Past Program Activities

Open Lecture — The Deep Learning Revolution: What Does It Tell Us About Our Understanding of Intelligence?
Speaker: Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Apr. 9, 2018
Real-Time Decision Making Seminar
Speaker: Rahul Jain
Apr. 5, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Real-Time Decision Making Energy Seminar
Speaker: Na Li
Apr. 4, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Brain and Computation Seminar
Speaker: Hannah Choi
Apr. 4, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation
Brain and Computation Seminar
Speaker: Ila Fiete
Mar. 28, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation
Real-Time Decision Making Seminar
Speaker: Jose Correa
Mar. 22, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Real-Time Decision Making Energy Seminar
Speaker: R. Srikant
Mar. 21, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
St. Patrick's Day Party
Mar. 16, 2018
Real-Time Decision Making Seminar
Speaker: Victoria Kostina
Mar. 15, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Real-Time Decision Making Energy Seminar
Speaker: Sen Li
Mar. 14, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Brain and Computation Seminar
Speaker: Louis Kang
Mar. 14, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation
Reinforcement Learning: Hidden Theory and New Super-Fast Algorithms
Speaker: Sean Meyn, University of Florida
Mar. 9, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Real-Time Decision Making Seminar
Speaker: Rajeev Alur
Mar. 8, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Reinforcement Learning: Hidden Theory and New Super-Fast Algorithms
Speaker: Sean Meyn, University of Florida
Mar. 7, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Real-Time Decision Making Energy Seminar
Speaker: Ali Vojdani
Mar. 7, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Brain and Computation Seminar
Speaker: Laurenz Wiskott
Mar. 7, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation
Open Lecture — Circuitry and Mathematical Codes for Navigation in the Brain
Speaker: Ila Fiete (University of Texas at Austin)
Mar. 5, 2018
Brain and Computation Seminar
Speaker: Sophie Denève
Feb. 28, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation
Real-Time Decision Making Seminar
Speaker: Swati Gupta
Feb. 22, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Real-Time Decision Making Energy Seminar
Speaker: Le Xie
Feb. 21, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Brain and Computation Seminar
Speaker: Yoram Burak
Feb. 21, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation
Real-Time Decision Making Seminar
Speaker: Sivaranjani Seetharaman
Feb. 15, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Real-Time Decision Making Energy Seminar
Speaker: Joe Warrington
Feb. 14, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Real-Time Decision Making Seminar
Speaker: Sampath Kannan
Feb. 8, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Real-Time Decision Making Energy Seminar
Speaker: Pravin Varaiya
Feb. 7, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Brain and Computation Seminar
Speaker: Rufin VanRullen
Feb. 7, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation
Real-Time Decision Making Seminar
Speaker: Panayotis Mertikopoulos
Feb. 1, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making
Brain and Computation Seminar
Speaker: Pentti Kanerva
Jan. 31, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation
Open Lecture — Safety-Critical Autonomous Systems: What is Possible? What is Required?
Speaker: Richard Murray (California Institute of Technology)
Jan. 30, 2018
Brain and Computation Seminar
Speaker: Manuel Blum
Jan. 25, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation
Open Lecture — Gradient Descent: The Mother of All Algorithms?
Speaker: Aleksander Mądry (MIT)
Dec. 11, 2017
Optimization Seminar
Speaker: Vijay V. Vazirani 
Dec. 7, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
Holiday Party
Dec. 1, 2017
Open Lecture — Finding Low-Rank Matrices: From Matrix Completion to Recent Trends
Speaker: Maryam Fazel (University of Washington)
Nov. 20, 2017
Optimization Seminar
Speaker: Stephen Boyd
Nov. 16, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
Optimization Seminar
Speaker: Sebastian Pokutta
Nov. 16, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
Optimization Seminar
Speaker: Moses Charikar
Nov. 2, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
Bridging Continuous & Discrete Optimization Field Trip to Google
Oct. 31, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
Open Lecture — Lower Bounds on the Size of Linear Programs
Speaker: Thomas Rothvoß (University of Washington)
Oct. 30, 2017
Optimization Seminar
Speaker: Friedrich Eisenbrand
Oct. 19, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
Third Annual Simons Institute Oktoberfest
Oct. 6, 2017
Optimization Seminar
Speaker: Jesus De Loera
Sep. 28, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
Open Lecture — Across the Watershed: Unifying Perspectives on Optimization
Speaker: Pablo Parrilo (MIT)
Sep. 18, 2017
Optimization Seminar
Speaker: Ben Recht
Sep. 7, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
Optimization Seminar
Speaker: Nisheeth Vishnoi
Aug. 31, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization
ML Thursday Seminar
Speaker: Andreas Krause
May 11, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
End of the Year Cinco de Mayo Party
May 5, 2017
Open Lecture — Does Computational Complexity Restrict Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning?
