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Spring 2013 Fine Letters Spring 2013, Issue 2 Department of Mathematics Princeton University Department Chair’s letter Nobel Prize for This was a great year, though one of major loved Department Manager of 25 an alumnus transition. Our department welcomed two years transitioned to Special Proj- outstanding young stars to the senior fac- ects Manager. We hired Kathy Lloyd Shapley *53, ulty; Sophie Morel who arrived in Septem- Applegate, our fourth Depart- won the 2012 Nobel Prize ber and Mihalis Dafermos *01 in January. ment Manager in almost 80 years. in economics for work he In addition Sucharit Sarkar *09, Vlad Vicol, As many of you know, Chairs in did in collaboration with and Alexander Sodin joined us as assistant our department come and go but another of our alumni, professors, Mihai Fulger, Niels Moller, it is the Department Manager David Gale *49. Both Oana Pocovnicu, and Bart Vandereycken who de facto represents the de- were graduate students in as instructors, and Stefanos Aretakis and partment to the outside world. the mathematics depart- Nicholas Sheridan as Veblen Research In- It’s clear that we made a terrific choice and ment at Princeton at a time when the field structors. the department is in excellent hands. of Game Theory was emerging and some of John Conway and Ed Nelson will retire at Josko Plazonic, our remarkable Systems its greatest names were here. the end of the academic year joining Bill Manager of 12 years, moved next door to Shapley, currently a professor Browder *58 and Eli Stein who became PICsciE. Our long time business manager emeritus of economics and emeritus last year. They are/were core Dona Vukson retired and we mourned the mathematics at UCLA, shared faculty; stalwarts in research, mentorship, loss of faculty assistant Frances Wrobleski. the prize with Alvin E. Roth leadership and teaching. We will miss their Jean Pierre Serre gave the inaugural Miner- of Harvard. David Gale, who regular departmental involvement though va Lecture series. He was followed by Ian died in 2008, was a profes- we look forward to their presence, insights Agol and Terry Tao *96. We are grateful to sor at UC Berkeley, and, like and wisdom for many years to come. An- the Fernholz Foundation for enabling these Shapley, had joint appoint- drew Wiles and Ingrid Daubachies trans- well-received, exciting lectures. ments in the departments of ferred to emeritus status. Approximately economics and mathematics. two to three years ago they had moved to We are also grateful for a major contribu- David Gale *49 Oxford and Duke respectively. They con- tion to the Class of 1971 Endowed Fund for For the complete Nobel citation go to: tinue to have our very best wishes in these Mathematics that provides discretionary http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_ positions. Finally, we note the passing of support “to strengthen the mission of the prizes/economics/laureates/2012/ two mathematical giants; long time faculty Department of Mathematics.” member Arthur Wightman *49 (Professor, I became Chair on July 1, 2012 following joint with Physics, 1949-1992) and William Alice Chang’s three-year term. She faced In memoriam A. S. Wightman and W. P. Thurston (Professor, 1974-1991). the financial crises and its many ramifica- Thurston p.5 Our department’s alumni and faculty won tions, oversaw generational change in the WIlliam Browder conference p. 6 many high recognition awards. These include leadership of the undergraduate program, The Minerva Lectures p. 8 the Nobel prize for Lloyd Shapley *53 for introduced the Minerva program and made his work with David Gale *49 and a Mac- important administrative reforms. I am Arthur Fellowship by Maria Chudnovsky thankful for this as well as the many hours upon, are always very helpful to do what is *03. Of the first seven inaugural Simons she spent informing me about the Chair of- needed to carry out our research, mentor- Investigator awards in mathematics two fice. ship and teaching mission. were won by our faculty members Manjul Walking the corridors of Fine Hall, I’m We have great faculty, students and staff, Bhargava *01 and Amit Singer and two overcome observing nearly everyone - from but face many challenges going forward. others by alumni H. T. Yau *87 and Terry Tao senior faculty to junior faculty to gradu- I’d appreciate hearing your thoughts, ideas, *96. Among many other faculty honors, ate students to some undergrads - pushing and stories. Feel free to write even if you Yasha Sinai won a lifetime achievement themselves to open new mathematical fron- are just interested in reconnecting with us. award from the AMS. tiers and to address the most fundamental David Gabai *77, *80, Chair We had major changes in our administrative mathematical issues of the day. And yet they [email protected] staff. In September, Scott Kenney, our be- are immensely friendly and, when called New appointments Mihalis Dafermos is a rising star in New Professors Sophie Morel is a world-leading math- the field of General Relativity—a