Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) is an internationally renowned mathematics institute. MSRI was founded in 1982 as an independent non-profit corporation located on a hillside overlooking the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. Its fundamental purpose is to further research in the mathematical sciences through major programs of a semester or a year, through workshops and through post-doctoral training. The Institute hosts an average of 80 researchers in residence at any given time and holds approximately 25 workshops per year with 60–140 participants per workshop. MSRI also engages in outreach to other sciences, to the public, and to various efforts in education, and it is active in encouraging diversity in the research population.