Events and Activities

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

Feb
16
2026

Princeton University Gravity Initiative Seminar

What is an R7-Brane?
Jonathan Heckman
12:30pm|Jadwin Hall, Princeton Gravity Initiative, 4th Floor

Abstract: The Swampland Cobordism conjecture asserts that in quantum gravity, any spacetime can terminate, i.e., the cobordism group of quantum gravity is trivial. A striking consequence of this conjecture is that it predicts the existence of...

Feb
16
2026

Members' Colloquium

Between Schanuel's Conjecture and Fuglede's Conjecture
1:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

I will describe an application of point-counting on tame real sets and functional transcendence to a problem in harmonic analysis. I will touch on the traditional diophantine applications of these ideas to highlight the new features of this not-so...