As mentioned before on this blog,   STOC 2017 will be part of an expanded “Theory Fest” (http://acm-stoc.org/stoc2017/) which is being planned by a small committee (Sanjeev Arora, Paul Beame, Avrim Blum, and Ryan Williams, as well as SIGACT chair Michael Mitzenmacher and STOC’17 PC chair Valerie King).   One component of Theory Fest would be a series of … Continue reading Theory Fest short presentations – call for suggestions

The success of TOC is due to the intrinsic intellectual merit of our field but also due to many fruitful connections: connections between subfields of TOC (see Avi Wigderson’s depth through breadth), connection with Mathematics, connections with other fields in Science and Humanities via the computational lens, and connections with industry. All of these powerful … Continue reading TOCA-Revolution Begins: Nov 4

I hope to see many readers of this blog in person tomorrow for the workshop in honor of Avi Wigderson 60th birthday (Wed-Sat), which will feature a collection of great speakers talking on a variety of areas in theoretical computer science and mathematics. But, if you can't make it in person, the talks will be streamed … Continue reading Live from Princeton, NJ: Avi60