October 18, 2018
Myles W. Jackson, newly appointed Professor in the School of
Historical Studies, will give his first IAS public lecture. Jackson will discuss how the history of science can contribute to two controversial aspects of biomedical research: gene patenting and race and genomics.
Press Release
September 11, 2018
Patrick J. Geary, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the School of Historical Studies, is a Co-PI and lead author of a groundbreaking paper published by
Nature Communications that sheds light on sixth-century barbarian social organization and migration through paleogenomics.
IAS News
October 22, 2018
Director and Leon Levy Professor
Robbert Dijkgraaf was honored to join Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore following Dijkgraaf’s lecture at Nanyang Technological University, Institute of Advanced Studies, as part of the “Richard Feynman at 100” centennial conference.
October 17, 2018
June Huh, Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, has received the 2019 New Horizons in Mathematics Prize as part of the Breakthrough Prize series. Huh is recognized for the development of combinatorial Hodge theory leading to the resolution of the log-concavity conjecture of Rota as part of a collaboration with mathematicians Eric Katz and former Member Karim Adiprasito.
By Yve-Alain Bois
There is an obvious playfulness in the way Picasso constantly shifted his artistic identity when least expected. Like Harlequin, a character with whom he identified all his life and of whom he drew and painted many versions in various, often incompatible styles, he could become anything he wanted, put on any mask, take out any card from his sleeve.
By Rafael Pelli, Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
While the Simons Center is itself a distinct structure with its own sense of place, it emulates the sensibility of the existing pavilions, taking cues from their proportions and details and interpreting them in a contemporary way.
