>At 10:23 PM -0400 5/24/00, dmolnar wrote:
>
>For what it's worth, the Clay Math Institute (which seems to be new?)
>is sponsoring a summer school in computational complexity theory jointly
>with the Park City Math Institute. You can see the details, including
>abstracts of the lectures to be offered at
>
>http://www.admin.ias.edu/ma/SummerSession2000.htm
>
>I am attending the undergraduate program thanks to CMI's support...
>
>I wonder if they are sponsoring other institutes or work connected to
>the other major open problems.
It looks fantastic. I noticed Ed Witten is one of their board
members. He's of course a leading string theorist and "topological
physics" (to coin a phrase) expert.
Even better, it looks like at least some of the Clays are still
alive. A great way to spend some of one's fortune.
--Tim May
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