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Mathematicians to Study Algebraic Geometry and Group Actions

Fifty-one women mathematicians from throughout the United States will gather at the Institute for Advanced Study this May for the Program for Women and Mathematics.  The 11-day residential program, sponsored by the Institute and Princeton University, will be held from May 14 to May 25, marking its 14^th year on the Institute campus. 

Political theorist Danielle Allen has been appointed the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.  Dr. Allen will join the Faculty of the Institute on July 1, 2007.

Dr. Allen will fill the position currently held by Michael Walzer, who joined the Faculty of the Institute in 1980 and was named as the UPS Foundation Professor in 1986.  Professor Walzer will retire effective July 1, 2007.

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor of Art History in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, will present the lecture The Difficult Task of Erasing Oneself: Non-Composition in Twentieth-Century Art on Wednesday, March 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute.

Enrico Bombieri, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, will present the lecture “The Mathematical Infinity” on Wednesday, January 31, at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute.   Professor Bombieri will discuss the many different ways the concept of infinity has been treated during the ages, from rejecting it as an irrational absurdity to accepting it as the ultimate, inaccessible, perfection.