Theoretically Speaking
Theoretically Speaking is a lecture series highlighting exciting advances in theoretical computer science for a broad general audience. Events are held at the David Brower Center in Downtown Berkeley, and are free and open to the public. No special background is assumed.
Spring 2021
Speaker: Michal Feldman (Tel-Aviv University)
Apr. 28, 2021 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Fall 2020
Speaker: Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania)
Oct. 14, 2020 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Summer 2020
Speaker: Uri Alon (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Jul. 30, 2020 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Speaker: Manuela Veloso (Head of J.P. Morgan AI Research, Carnegie Mellon University)
Jun. 22, 2020 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Spring 2020
Speaker: Peter Bartlett (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, moderator)
Panelists: Klaske van Heusden (University of British Columbia), Madhav Marathe (University of Virginia), Ankur Moitra (MIT), Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Anil Vullikanti (University of Virginia), and Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
May 11, 2020 11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Fall 2019
Speaker: Andrew W. Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Dec. 3, 2019 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Speaker: Silvio Micali (Founder of Algorand and faculty at MIT)
Oct. 30, 2019 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Summer 2019
Speaker: Peter Bartlett (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, moderator)
Panelists: Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing), Martha Minow (Harvard University), Elliot Schrage (Facebook), and Patricia Williams (Columbia University)
Jun. 7, 2019 6:00 pm
Spring 2019
Speaker: Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
Mar. 27, 2019 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
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