Events and Activities

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

May
14
2026

Joint IAS/PU Number Theory Seminar

Twist-Parametrized Points on Modular Curves
Filip Najman
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

An important open problem is to classify rational points on all modular curves, or equivalently to classify the possible adelic Galois images of elliptic curves over Q, as envisioned in Mazur’s Program B. However, this problem is inherently infinite...

May
14
2026

Special Campus Community Lecture

40 Years of Evolution: Darwin’s Finches
Rosemary Grant and Peter Grant
5:00pm|Simonyi Hall 101

In the “Origin of Species” Charles Darwin established the scientific basis for understanding how evolution occurs by natural selection. To explain how new species form he envisioned a three-step process involving colonization of a new area...