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MSRI in the Media
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December 13, 2012 Congressman Jerry McNerney announced the discovery of a new breakthrough in mathematics in the theory of vector bundles by a collaboration of several young scientists at MSRI on December 12, 2012. CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
October 29, 2012 MSRI hosted a Celebration of Mind (on October 26) to honor the life and many interests of recreational mathematician Martin Gardner... By Gary Antonick, NUMBERPLAY blog NEW YORK TIMES
October 12, 2012 Robert Shiller, co-creator of the Case-Shiller home price index, said Friday that it’s a good time to buy a house, given today’s historically low interest rates, but he is less certain about the housing market’s overall strength... By Sandra Guy, Business Reporter CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
October 12, 2012 Robert Shiller, co-creator of the Case-Shiller Home Price Indices and a leading authority on the housing market, is in Chicago to receive the CME Group-MSRI prize in innovative quantitative applications... WLS-TV, ABC-7 NEWS, CHICAGO, IL
July 01, 2012 Dr David Eisenbud will be the next director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley. Eisenbud’s four-year term at MSRI is effective 1 August 2013. LONDON MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY
May 10, 2012 On Saturday, April 14, more than 100 volunteers in matching T-shirts converged on the copper-domed kiosk of the Smithsonian Institution’s Ripley Center...They traveled from all across the United States to stage a Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival to encourage visitors of all ages to engage with, delight in, and be challenged by mathematics... By Katharine Merow MAA Focus
April 16, 2012 Two events celebrating mathematics will take place on Saturday, April 14, in Washington, D.C.: The Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival and Circle on the Road Spring 2012. MathDL, MAA Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
April 13, 2012 The AMS is honoring the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in Berkeley for doing an outstanding job of increasing the participation of women and members of underrepresented minority groups in the mathematical sciences... American Mathematical Society
January 30, 2012 About 400 students from around the Bay Area gathered to unravel skull busters in the [Second] Annual Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival at UC Berkeley this weekend... ABC 7 NEWS/KGO-TV SF
January 27, 2012 Students in grades 6-12 who enjoy solving puzzling math problems are invited to attend the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival... By Pamela Gocobachi OAKLAND TRIBUNE
October 12, 2011 Sarah Herrmann was one of eight American team members in Shenzhen, China, in early August for the 2011 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad... By Giovanni Moujaes LA JOLLA LIGHT
October 03, 2011 You’ll never count the same after this week’s adventure, brought to us by Harold Reiter from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. I met Professor Reiter at a Math Circle event... By Gary Antonick, The Crossword Blog of the New York Times NEW YORK TIMES
September 26, 2011 [In a panel discussion at the CME Group-MSRI Prize seminar] Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota said a central bank seeking to control inflation needs to find a balance between supporting a government’s debt issuance and allowing for sovereign default... By Scott Lanman and Blair Euteneuer BLOOMBERG
September 26, 2011 Central bankers can control inflation regardless of fiscal policy, but only if they are willing to allow the government to default, Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Narayana Kocherlakota said on Monday [in a panel discussion on sovereign debt at a seminar for the CME Group-MSRI Prize]. By Ann Saphir REUTERS
September 26, 2011 Two top Federal Reserve officials on Monday defended the U.S. central bank's most recent effort to boost growth, and one suggested further steps may be justified... By Mark Felsenthal REUTERS
August 30, 2011 Victoria Xia of Vienna, VA, a Thomas Jefferson sophomore, won a gold medal in the 2011 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad... By Donna Manz VIENNA CONNECTION
August 19, 2011 Julia Huang and Rebecca Burks won medals at China's Girls Math Olympiad. Now it's time to see if they can face "The Filter's" word problems! By Fred Roggin CALIFORNIA NONSTOP, NBC STATEWIDE CABLE CHANNEL
