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Geordie Williamson, Distinguished Visiting Professor (2020–21) in the School of Mathematics, has been announced as the recipient of the 2024 Max Planck–Humboldt Research Award. The award will enable Williamson to leverage artificial intelligence to explore a problem in knot theory, alongside colleagues at the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics.

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, has received the Huxley Memorial Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, the highest British distinction in anthropology. Fassin, who will also deliver the Huxley Memorial Lecture, was recognized “for his outstanding contribution and conceptual leadership in Medical Anthropology, including global inequalities in health in the context of HIV and AIDS politics, the Anthropology of the State (police, justice and prisons), Humanitarian and Critical Moral Anthropology.”

In August, 157 participants from 10 countries gathered at the Institute for the initial focus weeks of a workshop on Quantum Information and Physics. The workshop, which will continue through October 31, 2024, considers the relation of quantum complexity to physical systems such as many-body problems in quantum simulators, condensed matter physics, quantum field theory, and quantum gravity.

Rubina Raja, Member (2019) in the School of Historical Studies, has received one of the Carlsberg Foundation’s Research Prizes for 2024. She was honored, in part, for work conducted at the ancient city of Palmyra, Syria. During her time at IAS, Raja studied a vast corpus of Roman-period portraits discovered there.