Programs and Clusters
Programs and Clusters
The Institute typically hosts two concurrent research programs per semester, and one per summer. Programs are selected with a view toward maximizing impact and engagement across the theoretical computer science community, as well as impact on neighboring scientific fields. A typical program is led by a small group of organizers who are recognized experts in their fields, and involves about 60–70 long-term participants (a mix of senior and junior researchers) who spend a month or longer at the Institute. A program usually includes three week-long topical workshops, each of which attracts an additional group of invited speakers and focuses on a different aspect of the program's scientific scope, as well as an initial boot camp designed to put long-term participants on the same page. Summer clusters are somewhat smaller in scale than research programs, and are designed to offer a platform for focused research on fast-moving or emerging topics.
Current Programs
This program will taxonomize and analyze areas of contemporary machine learning where methods generalize well — meaning they perform eerily well on new inputs, rather than merely performing well on old inputs they were trained on — but for no known...
This is the first part in a special, yearlong program on large language models and transformers that spans the 2024–2025 academic year. This program's overarching goal is to try to understand the ongoing revolution in transformers and large language...
Fall 2013
This program will combine viewpoints and techniques from the theory of computation, statistics, and related areas with the aim of laying the theoretical foundations of the emerging field of Big Data.
The goal of this program is to bring together mathematicians and computer scientists to study influences, measures of complexity of discrete functions, functional inequalities, invariance principles, non-classical norms, representation theory and other modern topics in mathematical analysis and their applications to theoretical computer science.