The job title of C. L. E. Moore instructor is given by the Math Department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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, Walter Rudin, Elias Stein, as well as four

Fields medal The Fields Medal is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians under 40 years of age at the International Congress of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), a meeting that takes place every four years. The name of the award ho ...

winners: Paul Cohen, Daniel Quillen, Curtis T. McMullen and Akshay Venkatesh. 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,

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, Felix Browder, Paul Cohen,

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 born ...

, Caterina Consani,

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 19 ...

, George Duff,

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 u ...

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 o ...

, John Garnett, Mark Goresky,

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, Eleny Ionel,

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,

Alexander Kechris Alexander Sotirios Kechris ( el, Αλέξανδρος Σωτήριος Κεχρής; born March 23, 1946) is a set theorist and logician at the California Institute of Technology. Contributions Kechris has made contributions to the theory of Bor ...

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,

Irwin Kra Irwin Kra (born January 5, 1937) is an American mathematician, who works on the function (mathematics), function theory in complex analysis. Life and work Kra studied at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (bachelor's degree in 1960) and at Colu ...

, Kefeng Liu, Matilde Marcolli,

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, William Messing,

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., Irena Peeva, Daniel Quillen,

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 characterist ...

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 ...

, Walter Rudin, Robert Rumely, James Serrin, 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,

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, Richard P. Stanley,

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 ...

, Elias Stein, Robert Strichartz, Alessandro Figà Talamanca,

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,

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. ...

, Akshay Venkatesh,

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, Alan Weinstein, and

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 instructor ...

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