August 19, 2011 Amid concerns of American students falling behind in math and science, a U.S. team of eight—with a Los Altos student among them—provided a glimmer of hope with medals won in the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO) this month... By Crystal Tai LOS ALTOS PATCH
August 18, 2011 Campbell's Danielle Wang, a freshman at Westmont High School, brings home a gold medal in the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad. By Crystal Tai CAMPBELL PATCH
August 17, 2011 Julia Huang of Lynbrook High School brings home a silver medal in the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad... By Crystal Tai CUPERTINO PATCH
August 17, 2011 Christina Chen will be a junior at Newton North High School this fall. She recently got back from the math Olympiad in China where she was the only student from Massachusetts to participate... By Ashley Studley NEWTON TAB
August 16, 2011 La Jolla girl wins bronze at math championship... By Brian Flores, Reporter FOX 5 SAN DIEGO, 6pm & 10pm Newscasts
August 15, 2011 For one La Jolla High School student, international math competitions are as easy as 1, 2, 3... LA JOLLA PATCH
August 12, 2011 Elaine Hou, a Seffner, Florida resident and sophomore at King High School, won a bronze medal... ST. PETERSBURG TIMES
August 11, 2011 Mathematics is one subject people tend to either love or hate...But no matter how you feel about it, everyone can agree that numbers are a universal language, and two local students recently proved they are masters of the international lingo... By Casey Jay CAMPBELL REPORTER
August 10, 2011 La Jolla High School junior Sarah Herrmann won a bronze medal at the recent China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO). LA JOLLA LIGHT
August 09, 2011 Three South Bay girls won top medals this month at the prestigious China Girls Mathematical Olympiad... By Sharon Noguchi SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
August 05, 2011 Rebecca Burks, Christina Chen, Sarah Herrmann, Elaine Hou, Julia Huang, Danielle Wang, Tiffany Wu and Victoria Xia, members of the United States team at the 2011 China Girls Math Olympiad, all won medals... BIOGRAPHIES OF WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS
August 04, 2011 A team of 8 high school girls sent to Shenzhen, China to compete in the China Math Olympiad have returned home with medals... Reported by Sean Au KTSF-TV 26 News (Chinese-language TV station)
August 02, 2011 La Jolla High School junior Sarah Herrmann is one of eight girls from throughout the United States to participate in the 2011 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO)... LA JOLLA LIGHT
August 01, 2011 For many people, long division and fractions can cause headaches, let alone the idea of solving highly complicated equations. For others, math is a passion and even a competitive sport... By Casey Jay SARATOGA NEWS
July 28, 2011 Top scores in math earned Tiffany Wu, a junior at Clements High School, a spot on the U.S. team for the Girls Math Olympiad... KHOU-TV
July 08, 2011 Follow the mathematical adventures of eight of the nation's brightest young women as they write outposts chronicling their preparations for, and participation in, the 2011 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO)... By Richard Tchen The Math Forum @ Drexel Internet News
May 01, 2011 Thousands of the nation's best and brightest young people are competing in Silicon Valley this weekend... Even though the events had a common denominator -- lots of bright young minds -- they were all held independently. And none of the youths seemed disappointed. By Linda Goldston, Reporter SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
April 01, 2011 The Mathematics of Change The son of a math teacher and born with an innate sense for numbers, monologist Josh Kornbluth grew up your protoyipcal math whiz. Then, suddenly and inexplicably, he hit the wall, failing out of freshman calculus at Princeton... By Ellen Cushing EAST BAY EXPRESS
March 12, 2011 On a recent Wednesday evening, 13 fifth- to ninth-grade students from around Marin County gathered in a Dominican University classroom for an after-school activity that didn't involve sports or the arts. Instead, the students sat hunched over note paper trying to figure out a complicated math problem as part of the weekly Marin Math Circle program... By Jessica Bernstein-Wax MARIN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL
February 01, 2011 This much was clear. A conference room full of middle and high schoolers had been assembled and were now working out math problems. On a Sunday. To someone who wept through stats homework, it seemed like a game of Clue, who done this? At the lectern, a man shared formulas one might find useful in attempting a rapid solution of the Rubik's cube. A series of x's and y's to the nth power flashed before the hushed underage audience... By Caitlin Donohue, Culture Writer, Pixel Vision, SFBG Arts & Culture Blog SF BAY GUARDIAN
