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Prof: Rutgers; Program Manager: DARPA; Scientist-at-Large: Redpoll. Math! Machine learning! Cognitive Science!

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Thrilled to be sponsoring the The 5th Workshop on Mathematical Reasoning and AI NeurIPS 2025!

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20.11.2025 00:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was a great honor and an inspiring conference. Thank you to the organizers and thank you to Margot and Tom Pritzker!

12.11.2025 22:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 13 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Applying to do a postdoc or PhD in theoretical ML or neuroscience this year? Consider joining my group (starting next Fall) at UT Austin!
POD Postdoc: oden.utexas.edu/programs-and... CSEM PhD: oden.utexas.edu/academics/pr...

23.10.2025 21:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
ItaLean 2025

ItaLean : formal maths and AI in Italy (Bologna), Dec 2025. Lectures, hands-on tutorials, research talks from academia and industry etc. Register here pitmonticone.github.io/ItaLean2025/

09.10.2025 12:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Exciting opportunity for people at the intersection of math, AI, and formal methods!

University of Michigan Math search: advanced assistant, or tenured associate or full professor for our initiative on Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
mathjobs.org/jobs/list/26...

08.10.2025 13:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AI and math. Geometry and symbolic reasoning. Amazing recent developments and stellar line up of speakers. It is going to be an exciting week!

The Geometry of Machine Learning @ Harvard Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA)
cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/event/mlgeom...

15.09.2025 00:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Infinity alignment theory

11.09.2025 20:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
AIQ: Artificial Intelligence Quantified
AIQ: Artificial Intelligence Quantified YouTube video by DARPAtv

Great to have this video about my @darpa.mil Artificial Intelligence Quantified (AIQ) program out! Very exciting program with absolutely fantastic teams. Stay tuned for some jaw dropping announcements!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVRF...

02.09.2025 21:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ“ฃ Please share: We invite submissions to the 29th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (#AISTATS 2026) and welcome paper submissions at the intersection of AI, machine learning, statistics, and related areas. [1/3]

12.08.2025 11:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 36 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Lean Programming Language Lean is a theorem prover and programming language that enables correct, maintainable, and formally verified code.

We're excited to share the Lean FRO Year 3 Roadmap today! It builds on work completed in the first two years of Lean FRO operations and will guide all #LeanLang development through July 2026.

โžก๏ธ Read the roadmap at lean-lang.org/fro/

#LeanProver #FormalMathematics #FormalVerification

05.08.2025 15:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Very exciting opportunity!

28.07.2025 19:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

I am advertising for 4 post-docs to come to Imperial and formalize, in Lean, *statements* of theorems from recent issues of the top generalist pure mathematics journals.

www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Positions are for 2 years, start date 1st Oct this year. Deadline 15th August.

28.07.2025 12:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 29 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Lean FRO and Mathlib receive $10M from XTX Markets Founder Alex Gerko to further advance the use of AI for mathematical research โ€” Renaissance Philanthropy โ€“ A brighter future for all through science,... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 24, 2025 Contact: media@renphil.org ; richard.hillary@xtxmarkets.com ; pr@convergentresearch.org

A new "Mathlib initiative" focussed around Lean's mathematics library has been announced. Thanks to the generosity of Alex Gerko and XTX Markets, there is finally an official entity focussed on growing this 21st century way of doing mathematics.

www.renaissancephilanthropy.org/news-and-ins...

24.07.2025 18:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 21 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz) It is tempting to view the capability of current AI technology as a singular quantity: either a given task X is within the ability of current tools, or it is not. However, there is in fact a very wid...

My thoughts on the crucial importance of methodology on self-reported AI performance on mathematics competitions, and my policy on commenting on such reports going forward: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...

19.07.2025 22:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 232 ๐Ÿ” 52 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Institute for Advanced Study - Academic Assistant - School of Social Science Reporting to the School Administrative Officer, the incumbent will be responsible for providing broad administrative support to a faculty member and the School Administrative Officer.Position Duties a...

New opportunity at the Institute for Advanced Study! The School of Social Science is hiring an Academic Assistant to support faculty & an international community of scholars. Pls share with folks in your network who might be interested in joining our team. recruiting.paylocity.com/recruiting/j...

