Events and Activities

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

Apr
14
2026

IAS Phenomenology Lunch and Meet

Information Discussions on Phenomenology and New Theories beyond the Standard Model
12:30pm|Bloomberg Hall Biology Conference Room (1st Floor, Room 113)

This semester, we will be beginning a *very informal* get-together every Monday of people interested in/working on phenomenology and new theories beyond the standard model.  The idea is to discuss over lunch, perhaps meet up around 12.20, grab lunch...

Apr
14
2026

Joint IAS/PU Symplectic Geometry Seminar

Approximability for sSpaces of Lagrangian Submanifolds
Octav Cornea
1:00pm|Fine Hall 401

I will discuss a recent notion - called categorical approximability - that extends the property of precompactness of a metric space. This is applied to certain spaces of Lagrangian submanifolds endowed with the spectral metric, such as exact...

Apr
14
2026

Analysis and Mathematical Physics

On the Global Well-Posedness of the Stochastic Yang-Mills-Higgs equations in Two dimensions
Bjoern Bringmann
2:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

The Yang-Mills-Higgs (YMH) model plays a central role in several areas of mathematics, including analysis, geometry, and probability theory. In this talk, we implement the stochastic quantization procedure for the YMH model in two dimensions. That...

Apr
14
2026

Princeton University Dark Cosmos Seminar

Simulating self-interacting dark matter with AREPO-2
Oliver Zier
4:00pm|Jadwin Hall, Joe Henry Room

Abstract: Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) is a well-motivated extension of ΛCDM that can alter the inner structure of haloes via collisional heat transport. It has been explored as a possible solution to small-scale tensions such as the cusp-...

Apr
14
2026

Joint IAS/PU Groups and Dynamics Seminar

Equidistribution of Random Walks on Homogeneous Spaces.
Timothée Bénard
4:30pm|Simonyi 101

I will explain why a random walk on a simple homogeneous space equidistributes toward the Haar measure with an explicit rate, provided that the walk is not trapped in a finite invariant set and that the distribution driving the walk is Zariski-dense...

Apr
14
2026

PCTS Lecture

When Atoms Compute: Quantum Computing, Simulation, and Sensing with Atoms, Ions, and Light
Peter Zoller
5:00pm|McDonnell Hall, Room A-02

Abstract: Quantum mechanics governs nature at its smallest scales—but today we can engineer that quantum world by creating and controlling entanglement, the unique fingerprint of quantum physics. Using laser-controlled atoms and ions, researchers...

Apr
14
2026

Happy Hour with Live Music

5:30pm|Rubenstein Commons

This event is open to Members, Faculty, Staff, and Friends of the Institute.