January 26, 2011 As many as 600 sixth- through 12th-grade students can experience hands-on learning at UC Berkeley's free math event Sunday. At the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival... By Suzanne Bohan CONTRA COSTA TIMES
October 15, 2010 Andi Wang ’10, a former Math Team Captain at Choate, represented the United States in the 2010 China Girls Math Olympiad. The competition ran from August 9-13 in Shijiazhuang, China... By Diane Gremillion '12, News Staff Reporter THE NEWS, Choate Rosemary Hall
September 28, 2010 When Adisa Kruayatidee and Joy Zheng spent three weeks in China competing in the 2010 China Girls Mathematics Olympiad, they received medals among the best math student's from 190 countries… YORK WEEKLY
September 20, 2010 …At the China Girls Math Olympiad a gold medal was awarded to Jae Eui Shin, a senior at Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, who was part of the team that placed second in the overall standings… ANDOVER STATESMAN
September 20, 2010 Professor Jean Tirole, scientific director of the Industrial Economics Institute at the University of Toulouse (France), was awarded CME Group's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications… By Timothy Inklebarger PENSIONS & INVESTMENTS
September 17, 2010 Put a group of luminaries in markets and mathematics in economics in a panel discussion shortly after central bankers and regulators agreed new rules to strengthen banks' reserves and what will you get? A very thoughtful and impassioned discussion about the implications of changes… By Christine Nielsen JOHN LOTHIAN NEWSLETTER
September 13, 2010 ...About 40 percent of trading at CME, the biggest U.S. operator of futures markets, comes from high-frequency traders, Melamed said in introductory remarks to a panel discussion on banking regulation [at the CME Group-MSRI Prize event] at CME's headquarters in Chicago... By Ann Saphir REUTERS
September 13, 2010 Johnny Li likes to solve problems, especially when they relate to math, biology and computer science… In 2007, he began the OC Math Circle, which joins other math circles around the country. Li and other local high school students work with younger math enthusiasts to enter competitions and host lectures. This year the club, which recently earned a $2,000 grant from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, will host classes for students in Santa Ana… THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
September 01, 2010 A teen from Stevenson Ranch who earned a medal in an international high school mathematics competition said a love of numbers wasn’t the only thing that united girls from 10 different nations... By Cory Minderhout THE SANTA CLARITA VALLEY SIGNAL
August 26, 2010 ...one of the two U.S. teams that competed recently at the ninth annual China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO) has placed second overall…Elizabeth Synge of Lexington, a senior at Boston University Academy, was among the gold medal winners… LEXINGTON MINUTEMAN
August 22, 2010 Several area students earned medals in the ninth annual China Girls Mathematical Olympiad, which took place Aug. 9-13 in Shijiazhuang, China… By Cindy Cantrell, Globe Correspondent THE BOSTON GLOBE
August 17, 2010 Three Bay Area girls are back home after an impressive second place overall finish at the Girls Math Olympiad in China… KGO-TV/ABC 7 NEWS
August 17, 2010 Five students from New England won medals in the 9th annual China Girls Mathematical Olympiad, at which the US team placed second, behind China… By David Brooks, Science Reporter NASHUA TELEGRAPH.COM
August 17, 2010 [One] U.S. team that competed at the 9th annual China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO) placed second, behind a team from China… By Joshua Clark EXETER NEWS-LETTER
August 17, 2010 The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley sent eight girls to Shijiazhuang, China, to represent the United States in last week's 2010 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad. Seven came home with medals; the eighth with an honorable mention… By Leah Garchik, Columnist SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
August 16, 2010 Recent Paly graduate Lynnelle Ye won a gold medal at the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad, the Bay Area-based Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), which sponsors the team, announced this week... By Karla Kane, Palo Alto Online Staff PALO ALTO WEEKLY
