Delighted to share that the life and work of renowned scientist Freeman Dyson, who spent most of his career at the Institute, is the focus of a new book published MIT Press. Contributors include many of Dyson's IAS colleagues, including Robbert Dijkgraaf.
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The latest installment of our Paths to Math video series features Patrick Shafto (@rutgersu). Watch to learn how Patrick’s unexpected start studying physical therapy led to his current explorations of the intersections of human and machine learning. youtube.com/watch?v=2noYPh…

Neutron stars are one of the densest objects found anywhere in the Universe. Yet 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 scholars at IAS. ias.edu/news/new-tool-…

Congratulations to past IAS scholars Monica Kim, ReubenJonathanMiller, and June Huh for joining the 2022 class of MacArthur Foundation MacArthur Fellows. Together, they represent the variety of important work being done in the sciences and humanities: ias.edu/news/2022/past…

Listen to our newest College Commons Podcast episode! In “A Tale of Travelers’ Checks, High Finance, and Anti-Semitism,” you’ll learn from Francesca Trivellato about an early-modern myth of Jewish credit that frames age-old anti-Semitic tropes.
collegecommons.huc.edu/bully_pulpit/t…

Proud to announce establishment of the Frank C. and Florence S. Ogg Professorship thanks to the generosity of past Member Andrew Ogg. The endowment will support generations of future research at IAS with mathematician Jacob Lurie serving as inaugural chair ias.edu/news/2022/ogg-…

Congratulations to Didier Fassin, appointed Professor at Collège de France (Collège de France). As Moral Questions and Political Issues in Contemporary Societies chair, he will deliver an inaugural lecture “The Social Sciences in a Time of Crisis” on March 30, 2023 ias.edu/news/2022/coll…

Fall 2022 will see the much-anticipated opening of Rubenstein Commons, the Institute's newest campus building. It will provide a nexus of flexible gathering spaces for the IAS community. Architect StevenHollArchitects's watercolor sketches give a flavor of how the building will look.

On Friday, September 23, the Institute hosted a Welcome Reception for its new and returning scholars. Attendees of all ages enjoyed an array of food and drink, musical entertainment, and even a bubble show!

Congratulations Lia Medeiros PhD, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, on being shortlisted!

In 2022, Lia's work presented groundbreaking results about the black hole in the center of our galaxy, Sgr A*.

Professor Sabine Schmidtke's Sabine Schmidtke annotated edition of the correspondence between Paul Ernst Kahle and Rudolf Strothmann, titled German Orientalism in Times of Turmoil, has been published and made available with an open access PDF: albert.ias.edu/handle/20.500.…

Alondra Nelson (Alondra Nelson) is the Harold F. Linder Professor at Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) as well as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Director for Science and Society for White House Office of Science & Technology Policy.

Tune in to our #EndlessFrontier livestream to hear her remarks: ow.ly/pM4J50KQNKT #academia #scipol

🎉Congratulations to the IAS scholars who won Breakthrough's 2023 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize and the 2023 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize, including current Member and recent Fields Medal recipient James Maynard: ias.edu/news/2022/ias-…