[Guest post by Robi Krauthgamer;  note that there is no conflict in nominating the same work/person to be highlighted in both HALG and TheoryFest. --Boaz] Call for Nominations  3rd Highlights of Algorithms conference (HALG 2018) Amsterdam, June 4-6, 2018 http://2018.highlightsofalgorithms.org/  The HALG 2018 conference seeks high-quality nominations for invited talks that will highlight recent advances … Continue reading HALG 2018 Call for Nominations

In his State of the Union address in January 1984, president Ronald Reagan announced that he directed his treasury secretary to simplify and reform the U.S., tax code. Thus began a process of 1.5 years until in June 1985, the house Ways and Means committee began formal discussion on the bill, which it voted on … Continue reading The GOP Tax plan and universities

(This blog post is in the form of a Jupyter notebook. See here for an arguably better formatted version, and here for the version with the omitted code, this (Beta version) website allows you to see the code "live" without needing to install Jupyter on your machine.)