Photo showing Lonni Besançon on stage with other panellists Eungsang Lee and Yukari Ito

Research integrity sleuth Lonni Besançon tells #HLF2025 that he’s definitely hoping more people will join the hunt for flawed research, but “it’s complicated because people are afraid of the consequences.” It takes time and “you don’t really make friends doing it.” 🧪

Avi Wigderson showing a slide listing the qualities displayed by Alan Turing, including fearlessness, self criticism, a deep desire to understand things theoretically and a breadth of interests and expertise

This really is a beautiful tribute to Alan Turing at #HLF2025 from Avi Wigderson. All these qualities (perhaps especially clear writing and avoiding publishing too quickly) are hugely desirable in researchers now. 🧪

Photo of Avi Wigderson standing on a stage in front of a slide

“Computer science was born aware of its limitations,” says Avi Wigderson at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum #HLF2025. He’s taking us on a tour of the work of CS pioneer Alan Turing, one paper per phase of Turing’s too-short life. 🧪

Full circle. From my first HLF as a student in 2013 ➡️ to giving a talk on stage as a laureate this year. Grateful for the journey and the community that made it possible. #HLF2025

We had an amazing 4 days at Heidelberg Laureate Forum! #HLF2025 ✨ Our booth was buzzing with curious and clever young researchers. We loved chatting about their interests, career paths, and opportunities at HITS. Huge thanks to everyone who stopped by and made the event so memorable!

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Photo of David MacMillan on stage at HLF

Nobel chemistry laureate David MacMillan tells the Heidelberg Laureate Forum audience that chaos at the US NIH left his Princeton University lab without federal funding for 7 months, lost them $1m dollars, and “every time you open the New York Times, it’s not necessarily getting better.” #HLF2025 🧪

Photo of Leslie Lamport on stage at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Leslie Lamport has basically dedicated his entire #HLF2025 talk to telling young researchers to comment their damn code already, and it’s kind of amazing.

The pros and cons of reinforcement learning in physical science – Physics World David Silver of Google DeepMind thinks AIs that ‘learn by experience’ are the future of AI – but maybe not in particle colliders or nuclear arsenals

David Silver of Google DeepMind thinks AIs that ‘learn by experience’ are the future of AI – but maybe not in particle colliders or nuclear arsenals. #HLF2025 ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/the-pros-a...

The pros and cons of reinforcement learning in physical science – Physics World David Silver of Google DeepMind thinks AIs that ‘learn by experience’ are the future of AI – but maybe not in particle colliders or nuclear arsenals

David Silver of Google DeepMind thinks AIs that ‘learn by experience’ are the future of AI – but maybe not in particle colliders or nuclear arsenals. #HLF2025 ⚛️🧪 physicsworld.com/a/the-pros-a...

Are we heading for a future of superintelligent AI mathematicians? – Physics World Some highly intelligent human mathematicians certainly seem to think so, as Margaret Harris reports from the maths-and-computer-science-focused Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Good morning, #HLF2025! I'm at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum this week, hoping to learn more about areas of math and computer science that relate to physics. If you got lost during yesterday's panel session on machine learning in mathematics, here's my take: physicsworld.com/a/are-we-hea... ⚛️🧪

Are we heading for a future of superintelligent AI mathematicians? – Physics World Some highly intelligent human mathematicians certainly seem to think so, as Margaret Harris reports from the maths-and-computer-science-focused Heidelberg Laureate Forum

Are we heading for a world in which superhuman AI mathematicians define questions, construct proofs, check them, and then write+peer review the paper about them afterwards? Many mathematicians seem to think so, and some are happier about it than others. ⚛️🧪 #HLF2025 physicsworld.com/a/are-we-hea...

Happening soon: panel discussion on AI and the Physical Sciences at #HLF2025
www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/forum/12th-h...

We're having a great time at @hlforum.bsky.social as always! Our first vlog is out now, featuring young researchers from around the world, mathematical art, and two lovely science journalist friends youtu.be/c49WU053ZSg?... #HLF2025

Rich Sutton not holding back. Don't be distracted by applications, domain knowledge, privacy, safety, explainability, … #HLF2025

@yannisioak.bsky.social of @acm.org just announced all publications will be #OpenAccess starting in Jan 2026. #HLF2025

Loving the delicious new book from @joannechocolat.bsky.social! 'Vianne' is a sumptuous prequel to 'Chocolat' and I'm thrilled to get to chat with the author about it at #HLF2025 next week! Check @huddlitfest.bsky.social for all festival details! ❤️📚🍫

The Hyderabad Literary Festival is in full swing!
Today, 6:10 pm: Ibaadat, Exploring Communal Harmony and Gender Equality through Kathak.
More at hydlitfest.org.
#HLF2025 #literaryfestival #kathakdance #CommunalHarmony #genderequality #culturalevents #hyderabadevents

At the Hyderabad Literary Festival, 25 January.

A weekend full of a variety of events, not to be missed! And it's free.

#HLF2025 #literaryfestival #technology #CulturalEvent #HyderabadEvents #culturalbrands

The guest nation at the 2025 Hyderabad Literary Festival (24-26 January) is Lithuania.

Register now to attend the festival. It’s free and open to everyone!

#HLF2025 #literaryfestival #lithuania #lithuanianliterature #lithuanianauthors #booksintranslation

Get ready, Hyderabad! The most-awaited event of the year is (almost) here! 📚✨

Hyderabad Literary Festival, 24-26 Jan. 2025, at Sattva Knowledge City, HITEC City
Speakers, inspiring discussions, interactive workshops, cultural extravaganzas and much more!
Open to All 🎉
Save the date! 🌟 #HLF2025