August 14, 2010 Jing Jing Li of Sunnyvale and Lynnelle Ye of Palo Alto earned top spots in the competition that had 48 teams taking part to show off their math skills… 1590 KLIV (CNN)
August 12, 2010 Today we’re looking for a big industrial city in North China. It’s the capital of Hebei Province, about 170 miles south of Beijing. It’s where an international meet called the “China Girls Math Olympiad” is taking place. Girls from [10] countries are competing to solve difficult math problems. Sounds like fun right? So where in China are we?… PRI'S THE WORLD
August 12, 2010 The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute says it will send a team of high school girls from throughout the United States to participate in the 2010 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad, and a Phillips Academy student is one of the eight girls on the team… THE ANDOVER TOWNSMAN
August 12, 2010 A group of Silicon Valley high school students captured medals at the ninth annual China Girls Mathematical Olympiad, earning top prizes for the United States in the competition involving 190 representatives from 48 teams... By Eric Messinger SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
August 08, 2010 Several Massachusetts students have been selected to the eight-person team that will represent the United States in the ninth annual China Girls Mathematical Olympiad, taking place tomorrow through Friday in Shijiazhuang, China… By Cindy Cantrell, Globe Correspondent THE BOSTON GLOBE
August 05, 2010 Over the years, I feel like I’ve come to know you — your political leanings and life experiences, your writing style, sense of humor and average snark level. But what about your math skills?... From "The Education Report: Reporter Katy Murphy's blog on Oakland schools" OAKLAND TRIBUNE
August 04, 2010 Elizabeth Synge of Lexington will be part of a team of eight female high school students selected by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) to represent the United States at the 2010 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO)… GateHouse News Service LEXINGTON MINUTEMAN
August 03, 2010 It wasn't your typical update from summer camp [where the US girls team prepared for the 2010 China Girls Math Olympiad]: "So, today's classes were lots of fun," Cynthia Day of San Jose blogged from the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. "First we had polynomials with Po-Ru, where I got to brush up on interpolation. Then we did awesomely awesome constructions problems…" By Sharon Noguchi, Education Writer SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
August 02, 2010 Coverage--televised in English and Chinese--of the Bay Area members (Cynthia Day, Shiyu (Jing-Jing) Li, and Lynnelle Ye) of the US team headed to the 2010 China Girls Math Olympiad (CGMO). KTSF-TV 26 (Mandarin & Cantonese News)
July 30, 2010 Palo Alto student Lynnelle Ye, an incoming freshman, is headed to the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad as one of eight American competitors. STANFORD DAILY
July 30, 2010 Palo Alto's leading math whiz Lynnelle Ye will compete with the world's brightest young math minds next week when she travels to Shijiazhuang, China, to take part in the 2010 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad… PALO ALTO WEEKLY
July 28, 2010 A high school senior from Stevenson Ranch has won a spot on the American team that will compete next month in an international math contest in China…. By Ching-Ching Ni LOS ANGELES TIMES
July 27, 2010 Shijie Joy Zheng, a senior at Phillips Exeter Academy, was chosen to participate on a team of high school girls from throughout the United States who will compete in the 2010 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO)… NORTHWEST ASIAN WEEKLY
July 21, 2010 For the fourth year in a row MSRI will be sending eight of the brightest young women in mathematics to participate in the 2010 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad… Biographies of Women Mathematicians
May 07, 2010 The future of music was here today in Berkeley [at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute] with musicians using iPhones and the new iPad to make beautiful music together… ABC-7 KGO-TV
March 17, 2010 Commentators often complain that U.S. schools do too little to challenge the most gifted students, especially in the sciences and mathematics. But might the country be doing something right? Consider that this year five of the 11 Nobel Prize winners in the natural sciences and economics were educated in the United States. Or consider that since 1970, six mathematicians from the United States—all educated here—have won the Fields Medal, the highest honor in mathematics, awarded only once every four years. (Russia holds the lead, with seven Fields medalists.)… EDUCATION WEEK
