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The IMA New Directions Program

We believe that mathematics is a field of almost unlimited opportunity--provided that it looks outward towards its interfaces with other fields.
                                                                                            --- The Odom Report

The National Science Foundation recently approved funding this exciting new thrust aimed at partnering with strong mid-career mathematicians who are interested in expanding their horizons, making their research program more interdisciplinary and so increasing its impact. The New Directions program has two components.

IMA New Directions Visiting Professorships. We invite mathematicians to spend a 9-12 months at the IMA immersed in the annual thematic program. Visiting Professors are expected to be in residence and to be active participants in the program but are not assigned formal duties. We believe that this freedom, combined with the exciting program and the excellent work atmosphere at the IMA will allow established mathematicians to learn a great deal about a new discipline in a relatively short period of time. The first two New Directions Visiting Professors, joining the IMA in the Fall of 2003, are:

  • Shmuel Friedland of the Department of Mathematics of University of Illinois, Chicago, PhD 1971, Lady Davis Fellowship 2000.
  • Yuhong Yang of the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, PhD 1996, NSF Career 2000.

IMA New Directions Short Courses. Each year, the IMA will host a two-week intensive short course designed to efficiently provide mathematicians the basic knowledge prerequisite to undertaking interdisciplinary research in a given field. The first year's short course, to take place this June, is on mathematical biology at the cellular level; for more information click here.

Applications will soon be available for the New Directions Program for the IMA's 2004-5 year on Mathematics of Materials and Macromolecules: Multiple Scales, Disorder, and Singularities.