The 2021 Shaw Prize in Mathematics has been awarded to Jean-Michel
Bismut (1984, 1994) and Jeff Cheeger (1972,
1977–78, 1995), former Members in the School of Mathematics. The
pair shares the award for their “remarkable insights that
have...
"The Institute for Advanced Study doesn’t have any students or classes. There’s no regular daily agenda full of meetings and conferences. The scholars here don’t even have to research any specific topic. They could spend their whole day walking the grounds or sitting by the lake."
Camillo De Lellis, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize for Mathematics, Mechanics and Applications. Additionally, Elia Bruè, current Member in the School, has been awarded the academy's Gioacchino Iapichino Prize.
"The Rockmore theorem made its first—and perhaps only—named
appearance in print in 1977, in the journal Physics
Letters, Volume 72B, No. 4. A photocopy of the journal page
hung on my father’s office door, at Rutgers University, in New
Jersey. The...
IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf and Professor Nati Seiberg speak with Quanta Magazine about Quantum Field Theory and consider what a complete mathematical understanding could mean to physics.
For Jelani
Nelson, algorithms represent a wide-open playground. “The
design space is just so broad that it’s fun to see what you can
come up with,” he said.
Yet the algorithms Nelson devises obey real-world constraints —
chief among them the fact...
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has announced the recipients
of the 2021 Breakthrough and New Horizons Prizes, including current
Member Ahmed Almheiri (New
Horizons Prize in Physics) and former Member Martin Hairer (Breakthrough Prize
in...
When particle physicists try to model experiments, they confront
an impossible calculation — an infinitely long equation that lies
beyond the reach of modern mathematics. But threerecentpapers from a group of physicists led by
Sebastian
Mizera...
Dor Yosef Minzer,
Member in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2019
Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Association for Computing
Machinery.
The honor recognizes Minzer’s dissertation “On Monotonicity
Testing and the 2-to-2-Games...
