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

  • Lecture 1:
    Rigidity of unipotent flows and quantitative equidistribution

    Lecture Video

  • Lecture 2:
    Rigidity of higher rank diagonalizable action

    Lecture Video

  • Lecture 3:
    Time change rigidity of unipotent flows

    Lecture Video

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

  • Lecture 1:
    Phase transitions in computational problems

    Lecture Video

  • Lecture 2:
    Inference, learning and optimization in complex landscapes I

    Lecture Video

  • Lecture 3:
    Inference, learning and optimization in complex landscapes II

    Lecture Video

Simons Lecture Poster 2024
Simons Lecture Poster 2024

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