Events and Activities

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

Mar
18
2025

Princeton Center for Heliophysics Seminar

Investigating Energy Exchange and Wave-Particle Interactions in the Solar Wind
Michael Terres
2:00pm|Virtual Meeting

Turbulence transfers energy from larger to smaller scales, wherein kinetic processes culminate in dissipation. In the context of the weakly collisional, multi-species solar wind, grasping the fundamental processes that facilitate energy exchange...

Mar
24
2025

Princeton University Gravity Initiative Spring Seminar Series

Why Null Infinity is not Smooth, and how to Measure It
Leonhard Kehrberger
12:30pm|Jadwin Hall, Princeton Gravity Initiative, 4th Floor

Abstract: Be it numerical, formal, or rigorous, the typical setup for the evolution of spacetimes describing, for instance, the merger of two black holes is to make an ad hoc assumption on the initial data to have compactly supported gravitational...

Mar
28
2025

Princeton University Galread [Galactic/Extragalactic Reading Group]

TBA
11:00am|Zoom and Peyton Hall, Grand Central

Each week, we hold a relatively informal seminar/discussion series with an emphasis on extra-galactic and large-scale structure astrophysics.

During Galread a leader/visitor presents a recent paper to the discussion group. The PDF of the paper is...