October 30, 2009 As U.S. students continue to lag in their math skills, when compared to students from across the globe, the long-term economic stability of the United States may be in jeopardy… CONNECT ED
September 04, 2009 A team of seven American high-school girls is celebrating the medals they've won at an Olympic competition that's about math skills, not sports… SIMONS FOUNDATION
August 19, 2009 Four Bay Area teens scored medals at the Mathematical Olympiad in China as they matched wits with other girls around the world. Reported by Rob Artigo KGO-AM 810
August 19, 2009 Coverage--televised in English and Chinese--of the arrival of Bay Area members (Cynthia Day, Patricia Li, Shiyu (Jing-Jing) Li, and Ramya Rangan) of the US CGMO team at SFO from their trip to China. Reported by Jo Wan KTSF-TV 26 (Chinese-language TV station)
August 09, 2009 Tallahassee girl competing in China: A team of girls, including a recent Chiles High School graduate, is taking part in the 2009 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad next week. TALLAHASSEE DEMOCRAT
August 06, 2009 ...Perhaps it was my altered body chemistry that made me challenge Lexington teen Elizabeth Synge to a math-off in my office...“I must warn you,” I told her, “I haven’t done high school math in a while.” “Neither have I,” she replied. She took calculus in sixth grade… By Bryan Mahoney, Editor LEXINGTON MINUTEMAN
July 31, 2009 "School Scene": The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute will send a team of high school girls from throughout the United States to participate in the 2009 China Girls Mathematical Olympiad (CGMO)… SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
July 30, 2009 A research institute [MSRI] at UC Berkelely today announced plans to send a team of high school girls to China next month to compete in a mathematics Olympics [China Girls Mathematical Olympiad]. Of the seven girls chosen from around the country, four are from the South Bay… ABC-7 KGO-TV
June 15, 2009 In applied mathematics, workforce positions traditionally outnumber applicants for those positions. The field has not been immune to the recent economic downturn, however. Extensive hiring freezes and canceled job openings at academic institutions have resulted in the loss of nearly 400 positions available to recent PhDs… SIAM NEWS
April 23, 2009 Televised coverage of the first Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival held in Southern California. KABC-TV in Los Angeles
October 28, 2008 CME Group and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) on Friday presented Lars Hansen, the Homer J. Livingston Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Economics and Statistics at the University of Chicago, with the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications… UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO NEWS
October 14, 2008 Lars Peter Hansen, a 1974 Utah State University gradutate, wins the CME Group-MSRI Prize, a prestigious national award for economics research that recognizes mathematical contributions to the understanding of market behavior. By Kim Burgess, staff writer HERALD JOURNAL, Logan, UT
October 10, 2008 Imagine a generation of teenagers who think mathematicians are as hip as athletes or entertainers. Not in your lifetime, you say? Well, a group of Bay Area math teachers is out to change that by showing kids that algebra and calculus can be cool… By Lyanne Melendez, Reporter ABC7 ABC-7 KGO-TV
July 30, 2008 Talea Mayo, Grambling University’s class of 2008 valedictorian, participated in the MSRI Undergraduate Program (MSRI-UP). Mayo's experience at MSRI helped her understand the difference between pure theoretical and applied mathematics... By Michelle D. Anderson DIVERSE: ISSUES IN HIGHER EDUCATION
July 24, 2008 Girls are now doing just as well as boys on math assessment tests, according to a new study of over 7 million schoolchildren from 10 states… ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, NPR
May 05, 2008 MSRI's Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, held Sunday at Google Inc. headquarters in Mt. View, tested the math skills of more than 300 children in grades six through 12 with puzzles, games and contests… By Kat Wade SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
May 04, 2008 Students and guest speaker, Dr. Jennifer Quinn, are interviewed at the second annual Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival held at Google on Sunday, May 4, 2008. KTSF-TV 26 (Chinese-language TV station)
