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🌷 HOT OFF THE PRESS: The Spring 2024 edition of the Institute Letter is now available online! In this issue, explore how collaborative efforts have maximized mathematicians’ knowledge of minimal surfaces. Join a group of historians, theologians, and other scholars as they think together about the co-production of three religious traditions. Discover how real-life experiences of making and performing music have inspired research into a unique electronic instrument. Dine out on our archivist’s insights into achieving intimacy, illumination, and understanding over dinner. 🔗 Read the digital edition: https://lnkd.in/djnV_GxJ 📖 Download the pdf: https://lnkd.in/dNUvUprt

Three world-leading mathematicians, Irit Dveer Dinur, Elon Lindenstrauss, and Aaron Naber, have been appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study Faculty, bringing unique expertise in pure mathematics and computer science to the School of Mathematics. They will begin their Institute appointments this summer. Read more: https://lnkd.in/e5ETEWPA

🏆 The Institute for Advanced Study is currently accepting nominations for the 2024 Salem Prize, which, since 1968, has been awarded to young mathematicians judged to have completed outstanding work on harmonic analysis and related topics. The prize is named for Raphaël Salem (1898–1963), a Greek mathematician notable for his deep study of the links between Fourier series and number theory and for pioneering applications of probabilistic methods to these fields. More information on the prize and the nomination process can be found here: https://lnkd.in/evU2TTuB

Congratulations to Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor in the School of Social Science, on her appointment to the MacArthur Foundation's Board of Directors.

RESEARCH NEWS: Sebastian Mizera, Member in the School of Natural Sciences, and collaborators from Université Paris-Saclay and Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences have developed cutting-edge mathematical tools to better study predictions for particle physics experiments such as those at CERN. https://lnkd.in/eJ6EEx5k

From May 19–24, the Institute for Advanced Study welcomed 40 attendees from across the globe for its annual Women+ and Mathematics (W+AM) program, which focused on the theme of "Symmetry and Arithmetic." Highlights of the program included the Terng and Uhlenbeck lectures, both of which took the work of IAS Faculty as a basis. The Terng lectures, presented by Charlotte Chan, focused on Deligne-Lusztig theory. In the 1970s, Pierre Deligne, Professor Emeritus in the School of Mathematics, and George Lusztig, frequent Member in the School, uncovered important relationships between geometry and representation theory. Chan delivered an example-based tour of these ideas. Meanwhile, Uhlenbeck lecturer Ana Caraiani, Veblen Research Instructor (2013–16) in the School of Mathematics, provided glimpse into the Langlands program, a series of conjectures first outlined in 1967 by IAS Professor Emeritus Robert P. Langlands. In her lectures, Caraiani discussed the geometric ingredients of the Langlands correspondence. 🔗 Read more about the 2024 program: https://lnkd.in/ePnNaehG 📽 Watch the Terng and Uhlenbeck lectures: https://lnkd.in/eMKiJGRp

The Institute for Advanced Study's “Paths to Math” series comes to a close with a special edition video featuring one of our most beloved veteran mathematicians: Distinguished Visiting Professor Karen Uhlenbeck. As well as providing many humorous reflections on a mathematical life well lived, Karen introduces her abundant fields of interest, from the calculus of variations to integrable systems. Watch to see her describe the spirited female colleagues that she worked alongside at the University of Illinois Chicago, who helped to dispel any lingering doubts about being a woman in math: https://lnkd.in/ehsDSBZ7

On Friday, May 3, the Institute for Advanced Study's Director and Leon Levy Professor David Nirenberg invites you to a Director’s Conversation with multi-Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. Register FREE: https://lnkd.in/e-_s2P23

RESEARCH NEWS: A multidisciplinary research team including Patrick Geary, Professor Emeritus in the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Historical Studies, has combined ancient #DNA data with a clear #archaeological, #anthropological, and #historical context to reconstruct the social dynamics of Avar-period steppe descent populations that settled in Europe's Carpathian Basin in the 6th century. Geary collaborated with Hungarian, Austrian, and German research groups based at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology; the Institute of Archaeological Sciences at Eötvös Loránd University; the Curt Engelhorn Center for Archaeometry; and the Institute for Austrian Historical Research at the University of Vienna on the project. The work was published in #Nature this morning. Read more: https://lnkd.in/emgs3fu5

Today’s new installment of the Institute for Advanced Study’s Paths to Math video series features Paul Minter, Veblen Research Instructor (2022–23) and Veblen Fellow (2023–27), in the School of Mathematics. Watch to see Paul outline the minimization principles that are integral for his research, which are exemplified by soap bubbles. He also describes how, despite being discouraged from applying to an elite school, his passion for mathematics brought him from a small U.K. seaside town, to the University of Cambridge, and then to IAS. Watch here: https://lnkd.in/eW3s9FAt