I N S T I T U T E for A D V A N C E D S T U D Y ________________________ R E P O R T F O R T H E A C A D E M I C Y E A R 2 0 0 4 – 2 0 0 5 PRINCETON · NEW JERSEY I N S T I T U T E for A D V A N C E D S T U D Y ________________________ R E P O R T F O R T H E A C A D E M I C Y E A R 2 0 0 4 – 2 0 0 5 EINSTEIN DRIVE PRINCETON · NEW JERSEY · 08540-0631 609-734-8000 609-924-8399 (Fax) www.ias.edu Extract from the letter addressed by the Institute’s Founders, Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld, to the Board of Trustees, dated June 4, 1930. Newark, New Jersey. It is fundamental in our purpose, and our express 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 strong- ly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any condi- tions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particular- ly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex. TABLE OF CONTENTS 4 · BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 7 · FOUNDERS, TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD AND OF THE CORPORATION 10 · ADMINISTRATION 12 · PRESENT AND PAST DIRECTORS AND FACULTY 15 · REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN 18 · REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR 22 · OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR - RECORD OF EVENTS 29 · ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 41 · REPORT OF THE SCHOOL OF HISTORICAL STUDIES 57 · REPORT OF THE SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS 75 · REPORT OF THE SCHOOL OF NATURAL SCIENCES 103 · REPORT OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE 113 · REPORT OF THE SPECIAL PROGRAMS 131 · REPORT OF THE INSTITUTE LIBRARIES 135 · INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT 3 INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The Institute for Advanced Study was founded in 1930 with a major gift from New Jersey businessman and philanthropist Louis Bamberger and his sister, Caroline Bamberger Fuld, who wished to use their fortunes to make a significant and lasting con- tribution to society. They sought the advice of educator Abraham Flexner, who devel- oped the concept of the Institute as a community of scholars whose primary purpose would be the pursuit of advanced learning and scholarly exploration. The Institute for Advanced Study has remained committed to its founding principle for seventy-five years and its record of definitive scholarship and scientific achievement is unsurpassed. The Institute fills a unique role in postgraduate education and scientific and scholarly research. As “the university to universities,” in the words of Trustee Vartan Gregorian, the Institute serves all colleges and universities by providing a place where scholars can hone their skills and do their best work, thereby adding substantially to their ability to contribute as both teachers and scholars to the academic institutions where they base their careers. For young scholars just entering the academic world, an opportunity to work at the Institute can set the direction for lifelong research interests and thereby determine professional careers. The Institute provides more mature scholars with the opportunity to take new directions in their research or to complete a major piece of work away from the many obligations of working life at a university. At a time when pure research and schol- arly activities are undervalued, the opportunities that the Institute provides have never been more needed. The Institute’s foremost objective is the advancement of knowledge and the 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 26 eminent scholars whose broad interests and extensive ties to the larger academic world are reflected in their own work and also in the guidance and direction they provide to the Institute’s vis- iting Members. The Faculty defines the major themes and questions that become the focus of each School’s seminars and other activities, and the Faculty selects and works closely with visiting Members. Small in number and organized in four Schools (Histori- cal Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science), the Faculty and Mem- bers can interact with one another without any departmental and disciplinary barriers. Each year the Institute awards fellowships to some 190 visiting Members from about one hundred universities and research institutions throughout the world. The Institute’s more than 5,000 former Members hold positions of intellectual and scientific leadership in the United States and abroad. Some twenty-one Nobel laureates, and thirty-two out of forty- four Fields Medalists have been Institute Faculty or Members. Many winners of the Wolf or MacArthur prizes have also been affiliated with the Institute. The Institute does not receive income from tuition or fees. Resources for operations come from endowment income, grants from private foundations and government agencies, and gifts from corporations and individuals. 