Press Releases

Concerts of recent music, and talks by living composers, will highlight A Princeton Connection, the next event in the Institute for Advanced Study�s concert season. 

Edward Witten, who is Charles Simonyi Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, will speak on "Cosmic Acceleration and Particle Physics" on November 3 at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. A reception will follow in the Common Room of Fuld Hall.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics to Frank Wilczek, the J. Robert Oppenheimer Professor in the School of Natural Sciences from 1988 to 2000, and two other scientists: David J. Gross and H. David Politzer. 

Planetary scientist Steven Squyres will speak on "The Mars Exploration Rover Mission" on October 5 at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study.

Squyres is the scientific Principal Investigator for NASA�s Mars Exploration Rover Project. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1981 and worked with NASA for five years at their Ames Research Center before returning to Cornell, where he is now a Professor of Astronomy.