Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1982
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The Institute for Advanced Study Annual Report 1982/83 The Institute for Advanced Study Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1982-June 30, 1983 The Institute for Advanced Study Olden Lane Princeton, New Jersey 08540 U.S.A. Printed by Princeton University Press Designed by Bruce Campbell It is fundamental to our purpose, and our Extract from the letter addressed by the express desire, that in the appointments to Founders to the Institute's Trustees, the staff and faculty, as well as in the dated June 6, 1930, Newark, New admission of workers and students, no Jersey. 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, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed or sex. f:2-33^ Table of Contents Trustees and Officers Administration Four Caroline Bamberger Fuld Louis Bamberger Board of Trustees Daniel Bell Howard C. Kauffmann Henry Ford II Professor President of Social Sciences Exxon Corporation Harvard University G. Daniel Mostow Thornton F. Bradshaw Henry Ford II Professor Chairman of the Board and of Mathematics Chief Executive Officer Yale University RCA John R. Opel Charles L. Brown President and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Chief Executive Officer International Business Machines American Telephone and Telegraph Company Howard C. Petersen Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Fletcher L. Byrom Denver, Colorado Martin E. Segal Partner, Wertheim and Company Gladys K. Delmas Chairman, Martin E. Segal Company Neic York, New York Zeph Stewart Andrew W. Mellon Professor J. Richardson Dilworth the Humanities Princeton, New Jersey of Harvard University Sydney D. Drell Donald B. Straus Lezvis M. Terman Professor of Physics President Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Research Institute of the American Stanford University Arbitration Association Michael V. Forrestal Frank E. Taplin Lawyer President Metropolitan Opera Association Wilfried Guth Managing Director Elizabeth A. Whitehead Deutsche Bank AG Greenwich, Connecticut Federal Republic of Germany James D. Wolfensohn Ralph E. Hansmann James D. Wolfensohn , Inc. Neiv York, New York New York, New York James R. Houghton Harry Woolf Vice-Chairman and Director Director Corning Glass Works The Institute for Advanced Study Trustees Emeriti Joseph L. Doob Ira A. Schur Lloyd K. Garrison Norton Simon Board and Corporate Officers J. Richardson Dilworth Ralph E. Hansmann Chairman of the Board Treasurer James D. Wolfensohn Donald C. Jenkins President of the Corporation and Assistant Treasurer Vice-Chairman of the Board Patricia H. Labalme Secretary Administration Harry Woolf, Director Aida L. La Brutte, Secretary Patricia H. Labalme, Associate Director and Secretary of the Corporation Helen]. Laesker, Secretary Allen L Rowe, Associate Director for Administration and Finance Marianne Weissenburger, Secretary Mary S. Wisnovsky, Assistant to the Director Grace Rapp, Secretary James Barbour, Manager of Administration Sabina Modzelewski, Comptroller Libraries Lily B. Agar, Historical Studies Momota Ganguli, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Pat Sherr, Social Sciences School of Historical Studies Rose T. Murray, School Administrative Officer School of Mathematics Caroline D. Underwood, School Administrative Officer School of Natural Sciences Louise Underwood, School Administrative Secretary School of Social Science Peggy A. Clarke, School Administrative Officer The Institute for Advanced Study: Background and Purpose The Institute takes the following premises on the to support and assist the Institute's intellec- nature of learning as fundainental: most important tual purposes in every way possible. work is the product of the disciplined and creative Although the Institute is small when meas- individual mind; accordingly, tlie individual scholar ured in terms of the size of its immediate ac- must be responsible for how he uses the precious ademic community or of its operating budget, resources of his own time and energy; the com- its intellectual weight is great and its influence munity of peers in his area of intellectual work is on science and scholarship extraordinary. From the ultimate judge of the results. (From Proce- its earliest years, it has been internationally dures FOR Academic Governance of the recognized as one of the world's leading cen- Institute.) ters of research. Indeed, its successful ex- ample has created numerous imitators both in the United States and abroad. The Institute for Advanced Study, an inde- From the beginning, the Institute has been pendent, private institution devoted to the an international organization, although encouragement, support and patronage of American in location and organizational form. learning, was founded in 1930 as a commu- It has operated throughout its existence on nity of scholars where intellectual inquiry could the premise that science and learning tran- be carried out in the most favorable circum- scend national boundaries and that scholars stances. Focused on mathematics and classi- and scientists are members of one common- cal studies at the outset, the Institute today wealth of the mind. Of the present Faculty, consists of the School of Historical Studies, many have begun their scientific and schol- the School of Mathematics, the School of Nat- arly careers outside the United States. One- ural Sciences and the School of Social Science. third of the visiting members come from Each School has a small permanent Faculty, abroad, mostly from the great centers of and some 160 fellowships are awarded an- learning of western Europe and Asia, and, to nually to visiting members from other re- a lesser extent, from other regions of the world. search institutions and universities through- With its devotion to the continuing exam- out the world. ination of new and centrally important ques- The objectives of the Institute were de- tions as they arise at the frontiers of knowl- scribed as follows in the Founders' original edge, the Institute partakes of the character letter to the first Trustees: "The primary pur- of both a university and a research institute, pose is the pursuit of advanced learning and while differing in significant ways from both. exploration in the fields of pure science and It is unlike a university, for instance, in its high scholarship to the utmost degree that the small size—its academic membership an- facilities of the institution and the ability of nually numbers somewhat under 200—and in the faculty and students will permit." During the fact that it has no formal curriculum, no the past half-century, these goals have been scheduled courses of instruction, no commit- implemented by a Faculty of exceptional merit; ment that all branches of learning be repre- by an annually renewed group of visiting sented in its Faculty and members. It is unlike members chosen from among the many who the usual research institute in that it supports apply; and by the development of facilities many separate fields of study, maintains no and a mode of operation designed specifically laboratories and determines its programs in 12 Background and Purpose terms of individual intellectual imperatives duct of research are matters which are de- rather than the collective aims of research teams cided entirely by each individual member of or the particular interests of potential donors. the Institute. For more than five decades the Institute for The Institute is nonetheless an intellectual Advanced Study has made a substantial con- community and not a mere collection of schol- tribution to the world of higher learning by ars. Community is possible because Faculty providing support—intellectual and mate- and members have some substantial knowl- rial—to visihng members whose develop- edge outside their own fields of specializa- ment and growth constitute one of its prin- tion. The fact that the visiting members live cipal purposes. More than one third of these together in InsHtute housing, eat in the same visiting members are young men and women dining hall, share the same common room 35 years of age or less whose work at the and libraries, and carry out their work in an Institute involves the Faculty in a substantial institutional setting where human scale has amount of postdoctoral training. Though none been carefully maintained is conducive to of the visiting members is a student in the common interest, mutual understanding and narrow sense of being a degree candidate, the friendship. communal atmosphere and many opportu- The Faculty and members of the Institute nities for discussion with Faculty members are also a part of the larger community of and peers, both within and outside seminar Princeton, with its University and its many meehngs, are propitious to scholarly growth. instituHons of research and learning. Al- The Institute devotes special attention to though the Institute has no administrative or young people of accomplishment and prom- organic connecHon with Princeton Univer- ise, offering them membership at a stage in sity, there has always been close collaboration their careers when independent work is of the between the two institutions on matters of highest importance to their intellectual de- common interest. Many Institute seminars are velopment. These younger members then re- open to interested members of the Univer- turn to