Events and Activities

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

Apr
15
2026

Princeton University PCTS Workshop

Quantum Information/Simulation and Open Systems
8:00am|407 Jadwin Hall, 4th Floor, PCTS Seminar Room

Organizers: 
Dima Abanin, Waseem Bakr, Lawerence Cheuk, Sam Garratt, Sarang Gopalakerishnan, Nick O'Dea

Registration is free, but required, and you must be a current faculty member, researcher, or graduate student at an accredited institution to...

Apr
15
2026

Servery Dinner

5:30pm

Make a reservation via open table
Gourmet dinner is limited to Institute Members, Faculty, Staff, Friends of the Institute, and their guests.

Apr
15
2026

Mathematical Conversations

Noninterpenetration of Matter and the Lavrentiev Phenomenon
6:00pm|Simons Hall Dilworth Room

I will describe a simply stated and longstanding open problem connected to the invertibility of deformations in nonliear elasticity, and how attempts to solve it led to surprising one-dimensional examples of $1D$ problems of the calculus of...

Apr
15
2026

Princeton University Donald R. Hamilton Lecture

The Statistical Physics of Flocks and Swarms
Irene Giardina
6:00pm|McDonnell Hall, A-02

Abstract: Flocks and swarms are iconic examples of living matter, in which motile, interacting individuals give rise to emergent global patterns. Despite the complexity of their biological components, these groups obey robust statistical laws and...

Apr
16
2026

Princeton University PCTS Workshop

Quantum Information/Simulation and Open Systems
8:00am|407 Jadwin Hall, 4th Floor, PCTS Seminar Room

Organizers: 
Dima Abanin, Waseem Bakr, Lawerence Cheuk, Sam Garratt, Sarang Gopalakerishnan, Nick O'Dea

Registration is free, but required, and you must be a current faculty member, researcher, or graduate student at an accredited institution to...

Apr
17
2026

Princeton University PCTS Workshop

Quantum Information/Simulation and Open Systems
8:00am|407 Jadwin Hall, 4th Floor, PCTS Seminar Room

Organizers: 
Dima Abanin, Waseem Bakr, Lawerence Cheuk, Sam Garratt, Sarang Gopalakerishnan, Nick O'Dea

Registration is free, but required, and you must be a current faculty member, researcher, or graduate student at an accredited institution to...