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Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution located on the University of California campus in Berkeley, California. It is a center for research in mathematics. Each year, over 1,700 mathematicians spend time at SLMath. The institute is located at 17 Gauss Way on the Berkeley campus, close to Grizzly Peak in the Berkeley Hills.
The institute was founded in 1982, and its funding sources include the National Science Foundation, private foundations, corporations, individual donors, and 110 academic sponsor universities and institutions in the U.S. and internationally.
In May 2022, the institute received a $70 million gift from James and Marilyn Simons and Henry and Marsha Laufer. It was then renamed the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath).
The institute was founded in September 1982 by Berkeley professors Shiing-Shen Chern, Calvin Moore, and Isadore M. Singer. Shiing-Shen Chern acted as the founding director of the institute, Calvin Moore acted as the founding deputy director, and Isadore Singer was the inaugural chair of the institute's Scientific Advisory Committee.
Originally located in Berkeley's extension building at 2223 Fulton Street, the institute moved into its current facility at 17 Gauss Way in the Berkeley hills on April 1, 1985. The institute initially paid rent to the university for its "Hill Campus" building, Shiing-Shen Chern Hall, but since August 2000, it has occupied the building free of rent, one of several contributions by the Berkeley campus. Chern Hall underwent substantial renovations in 2006 to add an auditorium, board room, library, and additional office facilities. The building features public art including a mathematical mosaic by artists Linda Vanderkolk and Scott Frankenberger and sculptures by Helaman Ferguson and Wei Li "Willy" Wang.
Jim Simons, a Berkeley alumnus and founder of Renaissance Technologies and, with his wife Marilyn Simons, the Simons Foundation, was a long-time supporter of the institute and both served on the MSRI / SLMath board of trustees.
SLMath is governed by a board of trustees consisting of 16-40 elected members and ex-officio members, including the director of the institute, the deputy director, and the co-chairs of the institute's advisory committees.
Unlike many mathematical institutes, SLMath has no permanent faculty or members, and its research activities are overseen by its Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), a panel of mathematicians drawn from a variety of different areas of mathematical research. There are ten regular members in the SAC, and each member serves a four-year term and is elected by the board of trustees.
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Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), formerly the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution located on the University of California campus in Berkeley, California. It is a center for research in mathematics. Each year, over 1,700 mathematicians spend time at SLMath. The institute is located at 17 Gauss Way on the Berkeley campus, close to Grizzly Peak in the Berkeley Hills.
The institute was founded in 1982, and its funding sources include the National Science Foundation, private foundations, corporations, individual donors, and 110 academic sponsor universities and institutions in the U.S. and internationally.
In May 2022, the institute received a $70 million gift from James and Marilyn Simons and Henry and Marsha Laufer. It was then renamed the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath).
The institute was founded in September 1982 by Berkeley professors Shiing-Shen Chern, Calvin Moore, and Isadore M. Singer. Shiing-Shen Chern acted as the founding director of the institute, Calvin Moore acted as the founding deputy director, and Isadore Singer was the inaugural chair of the institute's Scientific Advisory Committee.
Originally located in Berkeley's extension building at 2223 Fulton Street, the institute moved into its current facility at 17 Gauss Way in the Berkeley hills on April 1, 1985. The institute initially paid rent to the university for its "Hill Campus" building, Shiing-Shen Chern Hall, but since August 2000, it has occupied the building free of rent, one of several contributions by the Berkeley campus. Chern Hall underwent substantial renovations in 2006 to add an auditorium, board room, library, and additional office facilities. The building features public art including a mathematical mosaic by artists Linda Vanderkolk and Scott Frankenberger and sculptures by Helaman Ferguson and Wei Li "Willy" Wang.
Jim Simons, a Berkeley alumnus and founder of Renaissance Technologies and, with his wife Marilyn Simons, the Simons Foundation, was a long-time supporter of the institute and both served on the MSRI / SLMath board of trustees.
SLMath is governed by a board of trustees consisting of 16-40 elected members and ex-officio members, including the director of the institute, the deputy director, and the co-chairs of the institute's advisory committees.
Unlike many mathematical institutes, SLMath has no permanent faculty or members, and its research activities are overseen by its Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC), a panel of mathematicians drawn from a variety of different areas of mathematical research. There are ten regular members in the SAC, and each member serves a four-year term and is elected by the board of trustees.
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