Past Public Lectures

Randomness in Number Theory
Speaker: Peter Sarnak (Princeton University)
Apr. 15, 2019
Blockchains, Micropayments and Zero Knowledge (ZK Day 2019)
Apr. 13, 2019
Theoretically Speaking Series — What We Can Learn from AdNauseam about the Threat and Power of Data Obfuscation
Speaker: Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
Mar. 27, 2019
The Polynomial Paradigm in Algorithms
Speaker: Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington) and Nikhil Srivastava (UC Berkeley)
Mar. 11, 2019
Theoretically Speaking Series — The Predictive Brain
Speaker: Anil Ananthaswamy (Fall 2018 Simons Institute Journalist in Residence, moderator) Panelists: Celeste Kidd (UC Berkeley), Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley), Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University) and Michael Pollan (UC Berkeley) 
Mar. 7, 2019
When Scientists Write for the Public: Objective Consideration of Contemporary Phenomena
Speaker: Konstantin Kakaes (Simons Institute Journalist in Residence)
Feb. 6, 2019
The Edge of Physics: Crafting a Non-Fiction Narrative that Combines Science with Travel Writing
Speaker: Anil Ananthaswamy, Simons Institute Journalist in Residence
Dec. 5, 2018
The Limits of Proof
Speaker: Paul Beame (University of Washington)
Nov. 19, 2018
Game Theory in Auction and Blockchain
Speaker: Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Tsinghua University)
Nov. 14, 2018
Theoretically Speaking Series — Training Artificial Intelligence by Playing Games
Speaker: Thore Graepel (Google DeepMind)
Nov. 7, 2018

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