Stars

Suparna Mahableshwarkar, Academic Assistant in the School of Mathematics, describes the wide variety of lectures and events that she has been able to attend while working at the Institute for Advanced Study, ranging from a math magic show to a night of stargazing.

One of the most striking facts that we know about the cosmos is that most of the chemical elements that ­constitute matter, including our bodies, were produced inside stars and ­distributed by their explosions. It is amazing how much we know about...