The Institute Letter Fall 2017

Includes a variety of articles by Faculty and Members exploring human rights issues in China, the black hole firewall paradox, Syriac literature, the carceral condition, monotheism, Christianity and Islam in early modern Spain, genetics and identity, mirror symmetry, liquid crystals, and American foreign policy.

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Historical Studies

Peace and Quiet in Castile

By Patrick J. O'Banion

The Institute Letter Fall 2017

To outsiders, the contentiousness, divisiveness, and downright un-neighborliness evident in the small Spanish town of Deza by the autumn of 1607 might well have seemed a tempest in a teapot. Those living in the newer Upper Neighborhood had been...

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Vladimir Voevodsky 1966–2017

October 04, 2017

Vladimir Voevodsky, a truly extraordinary and original mathematician who made remarkable advances in algebraic geometry, and whose most recent work concerned rewriting the foundations of mathematics to make them suitable for computer proof...

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$1.25 Million Gift to IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute

August 22, 2017

The IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), an Institute for Advanced Study outreach program of professional development for the entire mathematics community, has received a $1.25 million gift from a private foundation. This grant, which is a...

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IAS Launches Program in Theoretical Machine Learning

August 04, 2017

A $2 million donation from Eric and Wendy Schmidt will support the launch of the Program in Theoretical Machine Learning in the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Mathematics. Eric Schmidt is the Executive Chairman of Google; Wendy Schmidt is...

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Manjul Bhargava and Christopher A. Cole Appointed to IAS Board of Trustees

May 18, 2017

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Manjul Bhargava and Christopher A. Cole to its Board of Trustees. These appointments were effective May 6, 2017. Bhargava is a leading scholar in number theory with interests in combinatorics and representation theory. Cole is the founder and Chairman of Ardea Partners, an independent investment banking advisory firm based in New York, London, and Princeton.