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In the Media

Math vs. Physics

June 28, 2017
IAS Director Robbert Dijkgraaf discusses the complex relationship between mathematics and physics with Brady Haran of Numberphile during the 2017 National Math Festival in Washington, D.C. Dijkgraaf examines the differences between the fields, their powerful connection fostered by the sharing of principles and theories, and how they might come together to form a powerful breakthrough. 

IAS News

IAS Statement on Revised Executive Order

March 07, 2017
As an institution, we oppose the revised travel ban on the principles of justice and non-discrimination and stand in unison for the advancement of knowledge without borders and prejudice.

Ideas

Conspiring with the Enemy and Cooperating in Warfare

By Yvonne Chiu

These rules were created and sustained at least in part by sincere beliefs that there are right and wrong ways to win, and that it matters both practically—e.g., in building good will and reciprocity with opponents, whether they end up vanquished or one’s conquerors—and morally.

In the Media

A Path Less Taken to the Peak of the Math World

June 27, 2017
June Huh, Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, thought he had no talent for math until a chance meeting with a legendary mind, former Member and Fields Medalist Heisuke Hironaka. Nine years later, at the age of 34, Huh is at the pinnacle of the math world. 

In the Media

Juan Maldacena, Pondering Quantum Gravity by the Pond

June 23, 2017
Grand ideas have a way of turning up in unusual settings, far from an office or a chalkboard. Quanta Magazine spoke to Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, about his favorite place to think, tinker, and create.

Faculty and Members

Why does the equation that describes the average motion of water molecules also govern the ripples of spacetime?

Shiraz Minwalla in From Fluid Dynamics to Gravity and Back

An academic Eden where you could do mathematics, uninterrupted by worries about money or sour cream. Was that even real?

Olga Holtz in My Random Walks with Pólya and Szegő

What is a state? We propose our own response as sociologists and anthropologists. But the specificity of our approach resides in its method: ethnography.

Didier Fassin in What Is a State?

Why did polymath Joris Hoefnagel, in the midst of the Dutch Revolt, produce an illustrated volume of hundreds of insects? 

Marisa Anne Bass in Insect Artifice: Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands