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Irit Dveer Dinur, Elon Lindenstrauss, and Aaron Naber have been appointed to the Institute Faculty, bringing unique expertise in pure mathematics and computer science to the School of Mathematics. They will begin their Institute appointments this summer. Considered one of the top honors in academia, IAS Faculty appointments are reserved for the world’s foremost leaders in their respective fields.

Sebastian Mizera, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, and his collaborators, have used computational algebraic geometry to study predictions for particle physics experiments, such as those at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The team’s results were published in Physical Review Letters in March. 

James H. Simons, former IAS Member (1972) and Board Vice Chair, widely recognized as a prize-winning mathematician, singular hedge fund manager, and a visionary philanthropist—with an indefatigable curiosity for science and discovery—died on Friday, May 10. He was 86.

The Institute for Advanced Study will restore and expand its Historical Studies - Social Science Library, providing enhanced space and support for its scholars, while fostering discovery at the intersection of traditional fields and exploration in emerging disciplines.

Patrick Geary, Emeritus Professor in the School of Historical Studies, together with Hungarian, Austrian, and German research groups, has published a paper in Nature, revealing the social dynamics of Avar-period steppe descent populations that settled in Europe's Carpathian Basin in the 6th century.

Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics, was named by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) as the recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often referred to as the "Nobel Prize of Computing."

A new image from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, which includes George Wong, Frank and Peggy Taplin Member in the School of Natural Sciences, has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. 

In a paper published today in Nature, Sihao Cheng, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Member in the Institute’s School of Natural Sciences, and his collaborators have proposed a new theory that explains why a puzzling population of white dwarf stars stopped cooling for ten billion years. 

The new AI Democracy Projects, co-founded by Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, engaged state and local election officials, journalists, and AI and election experts in some of the first testing and publicly available results of leading AI models’ safety regarding election information.

How has past climate variability contributed to human migrations and other forms of population movement? Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies, is part of an interdisciplinary group, including historians, climatologists, and archeologists, that has developed a new tool, the “dahliagram,” to explore this question.

George Wong, Frank and Peggy Taplin Member in the School of Natural Sciences, and astrophysicists from Princeton University and Vanderbilt University have determined conclusively that energy close to the event horizon of M87’s central black hole is pushing outward, not inward—as one would normally assume with black holes.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a Synergy Grant of €10 million to a project led by Nima Arkani- Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and past IAS Members. The team aims to create a new mathematical language to describe physical phenomena on all scales.

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed neuroscientist Eve Marder to its Board of Trustees. Nominated by the Institute’s School of Natural Sciences, she succeeds Ewine F. van Dishoeck as Academic Trustee. Her appointment was unanimously adopted by the Board on May 6, 2023.

This year, the Institute's international community hails from 47 countries, representing 105 institutions worldwide. Visiting scholars range from postdocs to distinguished professors, united across disciplines by a common cause to push the boundaries of knowledge and pursue their own curiosity.

Maria Hsiuya Loh, an internationally recognized expert in the field of early modern Italian art, has joined the Institute for Advanced Study as Professor in the School of Historical Studies. Loh is best known for her work on Venetian art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The IAS Board of Trustees has elected John Overdeck as its next Chair. Overdeck, a philanthropist, business leader, and dedicated supporter of the Institute, will succeed software entrepreneur Charles Simonyi, who served as Chair since 2008.

Lia Medeiros, current Member in the School of Natural Sciences, has led a group of researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration in producing a groundbreaking new image of the M87 black hole, using machine learning algorithm PRIMO to achieve the full resolution of the array for the first time.

Measuring the mass of a galaxy cluster is difficult—clusters cannot be “weighed” by placing them on a scale. Digvijay Wadekar, current Member in the School of Natural Sciences, has worked to develop an AI program to identify new variables that might make inferring the mass from other observable quantities more accurate.

Salvatore Torquato, past Member in the School of Natural Sciences, and his IAS collaborator Oliver Philcox have applied methodologies from materials science in a cosmological context, providing new insights into the fundamental structure of the universe. Their work is now published in Physical Review X.

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Alexandra Day as its first Associate Director for Strategic Initiatives, Programming, and Partnerships. Day, who has extended the reach and engagement of some of the nation’s leading educational and cultural institutions, will begin at IAS on February 15, 2023.

