Events and Activities

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

Nov
13
2026

IAS/Princeton/Montreal/Paris/Tel-Aviv Symplectic Geometry Zoominar

Three 20 Minute Research Talks
Shuhao Li, Jiaji Cai and Jacobus de Pooter
9:15am|Remote Access

Shuhao Li (Stony Brook): Topology of Lagrangians Via Open-Closed String Topology

The topology of Lagrangian submanifolds in the standard symplectic vector space $C^n$ is a fundamental yet poorly understood problem in symplectic topology. A related...

Nov
13
2026

Biology Seminar: Special Year on Modeling Fly Vision

Retinomorphic Vision Sensors
10:30am|Simons Hall, Dilworth Room

Instead of capturing images at a fixed rate, like conventional frame cameras do, event cameras measure their pixels’ luminance changes and asynchronously output a stream of “address-events” that encode a luminance change location, time, and sign...

Nov
13
2026

Special Guest Lecture

On Universal Groups, With Possible Application to Physics
Jim Arthur
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101

The talk will be based on two groups, the automorphic Galois group and the motivic Galois group. These are given by conjectural formulas that contain much data, but which are also quite explicit. The foundations for their construction are Langlands'...

Nov
13
2026

Princeton University PCTS Special Physics Talk

Exotic Quantum Many-Body Systems from Error Correcting Codes
Chao Yin
3:00pm|PCTS blackboard talk- large conference table at PCTS

Abstract: How exotic ​can a quantum many-body system be at finite energy density? Error-correcting codes provide a natural framework for exploring this question. In this talk, I will survey two lines of research. First, codes give rise to...

Nov
13
2026

Special Seminar

Robert Langlands' Collected Works at IAS: 24 Years and Counting
Jim Arthur, Bill Casselman and Freydoon Shahidi
4:15pm|Simonyi Hall 101

The first of the collected works of Robert Langlands were posted at the University of British Columbia, where he was once enrolled as an undergraduate. The site moved to the Institute for Advanced Study around 2002, and has been maintained there...

Nov
13
2026

Gourmet Dinner

6:00pm

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Gourmet dinner is limited to Institute Members, Faculty, Staff, Friends of the Institute, and their guests.

Nov
16
2026

Seminar on OpenAI's 722 Manuscripts

What Does it Mean to be n-Dimensional?
9:30am|Simonyi 101

Let X be a (nice) topological space, and suppose that we wish to know if X is homotopy equivalent to a simplicial complex of dimension $\leq n$. An obvious necessary condition is that the cohomology of X (with arbitrary coefficients) must be...

Nov
16
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

Foundations for Collective Decision-Making over Complex Decision Spaces
Bailey Flanigan
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Many societal decisions on which we want collective input — from allocating a public budget to deciding how an automated decision rule should behave — have enormous combinatorial spaces of possible outcomes. The standard approach to eliciting public...