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Sabine Schmidtke Elected to the British Academy

July 21, 2023

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has been elected to the British Academy.

Wall Street Journal

J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Defense of Humanity

July 15, 2023

IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg discusses how, after helping invent the atomic bomb, past Director J. Robert Oppenheimer spent decades thinking about how to preserve civilization from technological dangers, offering crucial lessons for the age of AI.

The Institute Letter, Spring 2023

Uncover how climate change and climate migration were exploited for profit at the Qatar World Cup. Explore how the combination of ancient DNA analysis with archaeological and historical approaches is revolutionizing knowledge of prehistoric population change. Fall into Alice’s rabbit hole and explore how individuals, as avatars, form communities in 3D virtual worlds. Follow a Baroque bust as it journeys from Rome to IAS and back again.

Read the digital edition or download the PDF.

NJ.com

Oppenheimer’s legacy brought Christopher Nolan to N.J. Inside the institute he called home.

July 21, 2023

IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg "walks in Oppenheimer’s shoes." In an interview with NJ.com, he discusses how, in the current age of AI, the role for the Institute that Oppenheimer helped to carve out is needed "as much as ever."

IAS News

2023 Prospects in Theoretical Physics Studied Confinement

July 31, 2023

Prospects in Theoretical Physics (PiTP), an intensive two-week summer program for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars, took place from July 10–21 this year, the first meeting since COVID-19 struck in 2020.

From the Archives

Honoring the Legacy of Emmy Noether

June 19, 2023

Regarded by Hermann Weyl as “the greatest [woman mathematician] that history has known”, Emmy Noether, past Visitor in the School of Mathematics (1933–35), was a pioneer in the field of abstract algebra. This June, the Institute is hosting a conference celebrating her contributions, which is accompanied by a display of archival materials in Fuld Hall.

New Statesman

The Grounds of Wrath

July 05, 2023

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, writes for the New Statesman about the killing of Nahel Merzouk by a police officer and the social unrest resulting from it.

Press Release

Art Historian Maria H. Loh joins Historical Studies Faculty at IAS

July 05, 2023

Maria Hsiuya Loh, an internationally recognized expert in the field of early modern Italian art, has joined the Institute for Advanced Study as Professor in the School of Historical Studies. Loh is best known for her work on Venetian art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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