Mathematics

"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...

"When I started out as a student, it was clear that the way to become a mathematician was not to hang around with other women. So I made my way through my career and, at some point, I achieved a certain amount of fame and I looked around and talked...

"When I’m working on a problem I usually sit down and think through what I know, and make notes and try out a few estimates, do some inequalities. Maybe I go look up a reference. And then I probably get stuck and go on to think about something else...

Writing for Nature, Davide Castelvecchi reports on the 2019 Abel Prize awarded to Karen Uhlenbeck, current Visitor and former Member and Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, writing:

"Uhlenbeck has been a relentless advocate for women in...

Kenneth Chang of the New York Times reports on the 2019 Abel Prize awarded to Karen Uhlenbeck, current Visitor and former Member and Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, writing:

"One of Dr. Uhlenbeck’s advances in essence described the...

Albert Einstein, IAS Founding Faculty member, and Stephen Hawking are two of the most influential scientific figures in recent history, contributing enormously to our current understanding of the universe. As the one-year anniversary of Hawking’s...

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) will host a full day of talks with a distinguished panel of experts to discuss advances in theoretical machine learning, organized by Sanjeev Arora, Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics. The event...

"The most influential ideas are ones that, in a way, are not attributed to the people who came up with them. They are assimilated. It seems like they were always there."

Professor in the School of Mathematics Akshay Venkatesh speaks on the...

Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, revered for the exceptional range, depth, and power of his mathematical work, passed away in Bonheiden, Belgium, on December 22 at the age of...