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Theoretical physics is full of mind-boggling ideas, but two of the weirdest are quantum entanglement and wormholes. Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, describes how the weird quantum phenomenon of...

On Friday, October 14, the Institute for Advanced Study will host a pair of public lectures—one on the history of night in the Greek world and the other on memory projects about World War II and the Cold War. Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Director...

Russian spies held a morbid fascination in the minds of Americans dating back to the Red Scare in 1919, following the Bolshevik Revolution and the creation of the Communist International, of which the Communist Party of the USA became a constituent...

The School of Historical Studies has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York to explore and elevate the understanding of Shii studies. The grant will support two research positions in the School of Historical Studies and create a themed annual conference and workshop aimed at leading scholars in the field, which will be led by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School.

String theory has so far failed to live up to its promise as a way to unite gravity and quantum mechanics, but at the same time, it has blossomed into one of the most useful sets of tools in science. 

Richard Taylor, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor in the School of Mathematics, discusses individual versus collaborative problem-solving, translating between geometry and number theory, and devoting his life to proving the Langlands conjectures.

Physicists, including Nima-Arkani Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, are confronting their “nightmare scenario.”

Nathan Seiberg, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses supersymmetry, superstring revolutions, holomorphy, and duality.

Lectures by Nima Arkani-Hamed, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Nathan Seiberg, Juan Maldacena, Edward Witten, and Institute Members from the 2016 Strings conference.

Nathan Seiberg, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has been awarded the 2016 Dirac Medal from the International Centre for Theoretical Physics.