Institute for Advanced Study

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href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/james-webb">James Webb</a> </span> </div> <div class="teaser cb-editor"> <div> How an understanding of past global health interventions can contribute to an improvement in the design and implementation of future interventions </div> </div> </div>  </article>  <article id="node-59006" class="node node-event node-promoted node-odd event event-grid-2-col col-half grid-double-col basic-teaser h-effect m-grid-item"> <a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/events" class="icon-wrap"><span class="icon-label">Event<span></a> <div class="affiliation"> <p></p> </div> <span property="dc:title" content="Analysis and Beyond: Celebrating Jean Bourgain’s Work and Impact" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="feature-thumbnail small"> <a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/bourgain-2016"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="b-lazy" 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class="date-wrapper"><span class="start-date">May 21, 2016 | 10:00am</span> – <span class="end-date">May 24, | 12:30pm</span></div></span> </div> </div> <div class="teaser cb-editor"> <div> Featuring talks by IAS Faculty and Members; for a schedule and more information, please visit <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160521154955/https://www.math.ias.edu/bourgain16" target="_blank">www.math.ias.edu/bourgain16</a>. </div> </div> </div>  </article>  <article id="node-59081" class="node node-idea node-even idea idea-grid-1-col col-quarter grid-single-col basic-teaser h-effect m-grid-item"> <a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/ideas" class="icon-wrap"><span class="icon-label">Ideas</span></a> <div class="affiliation"> <p><a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/ideas?aff=3">Natural Sciences</a></p> </div> <span property="dc:title" content="Cosmic Calorimetry or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hydrogen" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div 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class="byline-dateline"> <span class="byline"> By <a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/juna-kollmeier">Juna Kollmeier</a> </span> </div> <div class="teaser cb-editor"> <div> Cosmologists were struggling to understand the basic geometry and content of the universe. If prevailing wisdom was correct, these photons should never have arrived at our telescopes on Earth. The great barrier of neutral hydrogen atoms throughout the universe should have absorbed them—all of them. Why was the universe essentially transparent? </div> </div> </div>  </article>  <article id="node-58291" class="node node-idea node-promoted node-odd idea idea-grid-2-col idea-video col-half grid-double-col basic-teaser h-effect m-grid-item"> <a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/about/videos" class="icon-wrap"><span class="icon-label">Video</span></a> <div class="affiliation"> <p><a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/ideas?aff=2">Mathematics</a></p> </div> <span property="dc:title" content="Searching for Randomness" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="feature-thumbnail small"> <a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/searching-randomness"><img typeof="foaf:Image" class="b-lazy" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160521154955im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/all/themes/ias/images/loaders/placeholder.gif" data-src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/grid_teaser/public/images/featured-thumbnails/ideas/random_0.jpg?itok=Cb1vRPRh" width="355" height="244"/><noscript><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20160521154955im_/https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/styles/grid_teaser/public/images/featured-thumbnails/ideas/random_0.jpg?itok=Cb1vRPRh" width="355" height="244"/></noscript> </a> </div> <div class="title-wrapper"> <h1><a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/ideas/searching-randomness"> Searching for Randomness </a></h1> <div class="byline-dateline"> <span class="byline"> By <a href="/web/20160521154955/https://www.ias.edu/scholars/bourgain">Jean Bourgain</a> </span> </div> </div> <div class="teaser cb-editor"> <div> Although the concept of randomness is ubiquitous, it turns out to be difficult to generate a truly random sequence of events. </div> </div> </div>  </article>  <article id="node-59141" 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