[Guest post by Yossi Azar - I attended HALG once and enjoyed it quite a lot; I highly recommend people make such nominations --Boaz] Call for Invited Talk Nominations :5th Highlights of Algorithms conference (HALG 2020) ETH Zurich, June 3-5, 2020​http://2020.highlightsofalgorithms.org/ The HALG 2020 conference seeks high-quality nominations for invited talks that will highlight recent advances in algorithmic research. … Continue reading HALG 2020 call for nominations (guest post by Yossi Azar)

Harvard Computer Science is seeking a Lecturer/Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies. A great candidate would be someone passionate about teaching and mentoring and excited to build a diverse and inclusive Undergraduate Computer Science community at Harvard. The position requires a Ph.D and is open to all areas of computer science and related fields, but of course … Continue reading Harvard opportunity: lecturing / advising position

It is often said that "we don't understand deep learning" but it is not as often clarified what is it exactly that we don't understand. In this post I try to list some of the "puzzles" of modern machine learning, from a theoretical perspective. This list is neither comprehensive nor authoritative. Indeed, I only started … Continue reading Puzzles of modern machine learning

Hi, once again it is the time of the year to advertise the Michael O. Rabin postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard, see https://toc.seas.harvard.edu/rabin-postdoc for more details. The deadline to apply is December 2, 2019. For any questions please email theory-postdoc-apply (at) seas dot harvard dot edu