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The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed two new members to its Board of Trustees. E. Robert Fernholz, Founder and Chief Investment Officer of INTECH, and John S. Hendricks, Founder and Chairman of Discovery Communications, join the Board effective May 8, 2010.

More than 60 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 17 to May 28, marking its 17th year on the Institute campus.   

Very few civilians have a chance to participate in space travel, and for the lucky few, it is a once-in-a-lifetime experience—except for Charles Simonyi, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Advanced Study and President and CEO of Intentional Software Corporation, the first and only “space tourist” to fly twice. Simonyi will discuss his “Return to Space” on Thursday, May 6, at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute’s campus.

Carl Kaysen, who served as the Institute for Advanced Study’s fourth Director from 1966 to 1976, overseeing a decade of growth and change, died on February 8 at the age of 89. A political economist with a distinguished career in public service, he was President Kennedy’s Deputy Special Assistant for National Security Affairs from 1961 to 1963, and was most recently the David W. Skinner Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA.