Sheon's explainer is very good! Since Avi Wigderson's work has touched nearly part of the field, the award is a great shameless self-promotion opportunity for all of us CS journalists.

From the Simons Institute archive, please enjoy this 2017 talk from our Theoretically Speaking series:

'Finding Hay in Haystacks: The Power and Limits of Randomness'

Featuring 2024 Turing Award laureate Avi Wigderson

youtube.com/watch?v=ESVDOE…

#FBF

Avi: the one and only 😇

quantamagazine.org/avi-wigderson-…

As a writer you live in hope that one day you will walk into a bookstore and be a staff pick. So thank you Books Inc. 📚🌉, Berkeley, for making my day. (And thanks for keeping it, next to a solitary copy of the book, for TEN YEARS.)

Celebrating our good friend Avi Wigderson.

youtube.com/watch?v=TK_vD-…

Congratulations, Avi!

ias.edu/news/avi-wigde…

This was awesome BTW! Thanks to the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing and to everyone that turned up and made it brilliant! 100 people!! John von Neumann's such a draw! Even without a Nolan biopic!

Kudos to Berkeley's CS theory group.

news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/08/bes…

This week at the Simons Institute, a workshop on Advances in the Theory of Error-Correcting Codes. Register to join in person, or to watch the private livestream.

simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/adva…

'There may be no consensus about what constitutes agi among academics or businessmen—but a definition could soon be agreed on in court.'

economist.com/the-economist-…

Tuesday at 3:30! Register to attend or watch the livestream.

simons.berkeley.edu/events/quantum…

Mathematicians have made the first substantial progress in 80 years on understanding points in the plane that are integer distances apart -- my latest for Quanta Magazine quantamagazine.org/merging-fields…

Berkeley's Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department is presenting a talk by David Shmoys on Monday on 'Algorithmic Tools for Redistricting: Fairness via Analytics'.

3108 Etcheverry Hall, UC Berkeley
Monday, April 1 @ 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

ieor.berkeley.edu/event/ieor-sem…

Next Thursday, 4/4. Register to attend or watch the livestream.

simons.berkeley.edu/events/localit…

⁦Yunchao Liu⁩ kicking off the miniworkshop on near term quantum!

A new Era begins

#simonslive ⁦Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing⁩ ⁦Taylor Swift⁩

The registration for STOC 2024 is open.
acm-stoc.org/stoc2024/regis…

In addition to the STOC 2024 paper talks (of course!), featuring keynote talks by Michal Feldman, Jakub Pachocki, and Tim Roughgarden. And workshops (see next post, margins too small to write here).

#STOC2024

Next Tuesday! Register to attend or view the livestream.

simons.berkeley.edu/events/quantum…

Thanks to the close to 100 people who showed up for our first-ever *upstairs* public lecture — Ananyo Bhattacharya's book talk on The Man from the Future, an intellectual biography of John van Neumann.

Russell Impagliazzo’s playful framing of the biggest problems in computational complexity theory has inspired a generation of researchers. For Quanta Magazine, I spoke to him about hypothetical worlds, randomness, improv comedy, and more: quantamagazine.org/the-researcher…

Some characteristically complicated gesticulation by me at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing panel on Computer Science journalism last week. Video recording coming soon!