Events and Activities

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

Feb
23
2026

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

A General Quantum Duality for Representations of Groups with Applications to Quantum Money, Lightning, and Fire
Barak Nehoran
11:00am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Note: This talk will involve quantum computing, cryptography, and representation theory, but no background in any of these will be necessary to understand it. I'll introduce everything from the basics.

Aaronson, Atia, and Susskind (2020) established...

Feb
23
2026

IAS CMP/QFT Group Meeting

Entropic Order
Fedor Popov
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS)

Abstract: Ordered phases of matter, such as solids, ferromagnets, superfluids, or quantum topological order, typically only exist at low temperatures. Despite this conventional wisdom, we present explicit local models in which all such phases...

Feb
23
2026

Princeton University Gravity Initiative Seminar

Black Hole Non-linear Stability: A Mathematical Overview
Elena Giorgi
12:30pm|Jadwin Hall, Princeton Gravity Initiative, 4th Floor

Abstract: In this talk, I will survey key geometric and analytic aspects of black hole perturbations, focusing on recent advances in understanding their dynamical stability, with a particular emphasis on the recent proof of the full nonlinear...

Feb
23
2026

Members' Colloquium

Homological Stability of Moduli Spaces
1:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

Homological stability has emerged over the past decades as an organizing principle in topology and beyond. Broadly speaking, many sequences of moduli spaces exhibit the striking phenomenon that their homology stabilizes as the underlying complexity...

Feb
23
2026

IAS High Energy Theory Seminar

A Hologram of Super Yang-Mills at Weak Coupling
Atul Sharma
2:30pm|Bloomberg Lecture Hall (IAS) & Zoom

Abstract: I will employ twistor string theory to construct a bulk dual of N = 4 super Yang-Mills in the regime of weak 't Hooft coupling. I will also discuss applications of this duality to the study of scattering amplitudes, giant graviton...

Feb
23
2026

Joint IAS/PU Arithmetic Geometry

Moduli Stack of Isocrystals and Counting Local Systems
Gyujin Oh
3:30pm|Simonyi 101 and Remote Access

For any smooth projective curve over a finite field, we construct the p-adic analytic moduli stack of isocrystals and study its geometry. This is the crystalline analogue of the moduli of integrable connections. Notably, even though it is a...