PROMYS Director and Founder
Glenn Stevens is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University where he has taught and conducted research since 1984 and where he was Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics from 2020 through June 2024. He earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1981. His research specialties are Number Theory, Automorphic Forms, and Arithmetic Geometry. Professor Stevens was Principal Investigator of Focus on Mathematics, a unique partnership of mathematicians and teachers dedicated to increasing student achievement initially funded by the Math Science Partnership of the National Science Foundation in 2003. Glennfest, a conference on p-adic Variation in Number Theory, was held at Boston University in June 2014, to celebrate Professor Stevens' 60th birthday. In 2015, he was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to the theory of p-adic modular forms and for service to the mathematical community."
Professor Stevens is also the Director and Co-Founder of PROMYS for Teachers and the Director and Founder of PROMYS Europe.