May 03, 2008 Festival Director Joshua Zucker and seventh grader Katie Blunt, from Castilleja School, are interviewed by KPIX-TV news anchor Sherry Hu about the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival on May 4 at Google. KPIX -TV CBS 5
January 25, 2008 Institute adds up scholars: Mathematicians' research site celebrates 25 years by extending its reach to ordinary people By Patricia Yollin, Chronicle Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
January 22, 2008 By Jackie Burrell, Staff Writer CONTRA COSTA TIMES
January 22, 2008 LARGE AND DIVERSE CROWDS TURN OUT FOR SCIENCE CAFES by Jackie Burrell, Bay Area News Group SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
January 17, 2008 Pick the brain of your garden-variety Hollywood celebrity about science, and chances are the exercise won't take too long - unless you're talking to Alan Alda… by Paul Kilduff, "96 Hours" SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
December 09, 2007 Einstein was one of them. So was Euclid. But mathematicians in the Bay Area today don't have job titles like "E=MC2 guy" or "father of geometry." On the other hand, math whizzes have plenty of opportunities… by Caroline Cadwell and Richard Berman SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
September 21, 2007 An interview featuring the a member and coach from the U.S. team of high school girls that the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute sent to China in August 2007 to compete in the China Girls Mathematical Olympiad. Also joining the discussion were MSRI trustee, Maria Klawe, a mathematician and college president, and actress Danica McKellar, who also has a degree in mathematics and has published a book on math for middle school girls. Together they talk with host Ira Flatow about the best ways to boost the number of girls and women who succeed in mathematics. Science Friday, Talk of the Nation NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO (NPR)
August 20, 2007 Four local American girls represented the Western states and returned to the Bay Area victorious. The Mandarin News, KTSF 26 (Chinese language TV station)
August 17, 2007 Bay area students visit China for international competition… by Jessie Mangaliman, Staff Writer SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
August 13, 2007 A dozen teachers spent their summer vacation learning math puzzles when they attended a local institute’s summer training conference last week… by Amanda Ott, Contributing Writer & Assistant News Editor THE DAILY CALIFORNIAN
August 10, 2007 China's all-female Math Olympiad gets underway in Wuhan on August 11th, and for the first time since the contest began in 2002, a team from the United States will be among the international competitors… by Adriana Salerno, AAAS Mass Media Fellow VOICE OF AMERICA
August 10, 2007 The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley is sending two teams of high school girls… by Martin Snapp and Justin Hill THE BERKELEY VOICE
August 10, 2007 Think you're smart? Try solving this: Let x and y be positive real numbers with x³ + y³ = x - y. Prove that x² + 4y² < 1. Uh, right. Four very smart South Bay students will tackle similar problems this weekend in Central China as part of an eight-member team... by Jessie Mangaliman, Staff Writer SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
August 06, 2007 Colleen Lee is at summer camp. But the 16-year-old isn't making lanyard key chains or tie-dyed T-shirts, or paddling a canoe. Instead, she's working with algebraic inequalities... by Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
July 31, 2007 'Pretty good': Auroran lands spot on U.S. team for first-ever competition... by Justina Wang, Staff Writer THE BEACON NEWS
July 26, 2007 Americans to make first appearance in China Girls Mathematical Olympiad... By Linh Tat, Staff Writer THE ARGUS
June 29, 2007 Mathematical sciences research program is a global gathering place for students of theory and analysis… by Martin Snapp, Staff Writer THE BERKELEY VOICE
June 12, 2007 This April, with headlines about climate change appearing almost daily, climate scientists and mathematicians got together for a unique workshop on how climate models might be improved…. by Dana Mackenzie SIAM NEWS
May 18, 2007 Robert L. Bryant, an internationally known researcher in mathematics and a professor at Duke University, has been named director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley… by David Perlman, Science Editor SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
