Events and Activities

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

Mar
19
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Geodesics and Minimal Surfaces in a Random Environment
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Endow the edges of the $Z^D$ lattice with positive weights, sampled independently from a suitable distribution (e.g., uniformly distributed on [a,b] for some b>a>0). We wish to study the geometric properties of the resulting network, focusing on the...

Mar
21
2024

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Black holes and revelations: unseen companions in stellar binaries
Kareem El-Badry
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

The Milky Way contains of order 10^8 stellar-mass black holes (BHs). Yet, fewer than 100 BH candidates are known, and only about 20 are dynamically confirmed. Our view of the BH population has been shaped almost entirely by observations of X-ray...

Mar
21
2024

What is...?

What is a graph complex?
1:00pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I’ll describe graph complexes, introduced by Kontsevich in the context of mathematical physics. I’ll survey its connections to geometry and topology, highlighting its relation to the cohomology of moduli spaces of curves. 

Mar
21
2024

Joint PU/IAS Number Theory

Vanishing of Selmer Groups for Siegel Modular Forms
Sam Mundy
4:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Let π be a cuspidal automorphic representation of Sp_2n over Q which is holomorphic discrete series at infinity, and χ a Dirichlet character. Then one can attach to π an orthogonal p-adic Galois representation ρ of dimension 2n+1. Assume ρ is...

Mar
21
2024

Derek Bermel Retrospective Concert

5:30pm|Wolfensohn Hall

Equinox Jukebox: A Retrospective Concert by Derek Bermel
Thursday, March 21, 2024
5:30 p.m., Wolfensohn Hall

A spring-forward retrospective...

Mar
22
2024

NES Workshop

Scholarly Digital Editions of Arabic-Script Texts
White-Levy Room

Conveners: Adam Mestyan (School of Historical Studies, IAS and Duke University), Sabine Schmidtke (School of Historical Studies, IAS) and María Mercedes Tuya (Digital Scholarship @IAS). Details to follow at a later time.