Board of Advisors

The PROMYS Advisory Board has been established as a means of collecting feedback from outside PROMYS on all aspects of the program. We have listed the year of each Board member's first association with PROMYS in the last column below.

Name	Town of Residence	Occupation	Background Experience	Year
Director:
Glenn Stevens *	Brookline, MA	Professor, Boston University	Mathematician, Educator	1989
Chair:
Steve Rosenberg *	Natick, MA	Professor, Boston University	Mathematician, Educator	1989
Development Coordinator:
Ava Berinstein *	Brookline, MA	Boston University	Fundraiser	2001
Other Board Members:
Margy Baruch *	Fayetteville, NY	Professor, Syracuse Univ.	Mathematician, Educator	1989
Al Cuoco *	Wilmington, MA	Curriculum Development, EDC	Mathematician, Educator	1991
Carol Findell *	Belmont, MA	Professor, Boston University	Mathematics Educator	1992
David Fried *	Chelsea, MA	Professor, Boston University	Mathematician, Educator	1989
Arthur Jaffe	Cambridge, MA	Professor, Harvard University	Mathematics and Physics	1999
Herb Clemens	Columbus, OH	Professor, Ohio State University	Mathematics	2001
Cleve Moler	West Newbury, MA	Chief Scientific Officer, MathWorks, Inc.	Mathematics, Computer Science	2000

* indicates that the Board Member is also an employee of the PROMYS program.

Glenn Stevens, who is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University, has directed the PROMYS program since the beginning of the program in 1989. His research specialties include Number Theory, Arithmetic Geometry, and Automorphic Respresentation Theory.

Steve Rosenberg, who is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University, is currently chair of the Boston University Mathematics Department. His research specialties include Differential Geometry and Topology. He has worked in PROMYS every summer since 1991.

Dr. Ava Berinstein is the Development & Fundraising Coordinator for the PROMYS program. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from U.C.L.A. and has spent the last five years working as an independent Business and Internet Consultant for technology companies.

Dr. Cleve Moler chaired the computer science department at the University of New Mexico and later cofounded the MathWorks, Inc. where he is currently Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer.

Herb Clemens, who is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Utah in Park City, is Director of the Park City Mathematics Institute.

Margy Baruch teaches mathematics and computer science and received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. She has worked in PROMYS every summer since its inception in 1989.

Dr. Al Cuoco has over 20 years of experience working in the field of high school mathematics education and received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Brandeis University. Dr. Cuoco directs the Center for Mathematics Education at the Education Development Center in Newton. He has worked in PROMYS many times since 1991 and has co-directed PROMYS for TEACHERS since 1999.

Arthur Jaffe, who is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Harvard University, is President of the Clay Mathematical Institute. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and former President of the American Mathematical Society.

Professor Carol Findell has over thirty years experience as a mathematics educator at all levels, from pre-school through university. She is Clinical Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of Mathematics Education at the Boston University School of Education. She is an editor of the Journal of Education for Boston University, as well as two volumes on Mathematics Education and Reform in Mathematics Education. She has also written curriculum materials for elementary, middle and high school, as well as college mathematics courses.

David Fried, who is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University, co-founded PROMYS in 1989 and has worked in the program every summer since that time. His research specialties include Dynamical Systems, Differential Geometry and Topology.