A research team, led by current Visitor Roman Rafikov, has developed a technique to study planet formation in other solar systems. By analyzing the vortices that form within discs of gas and dust around young stars, limits can be placed on the mass and age of planets of various sizes.

The Rubenstein Commons building at IAS has opened its doors, providing a nexus of flexible gathering spaces to support enhanced communication and collaboration among scholars, and forming an inviting social hub for the wider IAS community.

Neutron stars are one of the densest objects found anywhere in the Universe. Scientists still do not understand what exactly they are made from. A new piece of the puzzle, constraining the range of possibilities, has been discovered by a pair of scholars at IAS.

The Institute for Advanced Study is delighted to announce the establishment of the Frank C. and Florence S. Ogg Professorship in the School of Mathematics, thanks to the generosity of former Mathematics Member (1968–69), Andrew Ogg.

The 2022–23 academic year sees new Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg welcome new and returning Members from 36 countries, representing approximately 107 academic institutions worldwide.

Wei Ho, Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, has been named as the first Director of the "Women and Mathematics" (WAM) program at IAS. During her five-year appointment she will lead the annual, award-winning program, which has the mission to recruit and retain more women in mathematics. 

Not everything needs to be seen to be believed; certain things are more readily heard, like a train approaching its station. In a recent paper, published in Physical Review Letters, researchers have put their ears to the rail, discovering a new...

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Stephen Ackley-Ortiz as its new Chief Development Officer. He begins at IAS on August 8, 2022.

IAS has appointed Wendell Weeks (Chairman and CEO, Corning Incorporated) and Gigliola Staffilani (Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor, MIT) to its Board of Trustees.

Bhargav Bhatt, an internationally renowned expert in arithmetic algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, has joined the Institute for Advanced Study as Fernholz Joint Professor in the School of Mathematics.

Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. This result provides overwhelming evidence that the object is indeed a black hole and yields valuable clues about the workings of such giants...

Update (06/17/2022): This research is now published in Astrophysical Journal Letters and can be accessed here.

Looks can be deceiving. The light from an incandescent bulb seems steady, but it flickers 120 times per second. Because the brain only perceives an average of the information it receives, this flickering is blurred and the perception of constant illumination is a mere illusion.

The Institute is proud to announce the creation of the Gopal Prasad Professorship in recognition of prolific mathematician and six-time Member of IAS, Gopal Prasad. The professorship, endowed with a gift from the Prasad family, ensures that future...

The Institute for Advanced Study is pleased to announce the establishment of the Albers-Schönberg Professorship in the History of Science in the School of Historical Studies.

“The Albers-Schönberg name is illustrious in the history of science, with important contributions across three generations of scholars and researchers. It is an honor to have it now permanently connected to the Institute. And it is for me a joy and a privilege, in one of my first announcements as IAS Director, to express the Institute’s gratitude for this visionary gift,” remarked David Nirenberg, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor.

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been appointed by President Joe Biden to perform the duties of director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and as Deputy Assistant to the President.

The Institute for Advanced Study has named Carl P. Feinberg—entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist—to its Board of Trustees effective October 30, 2021.

*Update (01/14/22): David Nirenberg to become IAS Director on February 1, 2022

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed David Nirenberg as its 10th Director and Leon Levy Professor, effective July 1, 2022*. Currently dean of the Divinity School at the University of Chicago and professor of medieval history, Nirenberg will assume leadership of one of the world’s preeminent centers for theoretical research in the sciences and humanities.

Redaptive, a leader in portfolio-scale energy solutions, today announced its partnership with the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), one of the world's leading postdoctoral research centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. Together, Redaptive and IAS will greatly reduce energy consumption on the Institute’s 800-acre Princeton, New Jersey campus while achieving $10.1 million in energy and infrastructure savings for the organization.

The Institute for Advanced Study begins its 2021–22 academic year with a continuation of in-person activities. The Institute plans to welcome 271 new and returning scholars and scientists to campus, representing 114 academic institutions and hailing from 38 countries.

