The various MSR labs are looking for postdocs and full-time researchers in many scientific fields, including all areas of theoretical Computer Science. You can apply via this website. Please don’t forget to specify in the form all the labs you may be interested in. For Microsoft Research Silicon Valley applications submitted by December first will … Continue reading Microsoft Research SVC Application Deadline – December 1st

The 15th ACM conference on Economics and Computation (EC'14, formally known as “ACM conference on Electronic Commerce”) will be held June 8-12, 2014 at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, United States. The CFP is now public and can be found here. EC'14 will be co-located with a meeting of the NBER Market Design working group, … Continue reading ACM EC 2014 Call For Papers

While this blog is mostly about theory, today I would like to talk about a real auction and how it relates to theory. I’ll focus on a fundraising auction for my child’s elementary school. As is common around here, the school has an annual community event called a “Walk-a-Thon” in which donations are collected towards … Continue reading Walk-a-Thon auction design

In this post I’d like to report a new and simple proof we found for theorem by Berenbrink, Czumaj, Steger, Vöcking on the imbalance of the balls-into-bins process known as the multiple choice scheme. Full details could be found in the paper. Probably many are familiar with this process, Kunal blogged about some variations of it a few months … Continue reading Balls-and-Bins made simpler