branch of ematician who works in the fields of au- mathematical physics which studies gravity tomorphic forms and algebraic geometry. and gravitation waves as a geometric prop- Her work naturally intersects with topol- erty of space and time; the program was ogy, representation theory and number first initiated by Einstein in 1916. The field theory. She has made major advances in the has been a central area of research in phys- theory of Shimura Varieties which, in turn, ics and, gradually over time, has developed have been central to many recent develop- to become a central branch of research in ments in the Langlands Program. mathematical physics. Morel obtained a diploma in mathemat- Dafermos earned a B.A. summa cum laude ics from the Ecole Normale Superieure in in mathematics from Harvard, in 1997 and a Paris in 2003, and a Ph.D. from the Univer- Ph.D. from Princeton in 2001, with Deme- site Paris-Sud in 2005 (advisor: Gerard Lau- trios Christodoulou as his thesis advisor. He mon.) Before coming to Princeton, Morel comes to Princeton from Cambridge Uni- was a professor at Harvard. versity. Administrative staff changes Chair: David Gabai Scott Kenney, our Department Manager for 25 years, stepped down from that position in September 2012. Scott, who came to Associate Chair: the University in 1984 and worked in the former Statistics Depart- Christopher Skinner (F 2013) ment and the Office of the Registrar before coming to the Math Department in December 1986, has assumed a half-time position as Directors of Graduate Study: Special Projects Manager in our department and calls it the best of Alex Ionescu and Nicolas Templier both worlds: he remains in the department he has loved for the last Department Representative: 26 years and is now able to travel extensively with his wife, embrace János Kollár the joys of being a grandparent, and spend more time pursuing his Associate Representative: other interests. Jennifer Johnson Kathleen Applegate became our new Department Manager Senior Advisor: John Mather in September, coming to the Math Department after a position in the Teacher Preparation Program. She has been with the Univer- Junior Advisor: Tasho Kaletha sity since 1997, working in the Office of General Counsel and the Program in Law and Public Affairs. Kathy has a J.D. from Rutgers Placement Officer: Vlad Vicol University and has served on many University committees, includ- ing as Co-Chair of the Academic Managers Group. Department Manager: Kathleen Applegate Josko Plazonic, our Systems Manager, accepted a new position 2013-2014 administrative positions administrative 2013-2014 with the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engi- neering (PICSciE). His last day was April 12, 2013. Josko began his tenure in the Math Department as a graduate stu- dent in September 1995. After his obligatory military service in Croatia in the late-1990’s, Josko returned to Fine Hall and became our Systems Manager in 2001. Frances Wroblewski, a Faculty Assistant in our department since the Spring 2011, Dona Vukson, Business Manager, retired in October 2012. She had been with the died after a brief illness in February. She Math Department since November 1996 and served as the Assistant Department Manager was highly appreciated for her unique abil- for many years before becoming our Business Manager in the fall of 2011. Dona worked ity to produce complicated mathematical for the University for over 46 years and, prior to joining our department, worked in the slides and technical papers and her artistic Plasma Physics Laboratory, the Physics Department, and the Office of the Dean of the talent. Faculty. page 2 New appointments Instructors Mihai Aurel Fulger Algebraic geometry. Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (2012); M.S. from SNSF in Bucharest, Romania (2007); B.S. from Univer- sity of Bucharest (2006). Sucharit Sarkar Vlad Vicol A Alexander Sodin Niels Martin Moller Riemannian and Conformal Geometry, Nonlinear Partial Differen- Assistant Professors tial Equations, Mean Curvature Flow, Minimal Surfaces, Functional Determinants and Torsions, Dirac Operators, Q-Curvature, Rep- Sucharit Sarkar resentation Theory in Geometry, Mathematical Physics, Quantum Low dimensional topology and gauge the- Computers. Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ory, in particular knot theory, Heegaard (2012); M.Sc. from Aarhus University, Denmark (2007); B.Sc. from Floer homology and Khovanov homology. Aarhus University, Denmark (20015). Ph.D. Princeton University (2009); Bach- elor of Mathematics, Indian Statistical In- Oana Pocovnicu stitute (2005). Ritt Assistant Professor, Dispersive nonlinear Partial Differential Equations. Ph.D. (with Columbia University (2009-2012); Post- honors) from Universite Paris-Sud 11, Orsay, France; M.S. from doctoral Fellow, Mathematical Sciences Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania (2009); M.S. from Research Institute, Berkeley, California Universite Paris-Sud 11, France (2008); M.S., Superior Normal (2010).
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