The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) is one of the world’s preeminent centers for collaborative research. Researchers—some 1,700 per year—come to MSRI to work in an environment that promotes creativity and the effective interchange of ideas and techniques. MSRI features two focused programs each semester, attended by foremost mathematicians and postdocs from the United States and abroad; the Institute temporarily becomes a world center of activity in those fields.

Mission 

The Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) is dedicated:

*to the advancement and communication of fundamental knowledge in mathematics and the mathematical sciences,
*to the development of human capital for the growth and use of such knowledge, and
*to the cultivation in the larger society of awareness and appreciation of the beauty, power and importance of mathematical ideas and ways of understanding the world.