Institute for Advanced Study

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) will provide the data to support detailed investigations of the distribution of luminous and nonluminous matter in the universe: a photometri...

Heterotic and Type I string dynamics from eleven dimensions

A theory of dark matter

We propose a comprehensive theory of dark matter that explains the recent proliferation of unexpected observations in high-energy astrophysics. Cosmic ray spectra from ATIC and ...

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Photometric Camera

We have constructed a large format mosaic CCD camera for the Sloan Digital\nSky Survey. The camera consists of two arrays, a photometric array which uses\n30 2048 x 2048 SITe/Te...

Eleven-dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary

On the nature of turbulence

Bound states of strings and p-branes

An evolution free test for non-zero cosmological constant

Solar models, neutrino experiments, and helioseismology

The event rates and their recognized uncertainties are calculated for eleven solar neutrino experiments using accurate solar models. The same solar models are used to evaluate t...