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Institute Letter Fall 2024

Read how Caroline Walker Bynum, Professor Emerita in the School of Historical Studies, has engaged in processes of revisitation and transformation throughout her career, broadening the interpretive frameworks of a series of material objects with each analysis. Explore the influence of Peter Sarnak, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, on broad areas of mathematics with his work on Ramanujan graphs. Discover the innovative research being conducted in the School of Natural Sciences on gravitational waves, detailing how each individual Member or small group of scholars plays a role in driving forward scientific understanding in this field.

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Institute Instances

Institute Instances is a collection of 1–2 minute video snapshots of scholars, administrators, and visitors to the Institute for Advanced Study answering a question (or two) about their work at IAS. Viewed individually, these clips allow audiences to get to know the people who are, in the words of founding IAS Director Abraham Flexner, "pushing beyond the present limits of human knowledge" through advancements in science and the humanities. Taken together, these "instances" of Institute life are designed to show how everyone can play a role in actualizing discovery, and to celebrate a community devoted to excellence in scholarship.

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Press Release

Astrophysicists Use Echoes of Light to Illuminate Black Holes

Frank and Peggy Taplin Member George N. Wong, Visitor Lia Medeiros, and Professor James Stone, all from the Institute's School of Natural Sciences, have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to be measured, represents a major step forward, since it operates independently of many of the other ways in which scientists have probed these parameters in the past.

IAS News

Magdalena Małecka Receives Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council

Magdalena Małecka, Deutsche Bank Member (2020–21) in the School of Social Science, has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council for a project titled “Encoded Knowledge: Epistemology of Computer Technology in Modern Economics.” Małecka's time at the Institute, which included visits to the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, was formative for her project.