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Paul Steinhardt, Keck Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, will speak on “A Tale of Two Universes” on December 10 at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus. 

Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University, is a theorist whose research spans particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, and condensed matter physics. He is one of the architects of the “inflationary model” of the universe, an important modification of Big Bang theory.

The Institute for Advanced Study has announced the appointment of two new members to its Board of Trustees, Andrew Strominger and Shelby White.

Strominger is professor of physics at Harvard University. A former long-term member of the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute (1982-87), he was professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1986 to 1997, the year in which he joined the Harvard faculty.

A theoretical physicist, Strominger’s research concerns quantum gravity, string theory, and quantum field theory. 

Music From Copland House, an instrumental ensemble, will perform on November 19 and 21 at 8:00 p.m. and November 23 at 4:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. Music From Copland House is resident at the New York home of the late American composer Aaron Copland, which is now a creative center for American music. 

Eric Kandel, Nobel Laureate in Medicine, will speak on “Molecular Mechanisms for the Establishment and Perpetuation of Memory Storage” on October 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. Kandel is University Professor at Columbia University’s Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, and Senior Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His 2000 Nobel Prize, shared with A. Carlsson and P. Greengard, was for “discoveries concerning signal transduction in the nervous system.”