Mathematics

"John Urschel is a doctoral student in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has already published several well-received papers. What’s even more remarkable is that before pursuing his Ph.D., he played professional football for three seasons with the Baltimore Ravens."

On the podcast "The Joy of x," mathematician Steven Strogatz and Robbert Dijkgraaf, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor, explore quantum reality, discussing the frontiers of string theory and why space and time might not be the most fundamental things in the universe.

From Time Magazine:

“In a year marked by division, women everywhere pushed the world forward—and many made history, shattering long-standing glass ceilings to become ‘firsts’ in their fields.

... American mathematician Karen Uhlenbeck became the first...

The artwork by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, depicts Russian nesting to capture the different scales of knowledge about the natural world, from the largest matryoshka doll that depicts our universe through the cosmic microwave background, the “first light” emitted soon after the Big Bang, to the smallest doll, the Planck scale, where spacetime becomes a quantum phenomenon.

Edward Witten, Charles Simonyi Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Other elected scholars include Shirley M. Tilghman, IAS Trustee; William Nielsen Brandt...

Phillip Griffiths, former IAS Director (1991–2003) and current Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, has been elected a Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The Russian Academy of Sciences is a state academy that aims to...

Karen Uhlenbeck, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, will be awarded the 2020 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from the American Mathematical Society.

Uhlenbeck is recognized "for her long-lasting influence in...

Akshay Venkatesh, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor in the School of Mathematics, and a 2018 recipient of the Fields Medal, will deliver the public lecture “Primes and Knots” on October 25, 2019, at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall.

To register, please...

“The revolutionary theories of well-known scientists such as Einstein, Oppenheimer, and Gödel have changed the world. But how do the world's greatest thinkers achieve a breakthrough?”

In the new film The World of Thinking, documentarians Thomas Blom...

Karen Uhlenbeck, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, has been named a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Uhlenbeck is recognized "for her groundbreaking and profound contributions to modern geometric...