The job title of C. L. E. Moore instructor is given by the Math Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology to recent math Ph.D.s hired for their promise in pure mathematics research. The instructors are expected to do both teaching and research. Past C. L. E. Moore instructors include John Nash, Walter Rudin, Elias Stein, as well as four
Fields medal
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Curtis T. McMullen
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Akshay Venkatesh
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The instructorships are named after
Clarence Lemuel Elisha Moore
Clarence Lemuel Elisha Moore (12 May 1876, Bainbridge, Ohio – 5 December 1931) was an American mathematics professor, specializing in algebraic geometry and Riemannian geometry. He is chiefly remembered for the memorial eponymous C. L. E. Moore ...
(1876–1931), who was a mathematics professor, specializing in geometry, at MIT from 1904 until his death.
Past holders of the position include
Dan Abramovich
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Sheldon Axler
Sheldon Jay Axler (born November 6, 1949, Philadelphia) is an American mathematician and textbook author. He is a professor of mathematics and the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University.
He graduated fr ...
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Patricia E. Bauman
Patricia E. Bauman is an American mathematician who studies partial differential equations that model the behavior of liquid crystals and superconductors. She is a professor of mathematics at Purdue University.
Education and career
Bauman received ...
Charles C. Conley
Charles Cameron Conley (26 September 1933 – 20 November 1984) was an American mathematician who worked on dynamical systems.
The Conley index theory and the Conley–Zehnder theorem are named after him.
Early life and education
Conley was born ...
Nils Dencker
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George Duff
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Lawrence Ein
Lawrence Man Hou Ein (born 18 November 1955) is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry.
Education and career
Lawrence Ein received in 1976 his bachelor's degree from UCLA and in 1981 his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley u ...
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Daniel S. Freed
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Harry Furstenberg
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Mark Goresky
Robert Mark Goresky is a Canadian mathematician who invented intersection homology with his advisor and life partner Robert MacPherson.
Career
Goresky received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1976. His thesis, titled ''Geometric Cohomology a ...
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Helen G. Grundman
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Lars Hesselholt
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Vadim Kaloshin,
Yael Karshon,
Alexander Kechris
Alexander Sotirios Kechris ( el, Αλέξανδρος Σωτήριος Κεχρής; born March 23, 1946) is a set theorist and logician at the California Institute of Technology.
Contributions
Kechris has made contributions to the theory of Bor ...
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Anthony Knapp
Anthony W. Knapp (born 2 December 1941, Morristown, New Jersey) is an American mathematician at the State University of New York, Stony Brook working on representation theory, who classified the tempered representations of a semisimple Lie group ...
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Nancy Kopell
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Irwin Kra
Irwin Kra (born January 5, 1937) is an American mathematician, who works on the function (mathematics), function theory in complex analysis.
Life and work
Kra studied at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (bachelor's degree in 1960) and at Colu ...
Matilde Marcolli
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Curtis McMullen
Curtis Tracy McMullen (born May 21, 1958) is an American mathematician who is the Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüll ...
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William Messing
William Messing is an American mathematician who works in the field of arithmetic algebraic geometry.
Messing received his doctorate in 1971 at Princeton University under the supervisions of Alexander Grothendieck (and Nicholas Katz) with his th ...
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Emmy Murphy
Emmy Murphy is an American mathematician and a professor at Princeton University who works in the area of symplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology.
Education
Murphy graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2007, th ...
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John Forbes Nash Jr.
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Irena Peeva
Irena Vassileva Peeva is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, specializing in commutative algebra. She disproved the Eisenbud–Goto regularity conjecture jointly with Jason McCullough.
Education and career
Peeva did her graduate ...
Douglas Ravenel
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Life
Ravenel received his PhD from Brandeis University in 1972 under the direction of Edgar H. Brown, Jr. with a thesis on exotic characterist ...
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Daniel G. Rider
Daniel Gisriel Rider, Jr. (23 July 23, 1938, Boston – 11 July 2008, Madison, Wisconsin) was a mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis and Fourier analysis.
After spending his childhood in New England, Daniel Rider moved with his family ...
Joseph H. Silverman
Joseph Hillel Silverman (born March 27, 1955, New York City)
is a professor of mathematics at Brown University working in arithmetic geometry, arithmetic dynamics, and cryptography.
Biography
Joseph Silverman received an Sc.B. from Brown Unive ...
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James Simons
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Isadore M. Singer
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Richard P. Stanley
Richard Peter Stanley (born June 23, 1944) is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2000 to 2010, he was the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics. He r ...
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James D. Stasheff
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Robert Strichartz
Robert "Bob" Stephen Strichartz (October 14, 1943 – December 19, 2021) was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis.
He was born in New York City on October 14, 1943. Bob graduated from Bronx High School of Science i ...
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Alessandro Figà Talamanca
Alessandro Figà Talamanca (born in Rome, 25 May 1938) is an Italian mathematician who has been given several prestigious tasks, both in Italy and abroad. Several times, he took part in managing the Italian University system, and shared his opin ...
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Shang-Hua Teng
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Edward Thorp
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Akshay Venkatesh
Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistribu ...
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Chelsea Walton
Chelsea Walton is a mathematician whose research interests include noncommutative algebra, noncommutative algebraic geometry, symmetry in quantum mechanics, Hopf algebras, and quantum groups. She is an associate professor at Rice University and ...
Alan Weinstein
Alan David Weinstein (17 June, 1943, New York City) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the field of differential geometry, and especially in Poisson geometry.
Education and career
Weinstein ob ...
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Zhiwei Yun
Zhiwei Yun (; born September 1982) is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT specializing in number theory, algebraic geometry and representation theory, with a particular focus on the Langlands program.
He was previously a C. L. E. Moore instructor ...