This program was established through the generous support of the late Dr. Edward Shapiro and his wife Antoinette. The program is designed to facilitate collaborative research between outstanding mathematicians from other institutions and Penn State faculty and students.
For faculty who wants to nominate a Shapiro visitor, please first read the Proposal Guidelines for Faculty, then submit online using this Application Form.
The following is a list of past Shapiro visitors and here is a list of internal reports of visits.
| Dates | Shapiro Visitor | Host | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011-2012 | Xingye Yue | Chun Liu | |
| 2011-2012 | Serge Troubetzkoy | Sergei Tabachnikov | |
| Mikhail Gordin | Manfred Denker | ||
| Dmitri Panov | Anton Petrunin | ||
| Benoit Fresse | Ping Xu | ||
| Tai-Chia Lin | Chun Liu | ||
| Samuel Senti | Yakov Pesin | ||
| 2010-2011 | Panayot Vassilevski | Ludmil Zikatanov | |
| Greg Ginot | Ping Xu | ||
| Greg Galperin | Mark Levi | ||
| 2009-2010 | Alexander Shen |  | Steve Simpson |
| Claude Roger | Serge Tabachnikov | ||
| Michael Lin | Arkady Templeman | ||
| Lili Ju | Qiang Du | ||
| Ravi Rao | Paul Baum | ||
| Jun Hu | Jinchao Xu | ||
| John Hunter | Yuxi Zheng | ||
| Federico Rodriguez Hertz | Anatole Katok | ||
| 2008-2009 | Ian Marshall | Sergei Tabchnikov | |
| Jean-Paul Thouvenot | Anatole Katok | ||
| Robert Foote | Sergei Tabachnikov | ||
| Jonathon Block | Nigel Higson | ||
| Ping Zhang | Yuxi Zheng | ||
| Robert Coquereaux | Adrian Ocneanu | ||
| Michael Hirschhorn |  | James Sellers | |
| 2007-2008 | Samuel Senti | Omri Sarig | |
| Dmitry Fuchs |  | Sergei Tabachnikov | |
| Yuri Kifer | Yakov Pesin | ||
| Zhou Chen | Ping Xu | ||
| Xiangao Liu | Chun Liu | ||
| Weizhu Bao | Qiang Du | ||
| Gilles Halbout |  | Aissa Wade | |
| 2006-2007 | Carlangelo Liverani |  | Dimitry Dolgopyat |
| Samuel Senti | Yakov Pesin | ||
| Haiwang Huang |  | Qiang Du | |
| Nikita Netsvetaev | Dima Burago | ||
| Raphael Krikorian | Vladim Kaloshin | ||
| Vladimir Matveev | Sergei Tabachnikov | ||
| Volodymyr Rybalko | Leonid Berlyand | ||
| Oleg Musin |  | Dima Burago | |
| ZhangJu Liu | Ping Xu | ||
| Sandro Vaienti | Yakov Pesin |
Shapiro Visitors for 2005-2006
- Long-an Ying
- Stefano Luzzato
- Artur Lopes
- Yaroslav Kurylev
- Joerg Schmeling
- Gregory Seregin
- Youjin Zhang
- Guozhen Xiao
Shapiro Visitors for 2004-2005
- Vatcheslav Grines
- Jean-Louis Tu
- Jean-Paul Dufour
- Mariusz Lemanczyk