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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · 13h

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...

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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · 24d

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...

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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · 27d

Infinity alignment theory

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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · Sep 2

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...

AIQ: Artificial Intelligence Quantified

YouTube video by DARPAtv

www.youtube.com

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Arno Solin @arnosolin.bsky.social · Aug 12

📣 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]

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Lean Focused Research Organization @lean-lang.org · Aug 5

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.

➡️ Read the roadmap at lean-lang.org/fro/

#LeanProver #FormalMathematics #FormalVerification

Lean Programming Language

Lean is a theorem prover and programming language that enables correct, maintainable, and formally verified code.

lean-lang.org

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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · Jul 28

Very exciting opportunity!

xenaproject.bsky.social @xenaproject.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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...

www.imperial.ac.uk

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xenaproject.bsky.social @xenaproject.bsky.social · Jul 28

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.

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...

www.imperial.ac.uk

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xenaproject.bsky.social @xenaproject.bsky.social · Jul 24

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...

Lean FRO and Mathlib receive $10M from XTX Markets Founder Alex Gerko to further advance the use of AI for mathematical research — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science,...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 24, 2025 Contact: [email protected] ; [email protected] ; [email protected]

www.renaissancephilanthropy.org

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Jul 19

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...

Terence Tao (@[email protected])

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...

mathstodon.xyz

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jul 15

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...

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...

recruiting.paylocity.com

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RL & Agents Reading Group @rl-agents-rg.bsky.social · Jul 10

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 😊

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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · Jul 8

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...

Salem Prize

About

www.ias.edu

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jun 28

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 .

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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · Jun 28

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.

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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · Jun 28

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).

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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · Jun 28

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...

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Lean Focused Research Organization @lean-lang.org · Jun 23

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.

🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K376...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Jun 19

ICYMI

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...

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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Lean Focused Research Organization @lean-lang.org · Jun 19

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

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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · Jun 19

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...

Can A.I. Quicken the Pace of Math Discovery?

www.nytimes.com

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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · Jun 17

In his latest "Amstat News" piece, David Corliss spotlights the JEDI programming at the upcoming Joint Statistical Meetings in Nashville (Aug 2–7).
Don't miss this essential guide to making the most of JEDI at JSM. magazine.amstat.org/blog/2025/06...

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American Mathematical Society @amermathsoc.bsky.social · Jun 12

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 — ends July 4.

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

#MathSky

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

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eleutherai.bsky.social @eleutherai.bsky.social · Jun 6

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

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Patrick Shafto @patrickshafto.bsky.social · Jun 4

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

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · Jun 4

The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians?

What’s next for AI and math

The last year has seen rapid progress in the ability of large language models to tackle math at high school level and beyond. Is AI closing in on human mathematicians?

www.technologyreview.com

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