise correspondence with thegeneral construction of N=2 quantum field theories given by Gaiotto in aprevious paper.

Maldacena, with Dario Martelli, explored a geometry related to an inter-esting confining supersymmetric quantum field theory. This geometry hasalso played an important role in recent string constructions. There are twogeometries that are closely related, one introduced by Klebanov andStrassler and the other by Chamseddine-Volkov-Maldacena-Nuñez. Therelation between the two was clarified by considering a general brane con-figuration in string theory that can give rise to the two geometries in twodistinct limits. 45


Professor Arnold Levine’s research focusedon areas in virology, immunology, cancer,and autism. A finding with Member BenjaminGreenbaum and others supports theoriesthat the pathogenicity of many virusesstems from an abnormal amount of non-self-signaling when a virus changes host.


Maldacena, with Luis Fernando Alday, Gaiotto,Amit Sever, and PedroVieira,studied a problem involving minimal area surfaces in anti–de Sitter space.This problem arises when one considers the strong coupling limit of Wilsonloops or planar scattering amplitudes in N=4 superYang Mills. This is a sim-ple modification of the classical Plateau problem: the problem of finding asoap bubble that ends on a given contour. Except that now the contour, aswell as the surface, live in a curved space with Lorentzian signature. Thecontour lives on the boundary of anti–de Sitter space and it consists of asequence of light-like segments. These two papers found a way to computethe area of the surface as a function of the shape of the contour. The prob-lem was solved by using the classical integrability of the equations ofmotion for a string. It is quite likely that these techniques could be extend-ed to the full quantum theory. In fact, the main motivation for this projecthas been to compute Wilson loops or scattering amplitudes for all values ofthe coupling.

Professor Nathan Seiberg, with Members Daniel Green, Zohar Komargod-ski, Yuji Tachikawa, and Brian Wecht, studied the space of exactly marginaldeformations of N=1 superconformal field theories in four dimensions.They showed that it is the quotient of the space of marginal couplings bythe complexified continuous global symmetry group.This fact explains whyexactly marginal deformations are ubiquitous in N=1 theories.

Davide Gaiotto, Seiberg, and Tachikawa revisited the study of the maximallysingular point in the Coulomb branch of certain 4d N=2 gauge theories. Aproper identification of the long distance theory removed a possible counterexample to a conjectured a-theorem.

Member Tom Banks and Seiberg discussed some aspects of global andgauged symmetries in quantum field theory and quantum gravity. An effec-tive Lagrangian description of Zp gauge theories showed that they are asso-ciated with an emergent Zp one-form (Kalb-Ramond) gauge symmetry.This led them to uncover new observables and new phenomena in nonlin-ear sigma-models. They argued that in models of quantum gravity, there areno global symmetries, all continuous gauge symmetries are compact, and allcharges allowed by Dirac quantization are present in the spectrum.Their dis-cussion led to a more physical and more complete understanding of recent-ly found consistency conditions of supergravity.

Seiberg andWashington Taylor extended the known consistency conditionson the low-energy theory of six-dimensional N=1 supergravity. Followingearlier work on two-form gauge fields, they concluded that the charge lat-tice for such a theory has to be self-dual. The Green-Schwarz anomaly can-cellation conditions in the supergravity theory determine a sub-lattice of thischarge lattice. The condition that this sub-lattice can be extended to a self-dual lattice leads to a strong constraint on theories that otherwise appear tobe self-consistent.

Member Guido Festuccia and Seiberg presented a uniform treatment ofrigid supersymmetric field theories in a curved spacetime. The main newtool was the use of classical background values of the auxiliary fields in thesupergravity multiplet. This allowed them to reproduce known results aboutanti–de Sitter space and to find a supersymmetric Lagrangian on a three-sphere and on a four-sphere. Unless the theory is conformal, these are not46


Member Tom Banks andProfessor Seiberg argued that in

models of quantum gravity,there are no global symmetries,all continuous gauge symmetries

are compact, and all chargesallowed by Dirac quantization

are present in the spectrum.Their discussion led to a morephysical and more complete

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reflection positive. A supersymmetric theory on a three-sphere times a circleexists only when the theory has a continuous R-symmetry. The partitionfunction in this case is independent of the parameters of the flat space theo-ry and depends holomorphically on some complex background gauge fields.

NASA’s Kepler spacecraft detects extrasolar planets when they pass in frontof their host star and temporarily block a fraction of the star’s light. Kepler’sunmatched photometric precision and 24/7 coverage are almost impossibleto achieve from ground-based observatories. Its first major data release, inFebruary 2011, contains over 1,200 planetary candidates found in a survey ofover 150,000 stars. Among these are 170 stars with multiple planets (up tosix). The probability that more than one planet in a system will transit thehost star depends strongly on the mutual inclination of the planetary orbits:thin, disk-like systems of planets are far more likely to present multiple tran-sits than spherical systems with the same number of planets. Thus a compar-ison of the multiplicity distribution of Kepler planets with planets discoveredby radial-velocity variations, which do not depend on the mutual inclina-tions, should allow the determination of the inclination distribution.Richard Black Professor Scott Tremaine, in collaboration with MemberSubo Dong, has carried out this analysis and concluded that the mean incli-nation of the extrasolar planets in the Kepler catalog is no more than fivedegrees; thus, on average, the Kepler planetary systems are about as flat as ourown solar system. This result provides by far the strongest direct evidencethat most extrasolar planets form from a thin circumstellar disk.

One signature accomplishment of the Hubble Space Telescope has been thediscovery of massive black holes at the centers of nearby galaxies. The Hub-ble data has also shown that the black hole masses are strongly correlated

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Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed, picturedgiving a talk on fundamental physics inthe twenty-first century during theInstitute’s eightieth anniversarycelebrations, continued his work onunderstanding the structure of scatteringamplitudes in gauge theories.

Professor Tremaine andcollaborators conclude thatmost or all luminous ellipticalgalaxies—at least 60 percentand possibly almost 100percent—contain massivecentral black holes. Thisresult suggests that theformation process for suchgalaxies inevitably leads toblack hole formation.


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with the properties of the host galaxies, in particularthe velocity dispersion of the stars in the body of thegalaxy, thereby suggesting a deep connection betweengalaxy formation and black hole formation. Less wellunderstood is what fraction of galaxies contain suchblack holes; this fraction is difficult to determine fromthe literature, in part because null results are usuallynot reported. Tremaine and his collaborators havedevised novel statistical methods to account for theseselection effects and conclude that most or all lumi-nous elliptical galaxies—at least 60 percent and possi-bly almost 100 percent—contain massive central blackholes. This result suggests that the formation process

for such galaxies inevitably leads to black hole formation.

The study of the orbits of particles in rotating disks is essential to under-standing phenomena as diverse as spiral structure in galaxies, planet forma-tion, and quasars. Tremaine and Member Hanno Rein have studied a newalgorithm for the numerical integration of such orbits, which in many cir-cumstances yields errors that are several orders of magnitude smaller thancompeting methods in the literature.

Charles Simonyi Professor Edward Witten’s main interest in 2010–11 hasbeen to develop a gauge theory approach to Khovanov homology of knots.From one point of view, his starting point is the new perspective on theFeynman path integral that he had developed in the previous academic year.This led to a reformulation of the Jones polynomial of knots in four-dimen-sional gauge theory (as opposed to the three-dimensional Chern-Simonsgauge theory thatWitten had used in his earlier work on this subject twen-ty years ago). Once arriving at a four-dimensional interpretation, Wittenused electric-magnetic duality to get a new perspective on the Jones poly-nomial, and some standard string theory and quantum field theory argu-ments to get a gauge theory interpretation of a more powerful and morerecent theory known as Khovanov homology. An alternative formulation ofthe same work begins in six dimensions and proceeds through some of thesame steps in reverse. Witten spent the first half of the year writing up adetailed account of this work.

In a second paper, in collaboration with long-term Member Davide Gaiotto,Witten showedexplicitly how to recover the Jones polynomi-al of knots in the new framework. Along theway, Gaiotto and Witten developed a betterunderstanding of the relation of two-dimen-sional Liouville quantum theory to three-dimensional Chern-Simons theory.

Witten has also pursued, with Stanford gradu-ate students Daniel Harlow and JonathanMaltz, another project involving Liouvillequantum theory and its analytic continuation.

In 2010–11 Professor Matias Zaldarriagaworked on a variety of topics in cosmology,

Member Simon Caron-Huot (right)studied very hot and dense systemssuch as the quark-gluon plasma andwas also interested in gravitational,

especially black hole, physics.

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MembersTracy Slatyer (foreground)and Subo Dong discussed mysteriouslarge-scale gamma-ray structures inthe inner galaxy during an informal

astrophysics seminar.


including early universe cosmology; the study of the effects of variations inthe gas temperature on the Lyman alpha forest; and the theory of galaxy bias.Tobias Baldauf and Uros Seljak of the University of California, Berkeley;Leonardo Senatore of Stanford University; and Zaldarriaga developed a the-ory of galaxy bias that includes General Relativistic corrections and used itto understand the effects of primordial departures from Gaussianity on thelarge-scale clustering properties of galaxies. With Elisa Chisari, a student atPrinceton University, Zaldarriaga showed how to use standard Newtoniannumerical simulations of structure formation to produce results that includethe leading General Relativistic corrections by remapping the coordinatesystem. Both of these results will be needed to make predictions for andinterpret the results of upcoming Large Scale Structure Surveys.

Member Amit Yadav; Meng Su of Harvard University; MatthewMcQuinn of the University of California, Berkeley; Jaiyul Yoo ofthe University of Zurich; and Zaldarriaga studied how inhomoge-neous reionization gives rise to angular fluctuations in the CosmicMicrowave Background (CMB) optical depth to the last scatteringsurface, correlating different spherical harmonic modes and imprint-ing characteristic non-Gaussianity on CMB maps. These signalscould be detected with large signal to noise in future experimentslike CMBPol.They demonstrated that the non-Gaussian signal fromgravitational lensing of CMB is the dominant source of contamina-tion for reconstructing inhomogeneous reionization signals, evenwith 98 percent of its contribution removed by delensing.They thenconstructed unbiased estimators that simultaneously reconstructinhomogeneous reionization signals and the gravitational lensingpotential. They applied their new unbiased estimators to futureCMB experiments to assess the detectability of inhomogeneousreionization signals.

Member Daniel Baumann, Senatore, and Zaldarriaga studied theeffective theory of adiabatic fluctuations around arbitrary Fried-mann-Robertson-Walker backgrounds—both expanding and con-tracting—that allow for more than one way to obtain scale-invarianttwo-point correlations. However, they showed that it is challenging to pro-duce scale-invariant fluctuations that are weakly coupled over the range ofwavelengths accessible to cosmological observations. In particular, requiringthe background to be a dynamical attractor, the curvature fluctuations arescale-invariant and weakly coupled for at least ten e-folds only if the back-ground is close to de Sitter space. In this case, the time-translation invarianceof the background guarantees time-independent n-point functions.

McQuinn, Lars Hernquist of Harvard University,Adam Lidz of the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, and Zaldarriaga studied the process of reionization ofthe intergalactic medium. It appears inevitable that reionization should haveproduced large-scale temperature fluctuations in the intergalactic medium.Using toy temperature models and detailed heating histories from cosmo-logical simulations of HeII reionization, they studied the consequences ofinhomogeneous heating for the Ly-alpha forest. The impact of temperaturefluctuations in physically well-motivated models can be surprisingly subtle.In fact, they showed that temperature fluctuations at the level predicted bytheir reionization simulations do not give rise to detectable signatures in the 49


Member ChristopherTully gave a high-energytheory seminar on the status and results ofthe Large Hadron Collider.

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types of statistics that have been employed previously. However, because ofthe aliasing of small-scale density power to larger-scale modes in the line-of-sight Ly-alpha forest power spectrum, earlier analyses were not sensitive to3D modes with longer than thirty comoving Mpc wavelengths—scaleswhere temperature fluctuations are likely to be relatively largest. The ongo-ing Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS) aims to measure the3D power spectrum of the Ly-alpha forest from a large sample of quasars inorder to avoid this aliasing. They found that physically motivated tempera-ture models can alter this spectrum at an order unity level, a magnitude thatshould be easily detectable with BOSS. Future spectroscopic surveys couldextend this measurement to even higher redshifts, potentially detecting thethermal imprint of hydrogen reionization.

Senatore and Zaldarriaga generalized the Effective Field Theory of Inflationto include additional light scalar degrees of freedom that are in their vacuum atthe time the modes of interest are crossing the horizon. In order to makethe scalars light in a natural way, they considered the case where these fieldsare the Goldstone bosons of a global symmetry group or are partially pro-tected by an approximate supersymmetry. They wrote the most generalLagrangian that couples the scalar mode associated to the breaking oftime translation during inflation to the additional light scalar fields. ThisLagrangian is constrained by diffeomorphism invariance and the addi-tional symmetries that keep the new scalars light. This Lagrangiandescribes the fluctuations around the time of horizon crossing, and it issupplemented with a general parameterization describing how the addi-tional fluctuating fields can affect cosmological perturbations. They foundthat multifield inflation can reproduce the non-Gaussianities that can begenerated in single field inflation but can also give rise to new kinds of non-

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With Elisa Chisari, a studentat Princeton University,

Professor Zaldarriaga showedhow to use standard Newtonian

numerical simulations ofstructure formation to produceresults that include the leadingGeneral Relativistic correctionsby remapping the coordinate

system. Both of these results willbe needed to make predictionsfor and interpret the results of

upcoming Large ScaleStructure Surveys.

StephanieTonnesen of PrincetonUniversity gave an informalastrophysics seminar on pair

interactions versus environmentand effects on galaxy evolution.

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Gaussianities.They found sever-al new three-point functionshapes and showed that in mul-tifield inflation it is possible tonaturally suppress the three-point function, making thefour-point function the leadingsource of detectable non-Gaus-sianities. They also found thatunder certain circumstances,i.e., if specific shapes of non-Gaussianities are detected in thedata, one could distinguish be-tween single and multifield infla-tion and sometimes even amongthe various mechanisms thatkept the additional fields light.

Professor Emeritus Stephen L. Adler’s principal project this past year waswriting a suite of computer programs for multidimensional numerical inte-gration. The programs start with a base region, either a simplex or a hyper-cube, and proceed by subdividing all sides by a factor of two to give smallersubregions.This process continues until a termination criterion for the inte-gral over each subregion is satisfied. This strategy permits good results to beobtained for truly multidimensional functions that have localized peaks andvalleys throughout the higher-dimensional domain. The programs involvenew higher-order integration formulas that Adler has devised, combinedwith efficient use of memory in the programming. For each geometry thereare both single processor and parallel processing versions. The programs givegood results up to dimension 7 on a personal computer, and up to dimen-sion 9 or higher on a cluster.

Adler has also written a hybrid version of the hypercube programs, whichpermits subdivision along any subset of the axes giving hyper-rectangularsubregions. These are then mapped into hypercubes for evaluation of theintegral, by either a higher-order method for smooth functions or by aMonte-Carlo method for nonsmooth functions. Benchmark testing of thisvariant is the next step of the project.

Adler has posted on arXiv a draft description of the methods and construc-tion of the programs. Substantial revision and expansion of the draft isplanned before publication as a book. The programs, once testing is com-pleted, will be posted on the Internet with a license for free use by individ-ual users pursuing nonprofit research at academic institutions.

Adler’s secondary project this year has been continuation of work on hisdark matter scattering model for the flyby anomalies, which was describedin the Fall 2009 issue of the Institute Letter. Data for five additional flybyswas furnished by scientists affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, andcombined by Adler with the original six, to fit eleven data points with theeight parameter model. This gives a statistically significant test, and a goodfit, with a chi-squared somewhat under three, is obtained. The modelparameters now require the dark matter shells to be much closer to Earththan in the six point fit, which may introduce further constraints from satel- 51


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The research interests of VisitingProfessor Rashid Sunyaev (center)included the cosmological recombinationof hydrogen and helium, the physics ofgas accretion onto neutron stars andblack holes, the problem of matter, andradiation interaction under extremeastrophysical conditions.



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lite orbits. Continuation of this project is planned as more data becomesavailable.

Professor Emeritus Freeman J. Dyson continued to spend most of his timewriting book reviews and preparing public lectures. He served as editor forthe volume Best American Science and Nature Writing 2010, published byHoughton Mifflin, and contributed a foreword to it. He also wrote a fore-word for The BestWriting on Mathematics 2011, published by Princeton Uni-versity Press. In collaboration with Norman Frankel of the University ofMelbourne and Lawrence Glasser of Clarkson University, he engaged in apiece of recreational mathematics, studying a series of rational approxima-tions to pi discovered by Derek Lehmer. The Lehmer series has the peculiarproperty that the error of the n’th approximation appears to decrease with nlike 10(-n), giving rise to the theological speculation that this might be evi-dence for a decadactylic God, working with arithmetic to base ten andtherefore having ten fingers.We were able to demolish this unfounded spec-ulation by proving that the error actually decreases like Q(-n), whereQ=(1+2iπ/log2) is a natural constant independent of the arithmetical base.

Masses, radii, and ages are determined for extrasolar planets that transit near-by stars. A significant fraction of these planets have radii that are larger thanwould be expected had they passively cooled since birth. Because all inflatedplanets orbit close to their parent stars, it is plausible that some of the stellarenergy they intercept is converted into a low entropy form that is transportedand deposited in their interiors.Two different scenarios are conceivable. Pro-fessor Emeritus Peter Goldreich andYanqinWu of the University of Toron-to have been investigating both scenarios for inflated planets.

In the first, an amount of energy sufficient to inflate a cold planet is depositeddeep in the planet’s core over a significant fraction of its lifetime.This wouldrequire on the order of one-hundredth of a percent of the incident stellarflux to end up in the core. In this scenario, the planet could have cooled offwhile on a distant orbit and only later moved into the much smaller orbit inwhich it is highly irradiated. This is not a fanciful suggestion; there are well-understood mechanisms that can cause a planet’s orbit to contract long afterit has formed.

The second scenario involves the deposition of a similar or even larger frac-tion of the incident stellar flux just deep enough (down to pressure of hun-dreds of bars) to stop convection from transporting thermal energy out ofthe planet’s core. This scenario would allow an inflated planet to remaininflated, but it could not inflate a shrunken planet. Inflated planets, if formedon distant orbits, would have had to migrate much closer to their parent starsearly in their lifetimes. Migration driven by angular momentum loss to theprotostellar gas disk would be a plausible mechanism for accomplishing this.

Most of Goldreich and Wu’s efforts have been directed toward evaluatingohmic heating due to currents that originate in a plane’s weather layer andthen flow into its interior. Although ohmic heating cannot inflate a planetthat has previously cooled off and shrunk, it is possible that it could preventan inflated planet from shrinking.

Most of Professor Goldreich andYanqinWu’s efforts have beendirected toward evaluating

ohmic heating due to currentsthat originate in a plane’s

weather layer and then flowinto its interior. Although

ohmic heating cannot inflate aplanet that has previouslycooled off and shrunk, it is

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MEMBERS ANDVISITORS

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

Prashanth AKBiology � Institute for Advanced Study � fHelen and Martin Chooljian Founders’ CircleMember

Thomas BanksHigh-EnergyTheoretical Physics, Cosmology �

University of California, Santa Cruz, andRutgers,The State University of New Jersey � fFunding provided byThe Ambrose MonellFoundation

Daniel BaumannCosmology,Astrophysics, StringTheory �

Institute for Advanced StudyWilliam D. Loughlin Member; additional fundingprovided by the National Science Foundation

Vladimir BelyiBiology � Institute for Advanced Study � mMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Member inBiology

David E. BerensteinHigh-EnergyTheoretical Physics � University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara � f

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

Chang ChanBiology � Institute for Advanced Study � fCharles L. Brown Member in Biology

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

Nathaniel CraigParticle Physics � Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Tudor Dan DimofteMathematical and Particle Physics � Institute forAdvanced Study � sFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

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

Anatoly DymarskyCosmology, StringTheory, Supersymmetry, ParticlePhysics � Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy andThe Ambrose MonellFoundation

Henriette ElvangTheoretical Physics � University of Michigan � fFunding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

Rodrigo FernandezAstrophysics � Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration, Einstein FellowshipProgram

Guido FestucciaHigh-EnergyTheoretical Physics � Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Patrick FoxParticle Physics � Fermilab � f

Matthias GaberdielStringTheory � Eidgenössische TechnischeHochschule Zürich � fFunding provided byThe Ambrose MonellFoundation

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

Daniel GreenCosmology, StringTheory, Supersymmetry,Phenomenology,Mathematical Physics, StatisticalMechanics � Institute for Advanced StudyMartin A. and Helen Chooljian Member;additional funding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

Benjamin GreenbaumBiology � Institute for Advanced StudyEric andWendy Schmidt Member in Biology

Daniel GrinCosmology,Theoretical Astrophysics � Institutefor Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Thomas HartmanParticle Physics, StringTheory � Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

Jonathan Jacob HeckmanStringTheory, Supersymmetry, Phenomenology �

Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

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

John J. HopfieldBiology � Princeton University � vp

Daniel Louis JafferisParticle Physics � Institute for Advanced StudyFunding provided by the United StatesDepartment of Energy

Boaz KatzAstrophysics � Institute for Advanced Study � mJohn N. Bahcall Fellow; additional fundingprovided by the National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration, Einstein Fellowship Program

Zohar KomargodskiStringTheory, Supersymmetry, Phenomenology �

Weizmann Institute of Science � mFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation

Vinod KrishnaBiology �The University of TexasSouthwestern Medical Center

Paul LangackerParticle Physics � Institute for AdvancedStudy � mFunding provided by the National ScienceFoundation and the IBM Einstein Fellowship

Ning LeiBiology � Institute for Advanced StudyQiu Shi Science andTechnologies FoundationMember

Albert LibchaberBiology �The Rockefeller University � vp

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

Elke Katrin MarkertBiology � Institute for Advanced Study

Guowu MengMathematical Physics �The Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology � jQiu Shi Science andTechnologies FoundationMember

Peter MészárosAstrophysics �The Pennsylvania StateUniversity � f

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


Arvind MuruganBiology � Institute for Advanced Study

Asad NaqviBiology � Institute for Advanced Study

Saul PerlmutterCosmology � Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory,University of California, Berkeley � s

Rafael A. PortoTheoretical Physics � Institute for AdvancedStudy

Hanno ReinTheoretical Astrophysics � Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration and the National ScienceFoundation

Soo-Jong ReyStringTheory, High-EnergyTheoretical Physics �

Seoul National University

Douglas RichstoneAstronomy � University of MichiganCorning GlassWorks Foundation Fellow

Philip SchusterParticle Physics � Perimeter Institute forTheoretical Physics � sFunding provided by the United States Departmentof Energy

Tracy SlatyerParticle Physics,Astrophysics � Institute forAdvanced StudyFunding provided by the United States Departmentof Energy and the National Science Foundation

Aristotle SocratesAstrophysics � Institute for Advanced StudyJohn N. Bahcall Fellow; additional fundingprovided by the Corning GlassWorks FoundationFellowship and the National Science Foundation

Marcus SpradlinTheoretical Physics � Brown University � s

Rashid SunyaevAstrophysics � Max-Planck-Institut fürAstrophysik � vpMaureen and John HendricksVisiting Professor

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

NataliaToroParticle Physics � Perimeter Institute forTheoretical Physics � sFunding provided by the United States Departmentof Energy

ChristopherTullyExperimental Particle Physics � PrincetonUniversityIBM Einstein Fellow

AlexeiVazquezBiology �The Cancer Institute of New Jersey � v

AnastasiaVolovichHigh-EnergyTheory � Brown University � s

Martin D.WeinbergAstrophysics � University of Massachusetts � f

NealWeinerParticle Physics � NewYork UniversityFunding provided byThe Ambrose MonellFoundation

Amit Pratap SinghYadavCosmology,Astrophysics � Institute for AdvancedStudyFunding provided by the National Aeronautics andSpace Administration and the National ScienceFoundation

RECORD OF EVENTS

Astrophysics Activities

September 20Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

September 21Astrophysics Seminar � Toward a New Era inPlanetary Microlensing � Andrew Gould,TheOhio State University

September 23Astrophysics Informal Seminar � The EarlyHistory of the Solar System � Renu Malhotra,The University of Arizona

September 28Astrophysics Seminar � A Lensing Map . . .A Redshift Survey � Margaret Geller,Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

September 30Astrophysics Informal Seminar � SPLAT!TheSolar System � Scott J. Kenyon, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

October 4Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � DMAnnihilation and the CMB �

Tracy Slatyer, Member, School of NaturalSciences � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga,Professor, School of Natural Sciences, andDavid Spergel, Princeton University

October 5Astrophysics Seminar � Modeling AstrophysicsData for Discovery, Classification, and PreciseMeasurement � David Hogg, NewYorkUniversity

October 7Astrophysics Informal Seminar � The AtacamaCosmologyTelescope: Galaxies, Galaxy Clusters,and the CMB � Tobias Marriage, JohnsHopkins University

October 12Astrophysics Seminar � Precision Cosmologyand the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics �

MaxTegmark, Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology

October 14Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Fast andAccurate Cosmic Hydrogen RecombinationTheory � Yacine Ali-Haimoud, CaliforniaInstitute of Technology

October 18Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � Primordial Non-Gaussianity andLarge-Scale Structure � Kendrick Smith,Princeton University � Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

October 19Astrophysics Seminar � Confronting the Dark-Energy Crisis in Fundamental Physics � ChrisStubbs, Harvard-Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics

October 21Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Exploring theEnds of the Rainbow: Cosmic Rays in Star-Forming Galaxies � Brian Lacki,The OhioState University

October 26Astrophysics Seminar � Cosmic Accelerators:ThePossible Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Raysand Neutrinos � Peter Mészáros,ThePennsylvania State University;Visitor, Schoolof Natural Sciences

