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.
The objective of the current Simons Institute program on Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions is the precise study of high-dimensional phenomena and the ways in which they manifest themselves geometrically, probabilistically and algorithmically. The program brings together mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, and physicists to exchange ideas and methods developed in their respective fields and facilitate collaborations on this broad theme.
Greetings from Berkeley, where we are six weeks into two very lively research programs: Theory of Reinforcement Learning and Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions. It has been good to see so many of you at our boot camps, workshops, and other events this fall. As you know, we are operating online for now, but we will move to limited on-site convenings as soon as the university permits.
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.
The Institute's sixth annual Industry Day will take place online on Thursday, November 5th.
