Distinguished Visiting Professor Karen Uhlenbeck, a founder of modern geometric analysis, spoke with Joanne Lipman about her Abel Prize win, the barriers that she has overcome in her career, and how elevating the role of math in society would help solve problems such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
The twenty-sixth annual Women and Mathematics (WAM) Program,
“Topics in Geometric Analysis,” was held May 18–24, 2019, at the
Institute for Advanced Study.
Participants explored dynamic shapes and surfaces, along with
the equations that describe...
The Institute's School of Mathematics held the workshop "Theory
of Deep Learning: Where Next?" October 15–18, 2019, as part of the
School's special year on Optimization, Statistics, and Theoretical
Machine Learning.
A variety of systems in natural sciences are described through
physically measurable quantities that depend on “independent
variables.” For instance, we routinely measure the pressure and the
temperature of the air in the Earth’s atmosphere, and...
By the twentieth century, mathematics had advanced into rather
abstract realms, transcending its origins, which had been largely
driven by questions closer to the natural world. Physics on the
other hand, especially after the development of quantum...
In 2019–20, Chris J.
Maddison, Member in the School of Mathematics and a
Senior Research Scientist at DeepMind, is developing methods for
machine learning and exploring foundational questions about how
learning from data is possible.
From May 31–June 1, 2019, the Institute for Advanced Study
hosted a remembrance in honor of Jean
Bourgain, Professor in the School of Mathematics for
twenty-four years. The public event brought together colleagues,
friends, and collaborators to...
Who makes a paper every week,
and every month a new technique,
and founds new branches every year,
and does not know the sense of fear?
And legends—whom d'you hear about?
And if you met him you'd be proud.
Of course, he made his early traces
in the...
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and Thomas Lam, von Neumann Fellow in the School of Mathematics, discuss the fruits of their recent collaboration and the benefits of math-physics collaboration more broadly during the The Universe Speaks in NumberseventonMay 29, 2019, at the Institute for Advanced Study.