October 28Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Dimension asthe Key to the Mechanism of Core-CollapseSupernova Explosions � Adam Burrows,Princeton University

November 1Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Cosmic-RayPropagationTime Scales: Lessons from RadioactiveNuclei and Positron Data � Kfir Blum,Weizmann Institute of Science


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November 2Astrophysics Seminar � Some Results fromHerschel SpaceTelescope � Bruce Draine,Princeton University

November 4Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Double BubbleTrouble: Mysterious Large-Scale Gamma-RayStructures in the Inner Galaxy � Tracy Slatyer,Member, School of Natural Sciences

November 9Astrophysics Seminar � Three Freaks of theSolar System (AndWhyThey Matter) � DavidJewitt, University of California, Los Angeles

November 11Astrophysics Informal Seminar � SomeWrinkles in Recombination � Daniel Grin,Member, School of Natural Sciences

November 16Astrophysics Seminar � HowTiny Can GalaxiesBe? � Hans-Walter Rix, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik

November 18Astrophysics Informal Seminar � TheMechanical Greenhouse: Heat Burial by ForcedTurbulence on Hot Jupiters � JonathanMitchell, University of California, LosAngeles

November 29Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � Features in the Bispectrum � DaanMeerburg, University of Amsterdam � AGeneralized Local Ansatz and Its Effect on HaloBias � Sarah Shandera, Perimeter Institutefor Theoretical Physics � Organizers:MatiasZaldarriaga, Professor, School of NaturalSciences, and David Spergel, PrincetonUniversity

November 30Astrophysics Seminar � What’s Going onAround Saturn? Recent Results from the CassiniMission � Matthew Hedman, CornellUniversity

December 2Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Don’t ModifyGravity—Understand It! � NimaArkani-Hamed, Professor, School of NaturalSciences

December 7Astrophysics Seminar � Galactic Enigmas in aLambda-CDM Universe � MartinWeinberg,University of Massachusetts; Member, Schoolof Natural Sciences

December 9Astrophysics Informal Seminar � The DarkMatter at the End of the Galaxy � MariangelaLisanti, Princeton University

December 13Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � Search for Anisotropic Power inLarge-Scale Structure � Anthony Pullen,California Institute of Technology, Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

December 14Astrophysics Seminar � Stability, EnergyTransport, andVariability of High LuminosityAccretion onto Black Holes � EdwinTurner,Princeton University;Visitor, Program inInterdisciplinary Studies

December 16Astrophysics Informal Seminar � A (Quantum)FieldTheorist’s Approach to GravitationalDynamics � Rafael Porto, Member, Schoolof Natural Sciences

January 10Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

January 24Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � Discussion of Early PlanckPapers � Discussion Leaders:Bill Jones andCynthia Chiang, Princeton University �

Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor,School of Natural Sciences, and DavidSpergel, Princeton University

January 28Astrophysics Informal Seminar � TheCoevolution of Galaxies and Black Holes �

Kevin Schawinski,Yale University

February 1Astrophysics Seminar � Cosmology andAstrophysics in the Planck Era � Bill Jones,Princeton University

February 3Astrophysics Informal Seminar � PrimordialNon-Gaussianity and Large-Scale Structure �

Roman Scoccimarro, NewYork University

February 7Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � A Brachistochrone Approach toReconstruct the Inflaton Potential � Jiajun Xu,University of Wisconsin–Madison �

Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor,School of Natural Sciences, and DavidSpergel, Princeton University

February 8Astrophysics Seminar � Astrophysics ofSupermassive Black Hole Formation � TomAbel, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysicsand Cosmology and SLAC NationalAccelerator Lab, Stanford University

February 10Astrophysics Informal Seminar � PlanetarySystems from Kepler � Daniel Fabrycky,University of California, Santa Cruz

February 15Astrophysics Seminar � The Morphologiesand Outflow Kinematics of Star FormationQuenching � Alison Coil, Center forAstrophysics and Space Sciences, University ofCalifornia, San Diego

February 17Astrophysics Informal Seminar � First Resultsfrom the PalomarTransient Factory � Eran Ofek,California Institute of Technology

February 22Astrophysics Seminar � Some FieldTheoryProblems in Cosmology � StevenWeinberg,University of Texas at Austin

February 24Astrophysics Informal Seminar � The PureDisk Galaxy Puzzle � James Peebles,Princeton University

February 28Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

March 1Astrophysics Seminar � Sizes and Shapesof Drops Created in High-Speed Impacts �

Peter Goldreich, California Institute ofTechnology; Professor Emeritus, School ofNatural Sciences

March 3Astrophysics Informal Seminar � The GoldenAge of Exoplanet Spin-Orbit Measurements �

John Johnson, California Institute ofTechnology

March 8Astrophysics Seminar � Magnetic Star–DiskInteractions and Spin-Orbit Misalignment inExoplanetary Systems � Dong Lai, CornellUniversity

March 10Astrophysics Informal Seminar � CosmicBumps MakeTwo Humps � MatthewKleban, NewYork University


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March 14Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

March 15Astrophysics Seminar � The Nature of DampedLyman Alpha Systems � Renyue Cen,Princeton University

March 17Astrophysics Informal Seminar � ReconstructingBaryon Oscillations:Theoretical and ObservationalPerspectives � Nikhil Padmanabhan,YaleUniversity

March 22Astrophysics Seminar � Twentieth-CenturyGlobalWarming—Anthropogenic or Solar? � NirShaviv,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

March 24Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Super-Eddington Accretion Disk � Nir Shaviv,TheHebrew University of Jerusalem

March 28Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

March 29Astrophysics Seminar � GravitationalWavesfrom Cosmic PhaseTransitions � LawrenceKrauss, Arizona State University

March 31Astrophysics Informal Seminar � GravitationalWave Astronomy in the Advanced Detector Era �

SeanT. McWilliams, Columbia Universityand Princeton University

April 5Astrophysics Seminar � Galaxy Gas Flows �

Mary Putman, Columbia University

April 7Astrophysics Informal Seminar � TestingLorentz Invariance with Cosmic Gamma-Rays,Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays, and Neutrinos �

Floyd Stecker, Goddard Space FlightCenter, National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration

April 11Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

April 12Astrophysics Seminar � Collective Origin ofSpiral Structure in Disk Galaxies � LarsHernquist, Harvard University

April 14Astrophysics Informal Seminar � GalaxyFormation and Evolution in the Next Decade �

Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence BerkeleyLaboratory, University of California, Berkeley;Member, Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study InformalAstrophysics Seminar and Discussion �

Planetary Migration � Sijme-JanPaardekooper, University of Cambridge

April 19Astrophysics Seminar � Diverse Energy Sourcesfor Supernovae � Lars Bildsten, KavliInstitute for Theoretical Physics, University ofCalifornia, Santa Barbara

April 21Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Observationsof Quasar Feedback � Nadia Zakamska,Johns Hopkins University

April 25Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

April 26Astrophysics Seminar � Defending Planet Earthagainst Cosmic Intruders � Irwin Shapiro,Harvard University

April 28Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Did Star-Forming Galaxies Reionize the Universe? �

Brant Robertson, California Institute ofTechnology

May 5Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Location,Location, Location! Pair Interactions versusEnvironment: Effects on Galaxy Evolution �

StephanieTonnesen, Princeton University

May 9Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � Discussion of Ways to GetAround CosmicVariance � DiscussionLeaders:Kendrick Smith, PrincetonUniversity, and Daniel Grin, Member,Institute for Advanced Study � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

May 10Astrophysics Seminar � Shear-DrivenTurbulenceon Earth and in Space � Jeremy Goodman,Princeton University

May 12Astrophysics Informal Seminar � ExoplanetaryAtmospheres � Kristen Menou, ColumbiaUniversity

May 17Astrophysics Seminar � Direct Imaging ofTerrestrial Exoplanets:Approaches and Progress inHigh-Contrast Imaging from Space � JeremyKasdin, Princeton University

May 19Astrophysics Informal Seminar � TheDeuterium-Burning Mass Limit, and Problemswith theTiO Hypothesis � Dave Spiegel,Princeton University

May 23Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

May 26Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Cosmologywith Supernovae: Progress and Prospects �

Saurabh Jha, Rutgers,The State Universityof New Jersey

June 2Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Satellite-Supported Estimates of Human Rate of NPPCarbon Use on Land: Challenges Ahead � MarcImhoff, Rutgers,The State University ofNew Jersey and Goddard Space Flight Center,National Aeronautics and SpaceAdministration

June 6Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

June 9Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Searching forBinary Supermassive Black Holes: FromTens ofkpc to kpc Scales � Yue Shen, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

June 16Astrophysics Informal Seminar � Dynamicaland Nonthermal Processes in Galaxy Clusters �

Uri Keshet, Harvard-Smithsonian Center forAstrophysics


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June 20Princeton University/Institute for AdvancedStudy Early Universe/Cosmology LunchDiscussion � General Discussion � Organizers:Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences, and David Spergel,Princeton University

June 30Special Astrophysics Talk � Several NewObservational Signatures of Relativistic Outflowsfrom Dying Stellar Systems � Ehud Nakar,Rutgers,The State University of New Jerseyand Tel Aviv University

Particle Physics Activities

September 8Physics Group Meeting � K3 and the MathieuGroup � YujiTachikawa, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

September 20High Energy Theory Seminar � a-Maximization, Global Symmetries, and RGFlows � David Kutasov,The University ofChicago

September 22Physics Group Meeting � N=1 SCFTs fromBrane Monodromy � Jonathan JacobHeckman, Member, School of NaturalSciences

September 29Physics Group Meeting � Why is the InflationLight? � Daniel Green, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

September 30Informal Phenomenology Seminar � Summaryof Ideas on Holographic Space-Time � TomBanks, University of California, Santa Cruz,and Rutgers,The State University of NewJersey; Member, School of Natural Sciences

October 4High Energy Theory Seminar � MicroscopicRealization of the Kerr/CFT Correspondence �

Andrew Strominger, Harvard University

October 6Physics Group Meeting � Proof of the Dualitybetween Scattering Amplitudes andWilson Loopsin N=4 � Simon Caron-Huot, Member,School of Natural Sciences

October 8High Energy Theory Seminar � Chern-SimonsTheory from Four Dimensions � EdwardWitten, Charles Simonyi Professor, School ofNatural Sciences

October 13Physics Group Meeting � The All-Loop S-Matrix of N=4 SYM � Jacob Bourjaily,Princeton University

October 18High Energy Theory Seminar � FromWeak toStrong Coupling in ABJMTheory � MarcosMarino, University of Geneva

October 20Physics Group Meeting � DynamicalSupersymmetry Breaking and the Origins ofFlavor � Nathaniel Craig, Member, Schoolof Natural Sciences

October 22High Energy Theory Seminar � The ExactSuperconformal R-symmetry in 3d ExtremizesZ � Daniel Louis Jafferis, Member, Schoolof Natural Sciences

October 27Informal Physics Seminar � CFT, FusionGraphs for Lie Groups at Level K and QuantumSymmetries � Robert Coquereaux, CNRSand Centre de Physique Théorique

November 1High Energy Theory Seminar � T-Branes �

Clay Cordova, Harvard University

November 2Informal Physics Seminar � Small Black HoleDuals and Geometry � David E. Berenstein,University of California, Santa Barbara;Member, School of Natural Sciences

November 3Physics Group Meeting � InformalThoughts onSUSY Breaking and Moduli � MatthewReece, Princeton University

Informal Phenomenology Seminar � CurrentStatus of the LHC � ChristopherTully,Princeton University; Member, School ofNatural Sciences

November 10Physics Group Meeting � Holography at a Coldde Sitter Horizon � Thomas Hartman,Member, School of Natural Sciences

November 12High Energy Theory Seminar � Exploring theGeometry behind the Quantum Universe �

Michael Atiyah,Trinity College, Universityof Cambridge, and University of Edinburgh

November 15High Energy Theory Seminar � Topics inWall-Crossing and D=4,N=2Theories � GregMoore, Rutgers,The State University ofNew Jersey

November 17Physics Group Meeting � An Elusive Large NLimit � Guido Festuccia, Member, Schoolof Natural Sciences

November 18Informal Phenomenology Seminar � LittleHiggs and Superlatives � Daniel Stolarski,Johns Hopkins University

November 19High Energy Theory Seminar � SymmetryConstraints on Counterterms in N=8Supergravity � Henriette Elvang, Universityof Michigan; Member, School of NaturalSciences

November 29High Energy Theory Seminar � The Role ofDoubleTrace Deformations in AdS/CMT �

Gary Horowitz, University of California,Santa Barbara

December 2Informal High Energy Theory Seminar �

Scattering Amplitudes in Superconformal Chern-SimonsTheories � Arthur Lipstein,California Institute of Technology

December 10High Energy Theory Seminar � A QuantumTheory of Stable de Sitter Space � Tom Banks,University of California, Santa Cruz, andRutgers,The State University of New Jersey;Member, School of Natural Sciences

December 13High Energy Theory Seminar � DeconstructingHolographic Liquids � DamThanh Son,University of Washington

February 4High Energy Theory Seminar � SymblifyingAmplitudes andWilson Loops � MarcusSpradlin, Brown University; Member,School of Natural Sciences

February 16Physics Group Meeting � ABJM ScatteringAmplitude � Sangmin Lee, University ofSeoul

February 18High Energy Theory Seminar � Fermi Surfacesand Gauge-Gravity Duality � Subir Sachdev,Harvard University

February 22High Energy Theory Special Seminar � Pionsin Large N Quantum Chromodynamics �

StevenWeinberg,The University of Texasat Austin

February 23Informal Phenomenology Seminar � The FirstYear of the LHC:WhatWe Have Learned �

Michelangelo Mangano, EuropeanOrganization for Nuclear Research (CERN)


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March 4High Energy Theory Seminar � MinimalHolography: Higher Spin Gravity from 2dCFTs � Thomas Hartman, Member,School of Natural Sciences

March 7High Energy Theory Seminar � HolographicDual of Free FieldTheory � MichaelDouglas, Stony Brook University,The StateUniversity of NewYork

March 11-12Third Institute for Advanced Study/PerimeterInstituteWorkshop on Integrability inScattering Amplitudes Informal Discussions �

(Super)Wilson Loop � Integrability and theOPE � Integrals and Integrands � (Hidden)Symmetries � NimaArkani-Hamed,Professor, School of Natural Sciences, andFreddy Cachazo and PedroVieira,Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

March 14High Energy Theory Seminar � HolomorphicLinking, Loop Equations, and ScatteringAmplitudes inTwistor Space � David Skinner,Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

March 18High Energy Theory Seminar � Boosts uponBoosts: Dark Matter Annihilation, SommerfeldEnhancement, and Substructure � TracySlatyer, Member, School of Natural Sciences

March 23Physics Group Meeting � Small Steps, GiantLeaps, Bubbles of Nothing, and the Fastest Decayin the Landscape � Adam Brown, PrincetonUniversity

March 25High Energy Theory Seminar � Writing CFTCorrelation Functions as AdS ScatteringAmplitudes � Joao Penedones, PerimeterInstitute for Theoretical Physics

March 24Informal Physics Discussion � Higher SpinTheories � MishaVasiliev, Lebedev PhysicalInstitute

March 28High Energy Theory Seminar � SO(3)Conformal Symmetry in Hadronic Collisions �

Steve Gubser, Princeton University

March 30Physics Group Meeting � A New Look atGluing inTQFT � Tudor Dan Dimofte,Member, School of Natural Sciences

April 11High Energy Theory Seminar � LHC Statusand Results � ChristopherTully, PrincetonUniversity; Member, School of NaturalSciences

April 13Physics Group Meeting � SL(2,R) Chern-Simons, Liouville, and GaugeTheories on DualityWalls � MasahitoYamazaki, PrincetonUniversity

April 15High Energy Theory Seminar � D-Brane Non-Perturbative Effects and Geometric Deformations �

Anatoly Dymarsky, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

April 20Physics Group Meeting � Dark Matter Debrisin the MilkyWay: Exploring New Possibilities forSubstructure � Mariangela Lisanti,Princeton University

April 25High Energy Theory Seminar � Localizationand Exact Holography � Atish Dabholkar,Laboratoire de Physique Theorique et HautesEnergies

May 4Physics Group Meeting � S-duality of 5d SuperYang-Mills on S1 � YujiTachikawa, Member,School of Natural Sciences

May 18Physics Group Meeting � SUSY withoutMissing Energy � Josh Ruderman,Princeton University

May 19Informal Phenomenology Seminar � TheTheory of M-parity � Pavel Fileviez Perez,University of Wisconsin–Madison

May 20High Energy Theory Seminar � TowardEfficient Solution of the AdS/CFT SpectralProblem � DmytroVolin,The PennsylvaniaState University

May 23High Energy Theory Seminar � Introduction tothe Regge Limit � Lev Lipatov, UniversitätHamburg

May 24High Energy Theory Seminar � Introduction tothe BFKL Equation and the High EnergyBehavior of GaugeTheories � Lev Lipatov,Universität Hamburg

May 25High Energy Theory Seminar � Solving theBFKL Equation and Integrability � LevLipatov, Universität Hamburg

May 27High Energy Theory Seminar � Black Holeswith Only One Symmetry � Gary Horowitz,University of California, Santa Barbara

May 31High Energy Theory Seminar � An EffectiveAction for High Energy Processes � LevLipatov, Universität Hamburg

June 1Physics Group Meeting � SuperconformalSymmetry and Scattering Amplitudes � SimonCaron-Huot, Member, School of NaturalSciences

June 13High Energy Theory Seminar � RecursionRelations for AdS/CFT Correlators � SuvratRaju, Harvard University

The Simons Center forSystems Biology

July 1The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting � Evolution of the p53 ProteinFamily � Prashanth AK, Member, School ofNatural Sciences � The Regulation of MaternalReproduction by the p53 Family � Wenwei Hu,The Cancer Institute of New Jersey � Huntingfor Genes in Autism � Chang Chan, Member,School of Natural Sciences � Germ LineFidelity and Autism � Asad Naqvi, Member,School of Natural Sciences � The Regulation ofGenes in the Central Nervous System by p53 �

Zhaohui Feng,The Cancer Institute ofNew Jersey � Signature Profiling for ProstateCancer � Elke Katrin Markert, Member,School of Natural Sciences � Cox BivariateModel for Discovering Survival-Related SNPs inGenetic Profiles of Cancers � Hideaki Mizuno,Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.; Member,School of Natural Sciences

July 2The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting � Predicting Redox Switches inProteins � Jamil Momand, California StateUniversity at Los Angeles

September 10The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting � MonozygoticTwins Discordantfor Autism � Chang Chan, Member, Schoolof Natural Sciences � Germ Line Fidelity andAutism: Results from the Simons SimplexCollection � Asad Naqvi, Member, School ofNatural Sciences

September 16The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology � Michael Lässig, Universität zuKöln


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October 1The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � Oncogenic Activation in Stem Cells asa Model for Cancer Formation � Chi-Wei Lu,University of Medicine and Dentistry of NewJersey

October 15Breast Cancer Bioinformatics Meeting �

Signature Profiling for Prostate Cancer � ElkeKatrin Markert, Member, School of NaturalSciences � Identifying SpliceVariants in mRNA-seq Data from Breast Cancers � ShridarGanesan, RobertWood Johnson MedicalSchool, University of Medicine and Dentistryof New Jersey, andMichael Seiler, Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey �

Amplicons andTamoxifen Resistance inER+/HER2- Breast Cancer � Gyan Bhanot,Rutgers,The State University of New Jerseyand The Cancer Institute of New Jersey �

Stratifying Breast Cancer by p53 PathwaySignatures � Vessela Kristensen, Universityof Oslo

October 28The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology � Daniel S. Fisher, StanfordUniversity

October 29The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting

November 9The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting � Using ComputationalAlgebraicTopology to Characterize ChromosomeInstability in Cancer � Javier Arsuaga, SanFrancisco State University

November 12Joint Lab Meeting � Using Diffusion Modelsto Understand Population Structure � SergioLukic, Rutgers,The State University of NewJersey � Identifying Signals for Recent SelectionUsing Fst and Haplotype Diversity-BasedMethods � Gyan Bhanot, Rutgers,The StateUniversity of New Jersey and The CancerInstitute of New Jersey, and Kshitij Wagh,Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey

November 17The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting � Dynamics of HIV EnvelopeGlycoprotein Incorporation � Nick Parrish,University of Alabama at Birmingham

November 18The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology � Albert Libchaber,TheRockefeller University;Visiting Professor,School of Natural Sciences

December 1Informal Talk on Collective Behavior � SethMarvel, Cornell University

December 2The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � ccA+ccB=ccRCC:MolecularStratification of Renal Cell Carcinoma � RoseBrannon, University of North Carolina atChapel Hill

December 6The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � DiffusionTheory-Based Models ofDemography in Population Genetics � SergioLukic, Rutgers,The State University of NewJersey

December 7The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting � Quantifying the Evolution ofMulti-Component Systems:Two Case Studies �

Chen-HsiangYeang, Institute of StatisticalScience,Academia Sinica

December 9The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology � Leonid Kruglyak, PrincetonUniversity

December 20Joint Lab Meeting � Pathways Utilized byMutant p53 to Alter Morphogenesis of BreastCancer Cells in 3D Cultures � WilliamWilfred-Pastor, Columbia University

January 7The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � Probing Pluripotency Using GPR125-Expressing Spermatogonial Stem and ProgenitorCells � Marco Seandel,Weill CornellMedical College

January 20The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting � Immunosuppression in HIVInfection � Olivier Manches, LangoneMedical Center, NewYork University �

Immune Activation in HIV Infection � MeaganO’Brien, Langone Medical Center, NewYorkUniversity

January 20The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology � Michael P. Brenner, HarvardUniversity

January 21The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � Synthetic Biology from Scratch:Designing Interactions for Equilibrium Self-Assembly � Sahand Hormoz, HarvardUniversity

February 4The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � Exploring the Pet-Dog Paradigm:Will Pet Dogs Become Biogerontology’s NewWorkhorse? � David J.Waters, PurdueUniversity

February 9The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � Information Geometry, Sloppy Models,and Optimization � MarkTranstrum,Cornell University

February 16The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � Play Your Cards Right: Optimality ofProteins under Constraints � Yonatan Savir,Weizmann Institute of Science

February 17The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology � Sean Eddy and JaneliaFarm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

February 18The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminars � Work from the Laboratory of Dr. NinaBhardwaj � Sonia Jimenez-Baranda,Langone Medical Center, NewYorkUniversity � Work from the Laboratory of Dr.Jean-Laurent Casanova � Dusan Bogunovic,Langone Medical Center, NewYorkUniversity

February 25The Simons Center for Systems BiologyGroup Meeting � Incomplete DNA Methylationand Somatic Cell Memory in Human iPS Cells �

Jun S. Song, University of California, SanFrancisco

February 28The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � Germ-Line Fidelity and Autism �

Asad Naqvi, Member, School of NaturalSciences

March 2Joint Lab Meeting � Influenza in DevelopingCountries: Seasonal Impact, Pandemic Equity �

Doug Holtzman, Bill & Melinda GatesFoundation � Kawaoka Research Interests: Gates& Other Projects � Yoshi Kawaoka, InfluenzaResearch Institute, University ofWisconsin–Madison � The Antigenic Evolutionof InfluenzaViruses � Derek Smith,University of Cambridge � Exploring theDiversity of Influenza A � Raúl Rabadán,Columbia University � Host-Specific MutationalPatterns and Innate Immunity � BenjaminGreenbaum, Member, School of NaturalSciences � Reassortment Patterns in InfluenzaViruses � Hossein Khiabanian, ColumbiaUniversity � Measuring Diversity and FrequencyAnalysis of Genomic Data � VladimirTrifonov, Columbia University � Network


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Analysis of the Global Spread of Influenza � JoeChan, Columbia University � ModernComputationalTechniques for PandemicSuppression � Philip Eckhoff, IntellectualVentures Lab

March 7Creative Process in Architecture and SciencePanel Discussion � Frank O. Gehry, GehryPartners, LLP � Irving Lavin, ProfessorEmeritus, School of Historical Studies �

Arnold J. Levine, Professor, School ofNatural Sciences � Stephen F.Heinemann, Salk Institute

March 16The Simons Center for Systems BiologyPublic Lecture � Thinking Out Loud � FrankO. Gehry, Gehry Partners, LLP

March 18Architecture for Science Panel Discussion �

Denise Scott Brown,Venturi Scott Brownand Associates � Frank O. Gehry, GehryPartners, LLP � Michael Graves, MichaelGraves & Associates � Moderator: JeffKipnis,Wexner Center for the Arts

March 25Truth & Beauty at the Institute for AdvancedStudy � Irving Lavin, Professor Emeritus,School of Historical Studies, andMarilynLavin

April 7The Simons Center for Systems Biology Talkson Abstract/Conceptual/Quantitative Aspectsof Biology � Yoav Soen,Weizmann Instituteof Science

April 13Viruses & Host Genomes Group Meeting �

Viruses and Cancer � Evolution and EndogenousViruses � Karin Moelling, UniversitätZürich � Hunt for AncientViruses � VladimirBelyi,The Cancer Institute of New Jersey;Member, School of Natural Sciences � BigIdeas & Interesting Directions for FutureResearch � Arnold J. Levine, Professor,School of Natural Sciences � Ann Skalka,Fox Chase Cancer Center

April 20Viruses & Host Genomes Group Meeting �

Sequence Pressures in RNAViruses � BenjaminGreenbaum, Member, School of NaturalSciences

April 21The Governor’s Conference on EffectivePartnering in Cancer Research:Metabolismand Cancer � Control of Growth by the mTORPathway � David M. Sabatini,WhiteheadInstitute for Biomedical Research,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and

Howard Hughes Medical Institute �

Metabolism and Cancer � Craig B.Thompson, Memorial Sloan-KetteringCancer Center � Cancer Metabolism: Back to theFuture � Tak W. Mak, University ofToronto � Metabolic Hijacking byViruses andOncogenes � Joshua D. Rabinowitz,Princeton University � Role of Autophagy inCancer Metabolism � Eileen P. White,TheCancer Institute of New Jersey and Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey � PI 3-Kinase and Cancer Metabolism � Lewis C.Cantley, Harvard Medical School and BethIsrael Deaconess Medical Center

May 18The Joshua Lederberg–John von NeumannSymposium:Towards Quantitative Biology (atthe Rockefeller University) � MaximumCaliber:A Principle for Kinetic Modeling � KenA. Dill, Stony Brook University,The StateUniversity of NewYork � Collective NeuralDynamics and Emergent Animal Behavior �

John J. Hopfield, Princeton University;Visiting Professor, School of NaturalSciences � Growth Laws and CataboliteRepression:The Emergence of PhysiologicalSimplicity from Molecular Complexity � TerenceHwa, University of California, San Diego �

Connecting the Dots: Propofol, Parkinson’s Disease,and Brain Rhythms � Nancy Kopell, BostonUniversity � Enforcing a Reliable ImmuneResponse with Unreliable Lymphocytes:ALederberg–von Neumann Solution? � GrégoireAltan-Bonnet, Memorial Sloan-KetteringCancer Center

June 22–23Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Meeting �

The p53 Family of Genes Regulates Germ LineGenomic Stability Resulting in Enhanced Rates ofGenetic Disorders, Egg Development,Autism, andCancers � Arnold J. Levine, Professor,School of Natural Sciences � Dissecting theRoles of Complexin in the Control of SynapticTransmission � Jeremy Dittman,WeillCornell Medical College � AYeast FunctionalScreen Predicts New ALS Disease Genes �

Aaron Gitler, University of PennsylvaniaSchool of Medicine � Neuropathic Changes inNeuronal Excitability in the Periphery and SpinalCord � Steven Prescott, University ofPittsburgh � A Spinally Encoded, PKMζ-Dependent Engram for Chronic Pain �

Theodore Price, University of Arizona �

Marking and Maintaining Centromere Locationand the HistoneVariant CENP-A � BenBlack, University of Pennsylvania � DNANanotechnologyTools to Probe the Mechanism ofMolecular Motors � Samara Reck-Peterson,Harvard Medical School � Discovery andCharacterization of Endogenous MetastasisSuppressor microRNAs � SohailTavazoie,The Rockefeller University � Intrinsic andExtrinsic Regulation of Neurogenesis in the

Cerebral Cortex � Christopher A.Walsh,Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospitalof Boston, and Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute

June 29The Simons Center for Systems BiologySeminar � Making Sense of a ColorfulHerpesvirus � Lynn Enquist, PrincetonUniversity


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William Jones of Princeton University (left) and Eva Silverstein of Stanford University (right) were among the lecturersduring the 2011 Prospects inTheoretical Physics summer program.

