Celebratio Mathematica

Shiing-Shen Chern

Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

Groundbreaking in January, 1984, at the site of the future MSRI building. From left: Isadore Singer, Shiing-Shen Chern, Calvin Moore, Alvin Thaler (Principal NSF Program Officer for MSRI), Irving Kaplansky, and Ira Michael Heyman (UC Berkeley Chancellor).