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...
This July, the Simons Institute co-hosted, in collaboration with Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) and Oceankind, the fourth annual...
We are entering the final weeks of a unique semester at the Simons Institute, as in institutions across the world. I’d like to extend a word of appreciation to our program organizers and staff, who have shown exceptional flexibility and innovative spirit, rolling out our research programs in a fully online environment for the first (and hopefully last) time in the Institute’s history.
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.