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Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) is an intensive two-week summer program geared specifically tograduate students and postdoctoral scholars considering a career in theoretical physics or astrophysics.First held at the Institute in 2002, PiTP has, in past years, covered topics ranging from cosmology to

the Large Hadron Collider to string theory. The program builds upon the strong relationship between theresearch groups at the Institute and Princeton University. Representatives from both institutions are amongthe program’s organizers and lecturers. A special effort is made to involve women and minorities, along withgraduate students in small universities, who typically do not have the same opportunities and access to lead-ers in the field as graduate students in large research institutions.

PiTP 2011 was held from July 18 to 29 on the campus of the Institute, and the focus of the program wasfrontiers of physics in cosmology. Cosmology has undergone a revolution, due to advances in observationaland experimental techniques, as well as progress in the models used to describe the evolution of our universe.New results have led to new puzzles. The program focused on the role of cosmology as a source of informa-tion about physics at very high energies.

Roughly one hundred participants from twelve countries were officially enrolled in the program, with themajority of the visiting students living in the Institute’s housing complex during the two-week program.Thelectures also attracted many students, postdocs, and professors from nearby institutions.

The 2011 Prospects in Theoretical Physics program was under the direction of Matias Zaldarriaga, Professorin the School of Natural Sciences. Thescientific organizing committee includedNima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in theSchool of Natural Sciences, and DavidSpergel and Paul Steinhardt of PrincetonUniversity. In addition to the organizers,lecturers included: Raphael Bousso(University of California, Berkeley),Paolo Creminelli (Abdus Salam Interna-tional Center for Theoretical Physics),William Jones (Princeton University),Juan Maldacena (Institute for AdvancedStudy), Eva Silverstein (Stanford Uni-versity), Leonard Susskind (StanfordUniversity), and Neil Turok (PerimeterInstitute).

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Member Judith Surkis was a participant in the School’s annual theme, which focused on secularism in light of what, for many,is being defined as a world-wide resurgence of religiosity both as a spiritual and political force.


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The School of Social Science invited twenty-two scholars from a pool of 225 applicants from theUnited States and abroad to be part of the School’s scholarly community as Members for the2010–11 academic year. Eight Visitors and a Research Assistant also participated in the year’s activi-

ties. Individual Members were supported by gifts from the Leon Levy Foundation, the American Council ofLearned Societies, and the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study, along with endowment funding pro-vided by Deutsche Bank, the Florence Gould Foundation, Roger W. Ferguson Jr. and Annette L. Nazareth,Richard B. Fisher, and the Wolfensohn Family Foundation. Funding from the Carnegie Corporation alsoallowed for the participation of a professional journalist in the School’s thematic seminar. Fields of inquiryof the group included history, economics, religion, anthropology, political science, sociology, and literature.

During the 2010–11 academic year, the School conducted four seminar series: the Social Science ThursdayLunch Seminar; the Secularism Seminar led by Professor Joan Scott; a Seminar on Moral Issues led by Pro-fessor Didier Fassin; and the Economics Seminar led by Professor Eric Maskin. The School also continuedpublication of its series of Occasional Papers and EconomicsWorking Papers, which can be accessed onlinefrom the School’s website, www.sss.ias.edu.

Danielle S. Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, completed a book manuscript, “A Course in Human Events,”about the Declaration of Independence, as well as several papers on new media and political participation forthe MacArthur Foundation working group on youth participatory politics. She gave the annual SpencerLecture at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting, as well as lectures at Reston,Vir-ginia; the University of Bristol; and the University of Cambridge. She was appointed to the American Acad-emy Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Didier Fassin, James D.Wolfensohn Professor, gave two talks for the eightieth anniversary of the Institute onconspiracy theories and on human rights. Much of his work was dedicated to the exploration of moraleconomies, which was the theme of his seminar at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris,particularly the tension between compassion and repression in contemporary societies. On humanitarianism,he published La Raison Humanitaire: Une Histoire Morale du Temps Présent (Hautes Etudes-Gallimard-Seuil).This was also the subject of lectures at NewYork University, the University of Hong Kong, and the Uni-versity of País Vasco, as well as the Munro Lecture at the University of Edinburgh.Violence is a central issueof the book he wrote this year based on the ethnography of the police he conducted in France, La Force del’Ordre, forthcoming from Le Seuil. It was the topic of his opening lecture for the conference “The Bodyand the State” at the New School for Social Research, and for other talks at McGill University and BirzeitUniversity. For the sixtieth anniversary of the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status ofRefugees, he gave the Elizabeth Colson Lecture at the University of Oxford on the vanishing truth of

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Danielle S.Allen, UPS Foundation Professor

Didier Fassin, James D.Wolfensohn Professor

Eric S. Maskin, Albert O. Hirschman Professor

JoanWallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor

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Albert O. Hirschman

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asylum. During his visit to the Uni-versity of Hong Kong, where heserved as an advisor for the recentlycreated Centre for the Humanitiesand Medicine, he gave two lectures onglobal health and on humanitarianwars. His previous work on SouthAfrica was presented at the Universityof Pennsylvania and in an article forthe Brown Journal of World Affairs. Thequestion of critique and engagementwas discussed in his talk at the confer-ence “Walls and Bridges” in NewYork and in his contribution to theconference “Ethnography and SocialChange” at Columbia University. At

the W.H.R. Rivers Symposium at Harvard University, he proposed areflection on the relationship between philosophy and anthropology. Fassin’sbook The Empire ofTrauma:An Inquiry into the Condition ofVictimhood, coau-thored with Richard Rechtman, was awarded the William A. DouglassBook Prize by the Society for the Anthropology of Europe, and Les Nou-velles Frontières de la Société Française, which he edited, was selected as bestessay of 2010 by France Culture. As part of the “Ideas” Advanced Grant hewas awarded by the European Research Council, he developed a website,http://morals.ias.edu/; organized a workshop at IAS with the interdiscipli-nary group he coordinates; and proposed a seminar on moral issues forMembers of the School. With João Biehl, he taught a course on ethnogra-phy and social theory at Princeton University.

In August 2010, Eric S. Maskin, Albert O. Hirschman Professor, lectured on“Elections and Strategic Voting” at a meeting of the Game Theory Societyin São Paulo. This was also the subject of his Hurwicz Memorial Lecture atthe Warsaw School of Economics, his Rosenthal Memorial Lecture atBoston University, and a public lecture at the Institute for Advanced Studyin spring of 2011. He spoke on “How Should We Elect Presidents?” atMath For America in August. This was also the topic of public lectures atBryn Mawr College, Harvard University, and St Andrews University. In

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After his public lecture on elections andstrategic voting, Professor Eric Maskin (left)

engaged in conversation with attendees,including Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor inthe School of Natural Sciences (far right).

Member Gabriella Coleman (left) spokeabout computer hacking during a lunchseminar; Member Rohini Somanathan

(right) gave the Leon Levy Lecture in whichshe explored the emergence and the

consequences of the strategy adopted bythe Indian state to equalize opportunity.

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September, he spoke on “Why Haven’tGlobal Markets Reduced Inequality” atthe Shanghai Forum. This was also thesubject of lectures in Beijing and Asun-ción, Paraguay. He spoke on “FinancialCrises: Why They Occur and What toDo About Them” at the Polish Finan-cial Supervisory Authority in October.This was also the subject of lectures inXiamen, China, and the Chen DaisunMemorial Lecture at Tsinghua Univer-sity in Beijing. In November, he gavethe keynote address on “Using Eco-nomic Theory for Policy” at the twen-ty-fifth anniversary celebration ofFEDEA in Madrid. Maskin conducteda graduate course at Princeton University in spring 2011 on repeatedgames, and directed the twenty-second annual Jerusalem Summer Schoolon the topic of financial crises. He will begin a two-year term as presidentof the GameTheory Society in November 2011. He also received an hon-orary degree from the Universidad del Norte in Paraguay.

Joan Wallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor, ran the School’s seminaron Secularism this year. She gave the Marcus W. Orr Faculty Senate Lec-ture at the University of Memphis and the History & Theory Lecture atColumbia University. She also gave lectures at the Washington HistorySeminar in Washington, D.C.; NewYork University; Stony Brook Univer-sity, the State University of NewYork; and Princeton University. She pre-sented papers at the American Historical Association meetings and at aconference on “Sexual Nationalisms” in Amsterdam. She also served on anAmerican Council of Learned Societies selection committee for fellow-ships for assistant professors.

Professor Emeritus Michael Walzer spent the academic year as a Fellow ofthe newly established Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law &Justice at the NewYork University School of Law and also as a Fellow ofNYU’s Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization. His research therewas focused on just war theory and questions of global justice (for Straus)

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Professor Joan Scott (left) discussed theinfluence of gender on the reinterpretationof the fields of history and social sciencewith Caroline Bynum (right), Professor inthe School of Historical Studies, duringthe Institute’s eightieth anniversarycelebrations in the fall.

Members Gil Anidjar (left) andWinnifredFallers Sullivan (right) participated in adiscussion on law and secularism.


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and biblical politics (for Tikvah). He attended the Social Studies FiftiethAnniversary Celebration at Harvard University, where he chaired the panelon “Social Studies and Social Change.” On November 8–10, the Institutefor International Law and Justice, the European Journal of InternationalLaw, and the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Econom-ic Law & Justice, along with the Tikvah Center, hosted “The EnduringLegacy of Just and UnjustWars—35Years Later,” a conference at the NYUSchool of Law, on the occasion of the thirty-fifth anniversary of Walzer’sbook. At Princeton University, Walzer gave the Doll Family Lecture onReligion and Money, “Humanitarianism:What is It?” In April, at the Unit-ed States Naval Academy, he gave a keynote address at a conference on “TenYears Later:Warfare Ethics Since 9/11.” From May through August 2011,Walzer was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Studies at the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem. He is currently working on the third of four vol-umes of The Jewish PoliticalTradition, a collaborative project on the history ofJewish political thought.Walzer continues as coeditor of Dissent magazine.

During a lunch seminar, Member Rita Chinspoke about the problem of difference, asraised by millions of postwar migrants, in

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f First Term � s Second Term � vVisitora Research Assistant

Gil AnidjarReligion � Columbia University

Markus K. BrunnermeierEconomics � Princeton University � v

Rita ChinHistory � University of MichiganFrederick Burkhardt Fellowship funded by theAmerican Council of Learned Societies

E. Gabriella ColemanAnthropology � NewYork UniversityGinny and Robert Loughlin Founders’ CircleMember

JamesW. CookHistory � University of Michigan � v

Kathleen DavisLiterature � University of Rhode Island

Geoffroy de ClippelEconomics � Brown UniversityDeutsche Bank Member

Amrita DhillonEconomics � University of WarwickRogerW. Ferguson, Jr. and Annette L. NazarethMember

Avinash K. DixitEconomics � Princeton University � v

James DoylePhilosophy � University of Bristol � v, f

Tanya E. ErzenReligion �The Ohio State University

Henry S. FarberEconomics � Princeton University � v

Mayanthi L. FernandoAnthropology � University of California, SantaCruz

Martin GilensPolitical Science � Princeton UniversityRichard B. Fisher Member

Manu GoswamiHistory � NewYork UniversityTheWolfensohn Family Member

Kimberly HartAnthropology � Buffalo State College

Mark HewitsonHistory � University College London

Sheena KangPoliticalTheory �The University of Chicago � a

Cécile LabordePolitical Science � University College LondonFunding provided by the Florence GouldFoundation Fund

Tomoko MasuzawaHistory � University of Michigan

Stelios MichalopoulosEconomics �Tufts UniversityDeutsche Bank Member

Mohamed NachiSociology � Institut des Sciences Humaines etSociales, Université de Liège

StevenT. PierceHistory �The University of Manchester

Laura SecorJournalist � v

Rohini SomanathanEconomics � University of DelhiLeon Levy Foundation Member

Jeffrey L. StoutReligion � Princeton University

Winnifred Fallers SullivanReligion and Law � University at Buffalo,TheState University of NewYorkFriends of the Institute for Advanced StudyMember

Anna SunSociology � Kenyon College

Judith SurkisHistory � Institute for Advanced Study

ChantalThomasLaw � Cornell Law School � v, s

Yang XiaoPhilosophy � Kenyon College � v

RECORD OF EVENTS

August 30–September 1SpencerWorkshop: Education, Democracy,and Justice � Organized by Danielle S.Allen, UPS Foundation Professor, School ofSocial Science, and Rob Reich, StanfordUniversity

September 29Secularism Seminar � Planning Meeting

September 30Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

Secularism and Its Discontents � CécileLaborde, University College London;Member, School of Social Science

October 7Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar � ATale ofTwo Scandals: Sexual and Legal Conflict inFrance and French Algeria � Judith Surkis,Member, School of Social Science

Secularism Seminar � Discussion of“Secularism, Sex, and Religious Liberty” bySaba Mahmood, University of California,Berkeley, and “Sexularism” by Joan Scott,Harold F. Linder Professor, School of SocialScience

October 11EconomicsWorkshop � Detail Free Contracts toScreen, Elicit, and Reward Expert Information �

Sylvain Chassang, Princeton University

October 14Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

“I did it for the Lulz!!! but I stayed for the outrage:”InternetTrolls, the Politics of Spectacle, and GeekProtests against the Church of Scientology �

E. Gabriella Coleman, NewYorkUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

October 20Secularism Seminar � Discussion of AnAtheism that Is Not Humanist Emerges in FrenchThought by Stefanos Geroulanos, NewYork University


Caste Hierarchies and Social Mobility in India �

Rohini Somanathan, University of Delhi;Member, School of Social Science

October 25EconomicsWorkshop � Corporate Control andMultiple Large Shareholders � Amrita Dhillon,University of Warwick; Member, School ofSocial Science (joint work with SilviaRossetto)


Bloods of America (TheVampire State) � GilAnidjar, Columbia University; Member,School of Social Science

Seminar on Moral Issues � Planning Meeting

November 1EconomicsWorkshop � Speech Is Silver, butSilence Might Be Golden: On the StrategicDisclosure of Feasible Options in Bargaining �

Geoffroy de Clippel, Brown University;Member, School of Social Science (joint workwith Kfir Eliaz)

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November 3Secularism Seminar � Discussion focusing onworks by Talal Asad and Hussein Ali Agrama

November 4Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

From Rasse to Race: On the Problem of Differencein the Federal Republic of Germany � RitaChin, University of Michigan; Member,School of Social Science

November 10Seminar on Moral Issues � Discussionfocusing on works by Kimberly Hart,Buffalo State College; Member, School ofSocial Science, and Yang Xiao, KenyonCollege;Visitor, School of Social Science


The Secular/Scholar in the Field of Multiplicity:AVisual Meditation on the Origin of BiblicalCriticism � Tomoko Masuzawa, Universityof Michigan; Member, School of SocialScience

November 15EconomicsWorkshop � Divide and Rule or theRule of the Divided: Evidence from Africa �

Stelios Michalopoulos,Tufts University;Member, School of Social Science (joint workwith Elias Papaioannou)

November 17Secularism Seminar � Discussion on law andsecularism


Religion, Land, and Rights: Reflections on thePark51 Controversy � Winnifred FallersSullivan, University of Buffalo,The StateUniversity of NewYork; Member, School ofSocial Science

November 29EconomicsWorkshop � Repayment Incentivesand the Distribution of Gains from GroupLending � Rohini Somanathan, Universityof Delhi; Member, School of Social Science

December 1Secularism Seminar � Discussion of readingsfrom After Secular Law

December 2Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

Reason-Based Choice:A Bargaining Rationalefor the Attraction and Compromise Effect �

Geoffroy de Clippel, Brown University;Member, School of Social Science (joint workwith Kfir Eliaz)

December 8Seminar on Moral Issues � Discussion ofreadings suggested by E. GabriellaColeman, NewYork University, andJeffrey L. Stout, Princeton University;Members, School of Social Science

Secularism Seminar � The Ruse of Law: LegalEquality and the Problem of Citizenship in aMulti-Religious Sudan � Noah Salomon,Carleton College

December 9Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

Inside the Carceral Church:The Politics ofTransformation in Faith-Based Prisons � TanyaE. Erzen,The Ohio State University;Member, School of Social Science

December 15Secularism Seminar � The Period of ConstantContemplation � Laura Secor, Journalist;Visitor, School of Social Science

January 13Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

The Quest for Secular and Sacred Salvation inRural Anatolia � Kimberly Hart, Buffalo StateCollege; Member, School of Social Science

January 19Secularism Seminar � Discussion of readingssuggested by Cécile Laborde, UniversityCollege London; Member, School of SocialScience

January 20Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

A Moral Economy of Corruption: Histories of theNigerian State � StevenT. Pierce,TheUniversity of Manchester; Member, Schoolof Social Science

January 26Seminar on Moral Issues � Moral Economies �

Didier Fassin, James D.WolfensohnProfessor, School of Social Science, andStevenT. Pierce,The University ofManchester; Member, School of SocialScience

February 2Secularism Seminar � Screening of the filmMeet John Doe � Jeffrey L. Stout, PrincetonUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

February 3Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

Confusions over Confucianism: Concepts, Methods,and Realities � Anna Sun, Kenyon College;Member, School of Social Science

February 7EconomicsWorkshop � Laws and Norms �

Roland Benabou, Princeton University(joint work with Jean Tirole)


Development and the Interaction of EnforcementInstitutions � Amrita Dhillon, University ofWarwick; Member, School of Social Science

February 16Secularism Seminar � Discussion of readingssuggested by Kimberly Hart, Buffalo StateCollege; Member, School of Social Science

February 23Seminar on Moral Issues � Discussion ofreadings suggested byMayanthi L.Fernando, University of California, SantaCruz, andMark Hewitson, UniversityCollege London; Members, School of SocialScience


“NeitherWhores Nor Doormats”:The Politics ofInclusion in France � Mayanthi L. Fernando,University of California, Santa Cruz; Member,School of Social Science

March 3Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

Thinking about Ikhtilâf (“Difference”):ThePolitical Construction of Difference in IslamicContext � Mohamed Nachi, Institut desSciences Humaines et Sociales, Université deLiège; Member, School of Social Science

March 7EconomicsWorkshop � The ITheory ofMoney � Markus K. Brunnermeier,Princeton University;Visitor, School of SocialScience (joint work withYuliy Sannikov)

March 10Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar � TheBenevolent Baker:Altruism and Political PreferenceFormation � Martin Gilens, PrincetonUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

March 14EconomicsWorkshop � Sovereign Debt Default:The Impact of Creditor Composition � AmritaDhillon, University of Warwick; Member,School of Social Science (joint work with LeiZhang)

March 16Secularism Seminar � Roundtable Discussionwith Janet Jakobsen, Barnard College, andTanya E. Erzen,The Ohio State University;Member, School of Social Science


The Presidency of Religious Affairs � ElizabethShakman Hurd, Northwestern University


March 23Seminar on Moral Issues � Discussion ofreadings suggested by Tomoko Masuzawa,University of Michigan, and RohiniSomanathan, University of Delhi;Members, School of Social Science

Secularism Seminar � TheVampire State �

Gil Anidjar, Columbia University; Member,School of Social Science


Delineating the History of Human Rights: Does“The Middle Ages”Matter? � KathleenDavis, University of Rhode Island; Member,School of Social Science

March 28EconomicsWorkshop � Hierarchy, Identity, andCollective Action � Rohini Somanathan,University of Delhi; Member, School ofSocial Science

March 30Secularism Seminar � Discussion of readingssuggested byMohamed Nachi, Institut desSciences Humaines et Sociales, Université deLiège, and Judith Surkis, Members, Schoolof Social Science


Of Markets and Morals:Albert Hirschman, theInstitute for Advanced Study, and the 1970s �

Jeremy I. Adelman, Princeton University

April 7Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

From Einstein Drive to Hamilton Place and Back:Reflections on the Use of Social Science inGovernment � Alan B. Krueger, PrincetonUniversity

April 12Secularism Seminar � Walled States,WaningSovereignty � Wendy Brown, University ofCalifornia, Berkeley

April 13Seminar on Moral Issues � Discussion ofreadings suggested byManu Goswami,NewYork University, and Cécile Laborde,University College London; Members, Schoolof Social Science

April 14Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar � AnInternationalist Sociology:Thinking the Future inInterwar India � Manu Goswami, NewYorkUniversity; Member, School of Social Science

April 18EconomicsWorkshop � Bargaining Foundationsof Conflict Games � Tomas Sjöström,Rutgers,The State University of New Jersey

April 27Secularism Seminar � Discussion of readingssuggested by StevenT. Pierce,TheUniversity of Manchester; Member, Schoolof Social Science

April 28Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

Hitchcock’s Shadow � Jeffrey L. Stout,Princeton University; Member, School ofSocial Science

May 2EconomicsWorkshop � Implementation andBounded Rationality � Geoffroy de Clippel,Brown University; Member, School of SocialScience

May 4Seminar on Moral Issues � Discussion ofworks submitted by Anna Sun, KenyonCollege, and Judith Surkis, Members,School of Social Science

May 5Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spreadof Islam:Theory and Evidence � SteliosMichalopoulos,Tufts University; Member,School of Social Science

May 11Secularism Seminar � Discussion of readingssuggested by Anna Sun, Kenyon College;Member, School of Social Science

May 12Social Science Thursday Lunch Seminar �

In Defense of Lost Causes: Germany and theOutbreak ofWorldWar I � Mark Hewitson,University College London; Member, Schoolof Social Science

May 16EconomicsWorkshop � Employee Referrals vs.Market-Based Recruitment:The Case of UnskilledLabor Markets � Amrita Dhillon, Universityof Warwick; Member, School of SocialScience

May 18Secularism Seminar � Final conversationsand discussion of readings suggested byGil Anidjar, Columbia University; Member,School of Social Science

June 27–30Seminar on Critical Moral Anthropology �

Coordinated by Didier Fassin, James D.Wolfensohn Professor, School of SocialScience

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The Historical Studies–Social Science Library (Marcia Tucker, Librarian) contains some 125,000 volumes andhas subscriptions to over one thousand journals. The Library is strongest in classical studies, ancient history,and archaeology, but it contains basic document collections, reference works, and important secondary works

of scholarship in most fields of history and the social sciences.The journal collection is extensive, and fairly completeback runs exist to the founding of the Institute. The HS–SS Library has occupied its present building since 1964.

The Institute’s rare book collection, the gift of Lessing J. Rosenwald, consists of about two thousand volumes on thehistory of science and was compiled by Herbert M. Evans in the 1930s. The collection, which is housed in a specialroom, includes numerous first editions of important scientific works in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and the lifesciences. Additional volumes have been added through various gifts, most notably through the Leon Levy Fund,expanding the subject scope of the collection. The HS–SS Library continues to process books from the library ofWalther Heissig, a noted Central Asian–studies scholar.Walther Heissig’s library came to the Institute partly as a giftand partly on deposit from the Princeton University East Asian Studies Department and Princeton University Library.

The HS–SS Library includes books and offprints from past Professors including Kurt Gödel, Ernst H. Kantorowicz,Elias Avery Lowe, Millard Meiss, Erwin Panofsky, Marshall Clagett, and HarryWoolf, and former Members RobertHuygens andWalther Kirchner. The Library also contains the library of Giorgio Tonelli.

