Collaboration principal investigator David Steurer of Cornell University gave one of the day’s talks and four invited guest speakers — Ronen Eldan (Weizmann Institute), Shayan Oveis Gharan (University ...

Building a good mathematics test is a surprisingly hard optimization problem. Every item in a test bank carries its own content domain, difficulty level, cognitive demand, and point value, and a ...

Indian researchers have combined compression testing, ANOVA, and a bird-inspired optimization algorithm to identify the ...

The Simons Collaboration on Algorithms and Geometry (A&G) is an in-house research environment at the Simons Foundation that has been active for the past 7 years. It is devoted to foundational ...

Researchers have successfully extended the quantum phase difference estimation algorithm, a general quantum algorithm for the direct calculations of energy gaps, to enable the direct calculation of ...

In recent years, research and development on quantum computers has made considerable progress. Quantum chemical calculations for electronic structures of atoms and molecules are attracting great ...

This is the fifth installment of the mathematics series. In the first article, “Fermat Test — Another Principle of Primality ...

A new algorithm could help understand the structure of liquids, and how they flow through porous media. Theoretical physicists have now implemented an algorithm for analyzing void space in sphere ...

Cathy O’Neil believes there is a dark side to numbers. A mathematician by training, she earned her doctorate at Harvard and went on to become a tenure-track professor at Barnard College. In 2007, ...