Speaker: Sanjeev Arora (Princeton University)
May 3, 2017
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Caroline Terry
May 2, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Pseudorandomness/MSRI Seminar
Speaker: Shachar Lovett
Apr. 27, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
ML Thursday Seminar
Speaker: Amin Karbasi
Apr. 27, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Shachar Lovett
Apr. 25, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Pseudorandomness/MSRI Seminar
Speaker: Oleksiy Klurman
Apr. 20, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
ML Thursday Seminar
Speaker: Misha Belkin
Apr. 20, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Nikhil Srivastava
Apr. 18, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
ML Tuesday Seminar
Speaker: Amir Globerson
Apr. 18, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
ML Thursday Seminar
Speaker: Jefferey A. Bilmes
Apr. 13, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
ML Tuesday Seminar
Speaker:  Anima Anandkumar 
Apr. 11, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness/MSRI Seminar
Speaker: Luka Rimanic
Apr. 6, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
ML Thursday Seminar
Speaker: Ilya Sutskever
Apr. 6, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Siyao Guo
Apr. 4, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
ML Tuesday Seminar
Speaker: Phil Long (Google)
Apr. 4, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Open Lecture — In Pursuit of Structure: Why a Little Randomness (Almost) Always Helps
Speaker: Julia Wolf (University of Bristol)
Apr. 3, 2017
Pseudorandomness/MSRI Seminar
Speaker: Kevin Ford
Mar. 30, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Andrej Bogdanov
Mar. 28, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Marco Carmosino
Mar. 21, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
St. Patrick's Day Party
Mar. 17, 2017
Thursday ML Seminar
Speaker: Hamed Hassani
Mar. 16, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Amnon Ta-Shma
Mar. 14, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Tuesday ML Seminar
Speaker: Dawn Song
Mar. 14, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Open Lecture — The Contextual Bandits Problem
Speaker: Robert Schapire (Microsoft Research)
Mar. 13, 2017
Thursday ML Seminar
Speaker: Csaba Szepesvari
Mar. 9, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Tuesday ML Seminar
Speaker: Benjamin Recht
Mar. 7, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness/MSRI Seminar
Speaker: Madhur Tulsiani
Mar. 2, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Thursday ML Seminar
Speaker: Yishay Mansour
Mar. 2, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Daniel Kane
Feb. 28, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Tuesday ML Seminar
Speaker: Ravi Kannan
Feb. 28, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness/MSRI Seminar
Speaker: Ben Green
Feb. 23, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Manuel Sabin
Feb. 21, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Tuesday ML Seminar
Speaker: Rong Ge
Feb. 21, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Avi Wigderson
Feb. 14, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Thursday ML Seminar
Speaker: Shai Ben-David
Feb. 9, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Pseudorandomness Seminar
Speaker: Luca Trevisan
Feb. 7, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness
Tuesday ML Seminar
Speaker: Matus Telgarsky
Feb. 7, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning
Open Lecture — Does Randomness Solve Problems?
Speaker: Russell Impagliazzo (UC San Diego)
Feb. 6, 2017
Orientation Spring 2017
Jan. 13, 2017
Fellows Logic Open Seminar
Speaker: Mikołaj Bojańczyk
Dec. 12, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation
Holiday Party
Dec. 9, 2016
Uncertainty Whiteboard Seminar
Speaker: Shiri Chechik
Dec. 9, 2016
Program: Algorithms and Uncertainty
Uncertainty Seminar
Speaker: Xiaorui Sun
Dec. 8, 2016
Program: Algorithms and Uncertainty
Algorithms & Uncertainty Field Trip to Google
Dec. 2, 2016
Program: Algorithms and Uncertainty
Logic Lounge
Speaker: Ugo Montanari, Simone Severini, Rui Soares Barbosa
Dec. 1, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation
Uncertainty Seminar
Speaker: Chaitanya Swamy
Dec. 1, 2016
Program: Algorithms and Uncertainty
Logical Structures in Computation Seminar
Speaker: Johann Makowsky
Nov. 30, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation
Open Lecture — Logic and Automata and Beyond
Speaker: Mikołaj Bojańczyk (University of Warsaw) 
Nov. 28, 2016
Fellows Logic Open Seminar
Speaker: Christoph Berkholz
Nov. 28, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation
Fellows Logic Open Seminar
Speaker: Miguel Romero
Nov. 21, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation
Logic Lounge
Speaker: Shane Mansfield, Dana Scott, Vladimir Zamdzhiev
Nov. 17, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation
Logical Structures in Computation Seminar
Speaker: Jouko Väänänen
Nov. 16, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation
Fellows Logic Open Seminar
Speaker: Anupam Das
Nov. 14, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation

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