Professor Glenn Stevens

Professor Glenn Stevens

Professor Stevens is the founder and Director of PROMYS Europe. He has been Director of PROMYS at Boston University since he co-founded the program in 1989. He is Professor of Mathematics at Boston University where he has taught and conducted research since 1984. Professor Stevens earned his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1981. His research specialties are Number Theory, Automorphic Forms, and Arithmetic Geometry. He has authored or edited three books and published numerous articles on these topics.

Professor Stevens has organized two major research conferences including the Conference on Modular Forms and Fermat’s Last Theorem held at Boston University in 1995. Glennfest, a Conference on p-adic Variation in Number Theory, was held at Boston University on 2-6 June, 2014 to celebrate Professor Stevens’ 60th Birthday.

Professor Stevens is the Director of PROMYS for Teachers, which he founded in 1990 for mathematics teachers of all levels of experience. He is Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded Focus on Mathematics Math and Science Partnership and co-Principal Investigator of the NSF Noyce grant, Math for America Boston: Teaching Scholars Program. In 2010, the Massachusetts Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education appointed Professor Stevens Chair of the Common Core Mathematics Review Board.  He is also President of Math for America-Boston and Treasurer of the PROMYS Foundation.