The job title of C. L. E. Moore instructor is given by the Math Department at

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to recent math Ph.D.s hired for their promise in pure mathematics research. The instructors are expected to do both teaching and research. Past C. L. E. Moore instructors include John Nash,

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Elias Stein Elias Menachem Stein (January 13, 1931 – December 23, 2018) was an American mathematician who was a leading figure in the field of harmonic analysis. He was the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, wh ...

, as well as four Fields medal winners:

Paul Cohen Paul Joseph Cohen (April 2, 1934 – March 23, 2007) was an American mathematician. He is best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was award ...

Daniel Quillen Daniel Gray "Dan" Quillen (June 22, 1940 – April 30, 2011) was an American mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic ''K''-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 19 ...

, Curtis T. McMullen and

Akshay Venkatesh Akshay Venkatesh (born 21 November 1981) is an Australian mathematician and a professor (since 15 August 2018) at the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. His research interests are in the fields of counting, equidistrib ...

. The instructorships are named after Clarence Lemuel Elisha Moore (1876–1931), who was a mathematics professor, specializing in geometry, at MIT from 1904 until his death. Past holders of the position include

Dan Abramovich Dan Abramovich, born in Haifa, is a mathematician working in the fields of algebraic geometry and arithmetic geometry. As of 2019, he holds the title of L. Herbert Ballou University Professor at Brown University, and he is an Elected Fellow of ...

Tom Apostol Tom Mike Apostol (August 20, 1923 – May 8, 2016) was an American analytic number theorist and professor at the California Institute of Technology, best known as the author of widely used mathematical textbooks. Life and career Apostol was bor ...

Sheldon Axler Sheldon Jay Axler (born November 6, 1949, Philadelphia) is an American mathematician and textbook author. He is a professor of mathematics and the Dean of the College of Science and Engineering at San Francisco State University. He graduated fr ...

Patricia E. Bauman Patricia E. Bauman is an American mathematician who studies partial differential equations that model the behavior of liquid crystals and superconductors. She is a professor of mathematics at Purdue University. Education and career Bauman received ...

Alexander Braverman Alexander Braverman (born June 8, 1974) is an Israeli mathematician. Life and work Braverman was born in Moscow.. He earned in 1993 a BA degree in mathematics from the University of Tel Aviv, where in 1998 he received a Ph.D. (''Kazhdan-Laumon ...

Egbert Brieskorn Egbert Valentin Brieskorn (7 July 1936, in Rostock – 11 July 2013, in Bonn) was a German mathematician who introduced Brieskorn spheres and the Brieskorn–Grothendieck resolution. Education Brieskorn was born in 1936 as the son of a mill cons ...

Felix Browder Felix Earl Browder (; July 31, 1927 – December 10, 2016) was an American mathematician known for his work in nonlinear functional analysis. He received the National Medal of Science in 1999 and was President of the American Mathematical Socie ...

Charles C. Conley Charles Cameron Conley (26 September 1933 – 20 November 1984) was an American mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. The Conley index theory and the Conley–Zehnder theorem are named after him. Early life and education Conley was bo ...

Caterina Consani Caterina (Katia) Consani (born 1963) is an Italian mathematician specializing in arithmetic geometry. She is a professor of mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. Contributions Consani is the namesake of the Consani–Scholten quintic, a quin ...

Nils Dencker Nils Jonas Dencker (born 14 December 1953 in Lund) is a Swedish mathematician. Dencker earned his doctorate from Lund University in 1981 under supervision of Lars Hörmander, and is a professor of mathematics at Lund University. From 1981 until 1 ...

George Duff Captain George Duff RN (c. 1 February 1764 – 21 October 1805) was a British naval officer during the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars, who was killed by a cannonball at the Battle of Trafal ...

Lawrence Ein Lawrence Man Hou Ein (born 18 November 1955) is a mathematician who works in algebraic geometry. Education and career Lawrence Ein received in 1976 his bachelor's degree from UCLA and in 1981 his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley ...

