Scott Aaronson, invitado de Sergio Rajsbaum, del 16 al 20 de marzo de 2026

Scott Aaronson de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, Estados Unidos. Invitado del Dr. Sergio Rajsbaum Gorodezky para impartir la conferencia “Computational Complexity and Explanations in Physics” en el Coloquio del Instituto e iniciar discusiones sobre temas de investigación. Duración 5 días, del 16/03/2026 al 20/03/2026.

Scott Aaronson is an American theoretical computer scientist and Schlumberger Centennial Chair of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary areas of research are computational complexity theory and quantum computing. After postdoctorates at the Institute for Advanced Study and the University of Waterloo, he took a faculty position at MIT in 2007. His primary area of research is quantum computing and computational complexity theory more generally. In the summer of 2016 he moved from MIT to the University of Texas at Austin as David J. Bruton Jr. Centennial Professor of Computer Science and as the founding director of UT Austin's new Quantum Information Center. In summer 2022 he announced he would be working for a year at OpenAI on theoretical foundations of AI safety. He worked at the company for two years. Aaronson is one of two winners of the 2012 Alan T. Waterman Award.

Danny Lewin Best Student Paper Award at the Symposium on Theory of Computing 2004.

2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. 2009 Sloan Research Fellowship.

2017 Simons Investigator. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019. He was awarded the 2020 ACM Prize in Computing.

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