Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

🗞️ The Fall/Winter 2026 edition of The Institute Letter is now online! Follow the links below to explore everything from the connections between Einstein's ideas about quantum entanglement and wormholes to how technology fosters both opportunity and inequality:

🏆 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…

🥧 This #PiDay, see how founding IAS Professor (1933–55) Albert Einstein's ideas still animate research by tracing a throughline from his EPR paper's “spooky action at a distance” to ER=EPR, AdS/CFT, and new de Sitter “toy” models of quantum gravity: ias.edu/ideas/ias-shap…

Anne-Renée Rice-Soumeillant, Assistant Sous Chef at the Institute for Advanced Study, explains how cooking at IAS differs from restaurant routine: menus shift daily with what’s seasonal, colorful, and on hand: youtu.be/tKUr1rS0YoI

Mitch Swirsky, Master Electrician at IAS, shares what it means to be an electrician on campus. From the iconic Fuld Hall clock tower to Marquand House, he reflects on maintaining what was built to last—and dedicating his trade to the Institute: youtu.be/PkGknoWfyXI

A new installment of "Institute Instances" is here—video snapshots from the Institute for Advanced Study featuring scholars, administrators, and visitors discussing their work at IAS. Each new episode in the series is shared in the replies. 🎥: ias.edu/institute-inst…