Wendy L. Brown has joined IAS as the UPS Foundation Professor in the School of Social Science. Brown’s foundational insights into neoliberalism, authoritarianism, feminism, sovereignty, progress, and tolerance, among other signature concepts, have revolutionized understandings of democracy and the modern powers that challenge it.

The most accurate distance measurement yet of ultra-diffuse galaxy (UDG) NGC1052-DF2 (DF2) confirms beyond any shadow of a doubt that it is lacking in dark matter. The newly measured distance of 22.1 +/-1.2 megaparsecs was obtained by an international team of researchers led by Zili Shen and Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University and Shany Danieli, a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Institute.

The Institute for Advanced Study’s Women and Mathematics Program (WAM) will take place virtually May 22–28, 2021, with a total of 66 participants from around the world. This year’s theme is “Representation Theory: Categories and Combinatorics.”

Hailing from the worlds of social theory, economics, internet technology, and comparative literature, these new Trustees bring diverse perspectives and the promise of unique synergies to the operations of the Board.

Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) was named a recipient of the 2021 Abel Prize, which he shares jointly with László Lovász—a former IAS visiting professor—of Eötvös Loránd University. They are cited by the Abel Committee “for...

Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study and President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), has been appointed by President-elect Joe Biden to the position of Deputy...

The Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation at the Institute for Advanced Study will unite today’s boldest ideas in physics, mathematics, and beyond to unlock new and fascinating truths about the natural world. Endowed in...

It is well known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to a mysterious dark energy. Within galaxies, stars also experience an acceleration, though this is due to some combination of dark matter and the stellar density. In a new...

Jeffrey L. Gatto has been appointed Chief Investment Officer of the Institute for Advanced Study, effective December 1, 2020. Gatto will manage the Institute’s endowment, now standing at more than $800 million, and he will lead the IAS investment...

Sir James D. Wolfensohn, Chairman of Wolfensohn & Company, L.L.C. and a global champion of human rights, economic justice, scholarship, and the arts, died on November 25, 2020 at his home in Manhattan.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what might the first horizon-scale image of a black hole tell us? A new paper by researchers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which famously imaged M87’s central black hole, has provided a...

Virtual “Welcome Day,” held on September 21, 2020, marked the formal start of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) 2020–21 academic year. This year, 241 leading scholars and scientists, representing over 100 academic institutions in over 20...

Peter Paret, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, passed away peacefully at age 96 at his Salt Lake City home on September 11, 2020. A German-born American and acclaimed cultural and...

In a new study of axion motion, researchers, including Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member Keisuke Harigaya, propose a scenario known as “kinetic misalignment” that greatly strengthens the case for axion/dark matter equivalence. 

Researchers have long sought to understand the origins of life on Earth. A new study conducted by scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study, the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI), and the University of New South Wales, among other...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Institute for Advanced Study a three-year grant of $350,000 to complete digitization of one of the world’s largest squeeze collections. The project will establish worldwide open access...

Last April, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) sparked international excitement when it unveiled the first image of a black hole. Today, a team of researchers have published new calculations that predict a striking and intricate substructure within...

A new study, conducted to better understand the origin of the universe, has provided insight into some of the most enduring questions in fundamental physics: How can the Standard Model of particle physics be extended to explain the cosmological...

The IAS Einstein Gala honoring Sir James Wolfensohn will be postponed to a future date and time later this year. Given the risk that large gatherings pose in the transmission of COVID-19, we do not want to put any of our supporters and guests at...

Freeman J. Dyson, theoretical physicist and writer, who embraced the stunning diversity of the universe with unique spirit, died on February 28, 2020 in a hospital near Princeton, NJ at the age of 96.

Dyson generated revolutionary scientific insights...

Schmidt Futures has awarded $1 million to promote a project led by James Stone, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, that seeks to deepen our understanding of various cosmic phenomena. Eric Schmidt, cofounder of Schmidt Futures, serves on the IAS Board of Trustees.

The Institute for Advanced Study, the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML), and the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, announce that digital copies of 53 additional South Arabian manuscripts are now available online through vHMML (Virtual HMML)...

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in conjunction with the Persian Heritage Foundation (PHF) announce the award of a PHF grant to support the study of Zaydism in Iran—part of a major research project spearheaded by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in...

