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CURRICULUM VITAE (2009)

(abbreviated version)

Richard P. Stanley

PRESENT POSITION: Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

EDUCATION:

 
                 California Institute of Technology     B.S.     1966


                 Harvard University                     Ph.D.    1971
EMPLOYMENT:
 
                 1965-1969               Research Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 
                                           Pasadena, CA (summers)


                 1968-1970               Teaching Assistant, Harvard University


                 1970-1971               C.L.E. Moore Instructor of Mathematics, 
                                           M.I.T.


                 1971-1973               Miller Research Fellow, University of 
                                           California, Berkeley


                 1973-1975               Assistant Professor of Mathematics, M.I.T.


                 1975-1979               Associate Professor of Mathematics, M.I.T.


                 1979-2000               Professor of Applied Mathematics, M.I.T.


                 1993-1996               Chair, Applied Mathematics Committee, 
                                           M.I.T.

   
                 1999-2000               Academic Officer, Department of
                                           Mathematics, M.I.T.

         
                 2000-                   Norman Levinson Professor of Applied 
                                           Mathematics, M.I.T.
VISITING POSITIONS: 

                 1978-79                 Visiting Associate Professor of Mathematics,
                                           University of California, San Diego


                 March, 1981             Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France


                 April-May, 1981         Stockholms universitet, Sweden


                 Jan.-June, 1986         Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Scholar,
                                           California Institute of Technology


                 May-June, 1990          Universität Augsburg, Germany


                 September, 1990         Tokai University, Japan


                 November, 1990          Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden


                 Jan.-May, 1992          Göran Gustafsson Professor, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) 
                                           and Institut Mittag-Leffler, Sweden


                 Sept. 1996-June 1997    Chern Visiting Professor,
                                           University of California at Berkeley


                 Sept. 1996-June 1997    General Member, Mathematical Sciences 
                                           Research Institute, Berkeley, California


                 Sept. 2000-June 2001    Harvard University 


                 Jan.-June, 2005         Kungliga Tekniska högskolan (KTH) and Institut Mittag-Leffler, 
                                            Sweden
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (selected):
Committee on the William Lowell Putnam Competition, 1983-1986 (Chair, 1985-1986)
Academy Scholar, Clay Research Academy (eight-day seminar for high school students), 2003-2005

HONORS AND AWARDS:

SIAM George Pólya Prize in Applied Combinatorics, 1975
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1983-84
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1988)
Member, National Academy of Sciences (elected 1995)
American Mathematical Society 2001 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition
Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics, 2003
Senior Scholar, Clay Mathematics Institute, 2004
Aisenstadt Chair, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, 2007
Honorary Doctor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, 2007
Honorary Professorship, Nankai University, 2007.

INVITED TALKS (selected):

Jubilee Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the University of Stockholm 1978, invited hour address
American Mathematical Society annual meeting, Cincinnati, 1982, invited hour address
Conference on Combinatorics, University of Waterloo, 1982, invited series of four instructional lectures
International Congress of Mathematicians, Warsaw, 1983, invited 45 minute address in algebra
Philips Lecturer, Haverford College, 1983
Distinguished Visitor, Emory University, 1984
Japan-USA Workshop in Commutative Algebra and Combinatorics, Kyoto, Japan, 1985, invited hour address
Brauer Lecturer, University of North Carolina, 1986
First China-USA International Conference on Graph Theory and Its Applications, Jinan, China, 1986, invited plenary address
Capital City Conference on Combinatorics and Theoretical Computer Science, Washington, DC, 1989, invited series of three instructional lectures
Milliman Lecturer, University of Washington, 1990
Distinguished Visitors Lecture Series, University of Iowa, 1991
Mathematical Symposium of the Tenth Anniversary of the Ottawa-Carleton Institute for Mathematics and Statistics, invited speaker, 1994
EIDMA, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, minicourse on enumerative combinatorics, 1996
Chern Symposium, University of California at Berkeley, 1997, principal speaker
Leonidas Alaoglu Memorial Lecture in Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1997
Michigan State University Visiting Lecture Series, 1998
Erdös Lecturer, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1999
Stelson Lecturer, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999
Mathematical Challenges of the 21st Century, UCLA, 2000, invited address
Hayden-Howard Lecturer, University of Kentucky, 2001
Renaissance of Combinatorics, Nankai University (南开大学), Tianjin, China, 2001, invited series of eight instructional lectures
Dean Jacqueline B. Lewis Memorial Lectures, Rutgers University, 2002
Mathematics Workshop, New Plymouth, New Zealand, 2003, two invited lectures
IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute, Graduate Summer School Lecturer, 2004
Senior Scholar Lecture, Park City, Utah, July 7, 2004
Nankai University (南开大学), Tianjin, China, 2004, invited series of six instructional lectures
Distinguished Lectures in Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Haifa, 2005
Frontier Lectures, Texas A&M University, 2005
Distinguished Lecturer, Arizona State University, 2006
Plenary speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Madrid, 2006
14th Leonard C. Sulski Memorial Lecture, College of the Holy Cross, 2007
Kemeny Lecture Series, Dartmouth College, 2007
Minicourse on symmetric functions, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 2008
Distinguished Lecturer, Drexel University, 2009
Plenary speaker, IPM 20 - Combinatorics 2009, Tehran, 2009
Series of three instructional lectures, Mathematical Society of Japan Seasonal Institute 2009 on Arrangements of Hyperplanes, Sapporo, 2009

DOCTORAL STUDENTS (and date of degree):
        Ira Gessel 1977
 Emden Gansner1978
 Bruce Sagan1979
 Paul Edelman1980
 Robert Proctor 1981
 Jim Walker1981
 Dale Worley1984
 John Stembridge1985
 Lynne Butler1986
 Karen Collins1986
 Sheila Sundaram1986
 Francesco Brenti1988
 Mark Purtill1990
 Victor Reiner1990
 David Wagner1990
 Julian West1990
 Art Duval1991
 Tom Roby1991
 Einar Steingrímsson1991
 Bo-Yin Yang (楊柏因)1991
 Clara Chan1992
 Gábor Hetyei1994
 Timothy Chow1995
 David Grabiner1995 (Harvard)
 Tao-Kai Lam1995
 Glenn Tesler1995
 Christos Athanasiadis1996
 Satomi Okazaki1996
 Miklós Bóna1997
 Alexander Postnikov1997
 Lewis Wolfgang1997
 Patricia Hersh1999
 Wungkum Fong (方詠琴)2000
 Mark Skandera2000
 Benjamin Joseph2001
 Federico Ardila2003
 Peter Clifford2003
 Caroline (Carly) Klivans2003
 Peter McNamara2003
 Edward Early2004
 Sergi Elizalde2004
 Cilanne Boulet2005
 Thomas Lam2005
 Lauren Williams2005
 Bridget Tenner2006
 Fu Liu (刘拂)2006
 Jason Burns2007
  Pavlo Pylyavskyy2007
  Denis Chebikin2008
  Jingbin Yin (殷婧彬)2009
  Camellia (Cammie) Smith2009 (Harvard)