Faculty

Jonathan Benthall of the Times Literary Supplement reviews Punir: Une Passion Contemporaine (Seuil, 2017), by Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science. The work, he writes, "testifies admirably to the power of...

Albert Einstein, one of the Institute's first Faculty members, argued that what we understand as gravity is, in fact, from the curvature of space and time — a hotly debated notion among physicists at the time.

Then came the solar eclipse of 1919 —...

Machine learning — sometimes called the leading edge of artificial intelligence — is the rapidly developing computer technology behind self-driving cars, complex web searches, medical and science applications, and face and speech recognition...

In an interview with Rebecca Gillan of JPhys+, Stephen L. Adler, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses his paper Coleman–Weinberg symmetry breaking in SU(8) induced by a third rank antisymmetric tensor scalar field II: the...

Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Months ago, Quanta Magazine set out to photograph some of the world’s most accomplished scientists and mathematicians, including Juan Maldacena, Carl P...

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, joins Alexander Nehamas, Professor of the Humanities and of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Princeton University, and New York Public Radio host Leonard Lopate, to discuss...

“What is space and time really? Why is the universe really big?” Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed asks. “And on top of that, we don’t understand why there are big things in it.”

Part of a family that zigzagged the globe in pursuit, and defense, of science...

Peter Brown of the New York Review of Books reviews The Crucible of Islam by Glen Bowersock, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies. Of the book, Brown writes, "We look into the depths of the crucible itself, to seize, in a true...

Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science, reviews On Betrayal (Harvard University Press, 2017) by Avishai Margalit, former Professor in the School of Historical Studies. Of the book, Walzer writes, "Betrayal is the breaking...

The ancient Greeks were well acquainted with representing intense emotions . . . Love, hate, joy, sadness, fear, pity, confidence, jealousy, and hope are some of the emotions reflected in the pieces on display in “A World of Emotions: Ancient Greece...