This essay was featured as a guest post on Silicon Reckoner. Many thanks to Michael Harris for allowing me the opportunity to share this with his readers.
Recent Posts
First Proof NYT Interview
Excited to share that the First Proof Foundation was recently featured in a New York Times article by Siobhan Roberts about the future of math research in the age of AI. The article includes an interview with me and my colleagues Mohammed Abouzaid, Martin Hairer, and Lauren Williams. Check it out!
1st Proof
Please help promote this project called “First Proof” led by Mohammed Abouzaid (Stanford), Nikhil Srivastava (Cal), Rachel Ward (UT Austin), and Lauren Williams (Harvard). The goal is to understand the capabilities of AI systems on problems that come up in math research. We have a collection of research problems for which solutions have not yet been posted online, so it’s a good testbed. The solutions will come out in just one week.
SIAM LA27
February 1, 2026 Update: The next SIAM Linear Algebra conference is tentatively scheduled to be held in Long Beach, CA, on May 24-28, 2027. Stay tuned for more details as they become available.
January 25, 2025: I will be co-chairing the 2027 SIAM Conference on Linear Algebra along with Mark Embree (Virginia Tech). The LA24 conference in Paris will be an impossible act to follow, but stay tuned.
Final Draft Available: Tensor Decompositions for Data Science
We are happy to share the final draft of our forthcoming textbook which will be available in print in June 2025. Click for more…