4 CLIFF MOORE “ t seemed to me that the time was ripe for the creation in America of an institute in the field of general I scholarship and science ... not a graduate school, training men in the known and to some extent in methods of research, but an institute where everyone — faculty and members — took for granted what was known and published, and in their individual ways endeavored to advance the frontiers of knowledge.” — Abraham Flexner, Founding Director (1930–39) of the Institute, Memorandum to the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study, September 26, 1931 Looking toward Simonyi Hall with new sculpture by Elyn Zimmerman installed by the Institute Pond, a gift of Robert B. Menschel FOUNDERS, TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS OF THE BOARD AND OF THE CORPORATION Founders LOUIS BAMBERGER CAROLINE BAMBERGER FULD Board and Corporate Officers JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN Chairman of the Board MARTIN L. LEIBOWITZ Vice Chairman of the Board RICHARD B. BLACK Vice Chairman of the Board CHARLES SIMONYI President of the Corporation ALLEN I. ROWE Treasurer of the Corporation RACHEL D. GRAY Secretary of the Corporation The Board of Trustees JAMES G. ARTHUR University Professor Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto Toronto, Canada JEFFREY P. BEZOS Chief Executive Officer, Chairman and President Amazon.com, Inc. Seattle, Washington RICHARD B. BLACK President and Chief Executive Officer, ECRM Incorporated Tewksbury, Massachusetts FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO Former President of Brazil Brasilia, Brazil MARTIN A. CHOOLJIAN President, CH Capital Corporation Princeton, New Jersey W. ROBERT CONNOR President, Teagle Foundation New York, New York 7 MARIO DRAGHI Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs International London, United Kingdom ROGER W. FERGUSON, Jr. Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors The Federal Reserve System Washington, D.C. PETER L. GALISON Mallinckrodt Professor of the History of Science and of Physics Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts PETER GODDARD Director, Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey VARTAN GREGORIAN President, Carnegie Corporation of New York New York, New York PETER R. KANN Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Dow Jones & Company, Incorporated New York, New York IMMANUEL KOHN Partner, Cahill Gordon & Reindel New York, New York MARIE-JOSÉE KRAVIS Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Incorporated New York, New York MARTIN L. LEIBOWITZ Managing Director, Morgan Stanley New York, New York DAVID K.P. LI Chairman and Chief Executive The Bank of East Asia, Limited Hong Kong, China NANCY S. MacMILLAN Publisher, Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton, New Jersey DAVID F. MARQUARDT Managing Partner, August Capital Menlo Park, California ROBERT B. MENSCHEL Goldman Sachs & Company New York, New York 8 NANCY B. PERETSMAN Executive Vice President & Managing Director Allen & Co. New York, New York MARTIN REES Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics Master of Trinity College, University of Cambridge Cambridge, United Kingdom JAMES J. SCHIRO Chief Executive Officer, Zurich Financial Services Zurich, Switzerland RONALDO H. SCHMITZ Former Member of the Board of Managing Directors Deutsche Bank AG Frankfurt, Germany JAMES H. SIMONS President, Renaissance Technologies Corporation New York, New York CHARLES SIMONYI President and Chief Executive Officer, Intentional Software Corporation Bellevue, Washington ANDREW STROMINGER Professor of Physics Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts PETER SVENNILSON President, Three Crowns Capital (Research) Ltd. London, United Kingdom SHELBY WHITE New York, New York MARINA v.N. WHITMAN Professor, Business Administration and Public Policy University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan JAMES D. WOLFENSOHN President, The World Bank Washington, D.C. BRIAN F. WRUBLE General Partner, Odyssey Partners, L.P. New York, New York Trustees Emeriti THEODORE L. CROSS HELENE L. KAPLAN DONALD B. STRAUS SIDNEY D. DRELL HAMISH MAXWELL MICHEL L. VAILLAUD WILFRIED GUTH MARTIN E. SEGAL LADISLAUS von HOFFMANN RALPH E. HANSMANN 9 ADMINISTRATION PETER GODDARD Director SUSAN BUTLER Executive Assistant to the Director ALLEN I. ROWE Associate Director and Treasurer JAMES H. BARBOUR, Jr. Manager of Administration (through 5-05) ROBERTA B. GERNHARDT Manager of Human Resources MARY MAZZA Comptroller MICHEL REYMOND Chef/Manager, Dining Hall RACHEL D. GRAY Associate Director and Secretary of the Corporation KAMALA BRUSH Senior Development Officer SUZANNE P. CHRISTEN Assistant Director CHRISTINE FERRARA Senior Public Affairs Officer PAMELA HUGHES Senior Development Officer ANNE BAXTER HUMES Institutional Advancement Officer (through 11-04) LIBRARY ADMINISTRATION MOMOTA GANGULI Librarian, Mathematics and Natural Sciences MARCIA TUCKER Librarian, Historical Studies and Social Science (also Coordinator of Information Access for Computing, Telecommunications, and Networking Administration) 10 SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION MARY JANE HAYES Administrative Officer, School of Mathematics DONNE PETITO Administrative Officer, School of Social Science MICHELLE SAGE Administrative Officer, School of Natural Sciences MARIAN GALLAGHER ZELAZNY Administrative Officer, School of Historical Studies PROGRAMS CATHERINE E.