Events and Activities

The School of Social Science theme seminar meets alternate Tuesdays. Due to the pandemic, all meetings are currently virtual. For more information on the theme, visit our webpage: https://www.ias.edu/sss/science-and-state

In 1992, the first exoplanets were discovered by measuring the slight timing variations in rotating pulsars. Since then, we’ve pointed increasingly sophisticated ground- and space-based instruments at more normal stars, hoping to image their planets...

In this talk we will begin the discussion of the results in Bezrukavnikov's "On Two Geometric Realizations of the Affine Hecke algebra". We will put all the previous tools described in this series of talks together to construct the equivalence of...

I will review advances in the research of fast radio bursts -- millisecond pulses of intense, coherent radio emission -- and their applications to studying diffuse gas and magnetic fields across the cosmos.  At the start of 2021, nearly every major...