This article is based on a report co-authored by Salvatore Arico and Charlotte Salpin and published in 2005 by theInstituteofAdvancedStudyofthe United Nations University, entitled Bio-prospecting of Genetic Resources in the Deep Seabed.
But a big attraction is the 57-year-old Yau himself: He's the leading Chinese mathematician and ranks among the top ten in the world, says Phillip Griffiths, a math professor and a former president oftheInstitute for AdvancedStudy in Princeton.
Dean ofthe Radcliffe Institute for AdvancedStudy from 2001 to 2007, she came to Harvard after twenty-five years on the faculty ofthe University of Pennsylvania.
Michael Eisenstadt ofthe Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Andrew Bacevich ofthe Johns Hopkins University School ofAdvanced International Studies collaborated in a separate studyofthe role the U.S. can play in supporting a Syrian-Israeli peace agreement sponsored by the Washington Institute.
Hence teatime at theInstitute for AdvancedStudy down the road from us in Princeton, credited for the birth of countless collaborations and papers since it began in the 1930s.