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In this month’s newsletter, we’re highlighting a 2015 talk by Chris Umans on some of the then state-of-the-art approaches to bound the matrix...

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Greetings from Berkeley! We are gearing up for a busy wrap-up of the spring semester, with five back-to-back workshop weeks at the Simons Institute...

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to understand the implications...

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The Simons Institute is delighted to announce the launch of Breakthroughs, a lecture series highlighting major new developments in theoretical computer science. The Breakthroughs series will kick off on June 16 with a talk by Virginia Vassilevska Williams from MIT, who recently developed the fastest method to date for multiplying two matrices, in collaboration with Josh Alman from Harvard.  

The organizers of the annual TCS Women Spotlight Workshop invite nominations for speakers for TCS Women Rising Star talks. The workshop and talks will take place on June 22, during the 53nd Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC).

The Simons Institute is delighted to announce that we will be holding our first indoor research activity since the closure of the university due to coronavirus in March 2020. The Summer Cluster in Quantum Computation will be held at the Simons Institute from June 28 through August 6, 2021.