[Guest post by Sanjeev Arora. Action items: register, book your hotel and flight, and consider submitting a poster.] ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing Is morphing this year into a 5-day Theory Fest, as announced earlier. This is going to be a new and exciting kind of event for the theory community, with talks covering a … Continue reading TheoryFest update

STOC 2017 is going to be part of an expanded “Theory Festival” which will include not just the paper presentations, but a host of other activities such as plenary talks and tutorials, workshops, and more. One of the components I am most excited about is a sequence of invited plenary short talks where we will … Continue reading Celebrating TCS at STOC 2017

TeX and LaTeX are in many ways, amazing pieces of software. Their contribution to improving and enabling scientific communication cannot be questioned, and I have been a (mostly) grateful user. But sometimes even grateful users have to rant a bit.. My main issue with TeX is that, at its heart, it is a programming language. … Continue reading Why I dislike TeX (a pre-deadline rant)