Mathcamp Staff

Mira Bernstein, Executive Director
Mira Bernstein has been one of the main organizers of Mathcamp since 1997. She received her PhD from Harvard University in 1999, did her postdoctoral work at University of California Berkeley, and taught at Wellesley College before joining the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her training is in algebraic geometry, but she is increasingly interested in applied mathematics.

David Savitt, Deputy Director
Originally from Vancouver, Canada, David Savitt was the first-ever counselor at Mathcamp in 1996. David received his PhD at Harvard University in 2001 (where his work focused on an extension of the results which led to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem) and did his postdoctoral research at McGill University (Montreal) and Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (France). He is now an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona.

Marisa Debowsky, Program Director
Marisa joined the Mathcamp summer staff in 2006 when she was a graduate student in math at New York University's Courant Institute. In 2008, she became Mathcamp's first full-time staff member and now runs the day-to-day workings of the program year-round.

One of Mathcamp's greatest assets is its low student-staff ratio, approximately 4:1. The summer staff includes undergraduates, graduate students, professors and visiting scholars -- all of whom live on campus and are always available to interact with students, be it chatting about math over lunch or playing a pick-up game of soccer on the quad. Read more about the 2012 Staff.