🎓 In a ceremony held today, Scott Tremaine, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, will receive an honorary doctorate from University of Waterloo in recognition of his seminal contributions to the field of astrophysics. Read more: ias.edu/news/scott-tre…

👏 Congratulations to @Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, on her appointment to the MacArthur Foundation's Board of Directors.

🏆 Salem Prize 2024 nominations are OPEN! Named for Raphaël Salem, famed for studying links between Fourier series and number theory, the prize is awarded to mathematicians who have completed outstanding work on harmonic analysis and related topics. More: ias.edu/math/activitie…

🇫🇷 In an opinion piece for The Guardian, Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, argues that "there is indeed a real risk that, for the first time since 1945, France will be governed by a far-right party." More: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

So sad to be leaving Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). It's been a fabulous year, all about the platforms! Looking forward to next year's reunion/summer school!!

🔭 Why are some stars brighter than others? Why are some redder or bluer? A plot from a recent research paper by Hsiang-Chih Hwang (Hsiang-Chih Hwang), Member in the School of Natural Sciences, which addresses this question, has been selected as ESA Gaia's Image of the Week. Learn more👇

Three world-leading mathematicians, Irit Dinur, Elon Lindenstrauss, and Aaron Naber, have been appointed to the Institute Faculty, bringing unique expertise in pure mathematics and computer science. They will begin their IAS appointments this summer. More: ias.edu/news/three-wor…

🎉 At a ceremony held in Berlin last week, Penelope Deutscher, Member in the School of Social Science, was officially presented with a Research Award by Humboldt-Stiftung, which will support a project that she developed at the Institute. More: ias.edu/news/penelope-…

👏 Congratulations to this year's crop of Wolf Prize recipients, including IAS Trustee Emeritus Martin Rees and Noga Alon, frequent Visiting Professor in the Institute's School of Mathematics. Read more: ias.edu/news/rees-alon…

Preparing wistfully to leave Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) where I've had an absolutely brilliant academic year, thought many thoughts & made new friends, human & otherwise. Huge thanks to everyone at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton for conversation & contemplation, respite and grace.

🏅 Edward Witten, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, has received the Basic Science Lifetime Award in Theoretical Physics from International Congress of Basic Science, which is presented to scientists who have brought about fundamental change in their discipline: ias.edu/news/edward-wi…

📚 An exhibition now on display in the Institute's Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center shows how, from 1930 to today, IAS scholars have brought that which is known into conversation with that which is newly discovered. Read more and plan a visit: ias.edu/news/snapshots…

⚛️ This June, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) welcomed ~230 scholars to campus for the 16th annual Amplitudes conference, the roots of which can be traced to seminal papers by Edward Witten, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, and his collaborators. Read more: ias.edu/news/homecomin…

📑 The field-shaping work of Caroline Walker Bynum, Professor Emerita in the School of Historical Studies, and her significant impact on historical scholarship has been celebrated in a symposium published in a recent issue of the journal Common Knowledge: ias.edu/news/journal-c…

✍️ In the journal Sociologica, Professor Emerita Joan Wallach Scott has written an essay focused on her re-reading of "The Interpretation of Cultures," published in 1973 by Clifford Geertz, the first and founding Professor in the School of Social Science: ias.edu/news/joan-wall…

⚛️ From July 8–26, the Institute's annual Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP) program brought together 166 participants from over 20 countries to discuss ultra-quantum matter. This year's program was organized in partnership with Princeton Center for Complex Materials. More: ias.edu/news/pitp-2024…

Tsung-Dao Lee, past Member and Faculty in the School of Mathematics/Natural Sciences, died on August 4. During his time at the Institute, Lee received the Nobel Prize in Physics alongside his IAS colleague Chen-Ning Yang for their work on parity violation: ias.edu/news/rememberi…

🔢 This July, 184 participants from 17 countries made a summer journey into motivic homotopy theory as part of the latest iteration of Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI), an annual IAS outreach program. Read more about the topic and the PCMI program: ias.edu/news/PCMI-moti…

🧬 A new study of ancient DNA by a team of international researchers, including Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, provides insight into the social structure of European communities after the fall of the Roman Empire: ias.edu/news/early-med…

⚛️ In August, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) hosted the initial focus weeks of a workshop on Quantum Information and Physics. The workshop, which continues through October 31, considers the relation of quantum complexity to physical systems, condensed matter physics, and more: ias.edu/news/delving-d…