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Cellular telephones, GPS, radar imaging and most other modern wireless systems would not exist without the sophisticated mathematical and digital techniques that are used to encode and decode their messages. In this public lecture, Mark Goresky...

An institution dating from antiquity whose formal recognition culminates with the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees, asylum has been confronted with a dramatic increase in applicants during the past century. However, this burden has been unevenly...

In this talk, Jennifer Chayes, Distinguished Scientist and Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England and New York City, looks quite generally at some of the models we are using to describe ­networks, processes we are studying on the networks, ­algorithms we have devised for the networks, and finally, methods we are developing to indirectly infer network structure from measured data.

Does the world embody beautiful ideas?

Pythagoras and Plato intuited that the world should embody beautiful ideas; Newton and Maxwell demonstrated how the world could embody beautiful ideas, in specific impressive cases. Finally, in the twentieth...

In this talk, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, explains why theoretical physicists knew the Higgs boson had to exist long before it was discovered at the Large Hadron Collider in July 2012. While the discovery of the...

In this lecture, Juan Maldacena, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, describes the theoretical ideas, developed in the 1960s and '70s, that led to the prediction of the Higgs boson, the particle that appears to have been discovered over the...

In this talk, Danielle S. Allen, UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science, and Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, present arguments from two perspectives for the continued relevance of antiquity to...

Fields Medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, former Member in the School of Mathematics, gives the third of three 2012 Marston Morse Lectures on Dynamics on the Moduli Spaces of Curves.

Fields Medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, former Member in the School of Mathematics, gives the second of three 2012 Marston Morse Lectures on Dynamics on the Moduli Spaces of Curves.

Fields Medalist Maryam Mirzakhani, former Member in the School of Mathematics, gives the first of three 2012 Marston Morse Lectures on Dynamics on the Moduli Spaces of Curves.