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The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a private, non-profit foundation, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Institute is dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge. It gives out various awards and sponsorships to promising mathematicians. The institute was founded in 1998 by businessman Landon T. Clay, who financed it, and Harvard mathematician Arthur Jaffe, who conceived and implemented its structure and mission.
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The Clay Mathematics Institute is a privately funded operating foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematics. CMI supports the work of leading researchers at various stages of their careers and organizes conferences, workshops, and an annual summer school. Contemporary breakthroughs are recognized by its annual Research Award.
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In May 2000, the Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) held its Paris Millennium Event at the College de France. On this occasion, CMI unveiled the "Millennium Prize Problems", seven mathematical quandaries that have long resisted solution. The video by the filmmaker F. Tisseyre provides a portrait of CMI, its culture and the people behind it, as well as of the spirit of the CMI Millennium Event. Excerpts from interviews explain the significance of the prize problems and the challenges they pose. The video of T. Gowers' Keynote Address at the CMI Millennium Meeting is a lucid, dynamic presentation of the deep and important question of the relevance of mathematics to society, delivered by one of the best mathematicians of the modern age. The Problems were set forth by two of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, J. Tate and M. Atiyah.
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The Clay Mathematics Institute has named UCLA Mathematics grad Adrian Ioana as one of three 2008 Clay Research fellows. Ioana is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Caltech and will maintain joint affiliation with UCLA Math during the three years of the fellowship award. Ioana completed his PhD under Professor Sorin Popa in 2007. He was ... a recipient of the Clay Liftoff Fellowship award last summer. Clay Research Fellows are selected for their research achievements and their potential to become leaders in research mathematics. Past recipients include UCLA Professor Terence Tao.
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Raised in Australia, the soft-spoken Tao teaches freshman calculus and graduate courses and has been awarded two national fellowships this year, from the Packard Foundation and the Clay Mathematics Institute. The Clay Institute selected Tao as one of three Long-Term Prize Fellows, along with mathematicians from Harvard and Princeton.
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Saso Strle has been appointed by the Clay Mathematics Institute as a Liftoff mathemtician for the period June 1-July 15, 2001. Mathematics departments of leading universities nominate selected finishing graduate students to participate in CMI's summer Liftoff program. Saso is now a Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University.
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