(see also here) STOC Theory Fest 2017 (Montreal June 19-23) Sanjeev Arora, Paul Beame, Avrim Blum, Ryan Williams   SIGACT Chair Michael Mitzenmacher announced at the STOC’16 business meeting that starting in 2017, STOC will turn into a 5-day event, a Theory Fest. This idea was discussed at some length in a special session at … Continue reading TheoryFest 2017 – guest post by Sanjeev Arora