Actually, not really... Northwestern University held a workshop on semidefinite programming hierarchies and sum of squares.  Videos of the talks by Prasad Raghavendra, David Steurer and myself are available from the link above. The content to unicorns ratio in Prasad and David's talks is much higher ☺

Tomorrow, Wednesday May 25, is the international Towel Day in honor of Douglas Adams, author of the 5-book trilogy "The hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". In his book (and his prior 1978 radio series) Adams gave a nice illustration of computational complexity and non uniform computation in his story about the "deep thought" computer who took 7.5 million … Continue reading Happy towel day