Dusa McDuff, former Member
in the School of Mathematics
and a program organizer of the Institute’s Program for Women and Mathematics, will
receive the 2018 Sylvester Medal, which will be presented at the
Royal Society’s Anniversary Day in November...
Scott Aaronson, former
Member in the School of Mathematics, discusses the capabilities and
limits of quantum computers, common misconceptions, and fundamental
science with Craig Cannon of Y Combinator.
Early on in the study of quantum computers, computer scientists
posed a question whose answer, they knew, would reveal something
deep about the power of these futuristic machines. Twenty-five
years later, it’s been all but solved. In a paper posted...
Women and Mathematics, an outreach program of the Institute for
Advanced Study, recently celebrated its twenty-fifth anniversary
with a dinner honoring co-founders Karen Uhlenbeck and Chuu-Lian Terng.
Uhlenbeck and Terng, both former Members in the...
Scientific American's John Horgan profiles John Archibald Wheeler, a
leading theoretical physicist of the twentieth century and former
Member in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences, writing:
Why are there six “flavors” of quarks, three “generations” of neutrinos, and one Higgs particle? Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, explores the complex search for a single description of reality.
Akshay Venkatesh, a
world-leading mathematician who has made fundamental contributions
to various fields of mathematics, working in particular at the
intersection of analytic number theory, algebraic number theory,
and representation theory, has...
On the occasion of the 2018 Abel Prize ceremony, which honored
this year's laureate Professor Emeritus Robert Langlands, Nils Baas, former Member in the Schools
of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, writes in the Norwegian
newspaper Aftenposten,...
On May 22, Robert P.
Langlands, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics,
received the 2018 Abel Prize from His Majesty King Harald V at the
University Aula in Oslo.
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watch the recording of the ceremony.
Toni Bluher, senior subject matter expert in cryptography at the
National Security Agency, and Kristin Lauter, principal researcher
and research manager for the cryptography group at Microsoft
Research, will give lecture courses on cryptography as...