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The Chinese historical tradition is an extremely rich reservoir of ethnographic and political knowledge of foreign (non-Han) peoples, but fundamental questions about its nuances, influences and characteristics have not been fully explored.  Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, will provide insights on this fertile area of research in his talk, The History of Others: Foreign Peop

Renowned Norwegian mathematician Atle Selberg, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, died on the evening of August 6 at his home in Princeton, NJ.  He was 90.

Prospects in Theoretical Physics, an intensive two-week summer program geared specifically to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars considering a career in theoretical physics, will take place at the Institute for Advanced Study from July 16 to 27.  First held at the Institute in 2002, Prospects in Theoretical Physics has, in past years, covered topics ranging from the Large Hadron Collider to string theory.

The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Dr. Andrew J. Wiles, Eugene Higgins Professor of Mathematics and Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, to its Board of Trustees, effective May 5, 2007.  A world-renowned mathematician, Dr. Wiles is perhaps best known for his proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was honored by the International Mathematical Union in 1998.