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed economist Ann-Kristin Achleitner to its Board of Trustees. Achleitner is a Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance in the School of Management at the Technical University of Munich.

At the center of our galaxy, millions of stars whirl in orbits around a supermassive black hole. This circuit can take anywhere from a few hours for stars close to the event horizon of the black hole to thousands of years for their distant neighbors...

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) and its international partners have received a €10 million Synergy Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to fund a multidisciplinary study of more than 100 medieval cemeteries located across central...

With the opening of the academic year on September 23, the Institute for Advanced Study welcomes an extraordinary group of new Faculty—Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Jacob Lurie, Alondra Nelson, Jim Stone, and Misha Tsodyks—who bring new fields and depth...

The Institute for Advanced Study announces a new term of residency for Pulitzer Prize–winning composer David Lang. His second term as Artist-in-Residence will proceed through June 2022, during which time he will seek to understand the parallels that...

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) announces Sir James Wolfensohn as the recipient of the 2020 IAS Bamberger Medal, to be presented at the IAS Einstein Gala on March 12, 2020, at [the New York Public Library — UPDATED LOCATION as of Jan. 9, 2020...

The Institute for Advanced Study announces the Peretsman Scully Distinguished Journalism Fellowship as part of its Director’s Visitors Program, with Joanne Lipman as the first fellow. Lipman, one of the world’s leading journalists, is a bestselling...

Arnold J. Levine, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, was among the first researchers to independently isolate the p53 protein in 1979. A recognized leader in cancer research and mentor to countless young scholars, Levine’s...

The worlds of theoretical physics and biology will soon collide during Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) on the Institute for Advanced Study campus. The IAS program will welcome dozens of acclaimed experts from around the world, including...

Michail “Misha” Tsodyks, a world-leading theoretical neuroscientist, will join the Faculty of the School of Natural Sciences as C.V. Starr Professor in the Simons Center for Systems Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study, effective July 1, 2019...

Jacob Lurie, who has made transformative contributions to mathematics through his work on derived algebraic geometry and infinity categories, will join the Faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, effective July 1...

Suzanne Conklin Akbari, widely recognized for her intellectual range and interdisciplinary accomplishments in the field of Medieval Studies, will join the Faculty of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, effective...

The Women and Mathematics Program (WAM) at the Institute for Advanced Study, which recently received the 2019 award for “Mathematics Programs that Make a Difference” from the American Mathematical Society, will welcome 51 women from 40 institutions...

Angelos Chaniotis, Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), will present “Mithras at Bloomberg: Memory Feeling, Faith” at Bloomberg’s new London Headquarters on May 22, 2019, at 6:00 p.m. (BST)...

For the first time in human history, the world laid eyes on an image of a black hole and the ghostly shadow of its event horizon. Yet despite this illuminating breakthrough, many more questions remain unanswered of the ubiquitous dark structures...

Scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) recently submitted a paper announcing the discovery of six new binary black hole mergers that exceed the detection thresholds defined by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (LVC), the group responsible for...

James M. Stone, a world-renowned computational astrophysicist, whose research is focused on fluid dynamics—in particular numerical solutions to the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an astrophysical context—has been appointed to the Faculty...

Alondra Nelson, an acclaimed sociologist, author, and researcher who explores questions in science, technology, and social inequality, has been appointed Professor and Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2019 Abel Prize to Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck whose affiliation with the Institute for Advanced Study spans four decades, as a current Visitor in the School of Mathematics and a former...

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) will host its inaugural IAS Einstein Gala to honor Jim Simons on Thursday, March 14, 2019, at New York City’s Pier Sixty. Simons, who is Chair of the Simons Foundation, IAS Trustee Emeritus, and a former Member...

The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) will host a full day of talks with a distinguished panel of experts to discuss advances in theoretical machine learning, organized by Sanjeev Arora, Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics. The event...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, will present the public lecture “Critique of Punitive Reason” to address central questions related to correctional frameworks and to confront the idea of punishment itself...

Irving Lavin, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, passed away in Princeton on February 3 at the age of 91.

Lavin was an art historian distinguished by his charismatic and challenging teaching...

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, specializing in Islamic intellectual history, will participate in a panel discussion hosted by the University of Pennsylvania at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 30, 2019.

