Nima Arkani-Hamed

"Edward Witten has spent almost 50 years at the forefront of theoretical and mathematical physics. Here he describes how the LHC and other recent results have impacted his view on nature, and asks whether naturalness is still a useful guide for the field."

The Institute for Advanced Study has named Carl P. Feinberg—entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist—to its Board of Trustees effective October 30, 2021.

By Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences:

"Steven Weinberg, who died on July 23, towered over theoretical physics in the second half of the 20th century. He strongly believed that, armed only with the fundamental principles...

The Strings 2021 conference, convening international experts and researchers to discuss string theory, takes place June 21–July 2, 2021, in São Paulo, Brazil. The annual international Strings conferences, which have been held every year since 1995...

The Carl P. Feinberg Cross-Disciplinary Program in Innovation at the Institute for Advanced Study will unite today’s boldest ideas in physics, mathematics, and beyond to unlock new and fascinating truths about the natural world. Endowed in...

The Standard Model of particle physics is both fantastically successful and glaringly incomplete. Its predictions have pieced together many of the known features of the universe and guided physicists to new discoveries, such as the Higgs boson...

Via Quanta Magazine:

The outline of Lauren Williams’s mathematical career was present very early on in her life.

“Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always loved patterns,” said Williams. “I enjoyed being given a sequence of numbers and having to...