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I've supervised a lot of great student projects in my nine years at MIT, but my inner nerdy teenager has never been as personally delighted by a project as it is right now. Today, I'm proud to announce that Adam Yedidia, a PhD student at MIT (but an MEng student when he did most of this work),…
Thom, winner of the Fields Medal for his groundbreaking work in geometry and creator of the influential catastrophe theory, was born in France 100 years ago
Follow Stephen Wolfram's evolution of research on the 2nd Law from early interest as a 12-year-old to his current findings in the Wolfram Physics Project. View a large collection of images of early and published works.
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2022 Abel Prize to Dennis Sullivan, a 1966 Ph.D. graduate of Princeton, “for his groundbreaking contributions to topology.” The Abel Prize is widely considered equivalent to a Nobel prize for mathematics.
Liz Fuller-Wright, Office of Communications March 17, 2021 4:55 p.m. Avi Wigderson Photo by Dan Komoda, Institute for Advanced Study The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the Abel Prize for 2021 to Avi Wigderson, a 1983 Ph.D. graduate of Princeton in electrical engineering and computer science, now on the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study. He shares the prize with László Lovász of the Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics and Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary. The award cites “their foundational contributions to theoretical computer scienc...