Institute for Advanced Study Courses

Theoretical physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf explores how physicists are striving for the long-sought unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity, with string theory being a leading contender.

• World Science U
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Representation Theory & Combinatorics of the Symmetry Group and Related Structures - Monica Vazirani

Explore Representation Theory & Combinatorics of the Symmetry Group with Monica Vazirani from the Institute for Advanced Study. Less than 1-hour material.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Superstring Amplitudes in Genus 0 and Double Copy - Francis Brown

Explore Superstring Amplitudes in Genus 0 and Double Copy with Oxford's Francis Brown in this 1-2 hour seminar from the Institute for Advanced Study.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Imitation Games - Avi Wigderson

Explore modern cryptography, randomness, and privacy with Avi Wigderson's 1-2 hour material from the Institute for Advanced Study.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 21 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

On Chen’s Recent Breakthrough on the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonovits Conjecture and Bourgain's Slicing Problem - Part III

Explore Chen's breakthrough on the Kannan-Lovasz-Simonovits conjecture with Ronen Eldan in this 1-2 hour seminar from the Institute for Advanced Study.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 53 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Worldsheet Correlators in AdS3 - Lorenz Eberhardt

Explore Worldsheet Correlators in AdS3 with Lorenz Eberhardt from the Institute for Advanced Study. This high-energy theory seminar requires 1-2 hours of study.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Twisted Topological Tangles or- The Knot Theory of Knitting - Elisabetta Matsumoto

Explore the knot theory of knitting with Elisabetta Matsumoto in this 1-2 hour workshop from the Institute for Advanced Study, covering topological properties, elasticity, and machine knitting.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 8 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

On the Ising Perceptron Model - Nike Sun

Explore the Ising perceptron model with Nike Sun from MIT in this under 1-hour lecture offered by the Institute for Advanced Study.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Pandora's Box with Correlations: Learning and Approximation - Shuchi Chawla

Explore decision-making under uncertainty with Shuchi Chawla from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dive into Pandora's Box problem, adaptive strategies, and data-driven algorithm design.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Some Half-Baked Thoughts About de Sitter Space - Leonard Susskind

Explore high energy theory with Leonard Susskind from Stanford University, in a 1-2 hour seminar offered by the Institute for Advanced Study.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Why Was Connes' Embedding Conjecture Refuted and There Are Still No Known Non-Hyperlinear Groups - Michael Chapman

Explore the refutation of Connes' embedding conjecture and the mystery of non-hyperlinear groups in this 1-2 hour material from the Institute for Advanced Study.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 52 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

String Topology and the Intersection Product - Nathalie Wahl

Explore string topology and intersection product with Nathalie Wahl from the University of Copenhagen, in a seminar hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study. Less than 1-hour workload.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

Physics of Functional Networks - Henrik Ronellenfitsch

Explore the physics of functional networks with Henrik Ronellenfitsch from the Institute for Advanced Study. Learn about network topology, sound control, and resilient grid design in 1-2 hours.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 17 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

N=2* SU(2) Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory and Four-Manifold Invariants - Gregory Moore

Dive into N=2* SU(2) Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory with this 1-2 hour seminar by Gregory Moore from the Institute for Advanced Study. Explore four-manifold invariants, topological twisting, and more.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 14 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course

The Affine Hecke Category Is a Monoidal Colimit - James Tao

Explore the affine Hecke category with James Tao from MIT, in a 1-2 hour seminar offered by the Institute for Advanced Study. Dive into geometric and modular representation theory.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 23 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Online Course