This July, the Simons Institute co-hosted, in collaboration with Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) and Oceankind, the fourth annual...
Greetings from Berkeley, where after a very busy summer of crypto and quantum fun, we’ve just kicked off our Fall 2025 programs on Complexity and...
Let me start with a confession. For many years, I was afraid of quantum and crypto. Quantum scared me because I didn’t know how to think about tensor...
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.
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.”