The microfilm collections of the HS–SS Library include a large selection from Manuscripta, a collection of severalthousand fifteenth- to nineteenth-century printed books from the Vatican Library. The Bavarian Academy in 1965provided the Institute with a microfilm copy of slips presented for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae along with recentadditional material on CD. The Library has microfilm copies of the papers of SimoneWeil.

The Library houses the Institute archives. The records in the collection of the ShelbyWhite and Leon Levy ArchivesCenter (Christine Di Bella, Archivist) date from the 1930s and consist of official correspondence of the Director’sOffice, minutes of meetings of the Faculty and the Board of Trustees, correspondence concerning past Faculty andMembers, records of the Electronic Computer Project, and the papers of select Faculty members, including astro-physicist John N. Bahcall. The archives also include the Institute’s photograph collection and a growing oral historycollection. The reading room is located in the annex of the HS–SS Library. It provides a space for researchers toconsult resources from the archives, as well as a display area featuring selections from the collections. A generous giftfrom the Leon Levy Foundation supports the ongoing work of the Institute to formally organize and preserve theimportant historical materials already in its possession and to serve as a repository for essential source materials goingforward.

The Mathematics–Natural Sciences Library (Momota Ganguli, Librarian) is located in Fuld Hall, with smaller depart-mental branches in Bloomberg Hall and compact shelving spread across campus.The collection, which includes aboutthirty thousand volumes of monographs and bound periodicals as well as 140 print and/or electronic subscriptions,spans pure and applied mathematics, astrophysics, theoretical and mathematical physics, and biology. The M–NSLibrary has an extensive collection of the collected works of mathematicians, including those of Cauchy, Descartes,Fermat, Gauss, Hardy, and Poincaré. Each year, the M–NS Library adds about three hundred books to its collection.

Both of the Institute’s libraries participate in the shared cataloguing system OCLC, which gives Institute scholarscomputerized access to a database that is in use by 57,000 libraries in 112 countries. The Institute is a member of theOCLC Research Library SHARES group, a resource-sharing program.The Institute’sWeb-accessible online catalogueprovides holdings information for the libraries and is accessible via http://library.ias.edu from anywhere in the world.

The HS–SS Library maintains computers that provide access to scanners, a variety of software packages for both PCsand Macintoshes, and databases in the fields of Classics, the history of science, and Islamic and French studies. TheM–NS Library’s electronic resources include access to Math-SciNet, JSTOR, and arXiv.org. All scholars affiliatedwith the Institute enjoy the same privileges as Princeton University faculty in the Princeton University Library sys-tem. All scholars also have privileges in the library of the Princeton Theological Seminary. The Librarians and theFaculty of all four Schools at the Institute warmly appreciate gifts of books and publications from former and cur-rent Faculty, Members, and Visitors of the Institute.

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For more than eighty years, the Institute for Advanced Study has had a profound influence on the fieldsof study represented here: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science. Anyday at lunch or tea, you will hear leading scientists and scholars from around the world discussing topics

as diverse as the response to terrorism, understanding the organization of biological systems, fourteenth-century Mongolian history, the very latest developments in string theory, the mathematical basis of computersecurity, the history and meaning of secularism, and how to evaluate the signals for supersymmetry at theLarge Hadron Collider at CERN.

Members, who typically stay for one year but may stay for up to five years, live together with their familiesin housing adjacent to the Institute campus in what might be described as a true academic village. Throughoutthe year, the Office of the Director hosts a broad range of concerts, lectures, programs, and forums, as listed onthe following pages. To celebrate its eightieth anniversary, the Institute held two weekends in the fall of2010, which illustrated the work of its Schools and presented opportunities for the Institute’s former scien-tists and scholars to return and meet current Faculty, Members, andVisitors (see photos, below). In addition,the Institute offers a series of activities for Members,Visitors, and their families. In the 2010–11 academic year,these included films, play readings, clay modeling classes, yoga, tennis lessons, trips to museums and othercultural sites, and activities for children in the Institute community.

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RECORD OF EVENTS

September 21Member Welcome Reception

September 24–25Eightieth Anniversary Celebration—Schools ofMathematics and Natural Sciences � FundamentalPhysics in theTwenty-First Century � NimaArkani-Hamed, Professor, School of NaturalSciences � Geometry of Growth and Form:Commentary on D’ArcyThompson � John Milnor,Co-Director, Institute for Mathematical Sciences,Stony Brook University,The State University ofNewYork � Expansion in Linear Groups andApplications � Jean Bourgain, Professor, Schoolof Mathematics � Cosmology: Recent Results andFuture Prospects � Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor,School of Natural Sciences � Quanta, Symmetry,andTopology � FrankWilczek, Herman FeshbachProfessor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology �

Remarks: Freeman J. Dyson, ProfessorEmeritus, School of Natural Sciences and RobertP. Langlands, Professor Emeritus, School ofMathematics � ConspiracyTheories in Medicine �

Didier Fassin, James D.Wolfensohn Professor,School of Social Science � Quatre-vingt. Four Bases,Twenty Amino Acids: Is Biology BecomingQuantitative? � Stanislas Leibler, Professor,School of Natural Sciences � What if CurrentFoundations of Mathematics are Inconsistent? �

VladimirVoevodsky, Professor, School ofMathematics

October 8Writers Conversation � Poets Panel � Tracy K.Smith, Assistant Professor,The Lewis Center forthe Arts, Princeton University; Thomas SayersEllis, Assistant Professor, Sarah Lawrence College;Suji Kwock Kim, Poet;Wendy S.Walters,Poet

October 13Public Lecture � Voting Paradoxes andCombinatorics � NogaAlon,Visiting Professor,School of Mathematics

October 29Public Lecture � The MathematicalTruth � EnricoBombieri, IBM von Neumann Professor, Schoolof Mathematics

November 5–6Edward T. Cone Concert Series � BorromeoString Quartet with guest artists PaulNeubauer, viola; Fred Sherry, cello; DerekBermel, clarinet

November 6Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk � NicholasKitchen,Mai Motobuchi, Paul Neubauer,Andreia Pinto-Correia, Fred Sherry,KristopherTong, and Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence

November 12–13Eightieth Anniversary Celebration—Schools ofHistorical Studies and Social Science � TheInfluence of Gender on the Reinterpretation of theFields of History and Social Science � CarolineWalker Bynum, Professor, School of HistoricalStudies; JoanWallach Scott, Harold F. LinderProfessor, School of Social Science � TheRelevance of the ClassicalWorld to Current PoliticalPhenomena � Danielle S. Allen, UPSFoundation Professor, School of Social Science;Angelos Chaniotis, Professor, School ofHistorical Studies � The History of Basic HumanRights:The Declaration of the Rights of Man, 1789 �

Jonathan Israel, Professor, School of HistoricalStudies � Historical Studies and Social Science:AnIllustrated History � George Dyson, Author �

Secularism and Human Rights: Basic Human Rightsin History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology �

Panel Discussion: Moderator:HaroldT. Shapiro,President Emeritus and Professor of Economicsand Public Affairs, Princeton University; Panelists:Didier Fassin, James D.Wolfensohn Professor,School of Social Science; Jonathan Israel,Professor, School of Historical Studies; JoanWallach Scott, Harold F. Linder Professor,School of Social Science

November 17Friends Forum � Honest Doubt � Paul Hodgson,Artist and Director’sVisitor, Institute forAdvanced Study

November 19Public Policy Lecture � Human-Made ClimateChange:A Moral, Political, and Legal Issue � JamesE. Hansen, Climatologist and Adjunct Professor,Columbia University

November 21Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert �

Chamber Music Gems � Ruotao Mao andHanfang Zhang, violins; Sarah Sutton, viola;ElizabethThompson, cello

December 3Friends Fireside Chat � Mechanisms of CancerEvolution and Strategies for CancerTherapy:MyExperience at the Institute for Advanced Study �

Robert A. Beckman, Executive Director,Clinical Research Oncology, Daiichi-SankyoPharmaceutical Development

December 8Public Lecture � The Fear of God:An Emotion andIts Contexts � Angelos Chaniotis, Professor,School of Historical Studies

December 10Edward T. Cone Concert Series � MalletMadness � Joe Locke, vibraphone; LisaPegher, marimba; BernardWoma, Dagaragyil (African xylophone)


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December 11Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk � JoeLocke; Lisa Pegher; BernardWoma;Derek Bermel, Artist-in Residence; andPaul Lansky, Composer

January 10Member Welcome Reception

January 14Friends Fireside Chat � The Future of theAll-Volunteer Force in a Democratic Republic �

William S. Greenberg, Chairman, ReserveForces Policy Board

January 16Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert �

The Beethoven Difference � Jesse Mills, violin;Alistair MacRae, cello; Rieko Aizowa,piano

February 4–5Edward T. Cone Concert Series � BrooklynRider

February 5Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk �

Nicholas Cords, Johnny Gandelsman,Colin Jacobsen, Eric Jacobsen, andDerek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence

February 11Friends Culture and Cuisine � Appetite City,A Culinary History of New York � WilliamGrimes,Writer, The New YorkTimes

February 26Midwinter Party for Faculty, Members, andStaff

March 4Einstein Legacy Society Talk � Linda G.Arntzenius, Author of Images of America:Institute for Advanced Study

March 9Friends Forum � Thinking About ClimateChange: Science and Politics � HaroldT.Shapiro, President Emeritus and Professor ofEconomics and Public Affairs, PrincetonUniversity

March 11–12Edward T. Cone Concert Series � The EndofTime � Edward Aaron, cello; DerekBermel, clarinet; Steven Copes, violin;Stephen Gosling, piano; and TaraO’Connor, flute

March 12Edward T. Cone Concert Series Talk �

Edward Arron, Steven Copes, TaraO’Connor, and Derek Bermel, Artist-in-Residence

March 25Concert for Donors and Friends � GrahamWalker, cello; ChristopherWhitton, piano

March 26Children’s Concert � GrahamWalker, cello;ChristopherWhitton, piano

March 30Public Lecture � The Politics of AcademicFreedom � JoanWallach Scott, Harold F.Linder Professor, School of Social Science

April 3Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert �

Stravinsky’s RussianTales � Large ChamberEnsemble with Singers, Eric Dudley,Conductor

April 8Friends Culture and Cuisine � AfricanFoodways Are Like Jazz: Culinary Improvisationsin Africa and America � Frederick DouglassOpie,Visiting Associate Professor, BabsonCollege

April 11Leon Levy Lecture � Rohini Somanathan,Professor, University of Delhi; Member,School of Social Science

April 29Friends Fireside Chat � Parsing Resemblance:Intimating Bach in the Modern SymphonyOrchestra � Tarik O’Regan, Composer andDirector’sVisitor, Institute for Advanced Study

May 6Public Lecture � Elections and StrategicVoting �

Eric S. Maskin, Albert O. HirschmanProfessor, School of Social Science

May 11Friends Forum � Out ofThisWorld:A Historyof Structure in the Universe � Marilena LoVerde, Member, School of Natural Sciences

May 15Friends Tour and Talk with Peter Goddard,Director, Institute for Advanced Study

June 15Staff Picnic


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Director’s Visitor Tom Phillips spoke about the artist’s life during After Hours Conversations.

After Hours Conversations, a program conceived and organized by Professors CarolineBynum of the School of Historical Studies and Piet Hut of the Program in InterdisciplinaryStudies, was launched in February 2008 to encourage inter-School conversations in an infor-mal and relaxed environment. In 2010–11, the program continued with talks held in Harry’sBar every Monday and Thursday in October and November and again in February andMarch. After a ten-minute presentation of a theme or problem of broad significance, therewere twenty minutes of lively group discussion, often followed by continuing conversation aspeople lingered over drinks. In the fall term, Professors Helmut Hofer and Caroline Bynumchaired the sessions; in the spring term, both of them were joined by Professor Piet Hut.Attendance varied from twenty to seventy. There were presentations by Members, Visitors,and Faculty, both active and emeriti, from all four Schools of the Institute and from theProgram in Interdisciplinary Studies, as well as by Director’s Visitors and Staff. Topics rangedfrom the nature of spacetime to producing operas; personalized medicine; game theoryperspectives on pastoral cattle herders in Kenya; and anthropology of hackers. A webpage(www.ids.ias.edu/after-hours-conversations) provides information on dates, speakers, andtopics. The program will continue in 2011–12.


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Program in Interdisciplinary StudiesPiet Hut’s activities included both his astrophysics research and his responsibilities as the head of the Programin Interdisciplinary Studies. The latter program had seventeen visitors, with durations of their visits rangingfrom days to months, in fields including mathematical physics, astrophysics, computer science, philosophy,science writing, bioinformatics, classical music, art history, and political economy.

During the year, Hut, together with Caroline Bynum, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, andHelmut Hofer, Professor in the School of Mathematics, organized a series of After Hours Conversations,which were held at the Institute in Harry’s Bar two times a week for a period of two months during eachsemester. Each get-together had a more formal part lasting thirty minutes, starting with a ten-minute talk bya speaker followed by a twenty-minute period of questions. In addition, many participants would continueinformal conversations afterward. These activities were widely seen as an effective way to encourage inter-School communication at the Institute.

Hut spent part of the fall semester at Kyoto University in Japan, where he visited the interdisciplinaryprogram Hakubi, a promising new initiative bringing together researchers from all fields of natural science,social science, and the humanities. He also co-organized an interdisciplinary applied mathematics seminar atthe Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the same university. Following that, he visited the newsupercomputer research institute in Kobe, Japan, in order to develop software for astrophysical simulations.As of June 2011, their K computer is the fastest computer in the world.

He also spent some time visitingYamagata University, where he started a collaboration with Shigeru Taguchi,a specialist in Husserlian phenomenology, and the Nagahama Bio University, working with Hayato Saigo,whose field is applied mathematics. After introducing Taguchi and Saigo to each other, Hut started a three-way collaboration with the aim to explore new mathematical structures for phenomenological philosophy.

As part of his ongoing research of virtual worlds, he explored OpenSim as well as OpenWonderland, two alter-native environments, in addition to the more established world of Second Life.Within the latter, he organizedworkshops and other regular meetings for the Meta Institute for Computational Astrophysics (MICA;www.mica-vw.org), and for the Kira Institute (www.kira.org), focused on interdisciplinary collaborations.

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“The Harmonic Series,” led by Artist-in-Residence Derek Bermel, continued in 2010–11. The serieswas developed to explore the wide variety of aesthetic perspectives in art music, especially of thetwentieth and twenty-first centuries, through chamber music concerts and talks.

The Edward T. Cone Concert Series opened with performances by the Borromeo String Quartet, with guestartists Paul Neubauer on viola, Fred Sherry on cello, and Bermel on the clarinet. The program included BélaBartók’s String Quartet no. 6, Milton Babbitt’s More Melismata, Variações sobre temas populares by Andreia Pinto-Correia, Derek Bermel’s Soul Garden and Coming Together, and Osvaldo Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayers ofIsaac the Blind. The second concert weekend of the season was Mallet Madness, featuring vibraphonist JoeLocke, marimbist Lisa Pegher, and African xylophonist Bernard Woma in an all-percussion program. Thespring concerts began with Brooklyn Rider and traced more than a century of American concert music, withDvorák’s American Quartet (String Quartet no. 12 in F) as its centerpiece. Other works on the programincluded Bermel’s Amerikanizálódik, Don Byron’s Four Thoughts on Marvin Gaye, John Cage’s In a Landscape,Philip Glass’s String Quartet no. 3 (Mishima), and Colin Jacobsen’s Achille’s Heel. The season concluded withThe End of Time, with performances of Béla Bartók’s Contrasts, Edward T. Cone’s Sphinxes: 25 Aphorisms forPiano, Bermel’s TwinTrio, and Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Concert talks by the performersfollowed the Friday performances and preceded the Saturday concerts.

This year the Writers Conversations continued with a poets panel featuring moderator Tracy K. Smith andpoets Thomas Sayers Ellis, Suji Kwock Kim, and Wendy S. Walters. The next event was a conversation withShimon Attie, an internationally renowned visual artist who discussed a variety of his work, from his earlysite-specific installations across Europe through his more recent artworks that involve multiple-channelimmersive video installations. The final presentation was a conversation with Alex Ross, music critic of theNew Yorker, who joined Bermel in a discussion of the challenges in writing about music for different formats,including books, magazines, newspapers, and blogs.

In addition to directing “The Harmonic Series,” during the 2010–11 year Bermel composed a newly com-missioned work,Mar de Setembro, for the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with soprano soloist Luciana Souza,as well as an electric guitar concerto jointly commissioned by the Albany Symphony and the Nederlands JeugdStijkorkest, which had its American and European premieres in the spring. He also had works performed bythe Chicago Symphony and the Alabama Symphony, among others. Bermel has been busy co-curating theten-day SONiC festival, featuring the music of over one hundred composers age forty and under, which willtake place at venues throughout New York City during October 2011, including Carnegie Hall, the JoyceSoho, the Kitchen, Joe’s Pub, the World Financial Center, and Columbia University’s Miller Theatre.

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Director’s Visitors, scholars who work in a variety of fields, including areas not represented in the Schools, contribute much tothe vitality of the Institute.They are invited to the Institute for varying periods of time, depending on the nature of their work.

Graham Farmelo is writing a book on Winston Churchill’s work on the atomic bomb, from his earlyacquaintance with the idea of such weapons to the end of his second premiership. Farmelo will be concen-trating on his relationships with British physicists—Lord Cherwell among others—but including the Americanpresidents with whom he worked on nuclear policy, from Roosevelt to Eisenhower.

During his time at the Institute, Paul Hodgson continued to explore different kinds of uncertainty throughpainting, photography, and digital media. He also continued an ongoing examination of the value of asubjective response. The work that he produced has since led him to separate the different visual languagesthat he had previously combined in a single picture, and to reconsider each in turn. A studio on the edge ofthe Institute woodlands prompted him to work directing from a landscape motif, raising interesting questionsof how this activity relates to his current practice. The largest of the pictures that he worked on during hisstay is Compendium—a mixed media piece, completed on his return to London in early 2011.

The great benefit of being a Director’s Visitor is the opportunity, away from normal work constraints, tofollow serendipity. Thanks to the open stacks policy in so many of Princeton’s libraries, both at IAS and at theUniversity, Fiona Maddocks chanced upon some specialist texts concerning the use of non-Westernmusical styles in early-twentieth-century opera. This fed directly into the exploration of wider social-cultural issues she has been examining in relation to opera, and prompted a fresh andrewarding line of inquiry. She arrived at the Institute with one set of questions andleft a month later, after many walks in the woods and stimulating lunchtime en-counters, having posed, if not entirely answered, several others far more interesting.

Tarik O’Regan continued making final revisions to Heart of Darkness, his operabased on Conrad’s novel of the same name (a collaboration with fellow Director’sVisitor Tom Phillips), which opens in November 2011 at the Royal Opera House,London. He also completed a commission for Paul Hillier and the NationalChamber Choir of Ireland: Acallam na Senórach, an hour-long chamber renderingfor sixteen solo voices of this important Middle Irish narrative dating from thetwelfth century. The new work tours the United States and is released on CD byHarmonia Mundi in October 2011.

Once again Tom Phillips arrived at the Institute with a task and departed with anidea. Inspiration (if one dare use that word) can only come to the worker on duty, so the task was performedusing (once again) trashed magazines from the humanities library. The same library furnished reading matter,which led, with the usual admixture of lunches, conversations, astrophysical ping pong, and walks in thewoods, to a visual commentary on Cicero, now happily in progress.

Writing yet another history of the Institute after the half dozen written since Beatrice Stern’s pioneer study?Downsizing the project was one answer, choosing a different angle another. The history Ulrich Raulff is doingnow focuses on the humanists at the Institute, its time horizon being the first two and half decades after thewar.What was it to be a cold-war humanist, coming out of one war, being surrounded by people that seemedto be busy preparing the next? When policy-making in the nuclear age forged new coalitions and broke oldsolidarities; when the gatekeepers of pure science and scholarship rallied for their last battle:What styles ofcommunication (living, talking) were then in fashion and bridged the gap of the two cultures? These weresome of the questions he began to tackle, and it was a wonderful experience to discuss them with old andnew members of faculty, guests, and visitors, and being most generously helped by the staff of the Institute’slibrary and archive.

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Fiona Maddocks arrivedat the Institute with oneset of questions and left amonth later, after manywalks in the woods andstimulating lunchtimeencounters, having posed,if not entirely answered,several others far moreinteresting.


IAS/PCMI

The IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) is a program of professional development for themathematics community, including research mathematicians, graduate students, undergraduate students,mathematics education researchers, undergraduate faculty, and mathematics teachers at the secondary

school level. Established in 1991 through a grant from the National Science Foundation, PCMI has been anoutreach program of the Institute for Advanced Study since 1994.

The Annual PCMI Summer Session is the flagship activity of PCMI. Held annually in Park City, Utah, theSummer Session combines high-quality lectures and seminars with activities and events designed to fosterall-institute interaction.The interaction at PCMI creates strong bonds throughout the mathematical communityand increases awareness of the roles and contributions of all professionals in mathematics-based occupations.

In addition to the annual Summer Session, PCMI offers year-round professional development activities tosecondary school mathematics teachers through its Math Science Partnership project and in the many Profes-sional Development and Outreach Groups associated with the summer Secondary School Teachers Program.

Another method of outreach is through the publications offered by PCMI. The Graduate Summer Schoollectures are typically disseminated through the Park City Mathematics Series published by the AmericanMathematical Society and targeted at graduate students and research mathematicians. Also published by theAMS is a series of lectures from PCMI’s Undergraduate Summer School. The Math Forum at Drexel Uni-versity publishes online the products created by PCMI’s Secondary School Teachers Program, and the pro-ceedings and briefs authored by PCMI’s International Seminar on Mathematics Education are also availableon the Math Forum website.

Annual Summer SessionThe twenty-first annual Summer Session was held July 3–23, 2011, in Park City and attracted some 350participants combined in all programs.

The following programs took place during the Summer Session (except as noted, all programs met for theentire three weeks):

Graduate Summer School and Research ProgramInternational Seminar on Mathematics Education (one week)Research Program in MathematicsSecondary School Teachers ProgramService, Teaching, and Research (STaR) Program (one week)Undergraduate Faculty ProgramUndergraduate Summer School

The mathematical research topic informs the courses and seminars for the Graduate Summer School, theResearch Program, the Undergraduate Summer School, and the Undergraduate Faculty Program; in 2011 thetopic was “Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces.” The topic “Making Mathematical Connections” providedthe focus for the International Seminar and the Secondary School Teachers Program.

Each of the programs met daily for a series of courses and seminars. The groups also met together for cross-program activities three or four days each week.

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Graduate Summer School and Research ProgramThe Graduate Summer School and the Research Program 2011 were organized by Benson Farb, Universityof Chicago; Richard Hain, Duke University; and Eduard Looijenga, Universiteit Utrecht. This year’s theme,“Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces,” included recent developments in mathematical theory of thesemoduli spaces and brought together viewpoints from the disparate fields of algebraic geometry, geometrictopology, geometric analysis, and representation theory. Thus the graduate lecture series and researchseminars brought together a broad range of mathematical approaches to the fundamental problem of under-standing the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces and its many compactifications. There were many cross-fieldinteractions among participants that are expected to lead to collaborations in the near future.

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The 2011 Graduate Summer School had six lecture series (with a total of forty lectures) on a variety ofapproaches to understanding the moduli spaces of Riemann surfaces. Each lecture, which was balancedbetween introductory and advanced research material, was supplemented with an additional daily sessionwhere students worked on prepared problems guided by the lecturers’ teaching assistants.

The Summer Session is designed to provide graduate students with a comprehensive and diverse learningexperience that few, if any, could obtain in their own university. Attendance at all lectures was very high andincluded participants from the Graduate Summer School, the Research Program, the Undergraduate FacultyProgram, and the Undergraduate Summer School.

GRADUATE SUMMER SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES 2011

“Tautological Algebras of Moduli Spaces,” Carel Faber, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

“Stable Cohomology of Mapping Class Groups,” Søren Galatius, Stanford University, and Nathalie Wahl,University of Copenhagen

“Teichmüller Theory and Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces,” Ursula Hamenstädt, Universität Bonn, andMartin Möller, Goethe Universität-Frankfurt

“Arithmetic Mapping Class Groups,” Makoto Matsumoto, Tokyo University

“Mapping Class and Torelli Groups,”Yair Minsky,Yale University, and Andrew Putman, Rice University

“Weil-Petersson Geometry and Intersection Numbers on Moduli Space,” Scott Wolpert, University ofMaryland

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education. The 2011 International Seminar focused on the topic “Complex Numbers” and the mathemati-cal knowledge needed by teachers for working with this concept. This seminar brought teams from Canada,Finland, Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, South Korea, and Slovenia to work with a team from the UnitedStates. Each country was invited to send two participants, one a currently practicing teacher and one work-ing on educational policy or in a university setting.

During the seminar, team members presented a response based on their country’s view of secondary educa-tion to specific questions related to complex numbers and the teaching of this concept. Participants fromeach of the other countries raised clarifying questions and discussed the implications of the response from theperspective of their own cultures. Michèle Artigue, past President of the International Congress on Mathe-matical Instruction, and Gail Burrill, past President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, leadthe seminar.

Issues emerging from the conversations formed the basis for jointly written policy briefs on topics of mutualconcern. The 2011 briefs deal with “Some Elements of the History of Complex Numbers,” “Integration ofAlgebra and Geometry through Complex Numbers,” “Progressions of Complex Numbers over Time,” and“Complex Numbers in Teacher Education: Connecting Mathematics and Pedagogy.” Once edited, these briefswill appear with the previous policy briefs and the proceedings of the earlier seminars on PCMI’s website atthe Math Forum, http://mathforum.org/pcmi/int.html.

This year, the seminar extended its efforts for conversation with the Secondary School Teachers Programthrough a special presentation, a morning visit, several social events, and the bringing of two past interna-tional seminar participants to the entire three-week summer secondary school program.

