On April 26, 2018, the Institute community gathered to celebrate
Ideas 2017–18 with talks by IAS Members––deep ideas explained in
under 20 minutes with no slides or chalk––followed by audience
discussions moderated by Faculty. The program concluded...
During this public lecture held at the Institute on December 12,
Yann LeCun, Director of Facebook AI Research and Silver Professor
of Computer Science at New York University, explored deep learning
and the principles and methods for predictive...
Ideas that originate in particle physics have an uncanny
tendency to appear in the most diverse mathematical fields. This is
especially true for string theory. Its stimulating influence in
mathematics will have a lasting and rewarding impact...
Deep learning, which is the reemergence of artificial neural
networks, has recently succeeded as an approach towards artificial
intelligence. In many fields, including computational linguistics,
deep learning approaches have largely displaced...
In this public lecture held at the Institute on October 27,
2017, Sanjeev Arora, Visiting
Professor in the School of Mathematics, and Richard Zemel, Visitor in the School
of Mathematics, gave brief talks about the field of machine
learning and its...
Geometry and physics have long
gone hand in hand. All around us, physical processes play out in
geometric terms, such as straight lines (rays of light), ellipses
(planetary motion), or parallelograms (the combined effect of two
forces). To earlier...
Liquid crystals, discovered serendipitously by Friedrich
Reinitzer in the late nineteenth century, have come to play an
important role in the world of consumer electronics, specifically
in the production of ever larger, thinner, and more energy...
Ed Witten, Charles Simonyi Professor in the School of Natural
Sciences, and Helmut Hofer, Professor in the School of Mathematics,
along with Marc Lackenby, Martin R. Bridson, and Rahul
Pandharipande, have co-authored Lectures on Geometry
(Oxford...
On Sunday, October 8, 2017, the Institute hosted a gathering in
remembrance of Vladimir Voevodsky, Professor in the School of
Mathematics. Friends, family, and the Institute community convened
to celebrate his life and legacy.
