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.
I hope you are enjoying a beautiful autumn around the world. Given the last few years, I say, "So far, so good." On that front, I recommend watching the videos from the excellent workshop that took place at the Institute on Epidemics and Information Diffusion.
In Until the Sun Engulfs the Earth, some of the world’s leading researchers and rising stars in the field of computational complexity play a memory game, find their way out of a maze, and explore an imagined landscape as they make sense of the mathematics of proving the hardness of problems. This short documentary produced by the Simons Institute will open the mathematics and computer science film festival hosted by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in November.
Research and collaborations at the Simons Institute always proceeded apace through the pandemic with a diverse slate of programs and a large concentration of postdoctoral fellows. But even by the Institute’s busy standards, this past summer saw an exceptional level of activity, with four summer clusters, a full summer program, and an extended reunion, each running for over a month, as well as another reunion workshop.
On behalf of the Learning Theory Alliance, we are pleased to share this invitation to the 4th Learning Theory Alliance Mentorship workshop. The workshop is free.
Zero-knowledge proofs allow researchers to prove their knowledge without divulging the knowledge itself.
Warm greetings from Berkeley, where it oscillates from cold and foggy SF nights to beautiful sunny weather! The Simons Institute's second decade is off to an exciting start, with research programs on Data-Driven Decision Processes and on Graph Limits and Processes on Networks: From Epidemics to Misinformation running alongside our ongoing research pods on quantum computing and machine learning.