Simons Institute Courses

Computer Vision After the Victory of Data

Explore the evolution and future of computer vision, focusing on data-driven approaches and their impact on the field's development and applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Communication in the Service of Coordinated Action by Spotted Hyenas

Exploring vocal communication's role in coordinating collective actions among spotted hyenas, using advanced tracking technology to study complex social dynamics in wild animal groups.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Do Elephants Have Names? Vocal Labeling of Individual Conspecifics in African Elephants

Explores groundbreaking research on African elephants' potential use of name-like calls, challenging our understanding of animal communication and social cognition in non-human species.

• YouTube
• 57 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Generative AI and What Is Meaningful Sperm Whale Communication

Explore the intersection of generative AI and sperm whale communication, uncovering insights into nonhuman species' language and potential AI applications in decoding animal vocalizations.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

GPT-Whale Language Models at Tools for Structure Discovery and Hypothesis Generation

Explore innovative applications of GPT-Whale models for uncovering patterns and generating hypotheses in nonhuman species communication research.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Deep Emergent Communication - How It Started and How It’s Going

Explore the evolution and current state of deep emergent communication, examining its origins and recent advancements in decoding nonhuman species' communication.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Explicit SoS Lower Bounds from Small-Set High Dimensional Expanders

Explores explicit CSPs hard for Sum-of-Squares hierarchy using small-set high dimensional expanders, introducing new isoperimetric inequality for Square Cayley Complexes to construct optimally hard XOR-families.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Hypercontractivity Inequality on Epsilon-Product Spaces

Explores hypercontractivity inequality on ε-product spaces, generalizing previous results and capturing new spaces like spectral high-dimensional expanders. Applications include small-set expansion theorems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Reverse Hypercontractivity and Improved Sampling in High Dimensional Expanders

Explore reverse hypercontractivity in high-dimensional expanders, its connection to mixing and sampling, and discover new Chernoff-like bounds in these mathematical structures.

• YouTube
• 58 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Explicit Orthogonal and Unitary Designs

Explore advanced mathematical constructions for orthogonal and unitary groups, focusing on explicit designs with optimal cardinality and seed length for complex matrix applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour
• On-Demand
• Free Video

PCPs and Global Hyper-contractivity - Lecture 2

Explore advanced concepts in PCPs and global hyper-contractivity with Dor Minzer, delving into complex mathematical theories and their applications in analysis and theoretical computer science.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

PCPs and Global Hyper-contractivity - Lecture 1

Explore advanced concepts in theoretical computer science, focusing on Probabilistically Checkable Proofs and global hyper-contractivity with expert Dor Minzer.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Applications in Extremal Combinatorics - Lecture 1

Explore advanced concepts in extremal combinatorics, focusing on analytical techniques and their applications in theoretical computer science.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Hyper-contractivity in Analysis and Theoretical Computer Science - Introduction 3

Explore hyper-contractivity in analysis and theoretical computer science, examining its applications and implications for advanced mathematical concepts.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• On-Demand
• Free Video

High-Dimensional Expanders - Lecture 2

Explore high-dimensional expanders with Irit Dinur, delving into advanced concepts and applications in analysis and theoretical computer science.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video