Events and Activities

Explore current and upcoming events and activities happening at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Dec
04
2025

IAS/PCTS/PGI Workshop on Quantum Aspects of Black Holes and Spacetime

9:00am|Wolfensohn Hall
Tuesday-Friday, December 2-5, 2025 - Institute for Advanced Study

Program Organizers:
Netta Engelhardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonah Kudler-Flam, Institute for Advanced Study
Henry Lin, Princeton University
Juan Maldacena, Institute for...

Dec
04
2025

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Weak gravitational lensing and cosmology
Bhuvnesh Jain
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

I will motivate current work in weak gravitational lensing with cosmic and astrophysical puzzles. The evolution of dark energy, the growth of structure and feedback from supermassive black holes are some of the debated questions. I will describe how...

Dec
04
2025

Princeton University Thunch Talk

Probing the Oldest Black Holes with Detailed Modeling of AGN Variability
Zachary Stone
12:00pm|Princeton University, Peyton Hall, Grand Central

Abstract: AGN variability presents a unique way to investigate the motion and structure of accreted material onto supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) across cosmic time. Reverberation mapping (RM) is a technique which...

Dec
04
2025

Special Year Research Seminar

Typical and Atypical Intersections: Geometry, Dynamics, and Applications
1:00pm|Simonyi 101

Many geometric spaces carry natural collections of special submanifolds that encode their internal symmetries. Examples include abelian varieties and their sub-abelian varieties, locally symmetric spaces with their totally geodesic subspaces, period...

Dec
04
2025

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory

On Triple Product L-Functions
Miao Gu
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The Poisson summation conjecture of Braverman-Kazhdan, L. Lafforgue, Ngo, and Sakellaridis is an ambitious proposal to prove analytic properties of quite general Langlands L-functions using vast generalizations of the Poisson summation formula. In...

Dec
04
2025

Trivia Night with Righteous Jolly

6:00pm|Rubenstein Commons | Cafe

Please join us for Trivia Night in Rubenstein Commons!

We will gather in the café at 6:00 p.m. and create teams who will compete to answer an...

Dec
05
2025

IAS/PCTS/PGI Workshop on Quantum Aspects of Black Holes and Spacetime

9:00am|Wolfensohn Hall
Tuesday-Friday, December 2-5, 2025 - Institute for Advanced Study

Program Organizers:
Netta Engelhardt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonah Kudler-Flam, Institute for Advanced Study
Henry Lin, Princeton University
Juan Maldacena, Institute for...

Dec
05
2025

Princeton University Galread [Galactic/Extragalactic Reading Group]

TBA
Hollis Akins
11:00am|Zoom and Peyton Hall, Grand Central

Each week, we hold a relatively informal seminar/discussion series with an emphasis on extra-galactic and large-scale structure astrophysics.

During Galread a leader/visitor presents a recent paper to the discussion group. The PDF of the paper is...

Dec
05
2025

Princeton University Gravity Group Lunch Seminar

Searching for New Signals in the Microwave Sky
Colin Hill
12:00pm|Jadwin 102 (Joe Henry Room)

Measurements of the small-scale CMB temperature and polarization fields have recently undergone transformative improvements with Data Release 6 (DR6) of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) and will soon improve further with the Simons Observatory...