Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Mathematics, was named by the Association for Computing...
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Greetings from the Simons Institute! In this month’s newsletter, we’re showcasing highlights from recent workshops: a presentation by...
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I am delighted to announce that Sampath Kannan will be the next associate director of the Simons Institute. His official appointment...
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This semester at the Simons Institute, the Meta-Complexity program is buzzing along with intense activity in the form of multiple reading groups and a weekly seminar, on top of the usual three workshops and boot camp.
Rafael Pass (Cornell Tech and Tel Aviv University) gave a two-part tutorial presentation on Cryptography and Kolmogorov Complexity, at the Simons Institute's Meta-Complexity Boot Camp.
Greetings from Berkeley. I hope 2023 is off to a great start for you. To kick off the new year, we’ve relaunched our Simons Institute website with an updated look and feel.
Rahul Ilango (MIT) gave a two-part tutorial presentation on the Quest for Hardness of Meta-Complexity: Progress, Barriers, and Next Steps, at the Simons Institute's Meta-Complexity Boot Camp.
Valentine Kabanets (Simon Fraser University) gave a two-part tutorial presentation on the Power of Distinguishing Simple from Random, at the Simons Institute's Meta-Complexity Boot Camp.
For the first time in a decade, we have completely updated the look and feel of our website. Many thanks to our visitors, whose feedback over the years has given us insight into how to optimize the user experience online.
The Simons Foundation is announcing its support of 405 Ukrainian mathematicians, biologists, physicists and chemists who remain in Ukraine. In total, the foundation will award more than $1.2 million in funding over 12 months.
Simons Institute Associate Director Sandy Irani is one of 57 ACM members who have been named 2022 ACM fellows. ACM bestowed this honor on her for her "contributions to the theory of online algorithms and quantum complexity theory."
This month, we part with our Fall 2022 program visitors, and we are preparing to welcome our Spring 2023 visitors. We bid our visitors goodbye and thank them for a highly engaging semester both intellectually and socially.
Quantum computing has been an important research theme at the Simons Institute since our founding in 2012. At our first public event, a Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing, John Preskill (Caltech) gave a presentation on Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier.