The Institute Letter

Includes a variety of articles by Faculty and Members exploring deep learning and computation, black holes and quantum information, the anthropology of life and the politics of gender, the porous boundaries between science and culture, the topology of locally symmetric spaces, and the queer beginnings of Mormonism.

From dark matter and authoritarian culture in the Arab world to the intertwining of power and gender in our culture and psyches, the Spring 2018 Institute Letter includes articles by Faculty and Members that span research underway at the Institute.

Includes a variety of articles by Faculty and Members exploring human rights issues in China, the black hole firewall paradox, Syriac literature, the carceral condition, monotheism, Christianity and Islam in early modern Spain, genetics and identity, mirror symmetry, liquid crystals, and American foreign policy.

Includes a variety of articles by Faculty and Members exploring the history and ethos of the Institute, black holes and quantum gravity, the role of gender in French politics, emotions of Greek history in art, and the usefulness of useless knowledge.

Includes a variety of articles by Faculty and Members exploring the intersection of gender and religious freedom, the difficulties of gravitational-wave detection, the revolution of nineteenth-century print culture in Iran, and the evolution of contact and symplectic geometry.

Includes a variety of articles by Faculty and Members exploring gravitational-wave detection, military coups, the sizes of infinity, and the moral economy of asylum.

The Institute Letter publishes firsthand accounts of research and questions posed by IAS scientists and scholars, reports on breakthroughs and fields of study, and shares news of the Institute community.