Prospects in Theoretical Physics is an intensive two-week summer
program designed for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars
considering a career in theoretical physics. The 2009 program took
place from July 13 to July 24. First held by the...
Is the Qur’an an exclusively Islamic text? In this talk,
Angelika Neuwirth, a Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and
a Member (2009) in the School of Historical Studies, contends that
it is both Islamic and late antique. Before the Qur’an...
Is the Qur’an an exclusively Islamic text? In this talk,
Angelika Neuwirth, a Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and
a Member in the School of Historical Studies, contends that it is
both Islamic and late antique. Before the Qur’an was...
In a talk sponsored by the Einstein Legacy Society, Brett
Hammond, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, TIAA-CREF,
addresses financial markets, the downturn and current outlook, and
what investors can do to help assure that their plans...
For the past decade, the Institute’s Science Initiative Group
(SIG) has worked with the World Bank and other partners to
strengthen science in developing nations. In this talk, Phillip
Griffiths, who helped create SIG when he was Director of the...
Barry O'Neill, Leon Levy Foundation Member, School of Social
Science. Many of the world’s societies function by codes of honor.
Violence between ethnic groups or countries often follows the rules
of honor among individuals, in particular among...
We construct our understanding of the world solely from neuronal
activity generated in our brains. How do we do this? Many studies
have investigated how the electrical activity of neurons (action
potentials) is related to outside stimuli, and...
