Appreciation and memories of Jim Simons (1938–2024), from the Simons Institute community. Featuring contributions from Avi Wigderson, Dick Karp, Shafi...
Simons Institute Senior Scientist Venkatesan Guruswami, along with Bingkai Lin, Yican Sun, and Berkeley theory graduate students Xuandi Ren and Kewen...
We are heartbroken by the loss of Luca Trevisan, who served as senior scientist at the Institute from 2014 to 2019.
Simons Institute Director Shafi Goldwasser is an investigator on Project CETI, which uses advanced machine learning to decipher the meaning behind sperm whale clicks. The research project is one of a small number of initiatives featured in this New York Times article about scientific efforts to translate animal communication.
We are delighted to announce that Sandy Irani will be the Simons Institute’s next associate director. Her appointment begins this month.
Berkeley researchers are part of a newly launched multidisciplinary project aimed at cracking sperm whales’ Morse code-like communications off the Caribbean island of Dominica.
This past week, we celebrated a decade of innovation and discovery at the Simons Institute at our 10th Anniversary Symposium. It was a tremendous delight for me to see so many friends whose lives and research have been enhanced by the Institute. The symposium showcased topics in which researchers at the Institute and beyond have made enormous strides in recent years. The talks are viewable now on SimonsTV.
At the Simons Institute, we are busy preparing for our 10th anniversary symposium, which will take place in Berkeley from May 25 through 27. This three-day conference will celebrate a decade of discovery at the Simons Institute, as we embark on a new decade of collaboration and innovation.
To celebrate our first decade, we will host the Simons Institute 10th Anniversary Symposium from May 25 through 27. The event will highlight key research directions that have defined our field and have shed light on the computational nature of other scientific disciplines.