Robbert Dijkgraaf

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.

Vartan Gregorian, Trustee Emeritus, lifelong champion of education, and renowned global intellectual, has passed away at the age of 87. Gregorian served on the Institute’s Board of Trustees from 1987–2013 with an unmatched appreciation for the IAS mission and its commitment to advancing knowledge. 

Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was named a recipient of the 2021 Abel Prize, which he shares jointly with László Lovász—a former IAS visiting professor—of Eötvös Loránd University. They are cited by the Abel Committee “for...

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), has been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to the position of Deputy...

The Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation at the Institute for Advanced Study will unite today’s boldest ideas in physics, mathematics, and beyond to unlock new and fascinating truths about the natural world. Endowed in...

Has physics reached the limits of what we can discover — or are the possibilities only just beginning? Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, explores this question in his Quanta column.

Alan Alda, host of the new weekly podcast Science Clear+Vivid, welcomed IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf as his first featured guest. The episode, “Opening Doors to the Unknown,” provides a glimpse of the Institute for Advanced...

The World of Thinking will make its U.S. premiere on Sunday, October 18, 2020 during the thirteenth annual Imagine Science Film Festival, presented by Pioneer Works. After the screening, IAS Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed, who stars in the film, joins...

“The most spectacular element of the Penrose calculations is that he showed that if you are close enough to a black hole, time ends. It is the mirror image of the Big Bang.”

—Robbert Dijkgraaf, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor (Wall Street...