Research Program in MathematicsA broad spectrum of highly active researchers in fields including algebraic geometry,Teichmüller theory, andalgebraic topology were recruited to participate in this year’s research program. A large number of themstayed the entire three weeks, and almost all stayed at least one week.

The main formal activity of the research program consisted of nine hours of research talks each week. Eightof these were devoted to the work of established researchers, and one to the work of graduate students andearly postdocs. Almost all speakers took into account the diversity of the audience and carefully explained thebackground and motivation for their work as well as their recent results. Informal activity was also extensive;small groups gathered for conversations wherever they could find space. The conversations included a goodmany between people with different backgrounds, such as algebraic geometers and topologists or analysts andgroup theorists. Several of these conversations developed into research collaborations.82

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Secondary School Teachers ProgramFifty-four high school and middle school teachers followed an intense daily schedule that included learningmathematics, reflecting on what it means to teach mathematics, and working together to create products tobe shared with their colleagues.

Participants came from many different areas of the United States, as well as from Canada, Peru, Turkey, andVietnam. The range of teaching experience among the SSTP participants ran from one year of teaching toseasoned veterans.

The daily “Mathematical Problem Solving” course used materials created by a team from the EducationalDevelopment Center and the PROMYS for Teachers program at Boston University. The course in 2011focused on geometry as a useful tool for studying and understanding all kinds of phenomena inside and out-side mathematics. Participants created functions that give insight on a geometric problem, and looked forthings that remain constant when the inputs of a function change. These were applied to a wide variety ofsituations, including geometric optimization and the fundamental theorem of algebra.

In the daily “Reflecting on Practice” session, participants considered research related to teaching and learningmathematics with a particular focus on formative assessment—student thinking and how it can be used toshape instruction. The discussion was grounded in the study of lessons and classroom practice in both theUnited States and other countries. Participants worked collaboratively to better understand why assessmentfor learning is important and how they can design and use such assessments in their own classrooms.

For two hours each afternoon, each participant took part inone of six working groups on data analysis, functions, geome-try, discrete mathematics, lesson study, and a group that tookpart in the mathematics course given as part of PCMI’sUndergraduate Faculty Program. In the latter working group,participants not only learned about the research topic but pro-vided input to the course instructors about the pedagogyinvolved in delivering the course. The working group onfunctions focused on preparing materials to enable their col-leagues to understand the role of functions in the CommonCore State Standards. The other working groups exploredtechnology, developed lessons and classroom activities, and cre-ated drafts of potential articles on interesting and useful math-ematics that will be tested in classrooms when appropriate,reviewed during the coming year, revised as necessary, andposted on the PCMI website.

Service, Teaching, and Research (STaR) ProgramThe Service, Teaching, and Research (STaR) induction pro-gram for recent doctoral graduates in mathematics education, organized by Robert and Barbara Reys, Univer-sity of Missouri, with National Science Foundation funding, was associated with PCMI for the second year.The program supported thirty-five mathematics educators for one week at PCMI, taking part in coursesoffered by leading mathematics educators in the United States and working together in small groups on top-ics of interest and relevance to their emerging work. In addition to informal connections between PCMI’sSecondary School Teachers Program and STaR, participants from the two programs met together for a focusedlunch discussion led by facilitators from both groups around a set of common questions.

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community. The UFP is unique in that it bridges the educational and research objectives of PCMI.

This year’s UFP instructor/coordinator was Erica Flapan, Pomona College. The UFP 2011 had three goals:

To write a book that introduces first-year college students to topology and geometry and their applicationsto understanding models of our universe, knot theory, molecular symmetries, and DNA topology;

To develop usable homework problems with complete solutions;

To present a set of lectures to the undergraduates and teachers participating in PCMI during the summer.

To meet these goals, the eighteen participants were divided into smaller working groups. Each day one of thegroups presented an hour-long lecture based on the notes they had developed. These lectures were attendedby a group of secondary school teachers as well as by a group of undergraduate student participants. Theparticipants were careful to make sure that the lectures were self-contained with no prerequisites so that theteachers and undergraduates could understand them.

The UFP also developed homework problems and solutions to accompany the lecture notes.

At the end of the PCMI Summer Session, a manuscript with twelve chapters was submitted to the AmericanMathematical Society (AMS) for the Student World series. The solutions together with some notes toinstructors will also be made available online to future instructors. Many of the participants in the 2011 UFPplan to teach a course at their home institutions that would use the book once it is published.

Undergraduate Summer SchoolThe broad goal of the Undergraduate Summer School was to give an introduction to the geometry andtopology of surfaces. The particular goal was to define and study the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, start-ing with only calculus and linear algebra. Motivated by Euclidean space, the first part of the course describedmetric spaces and some basic facts, and then defined the three model spaces: the sphere, the Euclidean plane,and the hyperbolic plane. Geometric surfaces were defined using these as models, and the participantsanalyzed several ways to think about such surfaces. Finally, the moduli space in terms of geometric surfaceswas defined and studied by looking at its “universal covering,” the Teichmüller space, and the action of its“covering group,” the mapping class group. There were officially two separate undergraduate courses, but thetwo lecturers carefully orchestrated their efforts in order to create the feeling of one integrated course withtwo viewpoints, the geometric and the topological.

One challenge was how to meet the needs of students with a wide range of backgrounds. The first week’sintroductory material leveled the playing field, and by the second week, all the students were learning some-

thing new with each lecture. The daily problem sessionsprovided a productive environment for the students to dis-cuss the problems with each other and also opened thedoors to working together outside of the problem sessions.

The two courses offered were: “Surface Topology” byTara Brendle, University of Glasgow, and “HyperbolicGeometry” by Christopher Leininger, University of Illi-nois at Urbana-Champaign.

In addition, many of the undergraduate students chose toparticipate in the daily Undergraduate Faculty Program’smathematical lecture series.

Typed lecture notes were provided each day during theSummer Session, with some figures and details pur-posely omitted to encourage active note-taking andrevision; students’ suggestions were often incorporatedinto updated drafts, made available to students atwww.math.uiuc.edu/~clein/pcmi.html.84

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included creating products to be shared with their colleagues.


Cross-Program ActivitiesIn order to bring together the entire PCMI commu-nity during the three weeks of the Summer Session,many cross-program activities were planned by theorganizers, including socials and dinners, creative andoutdoor activities, and a number of talks.

PublicationsPublished by the American Mathematical Society,the Park City Mathematics Series comprises nearly allof the lectures ever given in PCMI’s Graduate Sum-mer School, from 1991 to 2009 thus far. The seriesnow consists of eighteen volumes, all of which arecurrently in print and available for sale. Also published are seven volumes in the Park City MathematicsInstitute Subseries, a subsection of the AMS Student Mathematics Series. These volumes are aimed at under-graduate students, and each is written by a lecturer from the Undergraduate Summer School of PCMI’sSummer Session. The Secondary School Teachers Program disseminates its teacher-created materials andother resources at PCMI’s website at the Math Forum, http://mathforum.org/pcmi/, where the proceedingsand briefs of the International Seminar on Mathematics Education are also published.

FundingThe IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute was made possible by the generosity of the following funders:

The Clay Mathematics InstituteThe George S. and Delores Doré Eccles FoundationCharles and Rosanna JaffinMath for AmericaThe Mathematical Sciences Research InstituteThe National Science Foundation

PCMI OVERSIGHT BOARD:

Chair: Phillip A. Griffiths, Institute for Advanced StudyDeborah Ball, University of MichiganHyman Bass, University of MichiganPeter Goddard, Institute for Advanced StudyRonald Graham, University of California, San DiegoRobert MacPherson, Institute for Advanced StudyElaine Wolfensohn,Wolfensohn Family Foundation

PCMI DIVERSITY SUB-COMMITTEE:

Chair: Janis Oldham, North Carolina Agricultureand Technical State UniversityErika Camacho, Arizona State UniversityDuane Cooper, Morehouse CollegeEdray Goins, Purdue UniversityLeona Harris, The College of New JerseyRobert Megginson, University of MichiganRobinWilson, California State Polytechnic University,Pomona

PCMI STEERING COMMITTEE 2011:

Director: Richard Hain, Duke UniversityAndrew J. Bernoff, Harvey Mudd CollegeAaron Bertram, University of UtahGail Burrill, Michigan State UniversityBenson Farb, The University of ChicagoCarol Hattan, Skyview High School,Vancouver,Washington

Helmut Hofer, Institute for Advanced StudyJames King, University of WashingtonEduard Looinjenga, Universiteit UtrechtJohnny Lott, University of MississippiJanis Oldham, North Carolina Agriculture andTechnical State University

John Polking, Rice UniversityRonald Stern, University of California, IrvineKaren Vogtmann, Cornell University

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Appreciation is extended for the in-kindcontributions of the Department of Mathematicsat the University of Utah.

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The Science Initiative Group (SIG) is dedicated to fostering science in developing countries. Formedin 1999 as an IAS outreach program to provide oversight for the Millennium Science Initiative inLatin America, which now operates independently, SIG has since shifted its focus to improving

science and engineering capacity in sub-Saharan Africa. For the past four years, SIG has worked to develop,implement, and manage the Regional Initiative in Science and Education, known as RISE.

RISE prepares Ph.D.- and M.S.-level scientists and engineers in sub-Saharan Africa in university-based net-works. Its goal is to increase the cadre of highly qualified academic staff members teaching and conductingresearch in African universities on subjects relevant to Africa’s development. As of the end of June 2011, someone hundred students were pursuing doctoral or masters degrees or were engaged in postdoctoral researchthrough RISE, and several had completed their studies and started or resumed academic careers at Africanuniversities.

Each RISE network includes universities in at least three countries. Fourteen universities and research insti-tutes in nine countries—Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzaniaand Uganda—are part of at least one of the five RISE networks:

AMSEN:African Materials Science and Engineering NetworkRISE-AFNNET:African Natural Products NetworkSABINA: Southern African Biochemistry and Informatics for Natural Products NetworkSSAWRN: Sub-Saharan Africa Water Resources NetworkWIO-RISE:Western Indian Ocean Regional Initiative

By the end of the three-year implementation phase ofRISE in December 2010, all of the students had ben-efited from the opportunities offered by the networkstructure, including participation in internationalworkshops and conferences and access to specializedscientific instrumentation and to supervisors withcomplementary expertise. Some students had pub-lished papers, applied for patents, or won prestigiousacademic prizes.

RISE’s first phase culminated in a weeklong programin October 2010 in Benoni, South Africa, featuring aforum on regional networks in Africa and a scientificconference. The event showcased RISE studentresearch in a series of talks and poster sessions in aformat inspired by the annual meetings of the Davidand Lucile Packard Foundation, SIG’s original funderand a conference cosponsor. Information about theconference, including links to news coverage, is avail-able at http://sig.ias.edu/2010conference.

Carnegie Corporation of NewYork, which providedthe initial planning and implementation grants forRISE, awarded a renewal grant in January 2011 thatwill fund RISE through 2013.

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Paul Mensah, a Ghanaian Ph.D. student in the SSAWRN network, conductsresearch at Rhodes University, South Africa, on the effects of run-offherbicide on the lifecycle of the indigenous shrimp Caridina nilotica.


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A profile of the OkavangoResearch Institute inMaun, Botswana, a mem-ber of the SSAWRNnetwork, was written bySIG research and editorialconsultant Alan Andersonand published in May2011 in the “Excellencein Science” series pro-duced by TWAS, theAcademy of Sciences forthe Developing World.The richly illustrated pub-lication, which includes asection on “tomorrow’sr ising research stars”where RISE studentprojects are described, isavailable for download athttp://twas.ictp.it/publi-cations/excellence-in-science/botswana-ori/view. Preparation of another booklet in the series, on theZanzibar-based Institute of Marine Science, was underway as of June 2011. The IMS, a semi-independentinstitution within the University of Dar es Salaam, is part of the WIO-RISE network.

SIG lost one board member in 2010 and gained another. HaroldVarmus was obligated to step down when hebecame Director of the National Cancer Institute in July. Shortly thereafter, the SIG board was pleased towelcome Bruce Alberts, a prominent biochemist with a strong commitment to improving science education.Alberts, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco, serves as Editor-in-Chief of Scienceand U.S. science envoy to Indonesia and Pakistan. During his tenure as president of the National Academy ofSciences from 1993 to 2005, Alberts established programs and linkages to engage scientists from around theworld. Long an advocate for science in developing countries, he participated in the convocation in Chile in1998 where SIG’s inaugural program, the Millennium Science Initiative, was launched.

Further information about SIG and RISE is available at www.ias.edu/sig.

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Phillip A. Griffiths, Professor Emeritus,School of Mathematics, and Past Director,Institute for Advanced Study (Chair)

Bruce Alberts, Editor-in-Chief, Science

Mohamed H. A. Hassan, Past ExecutiveDirector, TWAS:The Academy of Sciencesfor the DevelopingWorld, Trieste, Italy

J.Tomas Hexner, DevelopmentConsultant, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Jacob Palis, Director Emeritus andProfessor, Instituto Nacional de MatemáticaPura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; andPresident, TWAS:The Academy of Sciencesfor the DevelopingWorld

C. N. R. Rao, Honorary President and LinusPauling Research Professor, Jawaharlal NehruCentre for Advanced Scientific Research,Bangalore, India; and Immediate Past Presi-dent, TWAS:The Academy of Sciences forthe DevelopingWorld

ChungW. Kim (Emeritus)

HaroldVarmus (Emeritus)

(Left) An AMSEN student at the University of Botswana displays a grid used in transmission electronmicroscopy. (Right) RISE-AFNNET Ph.D. student Gaymary Bakari of the Sokoine University of Agriculture inTanzania demonstrates the high-performance liquid chromatography machine donated by the NorwegianProgram for Development, Research, and Education in recognition of the network’s accomplishments.


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Major Donors(through June 30, 2011)

AnonymousAT&T Inc.Estate of Tristan E. BeplatJeffrey P. BezosThe Birkelund Fund(In honor of Immanuel Kohn)

Victoria and Hank BjorklundDr. James C. BlairGaby Borel(In memory of Professor Armand Borel)

Cornelius H. Borman and CatherineB. BormanBotwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation,Inc.Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyMrs. Ann Lee Saunders BrownCalifornia Institute of TechnologyCarnegie Corporation of NewYorkS. S. Chern Foundation forMathematical ResearchNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron ChrissHelen and Martin ChooljianHarry and Helen Cohen CharitableFoundation

The Edward T. Cone FoundationDefense Advanced Research ProjectsAgencyThe Gladys Krieble DelmasFoundationEstate of Willis F. DoneyArthur and Janet EschenlauerEstate of Professor Ky FanRogerW. Ferguson, Jr. and Annette L.NazarethFernholz FoundationFowler Merle-Smith Family CharitableLead TrustFritz Thyssen StiftungTina and Bill GreenbergMr. John S. Hendricks and Mrs.Maureen D. HendricksSamuel D. IsalyImmanuel andVera KohnGeorge Labalme Jr.Dr. and Mrs. Spiro J. LatsisSarah and Martin L. LeibowitzLeon Levy Foundation

The John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur FoundationNancy and Duncan MacMillanThe MacMillan Family FoundationInc.David F. MarquardtMath for AmericaThe Ambrose Monell FoundationNational Aeronautics and SpaceAdministrationNational Endowment for theHumanitiesNational Science FoundationNational Security AgencyThe NewYork Community TrustMaxwell Family FundNovartis International AGPrinceton UniversityQiu Shi Science and TechnologiesFoundationRita Allen FoundationThe Rockefeller Foundation*

David M. Rubenstein

AcknowledgmentsThe Institute for Advanced Study is deeply indebted to its Founders and to all of its subsequent benefactorsfor providing a strong financial foundation from which to pursue its mission of fundamental research inthe sciences and humanities without the pressure for immediate results.We express deep appreciation toall of the following donors for their generous gifts, grants, pledges, and gifts-in-kind of endowment,capital, and operating support.We especially wish to recognize members of the Centennial Council, ourmost generous individual donors.

AnonymousJeffrey P. Bezos+

Mr.+ and Mrs. Richard B. BlackAddie and Harold BroitmanMrs. Ann Lee Saunders BrownHelen and Martin+ ChooljianNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron ChrissRogerW. Ferguson, Jr.+ and Annette L.NazarethDrs. Luisa and Robert+ Fernholz

Mr. John S. Hendricks+ and Mrs.Maureen D. HendricksImmanuel+ andVera KohnDr.+ and Mrs. Spiro J. LatsisSarah and Martin+ L. LeibowitzMr. and Mrs. RobertW. LoughlinNancy+ and Duncan MacMillanHamish Maxwell+

Robert B. MenschelAnnette Merle-SmithNancy B. Peretsman+

Elena PetronioDavid M. Rubenstein+

Eric+ andWendy SchmidtJames+ and Marilyn SimonsDr.+ and Mrs. Charles SimonyiMargaret E.TaplinMr.+ and Mrs. Ladislaus von HoffmannShelbyWhite+

James+ and ElaineWolfensohn

+ denotes current Institute for Advanced StudyTrusteeorTrustee Emeritus

Centennial Council(through June 30, 2011)

*Matching Gift to an Individual Contribution

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


Founders’ Circle

Helen and Martin ChooljianNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron ChrissMr. and Mrs. Charles L. JaffinMr. and Mrs. RobertW. LoughlinLouise and John Steffens

Chairman’s Circle

Mrs. Ann Lee Saunders BrownMichelle and Robert Caruso*

Morton and Donna CollinsCarl and Toby FeinbergImmanuel andVera KohnNancy and Duncan MacMillanAnnette Merle-SmithJohn and Caroline PallatElena PetronioJohn Rassweiler

Director’s Circle

William andVivian Allen*

John and Melanie ClarkePierre Deligne and Elena Alexeeva

Brig and Reinhold GebertTina and Bill GreenbergMr. and Mrs. John HainesIdis Inc. (Natalie and Jamie Douglas)*

Bob and Lynn JohnstonJohn J. and NoraWren KerrElinor LunderCharlesW. McCutchenJohn and Ann McGoldrickPhilipW. Riskin CharitableFoundation Inc.Harold T. andVivian ShapiroMr. and Mrs. James UtaskiMr. and Mrs. LukeViscontiLouise and JohnWellemeyerSusan and DonaldWilson

25th Anniversary Circle

Rosalie B. ArnoldAddie and Harold BroitmanAshvin B. Chhabra and DanielaBonafede-ChhabraRobert and Luisa Fernholz*

Lor and Michael GehretMr. Dana A. Hamel*

Thomas and Archer HarveyCynthia and Robert HillasRussell and Helene KulsrudElise LauerJane and Robert MacLennanProfessor James H. Marrow andDr. Emily RoseJack McCarthy and Susan AnableJackie and Cy MeiselMichael and Pamela MorandiJ.A. Padhoven Fund of the PrincetonArea Community FoundationEric and Frances ReichlSanderson Family Fund of thePrinceton Area CommunityFoundationMargaret E.TaplinThe Fritz Stern Fund of the PrincetonArea Community FoundationSteve and Diane Zipperstein

Friends

Georg and Joyce Albers-SchonbergMr. and Mrs. Frank R. AlloccaAnonymous (1)Robert ArestyDr. and Mrs. David AtkinSam and Judy Barker*

Leigh and John BartlettRobert and Susan BeckmanThe Len and Laura BerlikFoundation Inc.Mihir and Sheema Bhattacharya

Dr. Urvish Bidkar and SunandaNair-BidkarHelena and Peter BienstockElisabeth A. BishShari and Donald BlackJack and Adele R. Borrus*

Jane and Ted BoyerGeorgianna BrennanBromley Family Fund of the PrincetonArea Community FoundationFran and Antoinette BuckleyPernilla and James Burke

Barbara ChancellorLena Chang, Ph.D.*

Dr. and Mrs. Paul H. ChewCharles and Cindy ClarkMr. and Mrs. Elliot CohenVictoria and Bradley CorrodiCarol Curley and Peter Kellogg*

Michael Curtis and Judith K. BrodskyElizabeth Dahme*

Jan and Elly de BoerKatherine and Robert Del TufoJames and Thalia Deneen

Friends of the Institute

Our sincere gratitude is extended to the Friends of the Institute, whose unrestricted gifts make a great difference. We welcome new Friends and ex-press particular appreciation to members of the Founders’, Chairman’s, Director’s, and 25th Anniversary Circles.

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Eric andWendy SchmidtSimons FoundationThe Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fundfor Arts and SciencesSmithsonian Institution AstrophysicalObservatorySprint Nextel Corporation

T-Mobile USA, Inc.United States Department of EnergyU.S. – Israel Binational ScienceFoundationUniversity of MinnesotaVerizonWireless

Vital Projects Fund Inc.Wolfensohn Family FoundationThe MiltonWruble FoundationPhilanthropic Fund of the JewishCommunal FundZurich Financial Services

*New Friend of the Institute

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Jane and Charles DennisonRysia de RavelSam and Judi deTuroPeter Dougherty and Elizabeth HockElizabeth Doverman and EzraRosenbergMarlene and Aiden DoyleDr. and Mrs. James DwyerAudrey and David EggerAntonio Elmaleh*

Arthur and Janet EschenlauerRuth FathDana and Janet FearonJeremiah FordDr. and Mrs. Jerome K. FreedmanDavid H. Fulmer, M.D. and Carol AnnFulmerThomas and Peggy FulmerSherri andVic GarberDr. and Mrs. Steve GechaRobert and Evelyn GeddesAristidesW. GeorgantasAnn and Lee GladdenColleen GogginsFred and Selma GoldsteinJulian Grant and Peter Lighte*

Rachel and Charles GrayDr. Herb Greenberg*

Nadivah and David GreenbergBarbara and James Griffin*

Peter and Christine HaganJoan and Jack HallT. Randolph Harris and Barbara A.SloanPeter and Meghan Harrison*

Norman HarveyMr. and Mrs. George H. HeilbornDr. Lucille HellerRobert F. HendricksonCarol and James HerringJonathan and Anna HornerZaki and Liz HosnyJean-Marc and Daisy HuetPamela and Brian HughesDr. Frances C. HutnerJames and Jacqueline JohnsonRobertWood Johnson, Jr. Fund of thePrinceton Area Community FoundationWolf JoffeAlexander Jones and Catherine HainesChristopher P. JonesLandon and Sarah JonesSteven and Florence KahnArianne and Allen KassofHoward K. KellerQuentin T. and Peggy R. KellyGail E. KohnAyse Dizioglu Koyluoglu and UgurKoyluoglu*

Mr. and Mrs. SamuelW. Lambert IIIYuki Moore Laurenti and JeffreyLaurentiRichard J. and Neil Ann S. LevineMaxine and Fraser LewisWalter H. LippincottCarol A. Lipson*

Catherine and David Loevner*

Peter and Marlene LucchesiDeborah R. Lunder and Dr. AlanEzekowitzDr. and Mrs. Gregory E. LutzJames LynchRoland and Pamela MacholdLewis Maltby and BethVan HoevenPatricia and James MarinoWilliam C. MartinCecilia and Michael MathewsDr. and Mrs. James F. MathisMr. and Mrs. James R. McCredieMichelle McKenna and Patrick BernuthJames and Margaret McLaughlinDorothy and Lloyd MooteStephen J. Moseley andWhitney B.Ross*

Swati andVinay NavaniAnne Nosnitsky*

Rosemary O’BrienBill and Mary O’ShaughnessyDenise Pardello and Neil SalmonJean and Larry ParsonsJohn and Dee PatbergThe B. Perlman Family Charitable Fundthrough the Jewish CommunityFoundation of Greater MercerSuzanne Perrault and David Rago*

Mr. and Mr. Elwood PharesC. Mark PirrungGeorge PitcherDorothy and Charles Plohn, Jr.Ann PooleDavid Ramsay and Beth BurroughMichael and Melanie RauchTilden Reeder and Cynthia Groya*

Ann Reichelderfer and Douglas H. BlairMillard McAdoo Riggs, Jr.Mr. Robert L. Ruggiero and Ms. JoniFultonBernard and Ingrid Saint-DonatDr. Marcus Schabacker and Yuh M.M.Schabacker-KoppelJohn P. SchmidtEduardo and Anne Marie SchurDr. Charles Scribner III*(In honor of Marilyn and Irving Lavin)Robert and Mollie SheppardDr. Elliott and Ruth SigalDr. Mitchell and Marissa Simon*

Bob and Margaret SlightonDavid E. SmithMs. Caren SturgesDr. Jana Sukkarieh

Alexandra Tatnall*

Mark Thierfelder and Courtney LedererMarissa and Jesse TreuGail and Richard UllmanProfessor ErikVanmarcke and Ms. LynneDurkee*

Martha and GeorgeVaughnJay and HarrietVawterRamsay and AnnVehslageTeddi and FongWei, M.D.Charles F.Westoff and Jane S. DeLungLaura and RoscoeWhiteSharon and RussWhiteRalph R.WidnerMr. and Mrs. ReedWilson*

Mr. and Mrs. John J.WiseMary and JoeWisnovsky*

Evan and RosalieWolarsky*

David and DeannaWoodall

Contributions to Friends

Elizabeth S. EttinghausenMr.William RothWilliam and Judith ScheideThomas Fund of the Princeton AreaCommunity FoundationCaroline and HelmutWeymar

Contributions in Memory ofJulianneWightman Douglas

Mrs. Clare S. BaileyJack CahillMargaret CampionMs. Julia D. ClarkKaren LauterbachJoan H. OrrJohn RassweilerGail SeyboltCatherine N. SheltonLee SmithMs. Lynn B.Tipson

Matching Gifts to Friends

Bank of America Matching Gift ProgramExxon-Mobil FoundationGoldman Sachs & Co. Matching GiftProgramWells Fargo

Friends of the Institute (continued)

*New Friend of the Institute


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Sandra RichterChristoph RodeMartha and Marty RossmanJoan RowlandJoan Russo and Donald BursetEugene R. SpeerElly SteinJeremy and Isabelle TennenbaumDora TeplitskayaScott and Marilyn TremaineMarissa and Jesse TreuDr. EdwardWitten and Dr. Chiara R.Nappi

Einstein Legacy Society

The Einstein Legacy Society was establishedin 1996 to honor those who have made aplanned gift to the Institute for AdvancedStudy and those who have included a gift tothe Institute in their estate plans.The Societytakes its name from Albert Einstein, InstituteFaculty member, 1933–55. Einstein LegacySociety members includeTrustees, Faculty andFaculty Emeriti, Staff, former Members,Friends, and other supporters.

