“Paleontologists infer the existence of dinosaurs to give a
rational accounting of strange patterns of bones,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist and
cosmologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New
Jersey. “We look at patterns in...
On October 18, Juan Maldacena,
Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, will
be awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos
Aires.
During the ceremony, Maldacena will give a lecture titled "Black
Holes and Quantum...
Daniel Freedman, former
Member (1967–68, 73–74, 86–87) in the School of Natural Sciences,
along with collaborators Sergio Ferrara and Peter van Nieuwenhuizen
were announced today as the recipients of the 2019 Special
Breakthrough Prize in...
Writing for Quanta Magazine, previous Director's Visitor
K.C. Cole presents a historical
overview of the idea of symmetry, highlighting the research of
Albert Einstein, Emmy Noether, Carl P. Feinberg
Professor Juan Maldacena, and
Charles Simonyi...
Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of
Natural Sciences, will be the first recipient of the Galileo
Galilei Medal, established by the National Institute for Nuclear
Physics (INFN) in collaboration with the Galileo Galilei...
Juan Maldacena, Carl P.
Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, will deliver
the Abdus Salam Distinguished Lectures on January 28, 29, and 30,
2019 at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in
Trieste, Italy. The lecture...
On November 19, 2018, Juan
Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural
Sciences, was presented the Lorentz Medal by the Royal Netherlands
Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Following the presentation of the medal, Maldacena sat
down...
On November 21, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. EST, Carl P. Feinberg
Professor Juan Maldacena will
give a colloquium, "Wormholes and Entangled States," as part of the
2018 Colloquium Ehrenfestii series, hosted by the Lorentz Institute
of Leiden University.
Juan Maldacena, Carl P.
Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has been
named the 2018 recipient of the Richard E. Prange Prize and
Lectureship in Condensed Matter Theory and Related Areas.
Approximately 166 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
from 76 different institutions, representing 21 countries, will
participate in “From Qubits to Spacetime,” the theme of Prospects
in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) 2018, an intensive two-week...
