Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

05/15/2025

We are winding down our presence on Facebook. Look for us on YouTube, Bluesky, and X. Hope to see you there!

01/28/2025

https://simons.berkeley.edu/news/letter-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,...

11/18/2024

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

10/24/2024

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

10/17/2024

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

10/14/2024

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

10/04/2024

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

09/11/2024

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…

09/06/2024

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

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

08/29/2024

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

08/14/2024

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

08/07/2024

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