Friends Events Fall and Winter 2025
Please check this calendar frequently, as changes do occur and events (including Friends talks and lectures) will be added. You will find the most up to date information about events below.
SEPTEMBER
9/19 Happy Hour Trivia Night
6:00 - 8:00 pm in Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
9/26 Happy Hour: Live Music with Cara Cartney
7:00 - 9:30 pm in Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
October
10/3 Friends Welcome Reception
5:30 - 7:30 pm in Simons Hall
Details and Registration
10/6 Friends Talk with Sofía Torallas Tovar, Distinguished Visiting Professor, School of Historical Studies
Writing, reading and sharing magic in Ancient Egypt
5:00 pm Reception
5:30 Talk
both in Rubenstein Commons Café
Details and Registration
10/7 New Acquisitions Showcase
3:30 pm Rubenstein Commons Room 1
Details
10/7 Historical Studies Book Talk with Michael Gordin
5:30 pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
Details and Registration
10/10 Happy Hour Trivia
6:00 - 8:00 pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
Details and Registration
10/15 Film Screening: a.k.a. Mr. Chow
5:00 pm (screening 1 hr. 30 min.) in Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
10/16 Happy Hour with Live Music featuring the Clark Abbott Trio
5:30pm in Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
10/17 An Evening with M
(a.k.a. Mr. Chow, a.k.a. Michael Chow, a.k.a. 周英華)
5:00pm in Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
10/23 Happy Hour Bingo
5:30pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
Details and Registration
10/24 Director's Conversation with Annabelle Seldorf
5:00 pm in Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
10/29 Community Pumpkin Painting
4:00 - 5:30pm in the Birch Garden
Details and Registration
10/29 Friends Table at Servery Dinner
6:00pm in Simons Hall
Please rsvp to friends@ias.edu or 609.734.8008
10/31 Halloween Trick-or-Treat for Kids
4:30 pm in Fuld Hall Common Room
Details and Registration
10/31 Fall Fest Buffet Dinner
5:30 pm in Simons Hall
Details and Registration
10/31 Halloween Event at 112 Mercer Street
5:00 - 7:00 pm
November
11/7 100th Anniversary: Marston Morse Public Lecture
Slicing Spaces: From Contour Lines to Morse Theory
5:00 pm in Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
11/12 Princeton Symphony Orchestra Concert, Exponential Ensemble
7:00 pm in Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
11/13 Happy Hour Trivia
6:00 - 8:00 pm in Rubenstein Commons Cafe
Details and Registration
11/14 History of Science Lecture with Kate Epstein
Analog Superpowers: How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
5:30 pm in Simons Hall Dilworth Room
Details and Registration
11/18 Wine Tasting
5:30 pm in Rubenstein Commons Room 5
Details and Registration
11/19 School of Mathematics: Public Lecture with Timothy Roughgarden
Computer Science and Game Theory: a Conversation
5:00 pm in Wolfensohn Hall
Details and Registration
11/19 Friends Table at Servery Dinner
6:00 pm in Simons Hall
Please rsvp to friends@ias.edu or 609.734.8008
11/21 CANCELED
(to be rescheduled)
Friends Lunch with a Member:
Vera Gluscevic, IBM Einstein Fellow, School of Natural Sciences
Growing a Universe from Quantum Scales
11/21 Happy Hour with John Beacher
5:30 pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
Details and Registration
11/25 Interactive Squeeze-Making Event
11:00 am in Building B, Room 101
This will be a drop-in event and registration is not required.
December
12/4 Happy Hour Trivia
6:00 pm in Rubenstein Commons Café
Details and Registration
12/10 Friends Table at Servery Dinner
6:00 pm in Simons Hall
Please rsvp to friends@ias.edu or 609.734.8008
12/11 S. T. Lee Lecture with Dorothea Weltecke
5:00 pm in West Building Lecture Hall
Details and Registration
12/12 Friends Holiday Party
6:00 - 8:00 pm in Rubenstein Commons
Details and Registration
12/16 Friends Lunch with a Member:
Eleni Hasaki, Member in the School of Historical Studies
12 pm in the Dilworth Room, Simons Hall
Details and Registration
12/17 Children's Holiday Party
4:30 pm in Simons Hall
Details and registration
January
1/7 Friends Table at Servery Dinner
6:00pm in Simons Hall
Please rsvp to friends@ias.edu or 609.734.8008
February
2/25 Friends Table at Servery Dinner
6:00pm in Simons Hall
Please rsvp to friends@ias.edu or 609.734.8008