Abstract is forthcoming.

Ryan Williams completed his PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon under Manuel Blum. Following postdocs at the Institute for Advanced Study and IBM Almaden, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford for five years, and is presently Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. His awards include a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER fellowship, a Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship, a Faculty Research Innovation Fellowship, and the 2024 Gödel Prize for his work on circuit lower bounds and the “algorithms to lower bounds” paradigm.

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