The International Mathematical Union (IMU) has awarded a 2018
Fields Medal to Akshay Venkatesh,
a world-leading mathematician recently appointed to the permanent
Faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) School of
Mathematics. This highest...
Akshay Venkatesh, a
world-leading mathematician and recent appointee to the Faculty of
the Institute, has been awarded a 2018 Fields Medal for his
“profound contributions to an exceptionally broad range of subjects
in mathematics.” Quanta's Erica...
“He truly is a universal mathematician,” said mathematician
Jordan Ellenberg of Akshay
Venkatesh, 2018 Fields medalist and recent appointee to the
Faculty of the Institute's School of Mathematics. “His work has
gone in a lot of different directions...
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...