May 06, 2007 Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences Research Institute is the recipient of the largest cash pledge in its 25-year history -- $10 million from the Simons Foundation, including $5 million to create an endowed professorship… by Rick DelVecchio, Chronicle Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
May 04, 2007 The Berkeley-based Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) received a $10 million endowment today, the largest single cash amount pledged to the research group in its 25-year history… Bay City News Wire CBS 5 / KPIX-TV
April 27, 2007 Marcus du Sautoy takes the stage in Berkeley today hoping to light up his audience with the story of how thrilling it is to be a mathematician... by Rick DelVecchio, Chronicle Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
April 23, 2007 Math fest hosted at Google charms kids who count... By Barbara Feder Ostrov SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
April 11, 2007 The show discusses global climate change in a local context with an interdisciplinary panel of experts. How can we translate global models into local, shorter term predictions? How can government, business and citizens take action now? KQED
December 05, 2006 David Eisenbud, MSRI Director, and mathematicians associated with the Institute's scientific programs -- Henry Wolkowicz, Gunnar Carlsson, Donald Saari, Bernd Sturmfels -- were interviewed about mathematical discoveries that have influences on society and technology. by Reporter/News Anchor Alan Wang ABC-7 KGO-TV News
October 18, 2006 Economist Stephen A. Ross has been awarded the inaugural Chicago Mercantile Exchange-Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (CME-MSRI) Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications for his innovative work in arbitrage-pricing theories. MIT TECH TALK
September 15, 2006 Stephen A. Ross was named the inaugural recipient of the CME/MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications for his creation and development of arbitrage pricing theory… PENSIONS & INVESTMENTS
August 24, 2006 David Eisenbud, MSRI Director, and Professor Andrejs Treibergs, MSRI member from the University of Utah, were interviewed about the solving of the Poincaré Conjecture by Russian mathematician Grigori Perelman. by Alan Wang, Reporter/News Anchor ABC7-TV ABC7 KGO-TV NEWS
June 25, 2006
Irving "Kap" Kaplansky, one of the nation's most distinguished and beloved mathematicians, who for many years ran a kind of Mount Olympus for mathematicians in the Berkeley Hills, died June 25 in Sherman Oaks at age 89. (excerpt from SF Chronicle)
June 10, 2006 MSRI's panel discussion (on October 16, 2005) with writers from The Simpsons showed that a number of viewers do get the mathematical punch lines. D'oh! SCIENCE NEWS
May 07, 2006 Playwrights learn about game theory from mathematicians for writing math-inspired scripts in PlayGround's creative collaboration with MSRI. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
May 03, 2006 In recognition of the new MSRI-sponsored SF Math Circle formed by USF Prof. Paul Zeitz, San Francisco's Mayor proclaims May 3, 2006, "San Francisco Math Circle Day." USF Newspaper (on-line)
February 24, 2006 When Linda Vanderkolk saw the poster for the International Design Competition and noticed that the deadline for the competition was three days away, she immediately called Scott Frankenberger. The Exponent Online
February 20, 2006 MSRI's event, "Philip Glass in Conversation with Robert Osserman," drew connections between mathematics and Philip Glass' music. DISQUIET - online webzine
February 16, 2006 It will be highbrow hipster heaven in San Francisco next weekend when the Philip Glass Ensemble performs a live accompaniment to Godfrey Reggio's "Qatsi Trilogy'' of films screening at Davies Symphony Hall. BLOOMBERG NEWS
January 29, 2006 Artists Linda Vanderkolk and Scott Frankenberger create prize-winning mural to enhance the exterior of the new and expanded MSRI building facility. Journal and Courier Online
April 29, 2005 SHOW: Talk of the Nation/Science Friday 3:00 AM EST NPR April 29, 2005 Friday LENGTH: 8401 words HEADLINE: Math in popular culture ANCHORS: IRA FLATOW NPR, SCIENCE FRIDAY (TALK OF THE NATION program)
December 07, 2004 CME and MSRI have awarded the 2007 CME/MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications to David M. Kreps, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and the Theodore J. Kreps Professor of Economics at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business… NOTICES of the AMS
December 03, 2004 Shiing-Shen Chern, cofounder and first Director of MSRI (1982-85), died on Friday, December 3, 2004, after a brief illness in China. Chern was truly a towering figure in 20th century mathematics.