Sharing...

The Institute for Advanced Study will launch the new “History of Science” lecture series beginning on Tuesday, February 5, 2019. Lectures are free and open to the public and begin at 5:00 p.m. in West Building Lecture Hall. Curated by Myles W...

Cancers most commonly arise because of a series of two to five mutations in different genes that combine to cause a tumor. Evidence from a growing number of experiments focused on truncal mutations—the first mutations in a given sequence—suggests a...

Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, revered for the exceptional range, depth, and power of his mathematical work, passed away in Bonheiden, Belgium, on December 22 at the age of...

The 2018–19 Art History Lecture Series, presented by the Institute for Advanced Study, will feature eminent scholars whose recent work will provide an illuminating glimpse into current research in art history.

The season will kick off with a lecture...

“The Institute for Advanced Study is laying the groundwork for intellectual and scientific breakthroughs that enrich our society and enhance our understanding of the universe,” stated Chavez, who serves as a Vice Chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Global Co-Head of its Securities Division. “I am proud to lend my energies to this fundamental pursuit.”

Israel Finkelstein, Jacob M. Alkow Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University, will give the public lecture “Jerusalem in Biblical Times: Comments on the Archaeology and History ca. 1350–100 B.C.E.” on...

Myles W. Jackson, newly appointed Professor in the School of Historical Studies will give his first IAS public lecture, "Genes, Patents, and Race: The History of Science as a Bridge Between Disciplines" on Friday, October 26 at 5:30 p.m. in...

The Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Social Science will curate a public film series designed to provoke insight and open conversation among scholars of the Institute and participants of the greater Princeton community. Featuring commentary...

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, will give a public talk on Friday, October 12. Drawing on her research and reading from her recent publication Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study...

The Institute for Advanced Study welcomes four new permanent faculty and 268 visiting scholars and scientists, representing 25 countries from around the world, as it begins the 2018–19 academic year.

Scholars accepting senior professorships at the...

The 2018–19 Edward T. Cone Concert Series, curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, will offer a captivating series of musical performances for all to experience. In his third season as Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced...

The Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome is collaborating with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, to provide open access to approximately 5,000 digitized Zaydi manuscripts from Yemen and neighboring countries that are held...

Applying a comprehensive analysis of genetic, historical, and archaeological factors in two 6th-century barbarian cemeteries, researchers have gleaned new insights into a key era known as the Migration Period that laid the foundation for modern...

The Institute for Advanced Study will commemorate the life and work of renowned mathematician Vladimir Voevodsky, former Professor in the School of Mathematics, during a four-day memorial conference that will take place September 11–14, 2018...

The Institute for Advanced Study will introduce the public lecture series “The Impact of the Past” beginning in October 2018 and continuing through 2020.

“Many of the political problems we are facing today have a long bloodline,” said Dr. Karina...

Christian Habicht, a celebrated historian of the Hellenistic period and leading authority on Greek epigraphy, died at the age of 92 on the morning of August 6, 2018, in Princeton, New Jersey. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical...

The International Mathematical Union (IMU) has awarded a 2018 Fields Medal to Akshay Venkatesh, a world-leading mathematician recently appointed to the permanent Faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) School of Mathematics. This highest...

Approximately 166 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from 76 different institutions, representing 21 countries, will participate in “From Qubits to Spacetime,” the theme of Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) 2018, an intensive two-week...

Organized by the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and developed by Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor, the 2018–19 Summer Program in Social Science will commence on June 18, 2018, as part of a global...

Akshay Venkatesh, a world-leading mathematician who has made fundamental contributions to various fields of mathematics, working in particular at the intersection of analytic number theory, algebraic number theory, and representation theory, has...

Toni Bluher, senior subject matter expert in cryptography at the National Security Agency, and Kristin Lauter, principal researcher and research manager for the cryptography group at Microsoft Research, will give lecture courses on cryptography as...

Myles W. Jackson, an internationally renowned historian of science whose breadth of research extends from molecular biology and physics to intellectual property and privacy issues, has been appointed to the Faculty of the School of Historical...

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Dutch astronomer and chemist Ewine van Dishoeck to its Board of Trustees, effective May 5, 2018.

