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.
Greetings from Berkeley. With the rising tide of vaccination in the US and in many places in the world, we look forward to seeing many of you at Calvin Lab in the coming months.
Established in 2020, this interdisciplinary fellowship brings researchers from the humanities, social sciences, law, and related disciplines to the Institute as long-term participants in research programs that address technologies with profound impacts on human society and with implications for ethics, law, and policy.
A recent paper set the fastest record for multiplying two matrices. But it also marks the end of the line for a method researchers have relied on for decades to make improvements.
Former Simons Institute Scientific Advisory Board member Avi Wigderson (IAS) and László Lovász (Eötvös Loránd University) have received the 2021 Abel Prize.
To the surprise of experts in the field, a postdoctoral statistician has solved one of the most important problems in high-dimensional convex geometry.