The Institute for Mathematical Sciences, founded in 1989, is closely allied to the Stony Brook Mathematics Department. The Institute's Director is Misha Lyubich; its Co-Director is John Milnor, a 1962 Fields Medalist, and the winner of the 1989 Wolf and 2011 Abel Prizes. Dennis Sullivan, an Institute member, is a winner of the 2009 Wolf Prize. The Institute's primary research focus has been on Dynamical Systems with an emphasis on the low-dimensional real and complex cases. With Oleg Viro recently joining the Institute, Low-Dimensional Topology has become another important direction of research at the IMS.
Permanent Faculty
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Milnor Lecturers |
 Newton's rabbit |
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Staff |
| Many Friends, a Collage | About the IMS, a short movie |
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John Milnor Winner of the 2011 Abel Prize |
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Honoring the work of Vladimir Arnold, this journal presents mathematical research in accessible, always interesting form. This journal presents interdisciplinary results in mathematics, in a style that is understandable and always interesting. Articles use formal and informal approaches to express sophisticated concepts, aiming to “unhide” the process of mathematical discovery. |
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The International Congress of Mathematicians, Seoul Korea 2014 |
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| Press Releases | Videos |
| * John Milnor, Abel Lecture | * John Milnor, Topology Through Four Centuries |
| * James Simons, My Life in Mathematics | * James Simons, My Life in Mathematics |
| * Artur Avila, Fields Medalist | * Artur Avila (Laudation by Etienne Ghys), From "Regular or Stochastic" to the "Spectral Dichotomy" |
| * Mikhail Lyubich, "Analytic Low-Dimensional Dynamics" from dimension one to two | |
| * Jeremy Kahn & Vladimir Markovic, The surface subgroup and the Ehrenepreis conjectures | |