Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

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https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/letter-director-january-2025

Letter from the Director, January 2025 Greetings from Berkeley, where the spring semester is just getting underway. This term, we are hosting the second half of the Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers. This program explores LLMs from a broad perspective, asking questions about their power, scalability, trustworthiness,...

Quantum Colloquium, Tuesday, 11/19

Robert Huang
"Random Unitaries in Extremely Low Depth"
10 am PT

Panel: J. Haah, T. Metger, R. O'Donnel, U. Vazirani
11 am

Details: https://simons.berkeley.edu/programs-events/public-lectures/quantum-colloquium

Zoom: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97697182729

We are delighted to announce our partnership with Jane Street to establish Circles, a new initiative that will support groups of 3–6 researchers for four weeklong visits to the Simons Institute over two years to collaborate on an ambitious research project.

https://simons.berkeley.edu/participate/circles

We're delighted to announce that we'll be partnering with Canadian research consortium IVADO to enhance and expand the Spring 2025 research program, Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers, Part II (LLM2).

The partnership will support the addition of a third thematic workshop within the LLM2 program, organized by Yoshua Bengio, Siva Reddy, and other collaborators. It will also enable long-term program participation by 8–10 researchers and students from Canadian universities.

https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/simons-institute-launches-strategic-partnership-ivado

Quantum Colloquium
Tues. 10/15

10am PT
Hengyun (Harry) Zhou from QuEra
"Transversal Algorithmic Fault Tolerance for Low-Overhead Quantum Computing"

11am
Panel: K. Brown, M. Cain, J. Haah, U. Vazirani

Info: https://simons.berkeley.edu/programs-events/public-lectures/quantum-colloquium

Zoom: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/97697182729

The search for the next director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing opened on this week. Applications are due November 11.

https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/institute-director-search-launched

Collaboration Thrives at Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley In 2010, the Simons Foundation put out a call for proposals for a new institute that would “accelerate fundamental research on the theory of computation and further develop its interactions with other…

Join us next week at the Simons Institute for a workshop on Emerging Generalization Settings.

https://simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/emerging-generalization-settings

Join us next week for the Special Year on Large Language Models and Transformers (Part 1) Boot Camp.

https://simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/special-year-large-language-models-transformers-part-1-boot-camp

Now available on our SimonsTV YouTube channel:

"Lessons from Texas, COVID-19, and the 737 Max: Efficiency vs. Resilience"

Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture

Moshe Vardi (Rice University)

https://www.youtube.com/live/yKPWK0JIfMk?si=czAnU1I4_VPYLJeU&t=35

We are currently welcoming applications for postdoctoral-level programmatic research fellowships for the Summer 2025 research program on Cryptography.

The deadline to apply is August 31, 2024.

https://simons.berkeley.edu/research-fellowship-call-applications