15.07.2025 23:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 40 ๐Ÿ” 38 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Hello world! This is the RL & Agents Reading Group

We organise regular meetings to discuss recent papers in Reinforcement Learning (RL), Multi-Agent RL and related areas (open-ended learning, LLM agents, robotics, etc).

Meetings take place online and are open to everyone ๐Ÿ˜Š

10.07.2025 10:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 37 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Salem Prize About

The #SalemPrize for 2025 is now accepting nominations until September 15th. www.ias.edu/math/activit... (I am the chair of the Scientific Committee for the prize.) A bit more information in my blog post on this: terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/07/08/s...

08.07.2025 15:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

very interesting discussion. the contrast IK makes between mathematics and inductive neural networks is compelling. perhaps of interest @patrickshafto.bsky.social? thanks for digging it up and for your analysis, @natolambert.bsky.social .

28.06.2025 22:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And ideas that can be made real often have a very close connection to physics and math. Capable inductive machines like NNs are so new. Lots of interesting commonalities to be mined going forward. And, I think, lots of differences to be formalized.

28.06.2025 22:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The magic is seeing ideas that are feasible. That is the magic of deep learning. A simple insight that can be made real (with lots of hard work).

28.06.2025 22:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, I think it is interesting. The things that can be mathematics currently is narrow: physics, theoretical computer science, mathematics. But the sciences are vast, and in need of theory. In particular, the theory of intelligent agents is close to the surface in many cases...

28.06.2025 22:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In this 10-minute UCLA Connect talk, Terence Tao provides an accessible and compelling argument for "citizen math" and broad collaboration in research #mathematics via #formalverification using proof assistants like #LeanLang.

๐ŸŽฅ www.youtube.com/watch?v=K376...

23.06.2025 18:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Poster reading Rare/Earth The geopolitics of critical minerals and the AI supply chain, with pictures of Thea Riofrancos, Providence College
Tamara Kneese, Data and Society
Howard French, Columbia University (Only attending Public Panel)
Kate Crawford, University of Southern California and Microsoft Research
Alondra Nelson, Institute for advanced study

Poster reading Rare/Earth The geopolitics of critical minerals and the AI supply chain, with pictures of Thea Riofrancos, Providence College Tamara Kneese, Data and Society Howard French, Columbia University (Only attending Public Panel) Kate Crawford, University of Southern California and Microsoft Research Alondra Nelson, Institute for advanced study

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RARE/EARTH: The Geopolitics of Critical Minerals + the AI Supply Chain w/ @triofrancos.bsky.social @katecrawford.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @hofrench.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxVM...

Opening remarks albert.ias.edu/server/api/c...

Event brief www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/aig...

19.06.2025 23:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 62 ๐Ÿ” 23 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Congrats! We're excited to see what projects come from expMath!

19.06.2025 15:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discovery?

NY times article on expMath, my AI for math
@darpa.mil program, with commentary from mathematicians Andrew Granville, Bryna Kra, Jordan Ellenberg, and context from IAS professor @alondra.bsky.social ocial and @anthropic.com CEO @darioamodei.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/s...

19.06.2025 14:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In his latest "Amstat News" piece, David Corliss spotlights the JEDI programming at the upcoming Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville (Aug 2โ€“7).
Don't miss this essential guide to making the most of JEDI at JSM. magazine.amstat.org/blog/2025/06...

17.06.2025 13:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Playing with Shape and Form: A Glimpse of Topology book cover.

Playing with Shape and Form: A Glimpse of Topology book cover.

See Playing with Shape and Form: A Glimpse of Topology in action!
Check out a clip of a classroom using the book, which is up to 35% off during the AMS Summer Reading Sale โ€” ends July 4.

Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjrN...
Shop here: bookstore.ams.org/view?Product...

#MathSky

12.06.2025 19:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Can you train a performant language model using only openly licensed text?

We are thrilled to announce the Common Pile v0.1, an 8TB dataset of openly licensed and public domain text. We train 7B models for 1T and 2T tokens and match the performance similar models like LLaMA 1 & 2

06.06.2025 19:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 147 ๐Ÿ” 59 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Excited to have my @darpa.mil program on AI for pure math, Exponentiating Mathematics, featured in @technologyreview.com! #expMath

04.06.2025 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Excited to have my @darpa.mil program on AI for pure math, Exponentiating Mathematics, featured in @technologyreview.com! #expMath

04.06.2025 22:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0