Awards

Patrick J. Geary, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and Narayana Murthy, IAS Trustee, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Also among the newly elected members are five former IAS Members...

Akshay Venkatesh, Professor in the School of Mathematics, and Manjul Bhargava, IAS Trustee and Member (2001–02) in the School, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society.

The Royal Society is a self-governing fellowship made up of the most...

"On the evening of March 19, the mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck gathered with revelers at the Institute for Advanced Study for a champagne reception. Some hours earlier she’d been awarded the Abel Prize—the first time a woman had won it—for her...

Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2019 Donald E. Knuth Prize.

Conferred annually by the ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory and the IEEE Technical Committee on...

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, a society of outstanding scientists, artists, and business leaders.

Addressing an audience at Vrije Universiteit Brussel on the occasion of receiving an honorary doctorate, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, spoke on the state of science today: “Simply put, we are moving to the next level. The previous century can be characterized as the search for the building blocks of reality....This century will explore the brave new world that can be constructed with these building blocks, in our labs and in our minds.” 

Irving Lavin (1927–2019), Professor in the School of Historical Studies for forty-five years, will be named Grand'Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana at a ceremony taking place at the Consulate General of Italy in New York.

The...

Edward van den Heuvel, Visitor (1974) in the School of Natural Sciences, has been awarded, with Alexander V. Tutukov and Lev R. Yungelson, the 2018 Viktor Ambartsumian International Science Prize.

The prize, which comes with a monetary award of about...

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor of Ancient History and Classics in the Institute's School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the title of Doctor honoris causa by the Ionian University at a ceremony in Corfu on February 27, 2019. Chaniotis was...

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor of the Institute for Advanced Study, has been selected to receive an honorary doctorate from Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), to be presented on April 2, 2019. The university will confer seven...