November 07, 2004 Rodrigo Banuelos did not know how to read or write until he was 15 years old. Today he is an accomplished mathematician, one of few in this profession. LA OPINION
June 26, 2004 A mathematician, who wants others to have the same opportunities he had, has created a computer program that he hopes will be a low-cost answer to a problem presented by a Supreme Court ruling on college admissions. CONTRA COSTA TIMES
June 25, 2004 Kimberly Sellers says that one of her most vivid memories from childhood is of helping her father, every year, track the number of African Americans graduating with doctorates from American universities. BERKELEY DAILY PLANET
May 14, 2004 In honor of Professor Albert S. Schwarz, celebrating his 50 years of research contribution to mathematics and theoretical physics. UC Davis News & Information
April 23, 2004 PDF The solitary genius is not an extinct species. But recently, mathematicians have demonstrated the power of working together to chip away at the great puzzles of their field, writes Robert Osserman of the MSRI. THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
March 02, 2004 Forum discusses K-12 math education with panelists from the up-coming MSRI conference on math assessment. KQED
June 30, 2003 A mathematician, the Hungarian lover of numbers Paul Erdos once said, is a device for converting coffee into theorems. Here, then, are a few glimpses into the Truth Factory. NEW YORK TIMES
April 29, 2003 The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute sits high on a hilltop overlooking San Francisco Bay. It is part of the University of California at Berkeley, and it serves as a retreat for world-class mathematicians. Here they are allowed to devote themselves entirely to the discovery of new mathematics, without the unwanted interference of a heavy teaching workload. THE GUARDIAN
April 25, 2003 Donation helps start work on making Berkeley library more than three times its current size OAKLAND TRIBUNE
April 24, 2003 The mathematical arts have popped up in a play yet again, and Berkeley's Mathematical Sciences and Research Institute is gathering a panel of experts for a boisterous discussion. OAKLAND TRIBUNE
April 18, 2003 THE SMART SET: The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute -- the group that brought Steve Martin to the stage of Herbst to romp with Robin Williams recently -- is celebrating plans for a new library with a reception April 24. Institute chairman is William R. Hearst III, whose B.A. was in mathematics, who is the son of Austine McDonnell Hearst for whom the library will be named, and whose family's company owns this newspaper. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
March 15, 2003 Overwhelmed by the crush of electronic mail, cell-phone calls, instant messages, Web sites and other technological demands on our ever-diminishing reservoir of free time? You're not alone. The people who invent this stuff feel the same way. SJ MERCURY NEWS
January 16, 2003 PROVIDENCE, RI---Robert Osserman, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and Special Projects Director at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, is receiving the 2003 JPBM Communications Award. American Mathematical Society
December 17, 2002 San Francisco -- It was about as unlikely as Pablo Picasso hanging out with Albert Einstein: Actor-director Steve Martin discussing "funny numbers" on stage with UC Berkeley mathematician Robert Osserman, and comedian Robin Williams unexpectedly walking onto the stage to toss in outrageous asides. OAKLAND TRIBUNE
December 17, 2002 The event was advertised as a "Funny Numbers" conversation between comedian Steve Martin and mathematics scholar Robert Osserman . SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
December 17, 2002 The sold-out crowd at the Herbst Theatre Sunday night got quite a lesson in mathematics. They learned that math (a) is a laugh riot and (b) has surprisingly little to do with numbers. SF EXAMINER |
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