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Report for the Academic Years 1987-88 and 1988-89 The Institute for Advanced Study Annual Report 1986/87 I The Institute for Advanced Study I Annual Report for the Fiscal Year Julyl, 1986-June30, 1987 The Institute for Advanced Study Olden Lane Princeton, New Jersey 08540 U.S.A. Printed by Princeton University Press It is fundamental to our purpose, and our Extract from the letter addressed by the express desire, that in the appointments to the Founders to the Institute's Trustees, staff and faculty, as well as in the admission dated June 6, 1930, Newark, New Jersey. ofivorkers and students, no account shall be taken, directly or indirectly, of race, religion or sex. We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all, the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, ami particularly with )io regard 'whatever to accidents of race, creed or sex. f^-s^9 Table of Contents Trustees and Officers Founders Caroline Bamberger Fuld Louis Bamberger Board of Trustees John F. Akers T. D. Lee President ami University Professor Chief Executive Officer Columbia University IBM Corporation Elizabeth J. McCormack Daniel Bell Associate Henry Ford II Professor Rockefeller Family and Associates of Social Sciences Harvard University G. Daniel Mostow Henry Ford II Professor Thornton F. Bradshaw of Mathematics Consultant Yale University RCA Martin E. Segal Charles L. Brown Chairman Princeton, New Jersey Martin E. Segal Company Fletcher L. Byrom Zeph Stewart Carefree, Colorado Director The Center for Hellenic Studies Gladys K. Delmas Washington, D.C. Neiv York, Neiv York Donald B. Straus Michael V. Forreslal President Laivycr Research Institute of the American New York, Neiv York Arbitration Association Marvin L. Goldberger Frank E. Taplin President Princeton, Neiv jersey California Institute of Technology Michel L. Vaillaud Wilfried Guth New York, Neiv York Chairman of the Supervisory Board Deutsche Bank AG James D. Wolfensohn Federal Republic of Germany President James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. Ralph E. Hansmann New York, Nezo York Harry Woolf Director The Institute for Advanced Study Trustees Emeriti J. Richardson Dilworfh Lloyd K. Garrison Joseph L. Doob Howard C. Petersen Sidney D. Drell Norton Simon Board and Corporate Officers James D. Wolfensohn Ralph E. Hansmann Chairman of the Board Treasurer Charles L. Brown Donald C. Jenkins Vice-Chairmaii of the Board Assistant Treasurer Patricia H. Labalme Secretary of the Corporation Administration Harry VVoolf, Director Patricia G. Dixon, Secretary Patricia H. Labalme, Associate Director and Secretary of the Corporation Helen J. Laesker, Secretary Allen L Rowe, Associate Director for Administration and Finance Barbara Campbell, Secretary Mary S. Wisnovsky, Assistant to the Director Susan Long, Secretary James Barbour, Manager of Administration Mary J. Mazza, Manager of Finance Sabina Modzelewski, Comptroller Libraries Elliott Shore, Historical Studies and Social Science Momota Ganguli, Mathematics and Natural Sciences School of Historical Studies Sandra S. Lafferty, School Administrative Officer School of Mathematics Linda Y. Sheldon, School Administrative Officer School of Natural Sciences Michelle Sage, School Administrative Officer School of Social Science Peggy A. Clarke, School Administrative Officer The Institute for Advanced Study: Background and Purpose The bistitute takes the folkrwing premises on the ties and a mode of operation designed specif- nature of learning as fundamental: most important ically to support and assist the Institute's in- work is the product of the disciplined and creative tellectual purposes in every way possible. individual mind; accordingly, the individual Although the Institute is small when meas- scholar nnist be responsible for hoio he uses the pre- ured in terms of the size of its immediate aca- cious resources of his oivn time and energy: the demic community or of its operating budget, community of peers in his area of intellectual zoork its intellectual weight is great and its influence is the ultimate judge of the results. (From Proce- on science and scholarship extraordinary. dures FOR Academic Governance of the From its earliest years, it has been internation- Institute.) ally recognized as one of the world's leading centers of research. Indeed, its successful ex- ample has created numerous imitators both in The Institute for Advanced Study, an inde- the United States and abroad. pendent, private institution devoted to the From the beginning, the Institute has encouragement, support and patronage of been an international organization, although learning, was founded in 1930 as a commu- American in location and organizational nity of scholars where intellectual inquiry form. It has operated throughout its existence could be carried out in the most favorable cir- on the premise that science and learning tran- cumstances. Focused on mathematics and scend national boundaries and that scholars classical studies at the outset, the Institute to- and scientists are members of one common- day consists of the School of