Daniel S. Freed Daniel Stuart Freed (born 17 April 1959) is an American mathematician, specializing in global analysis and its applications to supersymmetry, string theory, and quantum field theory. Since 1989, he has been a professor at the University of Texas at ...

Harry Furstenberg Hillel (Harry) Furstenberg ( he, הלל (הארי) פורסטנברג) (born September 29, 1935) is a German-born American-Israeli mathematician and professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy ...

, John Garnett,

Mark Goresky Robert Mark Goresky is a Canadian mathematician who invented intersection homology with his advisor and life partner Robert MacPherson. Career Goresky received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 1976. His thesis, titled ''Geometric Cohomology ...

Helen G. Grundman Helen Giessler Grundman is an American mathematician. She is the Director of Education and Diversity at the American Mathematical Society and Research Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Bryn Mawr College. Grundman is noted for her research in ...

, Joe Harris, Sigurður Helgason,

Lars Hesselholt Lars Hesselholt (born September 25, 1966) is a Danish mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at Nagoya University in Japan, as well as holding a temporary position as Niels Bohr Professor at the University of Copenhagen.Eleny Ionel Eleny-Nicoleta Ionel is a Romanian mathematician whose research concerns symplectic geometry, including the study of the Gromov–Witten invariants and Gopakumar–Vafa invariant. Among her most significant results are the construction of relative ...

Vadim Kaloshin Vadim Kaloshin is a Ukrainian mathematician, known for his contributions to dynamical systems. He was a student of John N. Mather at Princeton University, obtaining a Ph.D. in 2001. He was subsequently a C. L. E. Moore instructor at the Massac ...

Yael Karshon Yael Karshon (born 1964) is an Israeli and Canadian mathematician who has been described as "one of Canada's leading experts in symplectic geometry". She works as a professor at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Tel Aviv University . Edu ...

, Alexander Kechris,

Anthony Knapp Anthony W. Knapp (born 2 December 1941, Morristown, New Jersey) is an American mathematician at the State University of New York, Stony Brook working on representation theory, who classified the tempered representations of a semisimple Lie group. ...

Nancy Kopell Nancy Jane Kopell (born November 8, 1942, New York City) is an American mathematician and professor at Boston University. She is co-director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology (CompNet). She organized and directs th ...

, Irwin Kra, Kefeng Liu,

Matilde Marcolli Matilde Marcolli is an Italian and American mathematical physicist. She has conducted research work in areas of mathematics and theoretical physics; obtained the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Sofia Ko ...

Kevin McCrimmon Kevin Mor McCrimmon (born September 1941) is an American mathematician, specializing in Jordan algebras. He is known for his introduction of quadratic Jordan algebras in 1966. McCrimmon attended secondary school in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and ...

Curtis McMullen Curtis Tracy McMullen (born May 21, 1958) is an American mathematician who is the Cabot Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1998 for his work in complex dynamics, hyperbolic geometry and Teichmüller ...

William Messing William Messing is an American mathematician who works in the field of arithmetic algebraic geometry. Messing received his doctorate in 1971 at Princeton University under the supervisions of Alexander Grothendieck (and Nicholas Katz) with his th ...

Emmy Murphy Emmy Murphy is an American mathematician and a professor at Princeton University who works in the area of symplectic topology, contact geometry and geometric topology. Education Murphy graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno in 2007, th ...

John Forbes Nash Jr. John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, real algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and partial differential equations. Nash and fellow ga ...

Irena Peeva Irena Vassileva Peeva is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, specializing in commutative algebra. She disproved the Eisenbud–Goto regularity conjecture jointly with Jason McCullough. Education and career Peeva did her graduate s ...

Douglas Ravenel Douglas Conner Ravenel (born 1947) is an American mathematician known for work in algebraic topology. Life Ravenel received his PhD from Brandeis University in 1972 under the direction of Edgar H. Brown, Jr. with a thesis on exotic characteristi ...

