public lecture

The fields of computer science and game theory both trace their roots to the first half of the 20th century, with the work of Turing, von Neumann, Nash, and others. The 21st century has seen many fruitful points of contact between these two fields...

It is often said that a geometer has only two basic tools to study a space: to slice it or to project it. Cartography provides a vivid example: contour lines are simply the intersections of a landscape with horizontal planes. In the nineteenth...

Modern theoretical investigations into the nature of spacetime are revealing that quantum entanglement plays a crucial role for resolving several long standing puzzles. Black holes have been central to these investigations. Quantum models for black...

One of Alan Turing's most influential papers is his 1950 Computing machinery and intelligence, in which he introduces the famous "Turing test" for probing the nature of intelligence by evaluating the abilities of machines to behave as humans. In this...

A public Presentation by Professor Francesca Trivellato, followed by a discussion with IAS Academic Trustee Lorraine Daston