Historical Stud- wealth of the mind. Of the present Faculty, ies, the School of Mathematics, the School of many have begun their scientific and schol- Natural Sciences and the School of Social Sci- arly careers outside the United States. One- ence. Each School has a small permanent Fac- third of the Visiting Members come from ulty, and some 160 fellowships are awarded abroad, mostly from the great centers of annually to Visiting Members from other re- learning of western Europe and Asia, and, to search institutions and universities through- a lesser extent, from other regions of the out the world. world. The objectives of the Institute were de- With its devotion to the continuing exami- scribed as follows in the Founders' original nation of new and centrally important ques- letter to the first Trustees; "The primary pur- tions as they arise at the frontiers of knowl- pose is the pursuit of advanced learning and edge, the Institute partakes of the character of exploration in the fields of pure science and both a university and a research institute, but high scholarship to the utmost degree that the it also differs in significant ways from both. facilities of the institution and the ability of Unlike a university in its small size—its aca- the faculty and students will permit." During demic membership at any time numbers the past half-century, these goals have been about 200—it has no commitment that all implemented by a Faculty of exceptional branches of learning be represented in its Fac- merit; by an annually renewed group of Vis- ulty and Members. Unlike the usual research iting Members chosen from among the many institute, it supports many different fields of who apply; and by the development of facili- study, maintains no laboratories, and above 12 Background and Purpose all, welcomes temporary members whose in- ply, but no concentration guarantees entry tellectual development and growth are one of and no focus excludes those outside it. The its principal purposes. But it shares with both choice and conduct of research are matters universities and research institutes a devotion which are decided entirely by each individual to learning, in the double sense of the contin- member of the Institute. uing education of the individual and of the in- The Institute is nonetheless an intellectual tellectual enterprise on which the member is community and not a mere collection of schol- embarked. ars. Community is possible because Faculty For more than five decades the Institute for and Members have some substantial knowl- Advanced Study has made a substantial con- edge outside their own fields of specializa- tribution to the world of higher learning by tion. The fact that the Visiting Members live providing support—intellectual and mate- together in Institute housing, eat in the same rial—to Visiting Members. More than one dining hall, share the same common room third of these Visiting Members are young and libraries, and carry out their work in an men and women 35 years of age or less whose institutional setting where human scale has work at the Institute involves the Faculty in a been carefully maintained is conducive to substantial amount of postdoctoral training. common interest, mutual understanding and Though none of the Visiting Members is a stu- friendship. dent in the narrow sense of being a degree The Faculty and Members of the Institute candidate, the communal atmosphere and are also a part of the larger community of many opportunities for discussion with Fac- Princeton, with its University and its many in- ulty members and peers, both within and out- stitutions of research and learning. Although side seminar meetings, are propitious to the Institute has no administrative or organic scholarly growth. connection with Princeton University, there The Institute devotes special attention to has always been close collaboration between young people of accomplishment and prom- the two institutions on matters of common in- ise, offering them membership at a stage in terest. Manv Institute seminars are open to in- their careers when independent work is of the terested members of the University's faculty highest importance to their intellectual devel- and graduate school, and University seminars opment. These younger Members then return and conferences are frec]uently attended by to or join the faculties of universities all over Institute Faculty and Members. Without the the world and share what they have learned University, Princeton itself would be both as a result of their stay at the Institute. This physically and intellectually inadequate as the might be termed the invisible work of the In- site of the Institute; and the Institute has stitute; its visible work is contained in the brought a degree of international excellence to publications of the Faculty and Visiting Mem- the general academic climate of Princeton, bers. Both serve to reinforce in highly signifi- contributing to the development of what has cant ways the quality of scholarship and re- become one of the world's great educational search throughout the world.
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