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Remembering Jim Simons

Appreciation and memories of Jim Simons (1938–2024), from the Simons Institute community. Featuring contributions from Avi Wigderson, Dick Karp, Shafi...

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Senior Scientist Venkat Guruswami Wins Best Paper Award at STOC 2024

Simons Institute Senior Scientist Venkatesan Guruswami, along with Bingkai Lin, Yican Sun, and Berkeley theory graduate students Xuandi Ren and Kewen...

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Farewell to Luca

We are heartbroken by the loss of Luca Trevisan, who served as senior scientist at the Institute from 2014 to 2019. 

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From the Inside: Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography
From the Inside: The Quantum Wave in Computing
Computational and Statistical Tools to Control a Pandemic | Theoretically Speaking
Differential Privacy: Issues for Policymakers

A Simons Institute white paper developed with support from a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Research Vignette: The Many Dimensions of High-Dimensional Expanders
Research Vignette: Generalization and Interpolation
Online Course on Quantum Computing

Simons Institute Senior Advisor Umesh Vazirani is teaching a massive open online course (MOOC) on Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation

Berkeley Simons Institute Launches Online Video Shorts With An Eye-Opening Look At Perception

Review of the Simons Institute's new documentary web series, Theory Shorts

Women in Theory, May 2020

On Sunday, May 10, 2020, the Simons Institute hosted an online gathering of Women in Theory.

Simons Institute Launches Law and Society Fellowship Program