On April 10, 2019, we were presented with the first-ever
close-up image of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope
(EHT). This remarkable technological achievement was made possible
by the collective efforts of hundreds of astrophysics...
A research team at IAS has recently announced the discovery of six new binary
black hole mergers. The team applied a unique set of signal
processing techniques to data made publicly available by the
LIGO-Virgo Collaboration (the same group...
Explore a visual and narrative look at the pioneering research
at the Institute for Advanced Study, a community of international
scholars and researchers, from young postdocs to lifelong IAS
collaborators. From Islamic manuscript traditions and...
Explore a visual and narrative look at the pioneering research
at the Institute for Advanced Study, a community of international
scholars and researchers, from young postdocs to lifelong IAS
collaborators. From Greek inscriptions and machine...
From December 4–5, 2018, the School of Natural Sciences hosted a
workshop on "Quantum Information and the Structure of Spacetime."
The event focused on quantum aspects of black holes, with an
emphasis on applying ideas from quantum information...
On October 26, 2018, Myles W.
Jackson, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, gave
his first IAS public lecture on "Genes, Patents, and Race: The
History of Science as a Bridge Between Disciplines."
In the last six months, Juan Maldacena, Carl P. Feinberg
Professor in the School of Natural Sciences, has received three
major awards: the Lorentz Medal of the Royal Netherlands Academy of
Arts and Sciences; the 2018 Einstein Medal from the Albert...
Phenomena with different levels of complexity are understood in
terms of different irreducible concepts—turbulence, survival,
alertness, and so forth. The brain is an assemblage of cells; a
painting is an assemblage of chemical pigment. But what’s...
How do we fit into our mathematical descriptions? Well, one
thing I’ll tell you is that in general, when you have dualities,
things that are easy to see in one description can be hard to see
in the other description. So you and I, for example, are...
“From Qubits to Spacetime,” the title of 2018's Prospects in
Theoretical Physics program, took place from July 16–27, 2018, and
covered topics ranging from the connections between quantum
information and the structure of spacetime, to how...
