Simons Lecture Series
2024 Lectures
Elon Lindenstrauss
Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Einstein Institute of Mathematics
February 13, 14, 15 2024
4:30pm, Room 2-190
Reception: 4pm, 2-290
Rigidity in Homogeneous Dynamics
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Lecture 1:
Rigidity of unipotent flows and quantitative equidistribution -
Lecture 2:
Rigidity of higher rank diagonalizable action -
Lecture 3:
Time change rigidity of unipotent flows
Lenka Zdeborova
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
April 23, 24, 25 2024
4:30pm, Room 2-190
Reception: 4pm, 2-290
Computation through the lens of spin glasses
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Lecture 1:
Phase transitions in computational problems -
Lecture 2:
Inference, learning and optimization in complex landscapes I -
Lecture 3:
Inference, learning and optimization in complex landscapes II

Simons Lectures Over the Years
2025: Maryna Viazovska, Thomas Vidick
2024: Elon Lindenstrauss, Lenka Zdeborova
2022: Bhargav Bhatt, Cynthia Dwork
2020: (postponed) Bhargav Bhatt, Cynthia Dwork
2019: June Huh, Alexander Barvinok
2018: Stephen Boyd, Sylvia Serfaty
2017: Yuval Peres, Martin Hairer
2016: Michael P. Brenner, Maryam Mirzakhani (cancelled due to illness)
2015: Leslie Greengard, Laure Saint-Raymond
2014: Daniel Spielman, Ben Green
2013: Emmanuel Candès, Raphaël Rouquier
2012: Alexander Lubotzky, László Lovász
2011: Steven Strogatz, Manjul Bhargava
2010: Peter Winkler, Andrei Okounkov
2009: Étienne Ghys, Robert Shapire
2008: Peter Teichner, John Conway
2007: Terry Tao, David Donoho
2006: Akshay Venkatesh, Yves Couder
2005: Noga Alon, Nigel Hitchin
2004: Wendelin Werner
2003: Grigory Perelman
2002: Robert MacPherson
2001 Fall: Peter Shor
2001 Spring: Laurent Lafforgue