Nima Arkani-Hamed

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...

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...

The World of Thinking will make its U.S. premiere on Sunday, October 18, 2020 during the thirteenth annual Imagine Science Film Festival, presented by Pioneer Works. After the screening, IAS Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed, who stars in the film, joins...

“Paleontologists infer the existence of dinosaurs to give a rational accounting of strange patterns of bones,” said Nima Arkani-Hamed, a physicist and cosmologist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. “We look at patterns in...

Listen to the BBC Radio 3 broadcast by Director's Visitor (2018) Sally Marlow, who interviews IAS Director Robbert Dijkgraaf, and Professors Joan Wallach Scott, Freeman J. Dyson, Nima Arkani-Hamed, and Myles W. Jackson.

On Wednesday, April 24, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, gave a special public lecture at Cornell University.

Arkani-Hamed's lecture, "What’s the Point of Doing Fundamental Science?," asked why we should dedicate...

"The world has all kinds of long-term problems, some of which might seem impossible to solve. So it’s important to have a group of people who, over centuries, give a concrete template for how to go about grappling with and ultimately conquering...

Writing for Nautilus, George Musser, Director's Visitor and Scientific American contributing editor, highlights current work by Andrew Strominger, Member (1982–1987) in the School of Natural Sciences. Strominger and colleagues are investigating how...

Writing for the New Yorker, Director's Visitor (2017) Natalie Wolchover discusses the puzzles and paradoxes of contemporary science that point to "the need to reformulate the theories of modern physics in a new mathematical language," highlighting...

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, delivered the public lecture “The End of Spacetime” at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, CA, on June 19.

Watch Arkani-Hamed discuss the union of quantum mechanics and...