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This week at the Simons Institute, a workshop on Diffusion Generative Modeling: Progress and Next Steps simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/diff…

Announcing two new conjectures proved chatgpt.com/share/6a69989a… chatgpt.com/share/6a6a7d70… Many more to come with the same prompt

Simons Institute Director Venkat Guruswami has been honored this summer with STOC and CCC 2026 Test of Time Awards for papers that transformed coding theory and pseudorandomness, and emerged from a common algebraic core. simons.berkeley.edu/news/guruswami…

"Robotics is behind [NLP] and computer vision," in part because the main methods for collecting training data — using teleoperations, human videos and simulations — are all "unsatisfactory," said @JitendraMalikCV at the Simons Institute. Video: simons.berkeley.edu/talks/jitendra…

In robotics, "there are problems to be solved which are to do with shortage of data and only when we solve them will we solve robotics," said @UCBerkeley's @JitendraMalikCV at the Simons Institute's workshop on Topics in Intelligence: World Models and Social Reasoning.

Shayan Oveis Gharan (MF 2013-2014) has won the IMU Abacus Medal that is given alongside the Fields Medals at the opening ceremony of the ICM, for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms. #mathematics #algorithm #computerscience bit.ly/4h07NMC

Congratulations to all the #ICM2026 Fields Medal and Abacus Medal recipients! And special kudos to theoretical computer scientist Shayan Oveis Gharan, who received the Abacus Medal, and has been a program organizer and frequent long-term visitor at the Institute over the years.

Every four years, the International Mathematical Union honors the brightest stars in mathematics and computer science with the Fields Medal and Abacus Medal. Who will win this year? Follow our coverage this Thursday. #ICM2026

Who will win the 2026 Fields Medals? Watch live tomorrow at 9AM ET as math's highest honors are awarded during the opening ceremony of #ICM2026. Stream on the Simons Foundation YouTube channel: bit.ly/4vWOb0q #math

Our 2025 annual report is here! This report celebrates math's central role in supporting #science and shaping our understanding of everything from string theory and black holes to ocean microbes and autism: bit.ly/4vrumhh #math #philanthropy

@knikct is now the Simons Institute’s Interim Associate Director! He succeeds Sampath Kannan, who returns to UPenn this fall. Taking Nikhil’s place as Senior Scientist is Berkeley Statistics and EECS faculty member @jasondeanlee. simons.berkeley.edu/news/faculty-l…

This week at the Simons Institute: Quantum Summer Cluster Final Workshop simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/quan…

From our friends at Berkeley's Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence: Agentic AI Summit, August 1–2 Early bird pricing ends July 5 rdi.berkeley.edu/events/agentic…

📍See the full program and register for the summit: rdi.berkeley.edu/events/agentic… luma.com/agentic-ai-sum… Startup Spotlight Application: forms.gle/W7AnmMcKtqpwCK… See you in Berkeley this August 🌟

Thursday and Friday this week: a workshop on Quantum Circuits and Algorithms for Cryptography simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/quan…

ICM 2026 Satellite Conference: Spectral Theory, High-Dimensional Expansion, and Pseudorandomness August 24–28 at the Simons Institute Join us! simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/icm-…

Join us! simons.berkeley.edu/events/encrypt…

In case you didn't see this when it came out a couple weeks ago, here's a nice article from @Harvard's FAS Current about the second batch of #1stproof, a community experiment that assesses AI's capacity to do research math. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/first-…

1/2 If data about the natural world lives in a low-dimensional hyperbolic space, then a large number of measurements embedded in a high-dimensional Euclidean space can preserve info. about the “curved inner world," said Tatyanna Sharpee, @salkinstitute at the Simons Institute