Events and Activities

Explore current and upcoming events and activities happening at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Jan
29
2025

Princeton University PCTS Workshop

Topological Dynamics
8:00am|407 Jadwin Hall, 4th Floor, PCTS Seminar Room

Organizers: Andrei Bernevig, Princeton; Wenting Cheng, U. Michigan; Koorosh Esteki, Fordham U.; Andrej Košmrlj, Princeton; Xiaoming Mao, U. Michigan; Camelia Prodan, Fordham U.; Smitha Vishveshwara, UIUC

Free but required registration: 
https://pcts...

Jan
29
2025

Focus Meeting on de Sitter, SYK, and Matrix Models

9:00am|Rubenstein Commons | Meeting Room 5

Summary: This will be a relaxed, informal gathering with only 2–3 talks each day, allowing ample time for in-depth discussions and collaborative exploration. With recent developments in the field, we hope this meeting will serve as a valuable...

Jan
29
2025

IAS Physics Group Meeting

Equivalence Proof of Pure Spinor and Ramond-Neveu-Schwarz Superstring Amplitudes
Nathan Berkovits
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS)

Abstract: A new manifestly spacetime-supersymmetric prescription for superstring amplitude computations is given using the pure spinor formalism which does not contain subtleties from poles in the pure spinor ghosts. This super-Poincare covariant...