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.
A new year is now underway, and we look forward to seeing many of you in person soon.
On behalf of the Learning Theory Alliance, we are delighted to announce the first Learning Theory Mentorship Workshop, which will be held virtually March 4-5, 2021.
Simons Institute Director Shafi Goldwasser has been awarded the 2021 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award, in recognition of “her pioneering and fundamental work in computer science and cryptography, essential for secure communication over the internet as well as for shared computation on private data.”
The world of cryptography saw a fundamental breakthrough this August, the beginning of an end for a very exciting period in the area of cryptography, one that began with the construction of candidate indistinguishability obfuscation schemes by Garg et. al. in 2013.
We are born crying, but those cries signal the first stirring of language. Within a year or so, infants master the sound system of their language; a few years after that, they are engaging in conversations. This remarkable species-specific ability to acquire any human language — “the language faculty” — raises important biological questions about language, including how it has evolved.
A weekly meetup for the Simons Institute community in which scientists and others cook together over Zoom
For many of the famous open problems in theoretical computer science, most researchers agree on what the answer is, but the challenge is to prove it. The story of cryptographic obfuscation is different.
We are delighted to announce that after nine months of operating entirely remotely, the Simons Institute will be opening for outdoor collaboration in January.