The School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study has received a $315,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support the Zaydi Manuscript Tradition initiative, led by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has been recognized with the 2018 NOMIS Distinguished Scientist Award, which is presented to exceptional scientists in support of their exploration of unconventional...

Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, and Member Douglas Stanford will give the public lecture “The Cool Alter-Ego of a Black Hole,” on Friday, May 4, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on...

The Institute for Advanced Study will celebrate the publication of Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters by Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, with a public event at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 13, in W...

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2018 Abel Prize to Robert P. Langlands, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. Langlands was cited by the Abel Committee “for his visionary...

The Institute for Advanced Study hosted a groundbreaking ceremony today for Rubenstein Commons, a new $20 million campus building that will provide a necessary space for enhanced communication and collaboration among Faculty and scholars at one of...

The Institute for Advanced Study and the Princeton Public School District today announced that the Institute will make a $500,000 donation to the Princeton Public Schools to support the work of the District. The donation will be made in equal...

Camillo De Lellis, a world-renowned geometric analyst with broad expertise in the calculus of variations, geometric regularity theory, and fluid dynamics, has been appointed to the Faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced...

Francesca Trivellato, one of the foremost historians of economic, social, and cultural history of the early modern period, has been appointed to the Faculty of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, effective July 1...

Yann LeCun, Director of Facebook AI Research and Silver Professor of Computer Science at New York University, will a give a public lecture, “How Could Machines Learn as Efficiently as Animals and Humans?,” on Tuesday, December 12, which will take...

Ulrich Marzolph, Professor of Islamic studies at the Georg-August-University in Göttingen, Germany, will give a public lecture, “The Visual Culture of Iranian Twelver Shiism in the Qajar Period,” which will take place Thursday, December 7, at 6:00 p...

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Mark Heisingto its Board of Trustees, effective October 28, 2017. Heising is founder and managing director of Medley Partners, a California-based investment firm. He holds six U.S. Patents in cryptography, compression, and data communications.

Institute for Advanced Study scholars and collaborators have created the first mathematical model to predict how a cancer patient will respond to immunotherapy, according to a study published in Nature.

In recent years, novel therapies for treating...

Christopher Manning, Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning, Linguistics, and Computer Science at Stanford University, will a give a public lecture, “Deep Learning and Cognition,” on Wednesday, November 15, which will take place at 5:00 p.m...

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...

Vladimir Voevodsky, a truly extraordinary and original mathematician who made remarkable advances in algebraic geometry, and whose most recent work concerned rewriting the foundations of mathematics to make them suitable for computer proof...

David Lang, Institute for Advanced Study Artist-in-Residence, will give a public lecture, “The Pattern Makers: Season 2,” on Wednesday, October 11. This lecture, which is sponsored by the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study, will take place...

Leading scientists and scholars come to the Institute for Advanced Study from around the world to interact, explore, and discover across historical studies, mathematics, natural sciences, and social science. Each year a new intellectual mix of...

The 2017–18 Edward T. Cone Concert Series will highlight a range of exciting and explosive musical performances curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. In his second season as Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study...

The IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), an Institute for Advanced Study outreach program of professional development for the entire mathematics community, has received a $1.25 million gift from a private foundation. This grant, which is a...

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...

The 2017 Prospects in Theoretical Physics program will celebrate its sixteenth year by convening more than 130 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from around the world at the Institute for Advanced Study from July 17 to 28 to explore...

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Manjul Bhargavaand Christopher A. Cole to its Board of Trustees. These appointments were effective May 6, 2017. Bhargava is a leading scholar in number theory with interests in combinatorics and representation theory. Cole is the founder and Chairman of Ardea Partners, an independent investment banking advisory firm based in New York, London, and Princeton.

The 2017 Program for Women and Mathematics will mark its twenty-fourth year by bringing together research mathematicians and undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral women studying mathematics for an intensive residential mentoring experience. This...

Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, will a give a public lecture, “Matisse’s Scale: What’s with the Bamboo Stick?,” on Friday, May 5, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn...

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Janine Purcaro as its new Chief Operating Officer and Associate Director for Finance and Administration, effective May 1. Purcaro was most recently the Chief Financial Officer for the Division of...

