Public Lectures Breadcrumb Home Programs & Events Public Lectures All Public Lectures Upcoming Past There are no upcoming Public Lectures at this time. The Bowen Lectures Friday, Feb. 9, 2018 | 4 – 5 p.m. The Bowen Lectures Calvin Lab auditorium Speakers: Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study) Words, Pictures, Programs: Communicating Computational Science Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 | 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. Words, Pictures, Programs: Communicating Computational Science Calvin Lab auditorium Speakers: Brian Hayes, Open Lecture — Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems: What is Possible? What is Required? Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 | 4 – 5 p.m. Open Lecture — Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems: What is Possible? What is Required? Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Speakers: Richard Murray (California Institute of Technology) Open Lecture — Gradient Descent: The Mother of All Algorithms? Monday, Dec. 11, 2017 | 4 – 5 p.m. Open Lecture — Gradient Descent: The Mother of All Algorithms? Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Speakers: Aleksander Mądry (MIT) Fireside Chat with Simons Institute Director Dick Karp Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2017 | 12:30 – 1:15 p.m. Fireside Chat with Simons Institute Director Dick Karp Calvin Lab auditorium Open Lecture — Finding Low-Rank Matrices: From Matrix Completion to Recent Trends Monday, Nov. 20, 2017 | 4 – 5 p.m. Open Lecture — Finding Low-Rank Matrices: From Matrix Completion to Recent Trends Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall Speakers: Maryam Fazel (University of Washington) Fireside Chats Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017 | 1 – 3 p.m. Fireside Chats Calvin Lab auditorium Speakers: Christoph Drösser Open Lecture — Lower Bounds on the Size of Linear Programs Monday, Oct. 30, 2017 | 4 – 5 p.m. Open Lecture — Lower Bounds on the Size of Linear Programs Calvin Lab auditorium Speakers: Thomas Rothvoß (University of Washington) Theoretically Speaking — Black Holes, Firewalls, and the Limits of Quantum Computers Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2017 | 6 – 7:30 p.m. Theoretically Speaking — Black Holes, Firewalls, and the Limits of Quantum Computers David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley Speakers: Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin) The Media Crisis and New Hopes for Science Journalism Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 | 3 – 4 p.m. The Media Crisis and New Hopes for Science Journalism Calvin Lab auditorium Speakers: Christoph Drösser, Simons Institute Journalist in Residence Pagination First page First Previous page Previous Page 15 Page 16 Current page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Next page Next Last page Last Series Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lectures Theoretically Speaking Breakthroughs Quantum Colloquium