Events and Activities

Explore current and upcoming events and activities happening at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Nov
09
2026

Princeton University PCTS Workshop

AI-Accelerated Quantum Materials: From Method Development to Novel Materials (AAQM)
8:00am|407 Jadwin Hall, 4th Floor, PCTS Seminar Room

Organizers: Andrei Bernevig and Leslie Schoop, Shuo Liu, Yi Jiang (Princeton University) JiabinYu, Benjamin Geisler, Richard Hennig, and Peter Hirschfeld (University of Florida)

Registration is open. https://forms.gle/KYXWRfP3c9nPpekbA

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Nov
09
2026

Seminar on OpenAI's 722 Manuscripts

Introduction to the Kakeya Conjectures
9:30am|Simonyi 101

The Kakeya Conjectures concern overlapping properties of direction-separated tubes in $\mathbb{R}^n$. They are elementary to state, but difficult to prove. In 2025, Wang-Zahl proved the Kakeya Set Conjecture for $n=3$. On October 6, OpenAI claimed...

Nov
09
2026

IAS CMP/QFT Group Meeting

Some Topological Aspects of Quantum Field Theory in the Continuum and on the Lattice
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS)

Abstract: We will review the continuum c=1 conformal field theory and its lattice description in terms of a modified Villain model.  Then, we will discuss its c=2 version.  In addition to its standard zero-form internal symmetries, the model also...

Nov
09
2026

Members' Colloquium

Mathematics as Gift Economy
Michael Harris
2:00pm|Simonyi 101

Although Lewis Hyde's The Gift is primarily concerned with the status of works of art, he does devote part of a chapter to arguing that scientific research functions as a gift economy: the scientist (ideally) contributes new knowledge as a shared...

Nov
09
2026

IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

What is Universality in AdS/CFT?
Eric Perlmutter
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS) & Zoom

Abstract: This talk will present and scrutinize certain structures underlying what we usually call the semiclassical limit of AdS/CFT: how families of CFTs develop gravitational regimes at large N; how their exact high-energy spectra compare to...

Nov
09
2026

Joint IAS/PU Arithmetic Geometry

Overconvergent Frobenius From Quantum Connection
Shaoyun Bai
3:30pm|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

The simplest kind of Gromov-Witten invariants produce the (very) small quantum connection, which is a connection in one variable with a regular singularity at origin. I will discuss a conjecture which predicts that for a smooth complex Fano variety...

Nov
10
2026

Princeton University PCTS Workshop

AI-Accelerated Quantum Materials: From Method Development to Novel Materials (AAQM)
8:00am|407 Jadwin Hall, 4th Floor, PCTS Seminar Room

Organizers: Andrei Bernevig and Leslie Schoop, Shuo Liu, Yi Jiang (Princeton University) JiabinYu, Benjamin Geisler, Richard Hennig, and Peter Hirschfeld (University of Florida)

Registration is open. https://forms.gle/KYXWRfP3c9nPpekbA

Description: ...