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IPAM has been a driving force for the advancement of pure and applied mathematics for a quarter century.

US research and technology has benefited enormously from this and other mathematical centers.

Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Aug 8

#IPAM (the institute for pure and applied mathematics) is facing a critical shortfall for operating expenses due to an unexpected suspension of NSF funding www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... . Donations for emergency continuity of operations funding can be made at

giving.ucla.edu/Campaign/Donat

www.ipam.ucla.edu

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · Aug 7

And now the census

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Aug 7

In case you happen to be around :)

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Jul 16

Here's a decision that simultaneously captures the Trump administration's policies towards food aid, carbon emissions, and the Biden administration
#food #climate #econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/07/inci...

Incinerating food aid

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valeros.bsky.social @valeros.bsky.social · May 2

The 5th Zif summer school on Randomness in Physics and Mathematics has an approaching deadline, May 18 2025! With Benoit Collins, Laszlo Erdös, Laura Foini, Silvio Franz, Tamara Grava, Gaultier Lambert, Andrea Montanari, Ofer Zeitouni.

indico.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/event/220/ov...

Fifth ZiF Summer School Randomness in Physics and Mathematics: From Thermalisation in Quantum Systems to Random Matrices

This international Summer School is building on four previous ZiF Summer Schools, bringing together international PhD students and young postdocs from various areas in mathematics, mathematical and theoretical physics. The participants will take part in 2 intense weeks of 8 interdisciplinary lecture series. They will be presented by 8 distinguished scientists. The school will include exercise sessions led by the lecturers and offers the opportunity for all participants to present their own...

indico.physik.uni-bielefeld.de

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Jun 29

Looking forward to visiting again India for this program
www.icts.res.in/program/DSPOM

Data Science: Probabilistic and Optimization Methods II | ICTS

www.icts.res.in

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Jun 27

Shooting ourselves in the other foot.
#econsky #medicine
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/06/visa...

Visa delays likely to disrupt American hospitals and foreign doctors beginning American residencies on July 1

marketdesigner.blogspot.com

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Jun 15

Stanford held graduation ceremonies today. Here's Jon Levin's thoughts about the role and value of universities.
#econsky #academicsky
news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Commencement remarks by President Jonathan Levin

The following is the prepared text of remarks for delivery by Stanford President Jonathan Levin at the 134th Commencement Ceremony on June 15, 2025.

news.stanford.edu

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Jun 3

Nice talk by Pierfrancesco Urbani about our recent work on generalization, overfitting, memorization in two layer networks www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRdH...

One figure summary: learning and overfitting/memorization take place on different timescales in large models.

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · May 26

“government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

Opinion | We Are Not Being Asked to Run Into Cannon Fire. We Just Need to Speak Up.

www.nytimes.com

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · May 10

Killing the goose that lays the golden eggs (to save on the cost of bird feed, and promote the kinds of viewpoint diversity that the “S” in NSF tries to filter out via peer review…)
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/05/nsf-...

NSF slashed again

marketdesigner.blogspot.com

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · May 2

Congratulations to Mark Sellke and Eliran Subag!
www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/rollo-davids...

The Rollo Davidson Prize | Statistical Laboratory

www.statslab.cam.ac.uk

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Apr 30

arxiv.org/abs/2502.21269

Dynamical Decoupling of Generalization and Overfitting in Large Two-Layer Networks

The inductive bias and generalization properties of large machine learning models are -- to a substantial extent -- a byproduct of the optimization algorithm used for training. Among others, the scale...

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Apr 30

Overfitting is among the conceptually most interesting problems in machine learning.
I am happy of several new phenomena we began to understand with Pierfrancesco Urbani.
Alert: mostly non-rigorous! (Celebrating Jorge Kurchan)
web.stanford.edu/~montanar/OT...

web.stanford.edu

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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · Apr 18

Can't begin to emphasize how insane this is. Could you imagine if, every time a public school teacher needed to get their paycheck, they had to justify to a political appointee how that "aligns with administration priorities"?

Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · Apr 18

DOGE is killing NIH. They froze the panels that determine funding. Then they froze funding announcements. Then they cancelled 100s of funded grants. Now they're freezing the remaining funded grants by making it impossible to actually access the funds
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review

DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.

www.washingtonpost.com

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David Malakoff @davidmalakoff.bsky.social · Apr 16

BREAKING:The National Science Foundation (NSF) has put a cork in its grantmaking pipeline after billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) set up shop at the agency this week. | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review

Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency

www.science.org

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Apr 16

Spectrum of the Hessian at the empirical risk minimizer for a high--dimensional multinomial regression problem:

Paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.01953

Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Apr 16

Nice talk by Basil Saeed at Simons Institute on our work on characterizing the empirical risk landscape via Kac-Rice formula:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E56W...

Local minima of the empirical risk in high dimension

YouTube video by Simons Institute

www.youtube.com

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Roxana Daneshjou, MD, PhD @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social · Apr 15

Stanford’s president and provost release a statement supporting Harvard. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/l...

Stanford president and provost back Harvard in funding fight

The president and provost said Harvard’s rejection of government demands was “rooted in the American tradition of liberty.”

stanforddaily.com

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Lénaïc Chizat @lenaicchizat.bsky.social · Apr 14

Announcing : The 2nd International Summer School on Mathematical Aspects of Data Science
mathsdata2025.github.io
EPFL, Sept 1–5, 2025

Speakers:
Bach @bachfrancis.bsky.social
Bandeira
Mallat
Montanari
Peyré @gabrielpeyre.bsky.social

For PhD students & early-career researchers
Apply before May 15!

Mathematical Aspects of Data Science

Graduate Summer School - EPFL - Sept. 1-5, 2025

mathsdata2025.github.io

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Apr 14

In case you are around: sites.google.com/view/jksfest...

JK's Fest

14-15 April 2025

sites.google.com

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Mar 22

Best science book ever?

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David Enrich @davidenrich.bsky.social · Mar 6

Top of @nytimes.com app and website right now. Trump critics muzzle themselves because they are afraid of retaliation, including physical threats to their families. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...

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Andrea Montanari @andrea-montanari.bsky.social · Mar 1

There is no doubt a reason why this quote surfaced in my mind:
“The founding of libraries was like constructing more public granaries, amassing reserves against a spiritual winter which by certain signs, in spite of myself, I see ahead…”

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