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Thanks to all speakers, the audience for the sharp questions, my co-chairs @SharonYixuanLi , Dawn and Santosh, and the @SimonsInstitute team.
All talks: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL… Workshop: simons.berkeley.edu/workshop…
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How can the math community forge the best path forward in the AI age? We're committing $15M to workshops and initiatives — plus free AI computing resources for foundation-supported researchers — through new partnerships with @AnthropicAI and @OpenAI: bit.ly/4zpfIbW
#math #science #AI
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Moni Naor wins the 2026 Knuth Prize, the highest career award in theoretical computer science.
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first proof third batch results are out! full report here: hexagonmath.org/2610.00244
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We all know that AI is a highly divisive issue. A working group convened at the Simons Institute earlier this month, to formulate concrete action items for TCS academia to take in response to AI. Remarkably, despite the wide range of opinions, participants were able to arrive at broad consensus on the list of recommendations here: simons.berkeley.edu/AITCSrep…. Many apply more broadly to mathematics, and beyond.
This document is NOT a declaration or essay. It is a list of concrete proposals, fleshed out all the way from motivation to implementation. Its purpose is to provide a common reference point and shared baseline for the community to discuss and enact change.
The actions are intentionally designated to be taken in the short term (specifically, this academic year); they are not meant to represent a stable vision of the future. You do not have to like them; you just have to like them MORE than what will happen if nobody takes action. Not everybody at the workshop agreed with every action, but they ultimately came together through discussion and compromise.
For transparency, I was involved in this event in a purely organizational capacity. I did not come up with any of these actions, but I recognize their importance and I will support them however I can. I hope you do too.
In September, we hosted a working group to think about how the TCS community should respond to AI progress. Their report, released yesterday, highlights 12 near-term actions that received broad support among the participants.
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Here are some of my main takeaways from the exciting #Cryptography reunion workshop I attended as a Science Communicator in Residence @SimonsInstitute this summer -
scieye.wordpress.com/2026/09…
Many thanks to the organizers, Elette Boyle, Yuval Ishai, Abhishek Jain & Daniel Wichs!
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1/5 The case for diffusion language models: "A lot of the [early] gains in language modeling performance have come from scaling pre-training...[the training algorithm] was designed to be very parallelizable across GPUs," said @volokuleshov of @Cornell at the Simons Institute
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1/5 Imagine taking an fMRI scan of the brain of a person viewing an image, and reconstructing what the person saw from the fMRI alone. That's Brain-IT. "This is state-of-the-art image decoding from fMRI," said Michal Irani (@WeizmannScience), at the Simons Institute.
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1/3 For AIs to be socially intelligent, they'll have to learn internal "social world models" of people & social interactions, not just physical world models, said Paul Liang (@MITEECS) at the Simons Institute workshop on Topics in Intelligence: World Models and Social Reasoning
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The @FlatironInst's Nour Al Hassanieh develops accurate and efficient algorithms for solving wave equation problems, which has many potential applications across acoustic engineering and medical imaging. Read our interview with her: bit.ly/3SpqVJN
#math #science #FlatironCCM
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Isik Ulusan, a U Mass student, created Complexle, like Wordle but you guess complexity classes. For each guess you get hints (set-theoretic inclusion, the type of model it is defined on, uniformity, etc.) for a total of 6 guesses. Give it a try.
iulusan.github.io/complexle/…
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1/4 "AI is not when computer can write poetry. AI is when computer will *want* to write poetry." @UCBerkeley's Alyosha Efros quoted a friend, when talking about the nature of "True AI," at the Simons Institute workshop on Topics in Intelligence: World Models and Social Reasoning
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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.
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1/3 AI and Its Discontents: @UCBerkeley's @JitendraMalikCV talked of the "rumblings of dissent,", when it comes to the current approach of scaling up frontier multimodal models, at the Simons Institute workshop on Topics in Intelligence: World Models and Social Reasoning
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Announcing two new conjectures proved
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Many more to come with the same prompt
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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
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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
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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
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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
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From our friends at Berkeley's Center for Responsible, Decentralized Intelligence:
Agentic AI Summit, August 1–2
Early bird pricing ends July 5
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