Anonymous (5)Frank BeggsRichard B. BlackEnrico BombieriAddie and Harold BroitmanJoseph E. BrownRobert ButowClaude CalameHelen and Martin ChooljianGetzel M. CohenGiles ConstableJohnW. Dawson Jr.Hedwig C.H. Dekker(In memory of Professor Jacob C.E.Dekker)Masaaki EguchiJanet and Arthur EschenlauerCarl FaithGraham FarmeloCarl and Toby FeinbergDr. Cloudy (Klaus-Dietrich) FischerLor and Michael GehretPeter and Helen GoddardBarbara F. Graham and Theordore S.MethPhillip A. GriffithsRalph E. HansmannMorton E. HarrisJames F. HawkinsSigurdur HelgasonMichel HugloMr. and Mrs. Charles L. JaffinAkio KawauchiTatsuo KimuraGeorge Labalme Jr.

Dr. Florian LangenscheidtRobert LanglandsJoseph LehnerMr. and Mrs. RobertW. LoughlinRobert MacPherson and Mark GoreskyHamish MaxwellAnnette Merle-SmithLloyd and Dorothy MooteAlexander P.D. MourelatosAlbert NijenhuisElena PetronioJohn H. RassweilerMillard M. RiggsBarbara Heard RobertsDaniel H. SaracinoRichard Donald SchaferMartin E. SegalN.J. SlabbertChuu-Lian Terng and Richard S. PalaisFranklin K.TokerGrazia TonelliProfessor and Mrs.V.S.VaradarajanProfessor C. FranciscusVerellen and Mrs.Isabelle M.VerellenMorton G.WhiteBrian F.Wruble

Current and Former Membersand Visitors

We are grateful to our Faculty and FacultyEmeriti and current and former Members,Visitors, and Research Assistants for theirvaluable financial support.

This year, we express particular appreciation toNeil Chriss, former Member (1994–95) inthe School of Mathematics, for his $50,000challenge grant.The gifts received, along withthe $50,000 match, will support fourMembers—one in each School—in thecoming year, as well as other important needsof the Institute.We thank the many individualswho participated in the challenge, especiallythose leadership donors who joined the newlyestablished Oppenheimer, Aydelotte, andFlexner Circles.

Oppenheimer Circle

Anonymous (1)David BjelajacKaren Blu(In memory of Clifford Geertz)Christian BorgsJohn Breit and Fanette PollackSun-Yung Alice Chang and Paul C.YangJennifer ChayesProfessor A. J. HildebrandThe Honorable Alan KruegerJulia and Henry Landau(In memory of Dr. HarryWoolf)

Other Donors

Hamed and Faye AbdouAlexander McFarlan Ackley Jr.Dorothy R. AlbertAnonymous (10)Rita Asch and Frank MagalhãesKiyomi and Ed BairdDr. Lesser and Elisa BlumProfessor Enrico BombieriAnthony and Judith BrickmanJudy Bronston and George LovittLoretta BrooksMr. John H. Burkhalter IIIMichael P. Capron and Lynn Rubier-CapronPeggy L. deWolf and James L. BogartMr. Elthon DeCastilloPierre Deligne and Elena AlexeevaJudi and Sam deTuro(In memory of Oleg Grabar)Michael Diener and Lisa BennettHarold and Catherine FalkHarry and Edith FirstenbergDr. Cloudy (Klaus-Dietrich) FischerAnne and Klaus FloreyLydia andWalter FrankNancy P. GeigerAristidesW. GeorgantasMs. Ruth B. GoldstonEvelyn Goodman(In honor of Dr. Stanley Levy)Vartan GregorianDr. Mikhail GrinbergDiane and Metin GuvenisChristopher HaileyJames F. HawkinsAnnette HochstadtDavid A. HollingerHorizon Blue Cross Blue Shield ofNew JerseyEmma Jaffee and Lawrence KarenBob and Lynn JohnstonBob and Lynn Johnston(In memory of Oleg Grabar)Helene L. KaplanInga Karliner and Jon ThalerMs. Janine KiesermanLabrador Advisors LLCCarole and Simon LevinDiane LiebermanAlexander LisséGloria LockerAnnette Merle-SmithMicrosoft Matching Gifts ProgramKarl F. and Anne C. Morrison(In memory of Oleg Grabar)Tari PantaleoLinda and Michael PerlinProquest Management LLCReichelderfer-Blair Fund of thePrinceton Area Community Foundation


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The John D. and Catherine T.MacArthur FoundationFouad J. MasriehErnest and Erika MichaelDr. Klaus NehringAndré NeveuReba and Steven† Orszag Gift Fund ofthe Fidelity Charitable Gift FundJohn Polking, Ph.D.Professor François RigolotPaul E. Rorem and Katherine A.SkrebutenasWilliam SewellDr. Eugene SoretsThomas and Bridget SpencerStephenV.Tracy and JuneW.AllisonLoringW.Tu Charitable Gift Fund ofFidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Aydelotte Circle

Anonymous (1)James G. ArthurFernande Auslander(In memory of Louis Auslander)The Blunt TrustHong-Yee ChiuMasaaki EguchiDr. George A. ElliottDr. OscarW. GreenbergMaurice and Hadassah HeinsRichardV. KadisonWilliam E. LangFrancesca RochbergNancy J. Troy(In honor of Yve-Alain Bois)Willis and FloyWare Family Foundationof the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Flexner Circle

Stephen L. Adler and Sarah C.Brett-SmithAnonymous (2)Robert BeckmanThe Joan and Joseph Birman FoundationJoseph Blasi and Nancy BonusAlan C. and Pamela BowenCalabi Fund of The PhiladelphiaFoundationRaffaella CribioreCharlesW. CurtisDr. Maria-Pia Di Bella and Dr. BaberJohansenDr. Paul FormanMurray GerstenhaberProfessor Kristen GhodseeSigurdur HelgasonDoug HensleyNancy HingstonKinch Hoekstra

Harvey Hyman, Ph.D.Ron and Gail IrvingProfessor Aderemi KukuJohn and Mary KwanTrudo Lemmens and PascaleChapdelaineR. Duncan LuceHelmut MaierGopal PrasadProfessor Drazen Prelec and ProfessorDanica Mijovic-PrelecSiobhan Roberts and Douglas BellProfessor Mamadou SangoFreydoon ShahidiDrs. Ronald and Sharon SternTsuneo TamagawaChuu-Lian Terng and Richard S. PalaisMary Lee TownsendKaren Uhlenbeck and BobWilliamsProfessor TanmayVachaspatiLou van den DriesJohnWalter Charitable Fund of theFidelity Charitable Gift FundCharlesWeibelHoward D.Weinbrot(In memory of George F. Kennan)Antonie ElisabethWlosokProfessor Hung-HsiWuProf. Dr. Eduard Zehnder

Donors

William AbikoffKen Ahl and Diane Cole Ahl(In honor of Irving Lavin)Changhyun AhnJohn F. AhnerJames S. AmelangSusan AmesAnonymous (28)David Anthony and Dorcas BrownBulent AtalaySteve BattersonProfessor Hermann BeckProfessor Brigitte Miriam Bedos-RezakPaul BenacerrafCarl M. BenderProfessor Michael BenedictAnna S. BenjaminGeorgia BenkartPaul BergPaul BernardAlan E. BernsteinDr. Gyan BhanotT.S. Bhanu MurthyMargarethe BillerbeckProfessor David P. BillingtonNorman BirnbaumLarissa BonfanteProfessor Corinne BonnetJames J. BonoDr. Mikhail Borovoi

Serena and Miklós BoskovitsConstance Brittain BouchardWilliam N. BrandtWard BriggsSusan BrisonJohn B. BronzanDr. Nicholas P. BuchdahlProfessor Glenn BughRobert ButowProf. Dr. Claude CalameDavid and Claude CampbellEmanuel andVanessa CarneiroVicki CaronEugene A. CarrollJessica CattelinoChaitin Charitable Fund at SchwabCharitable FundBrenda ChalfinJohnWhiteclay Chambers IIHoi Fung ChauDr. Xi ChenLucille ChiaPingyi ChuAnne L. ClarkJamesW. CogdellForrest D. ColburnWilliam J. ConnellSerena ConnollyLinda CooperDario A. CoviJoseph E. DavisMartin DavisJohn and Cheryl DawsonPilar de la TorrePercy DeiftHedwig C.H. Dekker(In memory of Professor Jacob C.E.Dekker)Albert DerolezHarold G. DiamondEleanor DickeyJohn DillonProfessor Dr.Walter DittrichRobert S. DoranRonald G. DouglasSusan B. DowneyDr. Alexander J. DragtPierre du PreyMary L. DudziakMary and Richard DunnLoyal and Bernice DurandProfessor Peter L. DurenRobert D. EdwardsDale EickelmanDyan ElliottProfessor Sara F. Ellison and ProfessorGlenn D. EllisonTheodore EvergatesFranz FeltenThomas FigueiraLisa FlormanGerald B. Folland

Members and Visitors (continued)


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Robert FoxDan Freed and Sonia PabanJohn FreedDr. Norbert FreiPaul FriedlandKarl GalinskyThomas P. GallanisDr. ReinholdW. GebertDion GildenhuysCharles C. GillispieDr. George I. GlaubermanCarol GluckPeter B. GoldenWilliam GoldmanRichard J. GonsalvesRoe GoodmanAndrew P. GouldAndreas GraeserMichel GrosErich S. GruenMauro F. GuillenChristopher HaileyEric HandleyPaul A. HanleProfessor Bert HansenMorton E. HarrisProfessor Randolph HeadProfessor Douglas HeggieJames and Lynn HeitschErwin N. and Elfrieda F. HiebertAlex HimonasLawrence P. HorwitzGeoffrey HoskingR. HoweProfessor Robert HowellDouglas HowlandMr. and Mrs. Michel HugloJames E. HumphreysHermann HungerSpyros IakovidisLuc IllusieProfessor Ephraim IsaacYoshihiro IshikawaJames J. JohnMichael JohnstonPeter KaravitesMartin L. KarelDavid KarenMartin KassabovDr. Goro C. Kato,V.L.S.Professor Joshua KatzTakahiro andYoko KawaiDr. Akio KawauchiDennis KehoeMartin KernProfessor Henry H. KimDale KinneyToichiro KinoshitaProfessor Emeritus Alan Kirman

Members and Visitors (continued) Julius KirshnerH. KlingenRonald J. KnillMarvin I. KnoppMikhail KoganVice President Junji KoizumiDr. Grigori KolesnikProfessor Alex KontorovichBoris KorenblumDr. Antoni A. KosinskiBhadriraju KrishnamurtiProfessor Dr.Willem KuykMichele LamontEllen G. LandauRobert and Nancy Lee Fund of theFidelity Charitable Gift FundHendrikW. LenstraJames LepowskySanford LevinsonAnatoly LibgoberMarcia and David LiebermanJuan J. LinzMing-Chit LiuXiaomei Liu and Kequan DingProfessor Humberto LlavadorMr. Howard LouthanMichèle LowrieJodi MagnessHarold MahVictor H. MairDr. JoAnne ManciniRachel MandelbaumMichael McCord, Ph.D.Patrick McGuinnSarah McPheeMichael McVaughBrigitte MeijnsJoel and Marcia MigdalProfessor Margaret M. MilesHenry MillonVernon and Heather MinorMaria Teresa Marabini MoevsProfessor David MoonCarlos Julio MorenoPaul S. MostertDr. Benjamin MuckenhouptSara T. NalleMelvyn B. NathansonChristoph NeugebauerCatharine NewburyProfessorY. Jack NgNgô Bao ChâuMartti NissinenThomas F.X. NobleKarl K. NortonAndrew P. OggTakashi OnoDr. Peter P. OrlikSherry B. OrtnerDr. Leonard ParkerFrançois Paschoud

Fred PaxtonMichael G. PeletzJamesV. PetersCarl F. PetryLeon PlantingaBeate Pongratz-LeistenJeremy D. PopkinProfessor Daniel Thomas PottsMr. Martin PowersWilliam L. PresslyMichael C. J. PutnamProfessor T.K. RabbRichard and Linda RandellOrest RanumM. M. RaoClaudia RappRichard T. RappProfessor Emeritus Theodore ReffP.J. RhodesMelvin RichterProfessor Avraham RonenProfessor Myriam Rosen-AyalonJonathan L. RosnerDr. Marat RovinskyJeffrey RubinDr. Stuart SamuelMartha SandweissRichard D. SchaferSeth L. ScheinProfessor John SchreckerJuergen SchulzGerald SchwarzEmanuele SeniciMrs. Edith P. ShapiroRichard SherAllan J. SilbergerMichael F. SingerRobert C. Sleigh, Jr.Neal SnydermanRobert Socolow Fund of the JewishCommunal FundCharles SommerfieldDiane L. SouvaineTonny SpringerMs. Grace Marmor SpruchDr. Aravind SrinivasanHarold StarkJim StasheffMaria and Robert SteinbergDr. Robert StengelClarence F. StephensGeorge StermanSusan M. StuardDr. John B. SullivanR. Richard Summerhill, Ph.D.Xiaodong Sun, Ph.D.Earl J. TaftRichard TalbertProfessor Georges TamerWilliam G.ThalmannJean Thomas


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Dr. Sylvie ThoronProfessor Dr. Gerhard ThürSalvatore TorquatoBurt Totaro and Diana GilloolyLisa Traynor, Ph.D.Howard G.TuckerMartin M.TweedaleUniversity of Notre DameSalil VadhanProfessor Philip van der EijkDouglasVerneyAndreiVeronaLinda EhrsamVoigtsDr. Samuel S.Wagstaff, Jr.Jonathan M.WahlTheWalsh Charitable Fund of the AycoCharitable FoundationSethWarnerArthur G.WassermanDavidWeinbergMaritWerenskioldJohnWermerRobert L.WilsonJames R.WisemanDr. and Mrs. LouisWittenMr. IsserWolochNancy and JohnWoodDr. DonWyattYork-Peng EdwardYaoMitsuruYasuharaM. CrawfordYoungMs. Froma I. Zeitlin

† Deceased

Matching Gifts to former IASMembers andVisitors

AmeriGivesGoldman Sachs & Co. Matching GiftProgramMicrosoft Matching Gifts Program

Gifts-in-Kind

Dr. Stephen L. Adler and Dr. Sarah C.Brett-SmithDr. Abdulrahman al-SalimiProfessor Monica AsztalosDr. Mehmet-Ali AtacAnonymousDr. Dirk BaltzlyDr. Leonid A. BeliaevMr. Dennis BerlinDr. Margarethe BillerbeckDr. Anna M. Ieraci BioG.W. BowersockDr. Amy N. BurnettProfessor CarolineW. BynumProfessor Angelos ChaniotisDr. Kelly CherryDr. Neil ChrissDr. Joan Breton ConnellyProfessor Giles ConstableDr. Hilary GattiDr. Samuel GitlerDr. Lionel GrossmanDr. Mauro F. GuillenChristian HabichtProfessor Sigurdur HelgasonAlbert and Sarah HirschmanGeoffrey HoskingDr. Dalenda LarguecheThe Professors Marilyn and IrvingLavinProfessor Kenneth LevyDr. Miaw-fen LuDr.Thomas MaissenDr. Domenico Berolini MeliTatiana and Alexander MirerNagoya UniversityDr. Bernhard PalmeProfessor Peter ParetDr. Stefania PastoreDr. Catalin PavelTom PhillipsDr. David PorterProfessor Tessa RajakDr. Colin RustDr. Ricardo SallesDr. Joachim K. D. SzidatProfessor Rita L.TestaThe Mathematical Society of JapanProfessor Dr. Gerhard ThürProfessor Heinrich von StadenProfessor MichaelWalzerDr. ZekeWangDr. Daniel R.Woolf

Professorships, Memberships,and Other Dedicated Funds

The Institute expresses its continuinggratitude to donors who have providedsupport through these endowed funds andthrough annual gifts and pledges.

Endowed Professorships

Richard Black ProfessorshipAlbert O. Hirschman ProfessorshipIBM von Neumann ProfessorshipGeorge F. Kennan ProfessorshipHarold F. Linder ProfessorshipLuce Foundation Professorship in EastAsian StudiesHerbert H. Maass ProfessorshipAndrewW. Mellon ProfessorshipCharles Simonyi ProfessorshipUPS Foundation ProfessorshipHermannWeyl ProfessorshipJames D.Wolfensohn Professorship inSocial Science

Endowed and Annual1 MemberSupport

AMIAS Memberships (2)John N. Bahcall FellowshipsThe Bell Companies FellowshipsCharles L. Brown MembershipS.S. Chern Foundation for MathematicsResearch FundMartin A. and Helen ChooljianFounders’ Circle MemberMartin A. and Helen ChooljianMembershipMartin A. and Helen ChooljianMembership in BiologyNeil Chriss and Natasha Herron ChrissFounders’ Circle MemberEdward T. Cone Membership in MusicStudiesCorning GlassWorks FoundationFellowshipsGeorgeWilliam Cottrell, Jr.MembershipRoger Dashen MembershipThe Gladys Krieble Delmas FoundationMembershipDeutsche Bank MembershipsElizabeth and J. Richardson DilworthFellowshipsWillis F. Doney MembershipsThe Ellentuck FundRogerW. Ferguson, Jr. and Annette L.Nazareth MembershipRobert and Luisa FernholzVisitingProfessorship FundThe 50th Anniversary Fellowship inSocial ScienceRichard B. Fisher MembershipFriends of the Institute for AdvancedStudy Memberships (4)

Members and Visitors (continued)


Fund for Historical StudiesFund for MathematicsFund for Natural SciencesFund for Social ScienceFelix Gilbert MembershipMarvin L. Goldberger MembershipHetty Goldman MembershipsFlorence Gould Foundation FundAgnes Gund and Daniel ShapiroMembershipsRalph E. and Doris M. HansmannMembershipMaureen and John HendricksVisitingProfessorhipGerda Henkel Stiftung MembershipThe Herotodus FundIBM Einstein FellowshipsRosanna and Charles Jaffin Founders’Circle MemberW.M. Keck Foundation FundHans Kohn MembershipMartin L. and Sarah F. LeibowitzMembershipLeon Levy Foundation MembershipGinny and Robert Loughlin Founders’Circle MemberWilliam D. Loughlin MembershipThe AndrewW. Mellon FoundationFundThe AndrewW. Mellon FoundationFellowships for Assistant ProfessorsMinerva Research FoundationMembershipsThe Ambrose Monell FoundationMembershipsNational Aeronautics and SpaceAdministrationNASA Einstein Fellowship ProgramNASA Exoplanet Science Institute CarlSagan Fellowship ProgramNational Endowment for theHumanitiesNational Science FoundationNatural Sciences Membership FundPatrons’ Endowment FundThe Giorgio and Elena PetronioFellowship FundQiu Shi Science and TechnologiesFoundation MembershipsEric andWendy Schmidt Membershipin BiologyThe Charles Simonyi Endowment FundThe Starr Foundation East Asian StudiesEndowment FundLouise and John Steffens Founders’Circle MemberUnited States Department of EnergyThe OswaldVeblen FundThe von Neumann FundTheWeyl FundEdwin C. and Elizabeth A.WhiteheadFellowshipWolfensohn Family MembershipZurich Financial Services Membership

Other Dedicated Endowments andFunds

Adler Family FundRuth and Irving Adler ExpositoryLectures in Mathematics FundArtist-in-Residence EndowmentThe Broitman Foundation FundChugai Pharmaceutical CompanyEdward T. Cone Concert SeriesEndowmentR. Llewelyn Davies FundGladys Krieble Delmas EndowmentKy Fan andYu-Fen Fan EndowmentFriends of the Institute for AdvancedStudy EndowmentProfessor Harish-Chandra EndowmentIAS Land EndowmentKresge Challenge FundDr. S.T. Lee Fund for Historical StudiesLeon Levy Book FundMary Marquand EndowmentMarston Morse Memorial FundOtto Neugebauer FundNew Initiatives FundErwin Panofsky FundNancy Peretsman and Robert ScullyEndowmentPublic Policy Lecture SeriesEndowmentThe Raymond and Beverly SacklerScience Colloquia in the School ofNatural SciencesMr. and Mrs.William H. Scheide Artist-in-Residence EndowmentSimons Center for Systems BiologyEndowmentSimons Foundation Endowment FundThe Charles and Lisa SimonyiEndowment FundThe Karoly Simonyi MemorialEndowment FundThe Sivian FundLeo Usdan FundShelbyWhite and Leon Levy ArchivesEndowmentWolf Foundation Prize EndowmentThe James D.Wolfensohn Fund

1Annual gifts from July 1, 2010–June 30, 2011

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Louis BambergerCaroline Bamberger Fuld

Board and Corporate Officers

Charles SimonyiChairman of the Board

Martin L. LeibowitzVice Chairman of the Board andPresident of the Corporation

James H. SimonsVice Chairman of the Board

Brian F. WrubleTreasurer of the Corporation

John MastenAssistant Treasurer

Nancy S. MacMillanSecretary of the Corporation

Michael GehretAssistant Secretary

The Board of Trustees

Jeffrey P. BezosFounder and CEOAmazon.comSeattle,Washington

Victoria B. BjorklundHead, Exempt-Organizations GroupSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLPNewYork, NewYork

Curtis CallanJames S. McDonnell DistinguishedUniversity Professor of PhysicsChair, Department of PhysicsPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey

Cynthia CarrollChief Executive,Anglo American plcLondon, EnglandTrustee from May 7, 2011

Mario DraghiGovernor, Bank of ItalyRome, Italy

RogerW. Ferguson, Jr.President and Chief Executive OfficerTIAA-CREFNewYork, NewYork

E. Robert FernholzFounder and Chief Investment OfficerINTECHPrinceton, New Jeresey

Peter GoddardDirector, Institute for Advanced StudyPrinceton, New Jersey

Vartan GregorianPresident, Carnegie Corporation of NewYorkNewYork, NewYork

John S. HendricksFounder and ChairmanDiscovery CommunicationsSilver Spring, Maryland

David A. HollingerPreston Hotchkis Professor of HistoryUniversity of California, BerkeleyBerkeley, California

Peter R. KannChairman and CEO (retired)Dow Jones & Company, IncorporatedNewYork, NewYork

Bruce KovnerFounder and ChairmanCaxton Associates LPNewYork, NewYorkTrustee from October 30, 2010

Florian LangenscheidtAuthor and PublisherBerlin, GermanyTrustee through May 7, 2011

Spiro J. LatsisPresident, SETE SAGeneva, Switzerland

Martin L. LeibowitzManaging Director, Morgan StanleyNewYork, NewYork

Nancy S. MacMillanPublisher, Princeton AlumniWeeklyPrinceton, New Jersey

David F. MarquardtPartner,August CapitalMenlo Park, California

Nancy B. PeretsmanManaging Director,Allen & Company LLCNewYork, NewYork

Martin ReesProfessor Emeritus of Cosmology andAstrophysicsMaster of Trinity CollegeUniversity of CambridgeCambridge, England

David M. RubensteinCo-Founder and Managing DirectorThe Carlyle GroupWashington, D.C.

