Breakthroughs

Breakthroughs is a lecture series highlighting major new developments in theoretical computer science geared toward a scientific audience.

Fall 2022

Breakthroughs — Thresholds
Speaker: Jinyoung Park (Stanford)
Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022, 3:30 pm–5:00 pm

Fall 2021

Breakthroughs — Locally Testable Codes with Constant Rate, Distance, and Locality
Speaker: Irit Dinur (Weizmann Institute of Science) 
Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021, 10:00 am–11:00 am

Summer 2021

Breakthroughs — An Almost Constant Lower Bound of the Isoperimetric Coefficient in the KLS Conjecture
Speaker: Yuansi Chen (Duke University)
Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021, 10:00 am–11:00 am
Breakthroughs — A Refined Laser Method and Faster Matrix Multiplication
Speaker: Virginia Vassilevska Williams (MIT)
Wednesday, Jun. 16, 2021, 10:00 am–11:00 am