"The Rockmore theorem made its first—and perhaps only—named
appearance in print in 1977, in the journal Physics
Letters, Volume 72B, No. 4. A photocopy of the journal page
hung on my father’s office door, at Rutgers University, in New
Jersey. The...
IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf and Professor Nati Seiberg speak with Quanta Magazine about Quantum Field Theory and consider what a complete mathematical understanding could mean to physics.
For Jelani
Nelson, algorithms represent a wide-open playground. “The
design space is just so broad that it’s fun to see what you can
come up with,” he said.
Yet the algorithms Nelson devises obey real-world constraints —
chief among them the fact...
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has announced the recipients
of the 2021 Breakthrough and New Horizons Prizes, including current
Member Ahmed Almheiri (New
Horizons Prize in Physics) and former Member Martin Hairer (Breakthrough Prize
in...
When particle physicists try to model experiments, they confront
an impossible calculation — an infinitely long equation that lies
beyond the reach of modern mathematics. But threerecentpapers from a group of physicists led by
Sebastian
Mizera...
Dor Yosef Minzer,
Member in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2019
Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing
Machinery.
The honor recognizes Minzer’s dissertation “On Monotonicity
Testing and the 2-to-2-Games...
“Trying to appreciate mathematics without understanding its inner workings is like reading a description of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony instead of hearing it.” Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, on the differences between generic and exceptional beauty, and why one type of beauty proves more useful in describing the universe.
Helmut Hofer, Hermann Weyl
Professor in the School of Mathematics, Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor
in the School of Social Science, and James Stone, Professor in the School of
Natural Sciences, have been elected to the American Academy
of...
The 2020 Abel Prize is jointly awarded to Gregory Margulis, former Member
(1991, 2006) in the School of Mathematics, and Hillel Furstenberg.
Margulis, of Yale University, and Furstenberg, of Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, are cited by the Abel...
