Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

📖 The Spring 2025 edition of The Institute Letter is online now! Featuring the unsung contributions of beagles to science, the latest on dark matter, and more—plus original cover art by @MarcellaWylie! Follow the links below to access the digital edition:

🖥️ Theoretical computer scientist @rrwilliams returns to the Institute this fall as the architect of a proof described as “stunning” and “massive.” In May, Ben Brudaker of @QuantaMagazine interviewed him about the revolutionary result: instituteforadvancedstudy.info/45dr7yq

📏 When Gianmarco Caldini first arrived at IAS in spring 2024, a series of fortuitous connections on the Institute campus and beyond led him to new collaborations, friendships, and the publication of a decades-old theorem in geometric measure theory: ias.edu/ideas/measure-…

The Institute for Advanced Study @the_IAS discusses our science writer Ananyo Bhattacharya’s @Nature feature on the significance of the geometric Langlands proof. ias.edu/news/breakthro…

Something extraordinary for me about @the_IAS is the intergenerationality & inclusion of "wise elders." I will always treasure the special bond Pierre & I developed with the greatests of greats, Karen Uhlenbeck. Our many meals, math & life conversations, something very special...

Remarkably, nearly everyone mentioned in my feature on the geometric Langlands spent time at @the_IAS: Langlands 1972- Ben-Zvi 2018, 2008 Gaitsgory 1996-97, 1998-99 Weil 1958-98 Frenkel 1997 Beilinson 1994, 1996-97, 1997-98 Fargues (von Neumann fellow) 2008 Kapustin 1997-2001…

🔢 For @Nature, @Ananyo Bhattacharya, biographer of IAS Professor John von Neumann, outlines a "major advance" in research into "the grand unified theory of mathematics" first laid out by Robert Langlands, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics: nature.com/articles/d4158…

🏆 Nominations are open for the 2025 Salem Prize! Honoring Raphaël Salem, after whom Salem numbers are also named, the annual prize is awarded to a young mathematician who has completed outstanding work on harmonic analysis and related topics. Read more: ias.edu/math/activitie…

🏆 Congratulations to Mario Draghi, IAS Trustee since 1998, who has been announced as the recipient of the @fpa 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for International Cooperation: ias.edu/news/trustee-m… #PrincessOfAsturiasAwards

The Institute was saddened to hear of the passing of Marina von Neumann Whitman, pioneering economist and IAS Trustee Emerita, last month. As the daughter of John von Neumann, IAS Professor (1933–55), Whitman had a lifelong connection to the Institute: ias.edu/news/memoriam-…

📜 Sofía Torallas Tovar from the School of Historical Studies has opened a new exhibition exploring the history and influence of Ezekiel’s Papyrus at @BNE_biblioteca, taking visitors on a journey that traverses both centuries and civilizations: ias.edu/news/ias-schol…

🧠 Does AI have a role to play in pure mathematics—the kind still worked out on blackboards over decades? To interrogate this question, @nytimes spoke to IAS scholars from diverse disciplinary perspectives, including @patrickshafto and @alondra: nytimes.com/2025/06/19/sci…