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🗞️ The Spring/Summer 2026 edition of The Institute Letter is now online! Tap the links below to explore everything from the humanistic roots of mathematics and tidal disruption events around black holes to the fascinating history of a unique system for transcribing choreography.

🖌️ Intrigued by the lack of commentary on Matisse’s "Stations of the Cross" mural in Vence, France, Yve-Alain Bois, Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies, mounted an exhibition, now at @artbma, dedicated to the elaboration of the work: ias.edu/ideas/exhibiti…

Unpick IAS history with an embroidered tablecloth which preserves the names of well-known figures of the math world and stalwarts of the Institute community: ias.edu/ideas/tableclo…

Learn how the engineering challenge of teaching computers to “see” blossomed into elegant developments in pure mathematics: ias.edu/ideas/old-and-…

🗞️ The Spring/Summer 2026 edition of The Institute Letter is now online! Tap the links below to explore everything from the humanistic roots of mathematics and tidal disruption events around black holes to the fascinating history of a unique system for transcribing choreography.

🏅 Myles W. Jackson, Ernst and Elisabeth Albers-Schönberg Professor in the History of Science in the School of Historical Studies, is among the 2026 electees to the @AmPhilSociety. Five former IAS scholars were also elected: ias.edu/news/myles-w-j…

👏 Ten former IAS scholars—and one who will join the Institute in the fall—have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences (@theNASciences). The Schools of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Social Science are represented in the 2026 cohort: ias.edu/news/national-…

🏆 Congrats to Ishan Levy, Member (2025–26) and soon-to-be Visiting Professor (2026–31) in the School of Mathematics, who was recognized in the Clay Research Awards for “remarkable work” on counterexamples to Ravenel’s Telescope Conjecture. More: ias.edu/news/ishan-lev…

🎉 Among the 252 new members elected to the @americanacad this spring are thirteen scholars with connections to IAS. All four Schools are represented in this year’s cohort, described by the Academy as “leaders” in their respective fields. Read more: ias.edu/news/thirteen-…

🇫🇷 It is anticipated that the Eiffel Tower will be engraved this year with the names of 72 women scientists—including three former School of Mathematics scholars: Cécile DeWitt-Morette, Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, and Jacqueline Ferrand. Read more: ias.edu/news/etched-hi…

🎓 Ten IAS scholars with expertise in topics ranging from the history of epidemic disease to algebraic number theory have been named among the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows (@GuggFellows): ias.edu/news/ten-ias-s…

👏 Thirteen IAS scholars have been named among the 2026 @brkthroughprize Foundation laureates—"the Oscars® of Science"—honoring research that significantly drives human knowledge: ias.edu/news/ias-schol…

🌌 Rashid Sunyaev, Distinguished Visiting Professor (2010–24) in the School of Natural Sciences, has been announced as the winner of the 2026 Fritz Zwicky Prize for Astrophysics and Cosmology by @EAS_astro: ias.edu/news/rashid-su…

🔭 Congratulations to James Beattie (@astro_magnetism), who will begin his Membership in the Institute's School of Natural Sciences this fall as a @NASAHubble Fellow. Beattie's work aims to unravel turbulence and magnetism across all scales: ias.edu/news/incoming-…

📖 Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and @SheraliTareen, Patricia Crone Member (2024–25) in the School, discuss Schmidtke's new book on Hedwig Klein, a talented German Jewish scholar of Islam killed during the Holocaust: ias.edu/ideas/conversa…

🎊 Nicola Di Cosmo, Luce Foundation Professor in East Asian Studies at IAS, has been named the 2026 recipient of the Onon Prize. The prize honors his "substantial contribution to scholarship" on the historical relations between China and Inner Asia: ias.edu/news/nicola-di…

👏 Gerd Faltings, Member (1988, 1992–93) in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the 2026 @abel_prize. Often described as the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize, the award recognizes Faltings as "a towering figure in arithmetic geometry": ias.edu/news/2026-abel…

🏆 Both of the scholars awarded this year’s Bancroft Prize have ties to IAS: Emilie Connolly, Member (2024–25) in the School of Historical Studies, and Beth Lew-Williams, Visitor (2015–16) in the School of Social Science: ias.edu/news/histories…