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1/02/2013

Michael van Walt van Praag to Discuss History’s Place in Conflict Resolution in Lecture at Institute for Advanced Study

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

Michael van Walt van Praag, Visiting Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, has served as mediator and as an adviser to negotiating parties in peace talks worldwide. He has worked on conflicts in the South Pacific, the Caucasus, Asia and East and West Africa. He is now investigating obstacles to conflict resolution, in particular clashing interpretations of history. On Wednesday, March 6, Van Walt will present a public lecture drawing on his research and experience, “When Truth Gets in the Way: Addressing Multiple Realities in Intrastate Conflicts,” at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.

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12/12/2012

Albert O. Hirschman 1915–2012

PRESS CONTACT:  Christine Ferrara, (609) 734-8239

Renowned social scientist Albert O. Hirschman, whose highly influential work in economics and politics in developing countries has had a profound impact on economic thought and practice in the United States and beyond, died at the age of 97 on December 10 at Greenwood House in Ewing Township, N.J. Hirschman was Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, where he had served on the Faculty since 1974.

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11/21/2012

Owen Fiss to Discuss Telephone Privacy and the Constitution at Institute for Advanced Study

Owen M. Fiss, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School, will examine the state of constitutional rules protecting the privacy of telephone conversations in “The Lives of Others,” a public lecture on Wednesday, December 5, at 5:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.

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10/15/2012

Institute for Advanced Study and Princeton University Collaborate on Lectures Exploring New Ideas in Art History

The Institute for Advanced Study and the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University will mark their fifth collaboration on art history lectures in a series spanning the range of geography, time and ideas in art history. Among other topics, the 2012–13 lecture series will include examinations of gifts in Late Antiquity, Byzantium, and Early Islam; artists and memorialization in Uganda; and the reproduction of exhibitions in magazines after World War II.

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10/15/2012

Nima Arkani-Hamed to Discuss the Higgs Boson and Its Paradoxes in Lecture at Institute for Advanced Study

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, had long offered to bet a year’s salary that the Higgs boson, the only missing piece of the Standard Model of particle physics, would be found. In the early hours of July 4, he hosted a celebration at the Institute as researchers in Switzerland announced that a particle consistent with the Higgs boson had been observed.

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9/24/2012

The Higgs Boson and the Laws of Nature to be Explored in Lecture by Juan Maldacena at Institute for Advanced Study

Juan Maldacena, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, will present a public lecture, “The Symmetry and Simplicity of the Laws of Nature and the Higgs Boson,” on Wednesday, October 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.

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9/11/2012

2012-13 Season of Edward T. Cone Concert Series Explores Diverse Musical Dimensions

The 2012–13 Edward T. Cone Concert Series at the Institute for Advanced Study will explore a vivid spectrum of chamber music of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, including new works by Derek Bermel, the Institute’s Artist-in-Residence, based on particle physics and the Detroit auto industry.

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7/31/2012

Four Faculty Members at the Institute for Advanced Study Awarded Inaugural Fundamental Physics Prize

Transformative Scientific Contributions Recognized with $3 Million Prize from the Milner Foundation

Four out of nine recipients of the inaugural Fundamental Physics Prize of the Milner Foundation are Faculty members in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study. Nima Arkani-Hamed, Juan Maldacena, Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten have each been awarded $3 million for their significant and path-breaking contributions to fundamental physics.

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7/27/2012

Leon Levy Foundation Donates $20 Million to the Institute for Advanced Study

Major Gift Will Permanently Endow the Directorship

The Leon Levy Foundation has donated $20 million to the Institute for Advanced Study. This gift reflects continued support of the Institute by Trustee Shelby White and the Leon Levy Foundation, which was created on the death of Ms. White’s husband, Leon Levy, a leading financier who served on the Institute’s Board of Trustees for 15 years and as Vice Chairman and President of the Corporation from 1995–2003.

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7/24/2012

Institute for Advanced Study Receives $7.5 Million Grant from the Starr Foundation

Grant Will Enable Permanent Endowment of a Professorship and Memberships in Biology

The Institute for Advanced Study has received a $7.5 million grant from the Starr Foundation for the Simons Center for Systems Biology in the School of Natural Sciences. The grant provides the resources necessary to secure the Simons Center’s position as a leading center for research and postdoctoral training in the quantitative biology essential to scientific advances that are revolutionizing biology and medicine.

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