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style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The
            Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley
            invites applications for Research Fellowships for academic
            year 2018-19.</span></p>
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style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Simons-Berkeley
            Research Fellowships are an opportunity for outstanding
            junior scientists (at most 6 years from PhD by Fall 2018) to
            spend one or both semesters at the Institute in connection
            with one or more of its programs.  The programs for 2018-19
            are as follows:</span></p>
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style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*
            Foundations of Data Science (Fall 2018)</span></p>
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            Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity (Fall 2018)</span></p>
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style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">*
            Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications (Spring 2019)</span></p>
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            Geometry of Polynomials (Spring 2019)</span></p>
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style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applicants
            who already hold junior faculty or postdoctoral positions
            are welcome to apply. In particular, applicants who hold, or
            expect to hold, postdoctoral appointments at other
            institutions are encouraged to apply to spend one semester
            as a Simons-Berkeley Fellow subject to the approval of the
            postdoctoral institution.</span></p>
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style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Further
            details and application instructions can be found at </span><a
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            href="http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows2018"
            style="text-decoration-line:none"><span
style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://simons.berkeley.edu/fellows2018</span></a><span
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            Information about the Institute and the above programs can
            be found at </span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
            href="http://simons.berkeley.edu/"
            style="text-decoration-line:none"><span
style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://simons.berkeley.edu</span></a><span
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style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Deadline
            for applications: 15 December, 2017.</span></p>
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style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Peter
            Bartlett</span></p>
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style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Associate
            Director, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing</span></p>
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