Simons Lecture Series
2025 Lectures
Maryna Viazovska (Pure Mathematics)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
April 29, April 30, May 1, 2025
4:30pm, Room 2-190
Reception: 4:00pm, 2-290
The Sphere Packing Problem
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Lecture 1:
General overview -
Lecture 2:
Random sphere packings with symmetries -
Lecture 3:
Ideal lattice packings and subconvexity bounds
Thomas Vidick (Applied Mathematics)
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
May 12-14, 2025
4:30pm, Room 2-190
Reception: 4:00pm, 2-290
Surprises in Quantum Complexity Theory
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Lecture 1:
Some complexity challenges from quantum information -
Lecture 2:
Entanglement, interactive proofs, and approximability -
Lecture 3:
Entanglement, error-correcting codes, and proofs
Simons Lectures Over the Years
2026: Bo'az Klartag, Raymond Goldstein
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