Trustees

Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, and Lorraine Daston, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, have joined the IAS Board of Trustees, effective May 7, 2016.

“I didn’t think it was math, just something fun to do,” says Jim Simons, IAS Trustee and Member (1972) in the School of Mathematics. An only child, he was contemplative by nature and enjoyed pondering mathematical ideas. “I think there’s a quality of just being able to get lost in thought that is pretty good for math,” he says.

The Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research into fundamental aspects of the sciences and humanities, has received a $100 million unrestricted challenge grant from the Simons Foundation and the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences.