Institute for Advanced Study
The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. The Institute exists to encourage and support fundamental research in the sciences and humanities—the original, often speculative thinking that produces advances in knowledge that change the way we understand the world. Work at the Institute takes place in four Schools: Historical Studies, Mathematics, Natural Sciences and Social Science. It provides for the mentoring of scholars by a permanent Faculty of some 28, and it offers all who work there the freedom to undertake research that will make significant contributions in any of the broad range of fields in the sciences and humanities studied at the Institute.
Institute for Advanced Study
As Christopher Nolan’s film Oppenheimer makes its way to the box office, David Nirenberg, IAS Director and Leon Levy Professor, writes for @wsj about the continued significance of Oppenheimer’s tenure as Director of the Institute for Advanced Study.
“Oppenheimer, Einstein, von Neumann and other Institute faculty channeled much of their effort toward what AI researchers today call the “alignment” problem: how to make sure our discoveries serve us instead of destroying us.”
Read more: www.wsj.com/articles/j-robert-oppenheimers-defense…
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Institute for Advanced Study
🏅 The Institute for Advanced Study is 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 in honor of 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.
Nominations should include the nominee’s CV and a letter explaining the significance of their work. More information on the prize and the nomination process: www.ias.edu/math/activities/salem-prize
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