The Institute for Advanced Study worked with Brooklyn-based production company Smartypants to produce a 90-second anthem video showcasing both IAS and its mission of enabling foundational discovery.
On January 16, 2020, Didier
Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor at the Institute for
Advanced Study, will give the inaugural lecture of his appointment
as Annual Chair of Public Health at the Collège de France for
2019–20.
Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters made a short film about
Karen Uhlenbeck, Visiting
Professor in the School of Mathematics, in conjunction with the
2019 Abel Prize she received “for her pioneering achievements in
geometric partial...
On May 21, His Majesty King Harald of Norway presented the Abel
Prize to Karen Uhlenbeck at
the award ceremony in Oslo “for her pioneering achievements in
geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, and
integrable systems, and for the...
The Strings 2018 conference, which convened international
experts and researchers to discuss string theory, took place from
June 25–29, 2018, in Okinawa, Japan. The annual international
Strings conferences, which have been held every year since
1995...
Einstein’s general theory of relativity taught us that the
universe is expanding, but we have only recently discovered the
pace of that expansion and its consequences. View the video at
Business Insider as Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute Director
and...
In this video, Edward Witten,
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Laureate (2012) and
Charles Simonyi Professor in the School of Natural Sciences,
discusses string theory and the need in physics to reconcile
quantum theory, used for small...
Meet the newest Members at the Institute for Advanced Study and
discover their unique passion for curiosity-driven research in the
Scholar Spotlight video series.
In this episode Jeffrey Fung, Member in the School of Natural
Sciences, details his...
