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Modern Paradigms in Generalization
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Federated and Collaborative Learning
Speaker: Katrina Legitt (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
News
The Simons Institute has received $250K in support from the Google DeepMind x Google.org AI for Math Initiative, which was launched in late October. The Simons Institute will be a member of the newly created consortium, along with Imperial College London, the Institute for Advanced Study, Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES), and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR).
Season’s greetings from Berkeley, where we have donned our light jackets and the campus squirrels are newly plump...
We're delighted to announce that following a worldwide search, Venkatesan Guruswami has been selected as director...
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Abhineet Agarwal,
Philip Amortila
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Anthony Chen,
Arjan Cornelissen
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Shafi Goldwasser,
Venkatesan Guruswami
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Healthy Community
We ask that visitors be vigilant in protecting the health of our community by staying home if they are feeling unwell and may have a communicable illness.
Based on public health regulations, the Simons Institute no longer requires masking or COVID-19 testing. For reference, see the CDC’s recommendations for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses.
Participate
Applications are welcome for postdoctoral fellowships in the research pods on Quantum Computing and on Machine Learning, and are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Applications for Fall 2026 programmatic research fellowships are now closed.
Current and incoming UC Berkeley faculty interested in becoming faculty affiliates of the Simons Institute should write to simonsassociatedirector@berkeley.edu.
Learn more about how to participate in the life of the Institute.
Related Courses (Fall 2025)
Cost and Value of Tensors in Complexity and Quantum Information Theory (CS 294-306)
JM Landsberg
WTh, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
116 Calvin Lab
Partition Functions: Algorithms & Complexity (CS 294-180)
Alistair Sinclair
TuTh, 9:30 – 11 a.m.
310 Soda
Advanced Matrix Computations (Math 221)
Ming Gu
MWF, 2 – 3 p.m.
109 Dwinelle
Healthy Community
We ask that visitors be vigilant in protecting the health of our community by staying home if they are feeling unwell and may have a communicable illness.
Based on public health regulations, the Simons Institute no longer requires masking or COVID-19 testing. For reference, see the CDC’s recommendations for reducing the spread of respiratory illnesses.
Participate
Applications are welcome for postdoctoral fellowships in the research pods on Quantum Computing and on Machine Learning, and are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Applications for Fall 2026 programmatic research fellowships are now closed.
Current and incoming UC Berkeley faculty interested in becoming faculty affiliates of the Simons Institute should write to simonsassociatedirector@berkeley.edu.
Learn more about how to participate in the life of the Institute.
Related Courses (Fall 2025)
Cost and Value of Tensors in Complexity and Quantum Information Theory (CS 294-306)
JM Landsberg
WTh, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
116 Calvin Lab
Partition Functions: Algorithms & Complexity (CS 294-180)
Alistair Sinclair
TuTh, 9:30 – 11 a.m.
310 Soda
Advanced Matrix Computations (Math 221)
Ming Gu
MWF, 2 – 3 p.m.
109 Dwinelle