On Friday, November 3, the
Institute for Advanced Study will host an event, “A Refuge
for Scholars: Contemporary Challenges in Historical
Perspective,” which will take place at
5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on
the Institute campus. This event, which...
Sanjeev Arora, Visiting
Professor in the School of Mathematics, and Richard Zemel, Visitor in the School
of Mathematics, will a give a public lecture, “Machines: How Do
They Learn and Where Are They Headed?,” on Friday, October
27, which will take...
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, has joined
world-leading writers and thinkers to launch the third series of
Hay Levels masterclasses, an inspiring, free series of educational
videos from the Hay Literary Festival in which...
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director
and Leon Levy Professor, will give a public lecture, "Quantum
Mathematics and the Fate of Space, Time, and Matter," at Stanford
University on October 5th at 7:00 p.m.
Abstract: Many mathematical concepts trace
their...
Charles Kolb, a Senior Public Policy Executive and contributor
for Huffington Post, writes of the realities of waning
American innovation and productivity, along with the great decline
of basic research funding. With reference to the Usefulness
of...
In a video produced for Inverse, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf sits down with a group of seven-year-olds to answer the question “Why is the sky blue?” Through a series of simple experiments, Dijkgraaf and the “class” explore light and color to arrive at an answer.
Reductionism breaks the world into elementary building blocks. Emergence finds the simple laws that arise out of complexity. Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor, explores how these two complementary ways of viewing the universe come together in modern theories of quantum gravity.
The University of Amsterdam celebrated the start of its 385th
anniversary year with a science talk show hosted by Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute Director and
Leon Levy Professor. Titled "What’s Next?," the show included
several prominent University of...
A $2 million donation from Eric and Wendy Schmidt will support
the launch of the Program in Theoretical Machine Learning in the
Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Mathematics. Eric Schmidt
is the Executive Chairman of Google; Wendy Schmidt is...
John Ewing, President of Math for America, writes in the
Huffington Post:
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge was recently
republished along with a companion essay, The World of
Tomorrow by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the current director of the
Institute...
