🩰 TONIGHT: San Francisco Ballet’s Artistic Director Tamara Rojo (@TamaraRojo1) and dance historian Jennifer Homans will discuss the place and practice of dance in our arts and culture with Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Director David Nirenberg. Register FREE: instituteforadvancedstudy.info/3Uo2Y3W

📚 Nergis Ertürk's new account of global revolutionary literary culture has been published by Columbia Univ Press. Ertürk's work on the book was supported by a Membership in the Institute's School of Historical Studies in spring 2019. Read more: cup.columbia.edu/book/writing-i…

🏆 Nine past scholars across three IAS Schools—Natural Sciences, Historical Studies, and Social Science—have received 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships (GuggenheimFoundation), one of the most remarkable honors for mid-career researchers, artists, and writers. Read more: ias.edu/news/past-scho…

👏 IAS Professors Akshay Venkatesh and Camillo De Lellis have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences (American Academy of Arts & Sciences), recognizing their contributions to mathematics. They join the 2024 class along with nine current and former IAS Members: ias.edu/news/akshay-ve…

🩰 What place does dance occupy in the past, present, and future of art and culture? This Friday, join Tamara Rojo (Tamara Rojo Diez), Jennifer Homans, and Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Director David Nirenberg for a wide-ranging dialogue on this question and more. Register FREE: instituteforadvancedstudy.info/3Uo2Y3W

🪐 Agustin Moreno, past Member in the School of Mathematics (2021–23), in collaboration with a colleague NASA JPL, has devised new tools for cataloging space orbits using symplectic geometry. Read more Quanta Magazine: instituteforadvancedstudy.info/4b4Qi7B

✨ New simulations from Adam Burrows, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, have been highlighted in AAS Nova:

🚀 'If LISA really can pick up primordial gravitational waves,' Isabel Garcia Garcia, Member in the School of Natural Sciences (2022–23), told Quanta Magazine, 'it will be our first glimpse of the cosmos’s first moments.' Read more: quantamagazine.org/hopes-of-big-b…

👏 Congratulations to Julia Ticona (Julia Ticona), Member in the School of Social Science, on receiving a #NEHGrant from NEH for the research project 'Imagining AI in organized labor', co-directed with Caitlin Petre (@cbpetre) of Rutgers School of Communication and Information: ias.edu/news/julia-tic…

🔀 From a small U.K. seaside town, to Cambridge University, to Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)! Explore geometric measure theorist Paul Minter's 'Path to Math' in the latest installment of our video series: youtube.com/watch?v=_OzxC5…

🩰 On 04/26, join Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Director David Nirenberg for a conversation with San Francisco Ballet’s Tamara Rojo (@TamaraRojo1) and dance historian Jennifer Homans on the place and practice of dance in the past, present, and future of art and culture. Register FREE: ias.edu/directors-conv…

Super grateful for seminar feedback from colleagues Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) on the Solanas project this week. Also happy to put the mathematicians’ blackboards to good use.

⚛️ Where are you running to, electrons? Last month, a “marathon” S-matrix theory workshop brought together 40+ scholars from around the world to tackle decades-old questions about the scattering process of particles that have collided with each other: ias.edu/news/s-matrix-…

It was a pleasure to host Margrethe Vestager at the Institute for Advanced Study (@the_IAS) for the '24 Public Policy Lecture.

She offered lessons from Oppenheimer (IAS director) on tech: it's challenging democracy, humanity, and economic security.

Conclusion: AI governance is needed.

Avi Wigderson *83 has won the #ACMTuringAward from Association for Computing Machinery!

The award is considered the highest honor in computer science, often called the “Nobel Prize of Computing.”

Congratulations! 👏 bit.ly/3xwPD04

The 2023 Turing award, often referred to as the Nobel prize for computing, goes to Avi Wigderson for his work on understanding how randomness can improve computer algorithms. newscientist.com/article/242591…

Avi Wigderson was named the winner of the A.M. Turing Award for his foundational contributions to the theory of computation. trib.al/MvmRCPl

🏆 We're thrilled to announce the recipient of the 2023 #ACMTuringAward : Avi Wigderson! Wigderson is recognized for his foundational contributions to the theory of computation. Join us in celebrating his incredible achievements! Learn more here: bit.ly/4aGpbiM Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)