Events and Activities

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

Mar
24
2026

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

Existence and Regularity of Nonlocal Minimal Surfaces
Michele Caselli
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

In the '80s, Yau conjectured that every closed Riemannian 3-manifold contains infinitely many smooth minimal hypersurfaces. In this talk, I will present a Yau-type existence result for nonlocal minimal surfaces and discuss how one can recover the...

Apr
06
2026

Members' Colloquium

The AD+ Duality Program
Hugh Woodin
1:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

The study of descriptive set theory in the context of determinacy axioms began nearly 60 years ago. The context for this study is now understood to be the Axiom AD+, which is a refinement of the Axiom of Determinacy (AD).  The objects of this study...

Apr
13
2026

Members' Colloquium

The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture: An Introduction and Review
Chris Skinner
1:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

This talk will recall the Birch--Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture and describe highlights of the progress towards it, both pre- and post-millennium.  This will largely be a repeat of the speaker's plenary talk from the 2025 Clay Research conference on the...

Apr
20
2026

Members' Colloquium

Homological Stability of Moduli Spaces
1:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Homological stability has emerged over the past decades as an organizing principle in topology and beyond. Broadly speaking, many sequences of moduli spaces exhibit the striking phenomenon that their homology stabilizes as the underlying complexity...