James J. SchiroChairman of the Group Management Boardand Chief Executive Officer of ZurichFinancial Services (retired)NewYork, NewYork

Eric E. SchmidtExecutive ChairmanGoogle Inc.MountainView, California

William H. Sewell, Jr.The Frank P. Hixon Distinguished ServiceProfessor of Political Scienceand History EmeritusDepartment of Political ScienceThe University of ChicagoChicago, Illinois

HaroldT. ShapiroPresident Emeritus and Professor ofEconomics and Public AffairsPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey

James H. SimonsChairman of the Board, RenaissanceTechnologies LLC, and President, EuclideanCapital LLCNewYork, NewYork

Charles SimonyiPresident and Chief Technology OfficerIntentional Software CorporationBellevue,Washington

Peter SvennilsonFounder and Managing PartnerThe Column GroupSan Francisco, California

ShelbyWhiteTrusteeLeon Levy FoundationNewYork, NewYork

Marina v.N.WhitmanProfessor of Business Administration andPublic PolicyGerald R. Ford School of Public PolicyUniversity of MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan

Andrew J.WilesJames S. McDonnell DistinguishedUniversity Professor of MathematicsPrinceton UniversityPrinceton, New Jersey

Brian F. WrubleChairman EmeritusThe Jackson LaboratoryKeyWest, Florida

Trustees Emeriti

Richard B. Black

Martin A. Chooljian

Sidney D. Drell

Ralph E. Hansmann

Helene L. Kaplan

Immanuel Kohn

David K.P. Li

Hamish Maxwell

Ronaldo H. Schmitz

Martin E. Segal

Michel L.Vaillaud

Ladislaus von Hoffmann

James D.Wolfensohn, Chairman Emeritus


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Peter GoddardDirector

Karen CuozzoAssistant to the Director

Robert RuggieroSpecial Assistant to the Director

John MastenAssociate Director for Finance andAdministration

Anthony Bordieri, Jr.Manager of Facilities

Ashvin ChhabraChief Investment Officer

Michael CicconeManager of Administrative Services

Roberta GernhardtManager of Human Resources

Mary MazzaComptroller

Michel ReymondChef/Manager, Dining Hall

Michael GehretAssociate Director for Development andPublic Affairs

Kamala BrushSenior Development Officer

Christine FerraraSenior Public Affairs Officer

Pamela HughesSenior Development Officer

Catherine NewcombeSenior Development Officer

Kelly DevineThomasSenior Publications Officer

Library Administration

Momota GanguliLibrarian, Mathematics and Natural Sciences

MarciaTuckerLibrarian, Historical Studies and SocialScience (also Coordinator of InformationAccess for Computing,Telecommunications,and Networking Administration)

Christine Di BellaArchivist

School Administration

Mary Jane HayesAdministrative OfficerSchool of Mathematics

Donne PetitoAdministrative OfficerSchool of Social Science

Michelle SageAdministrative OfficerSchool of Natural Sciences

Suzanne P. ChristenExecutive Director and AdministratorThe Simons Center for Systems BiologySchool of Natural Sciences

Marian Gallagher ZelaznyAdministrative OfficerSchool of Historical Studies

Programs

Catherine E. GiesbrechtProgram Officer, IAS/Park CityMathematics Institute

Arlen K. HastingsExecutive Director, Science Initiative Group

Computing,Telecommunications, andNetworking Administration

Jeffrey BerlinerManager of Computing

Jonathan PeeleComputer ManagerInformation Technology Group

James StephensComputer ManagerSchool of Natural Sciences

Thomas Howard UphillComputer ManagerSchool of Mathematics

EdnaWigdersonManagerDatabases and Integration

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Abraham Flexner · Frank Aydelotte

J. Robert Oppenheimer · Carl Kaysen · HarryWoolf

Marvin L. Goldberger · Phillip A. Griffiths · Peter Goddard

Present and Past Faculty(2010–2011 Faculty and Faculty Emeriti are in bold)

Stephen L.Adler · JamesW.Alexander · Andrew E. Z. Alföldi · Danielle S. Allen

NimaArkani-Hamed · Michael F. Atiyah · John N. Bahcall · Arne K.A. Beurling ·Yve-Alain Bois

Enrico Bombieri · Armand Borel · Jean Bourgain · GlenW. Bowersock

CarolineWalker Bynum · Luis A. Caffarelli · Angelos Chaniotis · Harold F. Cherniss · Marshall Clagett

Giles Constable · Patricia Crone · José Cutileiro · Roger F. Dashen · Pierre Deligne · Nicola Di Cosmo

Freeman J. Dyson · Edward M. Earle · Albert Einstein · John H. Elliott · Didier Fassin · Clifford Geertz

Felix Gilbert · James F. Gilliam · Kurt Gödel · Hetty Goldman · Peter Goldreich · Oleg Grabar

Phillip A. Griffiths · Christian Habicht · Harish-Chandra · Ernst Herzfeld · Albert O. Hirschman

Helmut Hofer · LarsV. Hörmander · Piet Hut · Jonathan Israel · Ernst H. Kantorowicz

George F. Kennan · Robert P. Langlands · Irving Lavin ·Tsung-Dao Lee · Stanislas Leibler

Arnold J. Levine · Elias A. Lowe · Robert MacPherson · Juan Maldacena · Avishai Margalit

Eric S. Maskin · Jack F. Matlock, Jr. · Millard Meiss · Benjamin D. Meritt · JohnW. Milnor

David Mitrany · Deane Montgomery · Marston Morse · J. Robert Oppenheimer · Abraham Pais

Erwin Panofsky · Peter Paret ·Tullio E. Regge ·WinfieldW. Riefler · Marshall N. Rosenbluth

Peter Sarnak · JoanWallach Scott · Nathan Seiberg · Atle Selberg · Kenneth M. Setton · Carl L. Siegel

Thomas Spencer · WalterW. Stewart · Bengt G. D. Strömgren · Homer A.Thompson · ScottTremaine

KirkVarnedoe · OswaldVeblen ·VladimirVoevodsky · John von Neumann · Heinrich von Staden

MichaelWalzer · Robert B.Warren · AndréWeil · HermannWeyl · MortonWhite · HasslerWhitney

AviWigderson · FrankWilczek · EdwardWitten · Ernest LlewellynWoodward · Chen NingYang

Shing-TungYau · Matias Zaldarriaga


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Institute for Advanced Study—Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation

Financial StatementsJune 30, 2011 and 2010

(With Independent Auditors’ ReportThereon)

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Independent Auditors’ Report

The Board of TrusteesInstitute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation:

We have audited the accompanying statements of financial position of Institute for Advanced Study–Louis Bambergerand Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation (the Institute) as of June 30, 2011 and 2010, and the related statements of activities and cashflows for the years then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Institute’s management. Our responsi-bility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America.Those stan-dards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are freeof material misstatement. An audit includes consideration of internal control over financial reporting as a basis for designingaudit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effective-ness of the Institute’s internal control over financial reporting.Accordingly, we express no such opinion.An audit also includesexamining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the account-ing principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presen-tation.We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Insti-tute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation as of June 30, 2011 and 2010, and the changes inits net assets and its cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

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STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITIONJUNE 30, 2011 AND 2010

Assets 2011 2010______________ ______________

Cash and cash equivalents $ 6,612,912 6,952,589Accounts receivable 320,377 585,413Grants receivable 4,991,868 4,371,757Prepaid expenses and other assets 866,085 635,260Contributions receivable—net 1,148,040 1,974,608Unamortized debt issuance costs—net 518,933 573,080Funds held by bond trustee 5,141,266 7,187,358Beneficial interest in remainder trust 3,206,005 2,786,283Land, buildings and improvements, equipment and

rare book collection—net 59,800,972 60,191,610Investments 607,661,511 571,200,943______________ ______________

Total assets $ 690,267,969 656,458,901______________ ____________________________ ______________

Liabilities and Net Assets

Liabilities:Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 6,989,724 7,455,400Deferred revenue 8,561,989 15,474,995Liabilities under split-interest agreements 2,510,801 2,234,409Postretirement benefit obligation 14,454,112 14,582,000Asset retirement obligation 965,449 940,283Bond swap liability 3,940,182 4,629,600Note payable 426,503 492,767Long-term debt, net of discount 54,774,645 57,475,994______________ ______________

Total liabilities 92,623,405 103,285,448______________ ______________

Net assets:Unrestricted 358,444,469 346,689,111Temporarily restricted 141,116,464 125,676,785Permanently restricted 98,083,631 80,807,557______________ ______________

Total net assets 597,644,564 553,173,453______________ ______________

Total liabilities and net assets $ 690,267,969 656,458,901______________ ____________________________ ______________

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STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIESYEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2011

Temporarily PermanentlyUnrestricted restricted restricted Total____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Operating revenues, gains and other support:Private contributions and grants $ — 18,264,714 — 18,264,714Government grants — 8,412,323 — 8,412,323Endowment spending policy 12,748,198 10,021,902 — 22,770,100Auxiliary activity 4,996,594 — — 4,996,594Net assets released from restrictions—

satisfaction of program restrictions 36,698,939 (36,698,939) — —____________ ____________ ____________ ____________Total operating revenues, gains

and other support 54,443,731 — — 54,443,731____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Expenses:School of Mathematics 10,051,179 — — 10,051,179School of Natural Sciences 10,752,485 — — 10,752,485School of Historical Studies 6,965,575 — — 6,965,575School of Social Science 4,219,856 — — 4,219,856Libraries and other academic 8,269,839 — — 8,269,839Administration and general 11,279,587 — — 11,279,587Auxiliary activity 5,684,557 — — 5,684,557

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Total expenses 57,223,078 — — 57,223,078____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Change in net assets from operations,including depreciation (2,779,347) — — (2,779,347)

Other revenues, gains and other support:Private contributions and grants 248,767 397,952 7,276,074 7,922,793Endowment change after applying

spending policy 25,028,125 13,653,824 — 38,681,949Change in fair value of bond swap liability 689,418 — — 689,418Loss on sale of plant assets (43,702) — — (43,702)Reclassification of unrestricted net assets (11,387,903) 1,387,903 10,000,000 —

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Change in net assets 11,755,358 15,439,679 17,276,074 44,471,111

Net assets—beginning of year 346,689,111 125,676,785 80,807,557 553,173,453____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Net assets—end of year $ 358,444,469 141,116,464 98,083,631 597,644,564____________ ____________ ____________ ________________________ ____________ ____________ ____________




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STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIESYEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 2010

Temporarily PermanentlyUnrestricted restricted restricted Total____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Operating revenues, gains and other support:Private contributions and grants $ — 18,180,059 — 18,180,059Government grants — 7,905,853 — 7,905,853Endowment spending policy 11,264,751 13,158,949 — 24,423,700Auxiliary activity 4,865,176 — — 4,865,176Net assets released from restrictions—satisfaction of program restrictions 39,244,861 (39,244,861) — —____________ ____________ ____________ ____________Total operating revenues, gainsand other support 55,374,788 — — 55,374,788

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Expenses:School of Mathematics 10,141,826 — — 10,141,826School of Natural Sciences 12,032,292 — — 12,032,292School of Historical Studies 7,220,001 — — 7,220,001School of Social Science 4,627,413 — — 4,627,413Libraries and other academic 7,410,944 — — 7,410,944Administration and general 12,456,320 — — 12,456,320Auxiliary activity 5,871,469 — — 5,871,469

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Total expenses 59,760,265 — — 59,760,265____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Change in net assets from operations,including depreciation (4,385,477) — — (4,385,477)

Other revenues, gains and other support:Private contributions and grants 289,253 732,749 2,778,663 3,800,665Endowment change after applyingspending policy 28,960,507 10,109,129 — 39,069,636

Change in fair value of bond swap liability (1,115,233) — — (1,115,233)Gain on sale of plant assets 349,567 — — 349,567

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Change in net assets 24,098,617 10,841,878 2,778,663 37,719,158

Net assets—beginning of year 322,590,494 114,834,907 78,028,894 515,454,295____________ ____________ ____________ ____________

Net assets—end of year $ 346,689,111 125,676,785 80,807,557 553,173,453____________ ____________ ____________ ________________________ ____________ ____________ ____________




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STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWSYEARS ENDED JUNE 30, 2011 AND 2010

2011 2010______________ ______________

Cash flows from operating activities:Change in net assets $ 44,471,111 37,719,158Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to netcash used in operating activities:Depreciation 4,128,125 4,060,637Contributions restricted for endowment and plant (8,022,724) (4,478,275)Net realized and unrealized (gains) losses (63,282,128) (64,911,928)Change in fair value of bond swap liability (689,418) 1,115,233Loss (gain) on sale of plant assets 43,702 (349,567)Amortization of debt issuance costs 54,147 58,926Amortization of bond discount 23,651 26,985Changes in assets/liabilities:Accounts receivable and grants receivable (355,075) (1,521,633)Prepaid expenses and other assets (230,825) (137,249)Contributions receivable 826,568 1,072,702Beneficial interest in remainder trust (419,722) (132,027)Accounts payable and accrued expenses (465,676) (105,455)Deferred revenue (6,913,006) 6,071,548Postretirement benefit obligation (127,888) 4,113,000Asset retirement obligation 25,166 31,405______________ ______________

Net cash used in operating activities (30,933,992) (17,366,540)______________ ______________

Cash flows from investing activities:Proceeds from sale of plant assets 704,663 1,822,338Purchase of plant assets (4,485,852) (5,031,476)Proceeds from sale of investments 373,514,014 567,497,630Purchase of investments (346,692,454) (543,466,493)______________ ______________

Net cash provided by investing activities 23,040,371 20,821,999______________ ______________

Cash flows from financing activities:Contributions restricted for endowment and plant 8,022,724 4,478,275Increase (decrease) in liabilities under split-interest agreements 276,392 (13,400)Repayment of long-term debt (2,725,000) (2,615,000)Repayment of note payable (66,264) (64,957)Decrease in funds held by bond trustee 2,046,092 1,400,050______________ ______________

Net cash provided by financing activities 7,553,944 3,184,968______________ ______________Net (decrease) increase in cash and cashequivalents (339,677) 6,640,427

Cash and cash equivalents—beginning of year 6,952,589 312,162______________ ______________

Cash and cash equivalents—end of year $ 6,612,912 6,952,589______________ ____________________________ ______________Supplemental data:Interest paid $ 1,497,977 1,829,881



NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTSJUNE 30, 2011 AND 2010

1) Organization and Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

OrganizationThe Institute for Advanced Study–Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld Foundation (the “Institute”), an independent, privateinstitution devoted to the encouragement, support, and patronage of learning, was founded in 1930 as a community of scholarswhere intellectual inquiry could be carried out in the most favorable circumstances.

Focused on mathematics and classical studies at the outset, the Institute today consists of the School of Historical Studies, theSchool of Mathematics, the School of Natural Sciences and the School of Social Science. Each school has a small permanentfaculty, and some 190 fellowships are awarded annually to members visiting the Institute from other research institutions anduniversities throughout the world.

The Founders’original letter to the first Trustees described the objectives of the Institute as follows:“The primary purpose isthe pursuit of advanced learning and exploration in fields of pure science and high scholarship to the utmost degree that thefacilities of the institution and the ability of the faculty and students will permit.”

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of PresentationThe accompanying financial statements, which are presented on the accrual basis of accounting, have been preparedto focus on the Institute as a whole and to present net assets and revenues, expenses, gains, and losses based on the ex-istence or absence of donor imposed restrictions. Accordingly, net assets and changes therein are classified as follows:

• Permanently restricted net assets—net assets subject to donor-imposed stipulations that they be maintained per-manently by the Institute. Generally, the donors of these assets permit the Institute to use all or part of the in-come earned on related investments for general or specific purposes.

• Temporarily restricted net assets—net assets subject to donor-imposed stipulations that will be met by actions ofthe Institute and/or by the passage of time.

• Unrestricted net assets—net assets not subject to donor-imposed stipulations. Unrestricted net assets may be des-ignated for specific purposes by action of the board of trustees.

Revenues are reported as increases in unrestricted net assets unless use of the related asset is limited by donor-imposedrestrictions. Expenses are reported as decreases in unrestricted net assets. Expiration of donor-imposed stipulationsthat simultaneously increase unrestricted net assets and decrease temporarily restricted net assets are reported as net as-sets released from restrictions.

(a) ContributionsContributions, including unconditional promises to give, are recognized as revenues in the period received. Condi-tional promises to give are not recognized until they become unconditional, that is when the conditions on which theydepend are substantially met. Contributions of assets other than cash are recorded at their estimated fair value. Pledgesof contributions to be received after one year are discounted at a risk-adjusted discount rate.The discount rates rangefrom 0.19% to 0.61%. Amortization of discount is recorded as additional contribution revenue in accordance withdonor-imposed restrictions, if any, on the contributions.

Contributions of long-lived assets are reported as unrestricted revenue. Contributions restricted for the acquisition ofgrounds, buildings, and equipment are reported as temporarily restricted revenues.These contributions are reclassifiedto unrestricted net assets upon acquisition of the assets.

(b) Cash and cash equivalentsCash and cash equivalents consist of cash on hand and all highly liquid investments with an original maturity of threemonths or less, except for those managed as a component of the Institute’s investment portfolio.

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(c) InvestmentsInvestments in marketable securities are reported in the financial statements at fair value based on published marketquotations. Investments in limited partnerships and hedge funds are reported in the financial statements at estimatedfair value using net asset value (NAV) or its equivalent as a practical expedient, based upon values provided by exter-nal investment managers or general partners, unless it is probable that all or a portion of the investment will be soldfor an amount different from NAV.The Institute reviews and evaluates the values provided by external investment man-agers and general partners and agrees with the valuation methods and assumptions used in determining the fair valueof funds. These estimated fair values may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a readymarket for these securities existed. As of June 30, 2011 and 2010, the Institute had no plans or intentions to sell in-vestments at amounts different from NAV.

The statements of activities recognize unrealized gains and losses on investments as increases and decreases, respectively,in unrestricted net assets unless their use is temporarily or permanently restricted by explicit donor stipulation or law.Gains and losses on the sale of investment securities are calculated using the specific identification method.

The Institute regularly offers first mortgages on primary residences to full-time faculty and senior administrative em-ployees who have met certain requirements stipulated by the board of trustees.

(d) Fair Value MeasurementsFair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price)in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market par-ticipants on the measurement date. The fair value hierarchy requires an entity to maximize the use of observable in-puts and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.The three levels of inputs used to measurefair value are as follows:

• Level 1: Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

• Level 2: Observable inputs other than Level 1 prices such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quotedprices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observablemarket data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

• Level 3: Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fairvalue of the asset or liabilities.

Fair value estimates are made at a specific point in time, based on available market information and judgments aboutthe financial asset, including estimates of timing, amount of expected future cash flows, and the credit standing of theissuer. In some cases, the fair value estimates cannot be substantiated by comparison to independent markets. In addi-tion, the disclosed fair value may not be realized in the immediate settlement of the financial asset and does not re-flect any premium or discount that could result from offering for sale at one time an entire holding of a particularfinancial asset. Potential taxes and other expenses that would be incurred in an actual sale or settlement are not reflectedin amounts disclosed.

Because the net asset value reported by limited partnerships and hedge funds is used as a practical expedient to esti-mate fair value of the Institute’s interest therein, classification of such investments in the fair value hierarchy as Level 2or 3 is based on the Institute’s ability to redeem its interest at or near the balance sheet date. If the interest can be re-deemed in the near term, the investment is classified as Level 2.

(e) Plant Assets and DepreciationProceeds from the sale of plant assets, if unrestricted, are transferred to operating funds, or, if restricted, to amountstemporarily restricted for plant acquisitions. Depreciation is provided over the estimated useful lives of the respectiveassets on a straight-line basis (buildings and capital improvements 20-40 years, equipment 3-6 years).

(f) Deferred RevenueAmounts received on conditional grants are recorded initially as deferred revenue and are reported as revenues whenexpended in accordance with the terms of the condition.

(g) Split-Interest AgreementsThe Institute is the beneficiary of various unitrusts, pooled income funds and a gift annuity fund. The Institute’sinterest in these split-interest agreements is reported as a contribution in the year received and is calculated as the

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difference between the fair value of the assets contributed to the Institute and the estimated liability to the benefi-ciary. This liability is computed using actuarially determined rates and is adjusted annually to reflect changes in thelife expectancy of the donor or annuitant, amortization of the discount and other changes in the estimates of fu-ture payments. The assets held by the Institute under these arrangements are recorded at fair value as determinedby quoted market prices and are included as a component of investments.

(h) Unamortized Debt Issuance CostsDebt issuance costs represent costs incurred in connection with debt financing.Amortization of these costs is providedon the effective interest method extending over the remaining term of the applicable indebtedness. Debt issuancecosts at June 30, 2011 and 2010 were net of accumulated amortization of $810,820 and $756,673, respectively.

(i) Other Revenues, Gains and Other SupportA portion of long-term investment income and gains and losses is allocated to operating revenue each year in accor-dance with the Institute’s spending policy for investments held for endowment and similar purposes, as more fully dis-cussed in note 4.All other investment income earned and gains and losses on investments held for long-term purposesand nonrecurring revenue and expenses are considered other revenues, gains and other support in the statements ofactivities. Private contributions and grants budgeted for operations are included in operating revenues, gains and othersupport. All other private contributions and grants are considered other revenues, gains and other support.

(j) Asset Retirement ObligationThe Institute recognizes the fair value of a liability for legal obligations associated with asset retirements in the periodin which the obligation is incurred, if a reasonable estimate of the fair value of the obligation can be made.When theliability is initially recorded, the Institute capitalizes the cost of the asset retirement obligation by increasing the car-rying amount of the related long-lived asset. The liability is accreted to its present value each period and the capital-ized cost associated with the retirement obligation is depreciated over the useful life of the related asset. Upon settlementof the obligation, any difference between the cost to settle the asset retirement obligation and the liability recorded isrecognized as a gain or loss in the statements of activities.

(k) Fund Raising ExpensesFund raising expenses incurred by the Institute amounted to $1,349,617 and $1,302,728 for the years ended June 30,2011 and 2010, respectively. This amount is included in administration and general expenses in the accompanyingstatements of activities.

(l) Functional Allocation of ExpensesThe costs of providing program services and support services of the Institute have been summarized on a functionalbasis in the statements of activities.Accordingly, certain operating costs have been allocated among the functional cat-egories.

(m) Tax StatusThe Institute is exempt from federal income taxes pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code(the Code) and is listed in the Internal Revenue Service Publication 78. The Institute has been classified as a publiccharity under Section 509(a) of the Code.

There are certain transactions that could be deemed unrelated business income and would result in a tax liability. Man-agement reviews transactions to estimate potential tax liabilities using a threshold of more likely than not. It is man-agement’s estimation that there are no material tax liabilities that need to be recorded.

(n) Use of EstimatesThe preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requiresmanagement to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclo-sure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements. Estimates also affect the reported amountsof revenues and expenses during the reported period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

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(2) Contributions Receivable

Unconditional promises to give at June 30, 2011 and 2010 were as follows:

2011 2010Unconditional promises to give:

______________ ______________

Less than one year $ 784,833 1,123,166One to five years 383,334 866,668______________ ______________

1,168,167 1,989,834Discount on promises to give (20,127) (15,226)______________ ______________

Total $ 1,148,040 1,974,608______________ ____________________________ ______________

During fiscal 2011, the Institute received two conditional pledges totaling $100 million to enhance the Institute’s endowmentfund. The pledges are conditioned on the Institute raising an additional $100 million in cash or pledges from third partydonors in the period January 1, 2011 through June 30, 2015.The conditional pledge payments began in June 2011 and willcontinue through March 31, 2016. During fiscal 2011, the Institute received $4 million which is recorded in other revenues,gains, and other support: private contributions and grants in the accompanying financial statements.

(3) Investments, Funds Held by Bond Trustee, and Beneficial Interest in Remainder Trust

(a) Overall Investment ObjectiveThe overall investment objective of the Institute is to invest its assets in a prudent manner that will achieve a long-termrate of return sufficient to fund a portion of its annual operating activities and capital preservation. The Institute di-versifies its investments among various managers and investment opportunities. Substantially all of the investments arepooled with each individual fund subscribing to or disposing of units on the basis of the market value per unit, de-termined on a quarterly basis. Major investment decisions are authorized by the Board’s Investment Committee, whichoversees the Institute’s investment program in accordance with established guidelines.

(b) Allocation of Investment StrategiesIn addition to traditional stocks and fixed-income securities, the Institute may also hold shares or units in traditionalinstitutional funds as well as in alternative investment funds involving hedged strategies, private equity, and real assetstrategies. Hedged strategies involve funds whose managers have the authority to invest in various asset classes at theirdiscretion, including the ability to invest long and short. Funds with hedged strategies generally hold securities orother financial instruments for which a ready market exists and may include stocks, bonds, put or call options, swaps,currency hedges, and other instruments, and are valued accordingly. Private equity funds employ buyout and venturecapital strategies and focus on investments in turn-around situations. Real asset funds generally hold interests in pub-lic real estate investment trusts (REITS) or commercial real estate through sole-member entities. Private equity andreal asset strategies therefore often require the estimation of fair values by the fund managers in the absence of readilydeterminable market values. Because of the inherent uncertainties of valuation, these estimated fair values may differsignificantly from values that would have been used had a ready market existed, and the differences could be material.Such valuations are determined by fund managers and generally consider variables such as operating results, compa-rable earnings multiples, projected cash flows, recent sales prices, and other pertinent information, and may reflect dis-counts for the illiquid nature of certain investments held.

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The following tables summarize the Institute’s investments and other assets by major category in the fair value hierar-chy as of June 30, 2011 and 2010, as well as related strategy, liquidity, and funding commitments:

June 30, 2011__________________________________________________________Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total__________________________________________________________

Investments:Long-term investment strategies:Fixed income:U.S.Treasuries $ 19,943,706 — — 19,943,706__________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total 19,943,706 — — 19,943,706__________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Hedge funds—onshore:Emerging markets — — 6,655,647 6,655,647Equities—long bias — — 8,924,080 8,924,080Multiple strategies — — 45,684,421 45,684,421

__________________ ______________ ______________ ______________Total — — 61,264,148 61,264,148__________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Hedge funds—offshore:Commercial mortgage backed — — 15,955,789 15,955,789Commodity trading advisor — 7,378,003 — 7,378,003Distressed/high-yield — — 22,725,842 22,725,842Emerging markets — — 9,941,832 9,941,832Equities—long bias — — 16,372,902 16,372,902Equities—long/short — 46,961,416 — 46,961,416Fixed income arbitrage — — 26,560,042 26,560,042Global asset allocation — 27,179,583 — 27,179,583Multiple strategies — 68,905,637 151,326,637 220,232,274Bio tech/health care — — 9,756,928 9,756,928

______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Total — 150,424,639 252,639,972 403,064,611______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Limited partnerships (1) — — 89,493,643 89,493,643Cash and cash equivalents 20,507,229 — — 20,507,229

Other investments:Assets held under split-interestagreements:Cash and cash equivalents 154,797 — — 154,797Fixed income securities — — 4,138,260 4,138,260

Mortgages from faculty and staff — — 9,095,117 9,095,117______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Total investments $ 40,605,732 150,424,639 416,631,140 607,661,511______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Other assets:Beneficial interest in remainder trust — — 3,206,005 3,206,005Funds held by bond trustee:U.S. government obligations 5,141,266 — — 5,141,266______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total other assets $ 5,141,266 — 3,206,005 8,347,271______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

(1) The private equity funds have initial terms of 10 years with extensions of 1 to 3 years, and have an averageremaining life of 6 years.