Daniel G. Rider Daniel Gisriel Rider, Jr. (23 July 23, 1938, Boston – 11 July 2008, Madison, Wisconsin) was a mathematician, specializing in harmonic analysis and Fourier analysis. After spending his childhood in New England, Daniel Rider moved with his family ...

Robert Rumely Robert Scott Rumely (born 1952) is a professor of mathematics at the University of Georgia who specializes in number theory and arithmetic geometry. He is one of the inventors of the Adleman–Pomerance–Rumely primality test. Life Rumely was bo ...

James Serrin James Burton Serrin (1 November 1926, Chicago, Illinois – 23 August 2012, Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an American mathematician, and a professor at University of Minnesota. Life He received his doctorate from Indiana University in 1951 under ...

, William Shaw,

Joseph H. Silverman Joseph Hillel Silverman (born March 27, 1955, New York City) is a professor of mathematics at Brown University working in arithmetic geometry, arithmetic dynamics, and cryptography. Biography Joseph Silverman received an Sc.B. from Brown Unive ...

James Simons James Harris Simons (; born 25 April 1938) is an American mathematician, billionaire hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York. He and his f ...

Isadore M. Singer Isadore Manuel Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. He was an Emeritus Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Professor Emeritus of Mathematic ...

Hart F. Smith Hart Francis Smith, III (born 11 August 1962) is an American mathematician, specializing in analysis. Biography Hart F. Smith III received in 1984 from the University of California, Berkeley his A.B. in mathematics and in January 1989 from Princ ...

Karen E. Smith Karen Ellen Smith (born 1965 in Red Bank, New Jersey) is an American mathematician, specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She completed her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton University before earning her PhD in ...

George Springer George Chelston Springer III (born September 19, 1989) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Houston Astros from 2014 to 2020. The Astros selected Springer ...

Richard P. Stanley Richard Peter Stanley (born June 23, 1944) is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2000 to 2010, he was the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics. He re ...

James D. Stasheff James Dillon Stasheff (born January 15, 1936, New York City) is an American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He works in algebraic topology and algebra as well as their applicat ...

Robert Strichartz Robert "Bob" Stephen Strichartz (October 14, 1943 – December 19, 2021) was an American mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. He was born in New York City on October 14, 1943. Bob graduated from Bronx High School of Science i ...

Alessandro Figà Talamanca Alessandro Figà Talamanca (born in Rome, 25 May 1938) is an Italian mathematician who has been given several prestigious tasks, both in Italy and abroad. Several times, he took part in managing the Italian University system, and shared his opin ...

Shang-Hua Teng Shang-Hua Teng (; born 1964) is a Chinese-American computer scientist. He is the Seeley G. Mudd Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Southern California. Previously, he was the chairman of the Computer Science Depart ...

, Robert Thomason,

Edward Thorp Edward Oakley Thorp (born August 14, 1932) is an American mathematics professor, author, hedge fund manager, and blackjack researcher. He pioneered the modern applications of probability theory, including the harnessing of very small correlatio ...

Douglas Ulmer Douglas Ulmer is an American mathematician who works in algebraic geometry and number theory. He is a professor and mathematics department head at the University of Arizona. Education Ulmer did his undergraduate study at Princeton University. ...

Chelsea Walton Chelsea Walton is a mathematician whose research interests include noncommutative algebra, noncommutative algebraic geometry, symmetry in quantum mechanics, Hopf algebras, and quantum groups. She is an associate professor at Rice University and ...

Gerard Washnitzer Gerard Washnitzer (1926 in New York City – April 2, 2017) was an American mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. Washnitzer studied at Princeton University under Emil Artin and in 1950 received a Ph.D. (''A Dirichlet Principle ...

Alan Weinstein Alan David Weinstein (17 June, 1943, New York City) is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the field of differential geometry, and especially in Poisson geometry. Education and career Weinstein o ...

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Zhiwei Yun Zhiwei Yun (; born September 1982) is a Professor of Mathematics at MIT specializing in number theory, algebraic geometry and representation theory, with a particular focus on the Langlands program. He was previously a C. L. E. Moore instruct ...

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