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Scott Tremaine
January 02, 2020

For Bloomberg Opinion, Faye Flam reports that in 2020 we will see an image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Scott Tremaine, Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, says he's excited to see what the image bears out.

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December 18, 2019

Nature has asked seven leading thinkers, including Freeman J. Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, and Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, to select one book from history that speaks to our present moment.

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Cord Whitaker gives a lecture in the Dilworth Room at IAS

How did the Middle Ages make race? And how can we use that knowledge to disempower racism and make the world better?

Karen Uhlenbeck
December 20, 2019

Time Magazine spotlights Karen Uhlenbeck, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the IAS School of Mathematics and the first woman to receive the Abel Prize, as one of 28 women who broke major barriers to become “firsts” in 2019.

“It became clear that there was a lot to be done in gravity physics, both theory and observation. In the 1960s, only a few people were working on both sides of gravity, theory and experiment. It was an exciting time that offered me lots of room for exploration of new ideas. But of course we couldn’t anticipate that this work would grow into the present big science.”

December 16, 2019

Schmidt Futures has awarded $1 million to promote a project led by IAS Professor James M. Stone that seeks to deepen our understanding of various cosmic phenomena, such as neutron star mergers, star and planet formation, and the dynamics of the interstellar medium in galaxies.

Institute Letter Fall 2019 cover

Includes articles by Faculty and Members exploring bewilderment and clarity, the changing faces of biology, the social life of DNA, modern racism and medieval race-thinking, academic freedom, movement politics, and the possible unification of mathematics and physics. Download a PDF of the issue or read the articles here.

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    What Is the Value of the Humanities? How We Read (and Write) Today - Suzanne Akbari

    By Suzanne Conklin Akbari

    Suzanne Akbari, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, examines how we engage with literature and explores the case to be made for reading aloud.

    Ideas

    By History Working Group

    Founded in the early years of the Great Depression, IAS took shape during the buildup to the Second World War and under the growing shadow of authoritarian regimes.

    Ideas

    By Avi Wigderson

    In stark contrast to the elegant, concise algorithmic gems, which were man-made, many new algorithms simply “create themselves,” with relatively little intervention from humans, mainly through interaction with massive data.

    IAS Spotlight is a new annual publication that provides a concise introduction to and overview of the Institute for Advanced Study.

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      By Angelos Chaniotis

      The developments that Alexander’s campaigns set in motion ultimately led to the creation of a complex network of political, administrative, economic, and cultural connections that came close to the modern phenomenon of globalization.