She has a 1989 MS from the University of Heidelberg and a 1994 PhD from Georgia Institute of Technology. Laba's field is mathematical physics. With a 1986 MSc from the University of Wroclaw and a 1994 PhD from the University of Toronto, she has been assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles since 1994. Luo, who has been an instructor at Princeton since 1995, has a 1982 BSc from Zhongshan University, a 1988 MSc from Peking University and a 1993 PhD from Rutgers. He was a member of the Institute of Advanced Study from 1993 to 1994 and a member of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at Berkeley the following year.
Sanders works in applied math.
Stalker, whose interest is complex analysis, has a 1989 BS from Stanford University and a 1993 PhD from Princeton. He has been C.L.E. Moore Instructor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the past four years. In Molecular Biology, Yigong Shi , whose field is structural biology, has a 1989 BS from Tsinghua University and 1995 PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow the next year. He has been a postdoc at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center since 1996. All appointments are for three years starting July 1, except Nooijen's, which begins September 1, and those of Carbeck and Shi, which are for three and a half years, starting February 1, 1998.