Past Public Lectures
Fall 2019
Speaker: Vijay Vazirani (UC Irvine)
Sep. 9, 2019
Speaker: Sanjeev Arora, Faith Ellen, Dan Gusfield, Dorit Hochbaum, Russell Impagliazzo, Ravi Kannan, Don Knuth, Mike Luby, Antony Ng, Prabhakar Raghavan, Scott Shenker, Robert Tarjan, Vijay Vazirani, and Dick Karp.
Sep. 3, 2019
Summer 2019
Speaker: Peter Bartlett (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, moderator)
Panelists: Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing), Martha Minow (Harvard University), Elliot Schrage (Facebook), and Patricia Williams (Columbia University)
Jun. 7, 2019
Spring 2019
Speaker: Peter Sarnak (Princeton University)
Apr. 15, 2019
Speaker: Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
Mar. 27, 2019
Speaker: Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington) and Nikhil Srivastava (UC Berkeley)
Mar. 11, 2019
Speaker: Anil Ananthaswamy (Fall 2018 Simons Institute Journalist in Residence, moderator)
Panelists: Celeste Kidd (UC Berkeley), Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley), Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University) and Michael Pollan (UC Berkeley)
Mar. 7, 2019
Speaker: Konstantin Kakaes (Simons Institute Journalist in Residence)
Feb. 6, 2019
Fall 2018
Speaker: Anil Ananthaswamy, Simons Institute Journalist in Residence
Dec. 5, 2018
Speaker: Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (Tsinghua University)
Nov. 14, 2018
Speaker: Thore Graepel (Google DeepMind)
Nov. 7, 2018
Speaker: Richard Karp (UC Berkeley)
Oct. 24, 2018
Speaker: Madhu Sudan (Harvard University)
Oct. 22, 2018
Speaker: Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
Oct. 17, 2018
Speaker: Anima Anandkumar (California Institute of Technology)
Oct. 1, 2018
Speaker: Shafi Goldwasser (UC Berkeley)
Sep. 26, 2018
Speaker: Anil Ananthaswamy, Simons Institute Journalist in Residence
Sep. 6, 2018
Summer 2018
Jul. 18, 2018
Jun. 8, 2018
Spring 2018
Speaker: Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University)
May 7, 2018
Speaker: Eric Horvitz (Microsoft)
Apr. 25, 2018
Apr. 21, 2018
Speaker: Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Apr. 9, 2018
Speaker: Jeff Lichtman (Harvard University)
Apr. 4, 2018
Speaker: Ila Fiete (University of Texas at Austin)
Mar. 5, 2018
Speaker: Brian Hayes, Simons Institute Journalist in Residence
Feb. 1, 2018
Speaker: Richard Murray (California Institute of Technology)
Jan. 30, 2018
Speaker: Sean Meyn, University of Florida
Mar. 9, 2018
Speaker: Sean Meyn, University of Florida
Mar. 7, 2018
Apr. 29, 2016
Speaker: Laura Waller, Charles Bouman, Laura Balzano, and Ben Recht
May 27–May 29, 2015
Fall 2017
Speaker: Aleksander Mądry (MIT)
Dec. 11, 2017
Nov. 29, 2017
Speaker: Maryam Fazel (University of Washington)
Nov. 20, 2017
Speaker: Thomas Rothvoß (University of Washington)
Oct. 30, 2017
Speaker: Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin)
Oct. 18, 2017
Sep. 19, 2017
Speaker: Pablo Parrilo (MIT)
Sep. 18, 2017
Spring 2017
Speaker: Sanjeev Arora (Princeton University)
May 3, 2017
Speaker: John Markoff, Simons Institute Journalist in Residence
and Christoph Drösser, independent science writer and editor
Apr. 26, 2017
Apr. 22, 2017
Speaker: Julia Wolf (University of Bristol)
Apr. 3, 2017
Speaker: Robert Schapire (Microsoft Research)
Mar. 13, 2017
Feb. 27, 2017
Speaker: Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Feb. 22, 2017
Speaker: Russell Impagliazzo (UC San Diego)
Feb. 6, 2017
Fall 2016
Speaker: Mikołaj Bojańczyk (University of Warsaw)
Nov. 28, 2016
Speaker: Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University)
Oct. 24, 2016
Speaker: Purnaprajna Bangere (The University of Kansas) and David Balakrishnan (Turtle Island Quartet)
Oct. 21, 2016
Speaker: Mary Wootters (Stanford University)
Oct. 19, 2016
Speaker: Peter Selinger (Dalhousie University)
Sep. 26, 2016
Speaker: Anna Karlin (University of Washington)
Sep. 12, 2016
Spring 2016
Speaker: Martin Vingron (Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin)
Apr. 26, 2016
Speaker: Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Apr. 6, 2016
Speaker: Leslie Valiant (Harvard University)
Mar. 28, 2016
Speaker: Katie Pollard (UC San Francisco)
Mar. 14, 2016
Speaker: Alan Frieze (Carnegie Mellon University)
Feb. 8, 2016
Fall 2015
Speaker: Paul Milgrom (Stanford University)
Nov. 9, 2015
Speaker: Ryan Williams (Stanford University)
Oct. 5, 2015
Speaker: Éva Tardos (Cornell University)
Sep. 14, 2015
Summer 2015
Jul. 6–Jul. 17, 2015
Fall 2014
Speaker: James R. Lee (University of Washington)
Dec. 8, 2014
Speaker: Giorgio Ottaviani (University of Florence)
Nov. 24, 2014
Speaker: Mateusz Michalek (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Nov. 21, 2014
Spring 2015
Speaker: Rüdiger Urbanke (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
May 4, 2015
Speaker: Dan Boneh (Stanford University)
Apr. 29, 2015
Speaker: Toniann Pitassi (University of Toronto)
Apr. 6, 2015
Speaker: Alon Orlitsky (UC San Diego)
Mar. 2, 2015
Speaker: Mark van der Laan (UC Berkeley)
Feb. 27, 2015
Speaker: Dongning Guo (Northwestern University)
Jan. 26, 2015