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June 30, 2010__________________________________________________________Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total__________________________________________________________

Investments:Long-term investment strategies:Fixed income:U.S.Treasuries $ 39,913,689 — — 39,913,689______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total 39,913,689 — — 39,913,689______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Hedge funds—onshore:Emerging markets — — 5,620,295 5,620,295Equities—long bias — — 6,802,442 6,802,442Multiple strategies — — 46,920,737 46,920,737______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total — — 59,343,474 59,343,474______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Hedge funds—offshore:Commercial mortgage backed — — 16,727,631 16,727,631Commodity trading advisor — 7,197,803 — 7,197,803Distressed/high-yield — — 31,950,967 31,950,967Emerging markets — — 9,778,981 9,778,981Equities—long bias — — 19,069,305 19,069,305Equities—long/short — 38,744,376 7,288,394 46,032,770Fixed income arbitrage — — 25,587,287 25,587,287Global asset allocation — — 23,549,745 23,549,745Multiple strategies — 16,185,952 175,410,347 191,596,299______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total — 62,128,131 309,362,657 371,490,788______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Limited partnerships (1) — — 71,778,972 71,778,972Cash and cash equivalents 15,767,896 — — 15,767,896

Other investments:Assets held under split-interestagreements:Cash and cash equivalents 222,233 — — 222,233Fixed income securities — — 3,506,803 3,506,803

Mortgages from faculty and staff — — 9,177,088 9,177,088______________ ______________ ______________ ______________Total investments $ 55,903,818 62,128,131 453,168,994 571,200,943______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Other assets:Beneficial interest in remainder trust — — 2,786,283 2,786,283Funds held by bond trustee:U.S. government obligations 7,187,358 — — 7,187,358______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Total other assets $ 7,187,358 — 2,786,283 9,973,641______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

(1) The private equity funds have initial terms of 10 years with extensions of 1 to 3 years, and have an average remaininglife of 6 years.

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The following tables present the Institute’s activities for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 for investments clas-sified in Level 3:

2011____________________________________________________________________________________________Assets heldunder

split-interestagreements

BeneficialMortgages Fixed interest in

Limited Hedge from faculty income remainderLevel 3 roll forward partnerships funds and staff securities trust Total__________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________Fair value at

July 1, 2010 $ 71,778,972 368,706,131 9,177,088 3,506,803 2,786,283 455,955,277Acquisitions 19,308,234 4,156,993 588,000 — 125,935 24,179,162Dispositions (14,320,805) (39,054,360) (669,971) (232,671) — (54,277,807)Transfers in/out

of Level 3 — (53,253,331) — — — (53,253,331)Net realized and

unrealized gains 12,727,242 33,348,687 — 864,128 293,787 47,233,844______________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

Fair value atJune 30, 2011 $ 89,493,643 313,904,120 9,095,117 4,138,260 3,206,005 419,837,145______________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

2010____________________________________________________________________________________________Assets heldunder

split-interestagreements

BeneficialMortgages Fixed interest in

Limited Hedge from faculty income remainderLevel 3 roll forward partnerships funds and staff securities trust Total__________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________Fair value at

July 1, 2009 $ 61,657,620 333,893,548 8,151,049 4,133,861 2,654,256 410,490,334Acquisitions 10,547,098 40,103,388 1,518,813 35,000 — 52,204,299Dispositions (12,747,314) (60,256,399) (492,774) (1,260,372) — (74,756,859)Transfers in/out

of Level 3 — 10,000,000 — — — 10,000,000Net realized and

unrealized gains 12,321,568 44,965,594 — 598,314 132,027 58,017,503______________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

Fair value atJune 30, 2010 $ 71,778,972 368,706,131 9,177,088 3,506,803 2,786,283 455,955,277______________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________ ____________________________________________

The Institute’s accounting policy is to recognize transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy on the date of theevent or change in circumstances that caused the transfer.There were no transfers of investments classified as either Level1 or Level 2 for the years ended June 30, 2011 or 2010.

Private equity and venture capital investments are generally made through limited partnerships. Under the terms of suchagreements, the Institute may be required to provide additional funding when capital or liquidity calls are made by fundmanagers. These partnerships have a limited existence, and they may provide for annual extensions for the purpose ofdisposing portfolio positions and returning capital to investors. However, depending on market conditions, the inabil-ity to execute the fund’s strategy, or other factors, a manager may extend the terms of a fund beyond its originally an-ticipated existence or may wind the fund down prematurely.The Institute cannot anticipate such changes because theygenerally arise from unforeseeable events, but should they occur they could reduce liquidity or originally anticipated in-vestment returns.Accordingly, the timing and amount of future capital or liquidity calls in any particular future year areuncertain.As of June 30, 2011, the Institute is obligated under certain limited partnership agreements to advance addi-tional funding in the amount of $86,596,821, which is anticipated to be called over the next 10 years.

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Investment liquidity as of June 30, 2011 is aggregated below based on redemption or sale period:

Investmentfair values________________

Investment redemption or sale period:Daily $ 44,743,992Monthly 37,700,834Quarterly 103,564,759Semi-annually 23,178,744Annually 65,117,355Subject to rolling lock ups or other restrictions 175,751,100Illiquid 157,604,727________________

Total as of June 30, 2011 $ 607,661,511________________________________

(c) Funds Held by Bond TrusteeFunds held by bond trustee represent the balance of the proceeds from the 2001, 2006, and 2008 New Jersey Educa-tional Facilities Authority (NJEFA or theAuthority) bonds that have not yet been expended for construction purposesor debt service payments. These funds are being held in trust by The Bank of NewYork. Such funds are invested inU.S. government obligations with maturities of less than one year.

(d) Redemption Restrictions—Hedge FundsAt June 30, 2011, the Institute had hedge fund investments of approximately $464,329,000, of which approximately$126,405,300 was restricted from redemption for lock-up periods. At June 30, 2010, the Institute had hedge fund in-vestments of approximately $430,834,000, of which approximately $127,457,000 was restricted from redemption forlock-up periods. Some of the investments with redemption restrictions allow early redemption for specified fees.Theterms and conditions upon which an investor may redeem an investment vary, usually with the majority requiring 30to 180 days notice after the initial lock-up period.

The expirations of redemption lock-up periods are summarized in the table below:

Amount________________Fiscal year:2012 $ 44,208,3002013 41,114,0002014 —2015 and thereafter 41,083,000________________

Total $ 126,405,300________________________________

(e) Redemption Restrictions—Limited PartnershipsAt June 30, 2011 and 2010, the Institute had limited partnership investments of approximately $89,493,600 and$71,778,900, respectively, which were restricted from redemption for lock-up periods. Some of the investments withredemption restrictions allow early redemption for specified fees.The terms and conditions upon which an investor mayredeem an investment vary, usually with the majority requiring 30 to 180 days notice after the initial lock-up period.

The expirations of redemption lock-up periods are summarized in the table below:

Amount________________Fiscal year:2012 $ —2013 11,732,8002014 —2015 and thereafter 77,760,800________________

Total $ 89,493,600________________________________

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(f) ContingenciesThe Institute has an investment in the Ariel Fund Limited (the Fund), which on June 30, 2011 and 2010 had a fairvalue of approximately $15,391,000 and $18,854,000, respectively. During fiscal year 2009, the fund became subjectto the oversight of a receiver appointed by the Attorney General of NewYork for the principal purposes of mar-shalling and preserving the assets of the Fund, for ultimate distribution of the proceeds to the respective investors ofthe Fund. During fiscal 2011, the Institute received the first distribution of $4,677,839 from the receiver. There is apotential for litigation to recover amounts from investors who have received previous distributions from the Fund. Man-agement does not expect this to have a significant impact on the Institute’s financial statements.

(4) Investment Return and Endowment Spending Policy

Investment return consists of interest, dividends, and realized and unrealized gains and losses on investments. Each year, theInstitute includes a portion of its endowment return in its operating budget, with the amount of such planned support de-termined using its spending policy. The policy of the Institute is to distribute for current spending a percentage of the fairvalue of pooled investments which is determined by the Board of Trustees annually.The spending rate for operating and cap-ital purposes was 4.7% for 2011 and 2010.

The following tables summarize the investment return and its classification in the statements of activities for the years endedJune 30, 2011 and 2010:

2011__________________________________________Temporarily

Unrestricted restricted Total____________ ____________ ____________Dividends and interest, net of

investment expenses $ (784,578) (1,045,501) (1,830,079)Net realized and unrealized gains 38,560,901 24,721,227 63,282,128____________ ____________ ____________

Total investment return 37,776,323 23,675,726 61,452,049

Endowment spending policy for use in operations 12,748,198 10,021,902 22,770,100____________ ____________ ____________Endowment change afterapplying spending policy $ 25,028,125 13,653,824 38,681,949____________ ____________ ________________________ ____________ ____________

2010__________________________________________Temporarily

Unrestricted restricted Total____________ ____________ ____________Dividends and interest, net of

investment expenses $ (715,443) (703,149) (1,418,592)Net realized and unrealized gains 40,940,701 23,971,227 64,911,928____________ ____________ ____________

Total investment return 40,225,258 23,268,078 63,493,336

Endowment spending policy for use in operations 11,264,751 13,158,949 24,423,700____________ ____________ ____________Endowment change afterapplying spending policy $ 28,960,507 10,109,129 39,069,636____________ ____________ ________________________ ____________ ____________

Total investment management and advisory fees were $2,464,321 and $2,766,610 for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2010,respectively.

(5) Endowment

The Institute’s endowment consists of approximately 90 individual funds established for a variety of purposes including bothdonor-restricted endowment funds and funds designated by the Board of Trustees to function as endowments. Net assets as-sociated with endowments, including funds designated by the Board of Trustees to function as endowments, are classified andreported based on the existence or absence of donor-imposed restrictions.

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(a) Interpretation of Relevant LawThe Institute has interpreted the New Jersey-enacted version of the Uniform Prudent Management of InstitutionalFunds Act (UPMIFA) as allowing the Institute to appropriate for expenditure or accumulate so much of a donor-re-stricted endowment fund as the Institute determines is prudent for the uses, benefits, purposes, and duration for whichthe endowment fund is established, subject to the intent of the donor as expressed in the gift instrument. Unless statedotherwise in the gift instrument, the assets in a donor-restricted endowment fund are donor-restricted assets until ap-propriated for expenditure by the Board of Trustees of the Institute. As a result of applicable accounting guidance in-cluded in FinancialAccounting Standards BoardAccounting Standards Codification Subtopic 958-205-45,Not-for-ProfitEntities: Presentation of Financial Statements, Other Presentation Matters (ASC 958-205-45), the Institute classifies as per-manently restricted net assets (a) the original value of gifts donated to the permanent endowment, (b) the original valueof subsequent gifts to the permanent endowment, and (c) accumulations to the permanent endowment made in ac-cordance with the direction of the applicable donor gift instrument at the time the accumulation is added to the fund.The remaining portion of the donor-restricted endowment fund that is not classified as permanently restricted net as-sets is classified as temporarily restricted net assets until those amounts are appropriated for expenditure in a mannerconsistent with the standard of prudence prescribed by UPMIFA.

From time to time, the fair value of assets associated with individual donor-restricted endowments may fall below theoriginal corpus of the fund included in permanently restricted net assets due to unfavorable market fluctuations sub-sequent to the investment of the gift. Deficiencies of this nature, which are reported in unrestricted net assets in ac-cordance with ASC 958-205-45, totaled approximately $1,202,000 and $1,369,000, at June 30, 2011 and 2010,respectively. Subsequent gains that restore the fair value of the assets of the donor-restricted endowment fund are clas-sified as an increase in unrestricted net assets.

Endowment net assets consisted of the following at June 30, 2011 and 2010:

2011____________________________________________________________

Temporarily PermanentlyUnrestricted restricted restricted Total______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Donor restricted $ (1,202,008) 140,107,904 98,083,631 236,989,527Board designated 349,588,623 — — 349,588,623______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

$ 348,386,615 140,107,904 98,083,631 586,578,150______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

2010____________________________________________________________


Donor restricted $ (1,368,509) 125,249,638 80,807,557 204,688,686Board designated 346,580,860 — — 346,580,860______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

$ 345,212,351 125,249,638 80,807,557 551,269,546______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

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Changes in endowment net assets for the fiscal years ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 were as follows:


Net assets, June 30, 2009 $ 320,878,531 114,789,876 78,028,894 513,697,301Dividends and interest income, net (715,443) (406,482) — (1,121,925)Realized and unrealized gains 40,696,680 23,536,468 — 64,233,148Contributions 289,253 — 2,778,663 3,067,916Transfer of gain oninvestments to replenishunrestricted net assets 244,021 (244,021) — —

Appropriation forexpenditure—operations (11,264,751) (13,158,949) — (24,423,700)

Appropriation forexpenditure—capital and other (4,915,940) — — (4,915,940)

Unspent appropriation returnedto principal — 732,746 — 732,746______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Net assets, June 30, 2010 $ 345,212,351 125,249,638 80,807,557 551,269,546Dividends and interest income, net (785,580) (497,074) — (1,282,654)Realized and unrealized gains 38,560,901 23,591,387 — 62,152,288Contributions 253,680 397,952 7,276,074 7,927,706Appropriation forexpenditure—operations (12,748,198) (10,021,902) — (22,770,100)Appropriation forexpenditure—capital and other (10,718,636) — — (10,718,636)

Reclassification of unrestrictednet assets (11,387,903) 1,387,903 10,000,000 —______________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Net assets, June 30, 2011 $ 348,386,615 140,107,904 98,083,631 586,578,150______________ ______________ ______________ ____________________________ ______________ ______________ ______________

Reclassification of unrestricted net assets represents amounts reclassified by the Institute to temporarily restricted andpermanently restricted net assets to satisfy donor matching requirements.

(b) Return Objectives and Risk ParametersThe Institute has adopted investment and spending policies for endowment assets that attempt to provide a predictablestream of funding to programs supported by its endowment while seeking to maintain the purchasing power of theendowment assets.

(c) Strategies Employed for Achieving ObjectivesThe Institute manages its investments in accordance with a total return concept and the goal of maximizing returnswithin acceptable levels of risk.The Institute relies on a total return strategy in which investment returns are achievedthrough both capital appreciation (realized and unrealized) and current yield (dividends and interest). The Institute’sspending policy is designed to provide a stable level of financial support and to preserve the real value of its endowment.

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(6) Physical Plant

Physical plant and equipment are stated at cost at date of acquisition, less accumulated depreciation.

A summary of plant assets at June 30, 2011 and 2010 follows:2011 2010______________ ______________

Land $ 377,470 377,470Land improvements 1,681,925 1,543,134Buildings and improvements 93,828,846 91,713,069Equipment 26,931,479 25,757,852Construction in progress 204,022 200,508Rare book collection 203,508 203,508Joint ownership property 3,340,441 3,340,441______________ ______________

126,567,691 123,135,982Accumulated depreciation (66,766,719) (62,944,372)______________ ______________

Net book value $ 59,800,972 60,191,610______________ ____________________________ ______________

The Institute has capitalized interest income of $1,117 and $3,238 and interest expense of $6,956 and $8,942 in constructionin progress for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

(7) Long-Term Debt

A summary of long-term debt at June 30, 2011 and 2010 follows:

2011 2010______________ ______________2001 Series A—NJEFA $ 2,215,000 2,480,0002006 Series B—NJEFA 28,400,000 28,600,0002006 Series C—NJEFA 18,400,000 18,800,0002008 Series C—NJEFA 5,955,000 7,815,000Less unamortized bond discount (195,355) (219,006)______________ ________________

Total long-term debt $ 54,774,645 57,475,994______________ ____________________________ ______________

Interest expense on long-term debt for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 was $1,461,015 and $1,768,112, respectively.

(a) 2001 Series AIn May 2001, the Institute received proceeds of the Authority offering of $11,000,000 Revenue Bonds, 2001 Series Aof the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. Proceeds were used for the construction of Bloomberg Hall and additionalcapital projects. These bonds were partially refunded through the 2006 Series B Revenue bonds detailed below.

(b) 2006 Series BIn July 2006, the Institute received proceeds of the Authority offering of $29,600,000 Revenue Bonds, 2006 Series Bof the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. The 2006 Series B Bonds were issued to finance the advance refunding ofthe outstanding 1997 Series G Bonds, the partial advance refunding of the 2001 Series A Bonds, and to pay a portionof certain costs incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2006 Series B Bonds.

(c) 2006 Series CIn March 2007, the Institute received proceeds of theAuthority offering of $20,000,000 Revenue Bonds, 2006 Series Cof the Institute for Advanced Study Issue. Proceeds are being used to finance the costs of construction, renovating andequipping certain educational facilities of the Institute, to fund capitalized interest on the 2006 Series C Bonds duringthe renovation and construction, and to pay certain costs incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2006 Series C Bonds.

(d) 2008 Series CIn March 2008, the Institute received proceeds of the Authority offering of $11,255,000 Revenue Bonds, 2008 Se-ries C of the Institute forAdvanced Study Issue.The 2008 Series C Bonds were issued to finance the advance refundingof outstanding 1997 Series F Bonds, the advance refunding of outstanding 1997 Series G, and to pay a portion of cer-tain costs incidental to the sale and issuance of the 2008 Series C Bonds.

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(e) Interest RatesThe 2001 Series A and 2008 Series C Bonds bear interest at rates ranging from 3% to 5%, payable semi-annually, aresubject to redemption at various prices and require principal payments and sinking fund installments through July 1,2021.The obligation to pay the Authority on a periodic basis, in the amounts sufficient to cover principal and inter-est due on the bonds, is a general obligation of the Institute.

The 2006 Series B and C Bonds bear interest at variable rates.The bonds were issued in the weekly mode with weeklyrates determined by Lehman Brothers Inc, as Remarketing Agent and paid monthly. The maximum interest rate onthe 2006 Bonds shall be twelve percent (12%) per annum.The 2006 bonds are subject to redemption at various pricesand require principal payments and sinking fund installments through July 1, 2036. The obligation to pay the Au-thority on a periodic basis, in the amounts sufficient to cover principal and interest due on the bonds, is a general ob-ligation of the Institute. On September 18, 2008, the Institute entered into a contract with JPMorgan Chase Bank totake over as Remarketing Agent, replacing Lehman Brothers Inc.

(f) Bond Swap AgreementOn April 18, 2006, the Institute entered into a swap agreement with Lehman Brothers Commercial Bank covering$29,600,000 of outstanding 2006 Series B Bonds that required the Institute to pay a fixed rate of 3.7702% to LehmanBrothers Commercial Bank in exchange for Lehman Brothers Commercial Bank agreeing to pay the Institute a vari-able rate equal to 67% of the USD-LIBOR-BBA rate with a term of three months, payable monthly, on an identicalnotional amount. The effective date of the swap was July 19, 2006 and the termination date of the swap agreementcoincides with the maturity of the bonds, which is July 1, 2031. In September 2008, the filing of a petition in bank-ruptcy by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. constituted an “Event of Default,” giving the Institute the right to termi-nate the swap and designate an Early Termination Date on notice to Lehman Brothers Commercial Bank.

On December 22, 2008, the Institute entered into a new swap agreement withWells Fargo Bank covering $28,800,000of outstanding Series B Bonds that required the Institute to pay a fixed rate of 3.7702% toWells Fargo Bank in exchangeforWells Fargo Bank agreeing to pay the Institute a variable rate equal to 67%of the USD-LIBOR-BBA rate with a termof three months, payable monthly, on an identical notional amount. The effective date of the swap was December 22,2008 and the termination date of the swap agreement coincides with the maturity of the bonds, which is July 1, 2031.

The Institute entered into this swap agreement with the intention of lowering its effective interest rate. At June 30,2011 and 2010, the fair value of the interest rate swap was ($3,940,182) and ($4,629,600), respectively.The unrealizedgain (loss) recognized during the year ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 in the amount of $689,418 and ($1,115,233), re-spectively is reported in the statements of activities in change in fair value of bond swap liability.The swap agreementutilizes level 2 inputs to measure fair value. The fair value of the interest rate swaps was determined using pricingmodels developed based on the LIBOR swap rate and other market data. Under the swap agreement, the Institute maybe required to post collateral to the counterparty if certain triggering events (rates and dollar thresholds) are met. Asof June 30, 2011 and 2010, there was no requirement to post collateral imposed by the swap counterparty.

The bonds are repayable as follows at June 30, 2011:Amount

____________Year ending June 30:

2012 $ 2,055,0002013 2,290,0002014 2,320,0002015 2,360,0002016 2,505,0002017 through 2036 43,440,000____________

Total $ 54,970,000________________________

The 2001 Series A, 2006 Series B, 2006 Series C, and 2008 Series C bonds are secured by a pledge of revenuespursuant to the respective Loan Agreements.

(g) Line of CreditAs of June 30, 2011 and 2010, the Institute had an unsecured loan agreement representing a line of credit.The agree-ment provides for borrowings up to $20,000,000 and is available through January 2012.As of June 30, 2011 and 2010,there were no amounts outstanding against the line of credit. Interest payments are due on demand and interest

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accrues at the LIBOR rate plus 100 basis points, which was 1.73% and 2.19% as of June 30, 2011 and 2010, respec-tively. No interest expense was recorded for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2010.

(8) Pension Plans and Other Postretirement Benefits

Separate voluntary defined contribution retirement plans are in effect for faculty members and eligible staff personnel, bothof which provide for annuities, which are funded, to theTeachers Insurance andAnnuityAssociation and/or the College Re-tirement Equities Fund. Contributions are based on the individual participant’s compensation in accordance with the formulaset forth in the plan documents on a nondiscriminatory basis. Contributions for the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 to-taled approximately $2,085,000 and $2,066,000, respectively.

In addition to providing pension benefits, the Institute provides certain health care and life insurance benefits for retired em-ployees and faculty. Substantially, all of the Institute’s employees may become eligible for these benefits if they meet minimumage and service requirements. The Institute accrues these benefits over a period in which active employees become eligibleunder existing benefit plans.

The following table provides a reconciliation of the change in benefit obligation of the plan at June 30, 2011 and 2010.Thereare no plan assets at June 30, 2011 and 2010.

2011 2010Postretirement benefit obligation: ____________ ____________

Retirees $ 6,535,144 5,853,000Fully eligible active plan participants 1,292,141 1,746,000Other active plan participants 6,626,827 6,983,000____________ ____________

Postretirement benefit obligation $ 14,454,112 14,582,000____________ ________________________ ____________Change in benefit obligation:Benefit obligation at beginning of year $ 14,582,000 10,469,000Service cost 691,000 450,000Interest cost 773,000 633,000Benefits paid (413,758) (375,946)Actuarial (gain) loss (1,178,130) 3,405,946____________ ____________

Benefit obligation at end of year $ 14,454,112 14,582,000____________ ________________________ ____________

Components of net periodic benefit cost:Service cost $ 691,000 450,000Interest cost 773,000 633,000Amortization of net (gain) loss (1,178,130) 3,405,946____________ ____________

Net periodic postretirement benefit cost $ 285,870 4,488,946____________ ________________________ ____________

2011 2010____________ ____________Benefit obligation weighted average assumptions at

June 30, 2011 and 2010:Discount rate 5.61% 5.40%

Periodic benefit cost weighted average assumptionsfor the years ended June 30, 2011 and 2010:Discount rate 5.40% 6.19%

The current year trend rate for health care costs was 10.0% and 11.0% at June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively. It is estimatedthat it will take 9 years and 10 years to reach the ultimate trend rate of 5.0% at June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

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The effects of a 1% increase or decrease in trend rates on total service and interest cost and the postretirement benefitobligation are as follows:

2011 2010____________________________________________________ __________________________Increase Decrease Increase Decrease_________________________ ________________________ ________________________ __________________________

Effect on total serviceand interest cost $ 335,000 (258,000) 222,000 (175,000)

Effect on the postretirementbenefit obligation 2,468,152 (1,975,416) 2,514,000 (2,011,000)

Projected payments for each of the next five fiscal years and thereafter through 2021 are as follows:

Amount____________Year ending June 30:

2012 $ 562,0002013 587,0002014 623,0002015 651,0002016 674,0002017 through 2021 4,016,000

The Institute funds claims as they are incurred. The Institute does not expect to contribute any amounts in fiscal 2012, ex-cept as needed to provide for benefit payments.

In 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (collectively,the “Health Care Acts”) were signed into law by President Obama.The Health Care Acts include several provisions that mayaffect an organization’s postretirement benefit plans, including imposing an excise tax on high cost coverage, eliminating life-time and annual coverage limits, reducing subsidies to Medicare Advantage plans, and imposing inflation-adjusted fees of $2($1 in fiscal year 2013) for each person covered by a health insurance policy for each policy plan year ending after September 30,2012 through September 30, 2019.The Institute has evaluated the effects of the Health Care Acts and concluded that there isno material impact on the Institute’s measurement of its postretirement health benefit obligation. The Institute will continueto monitor developments, interpretations, and guidance relating to the law and incorporate the latest thinking in future meas-urements.

(9) Temporarily and Permanently Restricted Assets

Restricted net assets are available for the following purposes at June 30, 2011 and 2010:

2011 2010______________ ______________Temporarily restricted net assets are restricted to:

School of Mathematics $ 31,199,717 29,019,998School of Natural Sciences 10,189,133 6,412,172School of Historical Studies 34,864,151 31,210,429School of Social Science 54,241,963 50,295,421Libraries and other academic 4,658,414 3,805,200Administration and general 5,963,086 4,933,565______________ ______________

$ 141,116,464 125,676,785______________ ____________________________ ______________Permanently restricted net assets are restricted to:

Investments to be held in perpetuity, the income fromwhich is expendable to support academic services $ 98,083,631 80,807,557

10) Disclosures About FairValue of Financial Instruments

The carrying amount of the Institute’s financial instruments not carried at fair value approximates fair value due to the shortmaturity, except for long-term indebtedness. The estimated fair value of the Institute’s long-term indebtedness was approxi-mately $55,642,000 and $58,324,000 at June 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively.

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(11) Subsequent Events

In September 2011, the Institute entered into three new equity swap agreements, totaling approximately $80,000,000, withGoldman Sachs to hedge against fluctuations in the S&P index relative to their overall investment portfolio.The effective datesof the swap range between September 21, 2011 and September 30, 2011 and the formal termination dates of each swap isone year after the trade date, unless amended.

The Institute evaluated events subsequent to June 30, 2011 and through November 15, 2011, the date on which the finan-cial statements were issued.The Institute determined there were no additional subsequent events required to be disclosed.

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