Matias Zaldarriaga, Professor, School of Natural Sciences
In this talk, Professor Matias Zaldarriaga
discusses the development of the modern study of cosmology,
beginning with the discovery of the expansion of the Universe by
Edwin Hubble, through current efforts to map the cosmic microwave
background...
Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor, School of Natural Sciences
In this talk, Nima Arkani-Hamed,
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses the
direction of fundamental physics in coming years and decades,
including efforts to replace the concept of spacetime and
understand how the macroscopic...
This lecture was part of the Institute for Advanced Study’s
celebration of its eightieth anniversary, and took place during the
events related to the Schools and Mathematics and Natural
Sciences.
In this lecture, John Milnor, Co-Director of the Institute for
Mathematical Sciences at Stony Brook University and a former member
of the Faculty of the School of Mathematics at the Institute for
Advanced Study (1970–90), offers commentary on the...
Quantum theory radically transforms our fundamental
understanding of physical reality. It reveals that the world
contains a hidden richness of structure that we have barely begun
to control and exploit. In this lecture, Frank Wilczek indicates
the...