{"id":26534,"date":"2016-06-06T15:32:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T22:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-decade-of-deep-thinking-princeton-center-for-theoretical-science-celebrates-10-years"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:16:59","slug":"a-decade-of-deep-thinking-princeton-center-for-theoretical-science-celebrates-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/a-decade-of-deep-thinking-princeton-center-for-theoretical-science-celebrates-10-years","title":{"rendered":"A decade of deep thinking: Princeton Center for Theoretical Science celebrates 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/images\/news\/2016\/06\/5519_1150.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The opportunity for intellectual freedom is what drew <a href=\"http:\/\/pcts.princeton.edu\/pcts\/people\/ijjas_anna.html\" target=\"_self\">Anna Ijjas<\/a> to the <a href=\"http:\/\/pcts.princeton.edu\/pcts\/index.html\" target=\"_self\">Princeton Center for Theoretical Science<\/a>. As an associate research scholar, Ijjas studies basic questions about the universe\u2019s origin and future. \u201cPCTS provided an environment that encouraged me to question established paradigms and pursue unexplored possibilities,\u201d said Ijjas, who is Princeton\u2019s John A. Wheeler Postdoctoral Fellow in cosmology and astroparticle physics. \u201cIndependence and creativity are real values at the center.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those values were on display at a conference in May to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the center, which trains early-career researchers and provides a place where theoretical scientists \u2014 defined as those who use mathematics to study the natural world \u2014 can tackle the biggest questions in science, from the search for dark matter to global climate simulations to theories of quantum gravity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe range of topics presented at the PCTS@ten conference demonstrates that we\u2019ve reached the goal we set 10 years ago, which is to develop a new breed of theorists with a much broader view of science than they would normally get from typical postdoctoral training,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/wwwphy.princeton.edu\/~steinh\/\" target=\"_self\">Paul Steinhardt<\/a>, Princeton\u2019s Albert Einstein Professor in Science and the center\u2019s director since 2007.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/news\/archive\/S46\/47\/93A74\/index.xml?section=facstaff\">http:\/\/www.princeton.edu\/main\/news\/archive\/S46\/47\/93A74\/inde...n=facstaff<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opportunity for intellectual freedom is what drew Anna Ijjas to the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. As an associate research scholar, Ijjas studies basic questions about the universe\u2019s origin and future. \u201cPCTS provided an environment that encouraged me to question established paradigms and pursue unexplored possibilities,\u201d said Ijjas, who is Princeton\u2019s John A. Wheeler [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,33,1617,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-cosmology","category-quantum-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61609,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26534\/revisions\/61609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}