Jacco Dieleman, Associate Professor of Egyptology at the University of California, Los Angeles and a 2016­–17 Shelby Cullom Davis Fellow at Princeton University, will a give a public lecture, “How to Handle a Mummy: A Burial Ritual from Greco-Roman...

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) will present the 2016 Albert O. Hirschman Prize to Amartya Sen on April 19 in Wolfensohn Hall at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., 5:00–7:00 p.m.

In addition to the award presentation...

Klaus Larres, Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study Member in the School of Historical Studies and Richard M. Krasno Distinguished Professor of History and International Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, will give a...

“Flexner and Dijkgraaf argue that basic research—driven by curiosity, freedom and imagination—is a proven and essential seed for the revolutionary technologies that fuel the economy, transform society, and provide solutions for the world’s problems...

Jeffrey Davidow, former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, Venezuela and Zambia, will give a public lecture, “Latin America: Walls or Bridges,” on Wednesday, March 1, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus. This...

The Institute for Advanced Study and the Civil War Trust today jointly announced a plan to significantly expand the land that will be preserved adjacent to the current Princeton Battlefield State Park while enabling the Institute to construct new...

Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics, has received the 2017 Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics, for “multiple transformative contributions to analysis, combinatorics, partial differential equations, high-dimensional...

The Institute welcomes Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, Founder and President of J.P. Lerman & Co., to the Board of Trustees. She was elected on October 29, 2016.

Bill Browder, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hermitage Capital Management, will give a public lecture, “Lawless Economy? Putin’s Russia and the Imperfect Market,” on Friday, December 2, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall o...

Benjamin Elman, Gordon Wu ’58 Professor of Chinese Studies at Princeton University, will deliver a public lecture, “Philologists as Rogues? The Life of a Confucian Classic Recovered in Early Modern Japan and Its Transmission Back to Imperial China,”...

The Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world’s foremost centers for curiosity-driven basic research, will be recognized by the American Physical Society (APS) and the European Physical Society (EPS) as their first Joint Historic Physics Site...

Sergio Verdú, Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, will a deliver a public lecture, “Claude E. Shannon,” on Wednesday, November 16, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus...

Jonathan Israel, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, will a give a public lecture, “Contesting American Values: The Bumpy Rise of Democracy in the West (1776-1850),” on Friday, October 28...

On Friday, October 14, the Institute for Advanced Study will host a pair of public lectures—one on the history of night in the Greek world and the other on memory projects about World War II and the Cold War. Kristen Ghodsee, Professor and Director...

Each year, leading scientists and scholars come to the Institute for Advanced Study from around the world to interact, explore, share and discover. A new intellectual mix of researchers and ideas is created, spanning young postdoctoral fellows to...

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang, Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for Advanced Study, has announced the performers for the 2016­–17 Edward T. Cone Concert Series. Titled “The Pattern Makers,” Lang’s first season as Artist-in-Residence...

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Elizabeth Boluch Wood as its new Chief Development Officer. Wood, who was Vice President for Development at Princeton University from 2010 to 2016, and most recently served as Assistant to the President...

The fifteenth annual Prospects in Theoretical Physics program will convene more than 100 graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from around the world at the Institute for Advanced Study from July 18 to 29 to explore “Computational Plasma...

Morton White, one of America’s most distinguished philosophers and historians of ideas, died at the age of 99 on May 27 at Stonebridge at Montgomery in Skillman, New Jersey. He was Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the...

Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, and Lorraine Daston, Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, have joined the IAS Board of Trustees, effective May 7, 2016.

The Program for Women and Mathematics will celebrate its twenty-third year by bringing together research mathematicians and undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral women studying mathematics for an intensive residential mentoring experience. The...

Deva Woodly, Assistant Professor of Politics at The New School, will a give a public lecture, “An Antidote to the Politics of Despair: Enabling Conceptions of Justice and the Democratic Necessity of Insurgency,” on Friday, May 13 which will take...

On Friday, May 6, the Institute for Advanced Study will host a public event, “Celebrating Emmy Noether,” which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.

The event will feature talks on the work and life of Emmy Noether...

The Institute for Advanced Study and Nautilus are pleased to present a special edition of Categorically Not!, the conversation series exploring the common ground of art, science and politics, April 14 at Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus (1...