page_title: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
section_title: Education Programs
hierarchical_section_title: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute / Education Programs
caption_attribution_description: English: Simons Auditorium at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley. English: Il Simons Auditorium al Mathematical Sciences Research Institute di Berkeley.
context_page_description: The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute is an independent nonprofit mathematical research institution in Berkeley, California. It is widely regarded as a world leading mathematical center for collaborative research, drawing thousands of visiting researchers from around the world each year.
  MSRI was founded in 1982, and its funding sources include the National Science Foundation, foundations, corporations, and more than 90 universities and institutions. The Institute is located at 17 Gauss Way on the University of California, Berkeley campus, close to Grizzly Peak.
context_section_description: MSRI also serves a wider community through the development of human scientific capital, providing postdoctoral training to young scientists and increasing the diversity of the research workforce. The Institute also advances the education of young people with conferences on critical issues in mathematics education. Additionally, they host research workshops that are unconnected to the main programs, such as its annual workshop on K-12 mathematics education Critical Issues in Mathematics Education.   
  During the summer, workshops for graduate students are held through the MSRI-UP program. MSRI sponsors programs for middle and high school students and their teachers as part of the Math Circles and Circles for Teachers that meet weekly in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Oakland.  It also sponsors the Bay Area Mathematical Olympiad (BAMO), the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival, and the U.S. team of young girls that competes at the China Girls Math Olympiad.
  The lectures given at MSRI events are videotaped and made available for free on the internet. MSRI has sponsored a number of events that reach out to the non-mathematical public, and its Simons Auditorium also hosts special performances of classical music. Mathematician Robert Osserman has held a series of public "conversations" with artists who have been influenced by mathematics in their work, such as composer Philip Glass, actor and writer Steve Martin, playwright Tom Stoppard, and actor and author Alan Alda.  MSRI also collaborates with local playwrights for an annual program of new short mathematics-inspired plays at Monday Night Playground at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, and co-sponsored a series of mathematics-inspired films with UC Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive for MSRI's 20th anniversary.  It also created a series of mathematical puzzles that were posted among the advertising placards on San Francisco Muni buses.
caption: Simons Auditorium (MSRI)
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