Press Releases

PRESS CONTACT:  Katherine Belyi, (609) 951-4406

This May, the annual Program for Women and Mathematics will mark its 20th year, bringing together research mathematicians and undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral women studying mathematics for an intensive residential mentoring program. The 2013 lecture series will focus on combinatorics and graph theory, covering recent developments and open problems.

PRESS CONTACT:  Katherine Belyi, (609) 951-4406

Nadia Zakamska, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University and a former Member of the Institute for Advanced Study, will return to the Institute to give a public lecture reporting on the latest developments in the study of the relationship between supermassive black holes and galaxies. “Gone with the Wind: Black Holes and Their Gusty Influence on the Birth of Galaxies” will take place Friday, May 10 at 5:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall. The lecture is sponsored by the Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS).

PRESS CONTACT:  Katherine Belyi, (609) 951-4406

Cellular telephones, GPS, radar imaging and most other modern wireless systems would not exist without the sophisticated mathematical and digital techniques that are used to encode and decode their messages. On Wednesday, April 24, Mark Goresky, Long-term Member in the School of Mathematics, will describe a remarkable story in the history of these techniques in a public lecture, “A Hollywood Celebrity, the ‘Bad Boy’ of Music, and the History of Modern Wireless Communications.” The lecture will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.

PRESS CONTACT:  Katherine Belyi, (609) 951-4406

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, will deliver a public lecture, “The Arduous Path of Refugees in the Changing Landscape of Asylum” on Wednesday, April 3. Drawing on ten years of research, the lecture will examine significant changes in the conception of the right to asylum in recent decades and the ordeal faced by asylum seekers as they go through complex administrative and judiciary procedures in order to have their status acknowledged.