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The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Bruce Kovner, Founder and Chairman of Caxton Associates LP, to the Board of Trustees, effective October 30, 2010.

Kovner received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1966. After an early career as trader with Commodities Corporation, a financial services company based in Princeton, N.J., in 1983 he founded Caxton Associates LLC, a diversified trading company that manages hedge funds active in currency, interest rate, commodity and equity markets.

From string quartets to marimba, the Institute for Advanced Study’s 2010-11 Edward T. Cone Concert Series, curated by Artist-in-Residence Derek Bermel, will offer an interesting selection of musical experiences. Known as the Harmonic Series, the season will explore the wide variety of aesthetic perspectives in art music, especially of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Enrico Bombieri, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, will present “The Mathematical Truth” on Friday, October 29, at 6:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.

Bao Châu Ngô, Member in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study for the last three and a half years, has been awarded the Fields Medal in Hyderabad, India, at the International Congress of Mathematicians for his proof of the fundamental lemma. The other recipients of Fields Medals this year have also been Members of the Institute—Elon Lindenstrauss (2000–01, 2007) received the award for his results on measure rigidity in ergodic theory, and their applications to number theory; Stanislav Smirnov (1998, 2003) was recognized for the proof of conformal invariance of percolation and the planar Ising model in statistical physics; Cédric Villani (2009) was selected for his proofs of nonlinear Landau damping and convergence to equilibrium for the Boltzmann equation.