[Guest post from Virginia Vassilevska Williams --Boaz] Barna Saha, Sofya Raskhodnikova and I are organizing the second annual TCS Women event at STOC'19. We had an event at STOC'18 and it went really well. We envision an exciting program for the TCS Women event at STOC 2019. The details about the program are forthcoming.  The … Continue reading TCS Women

In 2011, as a graduate student Jelani Nelson founded the AddisCoder course on algorithms and coding for high schoolers in Addis Ababa Ethiopia. Since then the course has been offered twice more, and this summer it will occur again for the fourth time. Over 330 students have completed the course, and some of its alumni … Continue reading Donate to AddisCoder!

In December I participated in the wonderful "PCP Fest" workshop in Tel Aviv. The videos from these workshops are now online on their youtube channel. The channel contains not just videos of talks but also two wide ranging interviews of Alon Rosen with Avi Wigderson and Christos Papadimitriou, as well as a discussion between them. … Continue reading PCP Fest videos

(As you're working on your FOCS papers, an announcement about STOC 2019 from Eric Allender --Boaz) STOC registration is now open acm-stoc.org/stoc2019/. The deadline to apply for travel grants is April 22 . Apply on acm-stoc.org/stoc2019/travel-support.html There is also travel support available via TCS Women (deadline April 25), see sigact.org/tcswomen/

The website for the FOCS 2019 conference is http://focs2019.cs.jhu.edu/ , and the submission server is https://focs19.cs.utexas.edu/ The deadline is 3:00pm PDT, April 5, 2019. The reason I am posting this is that there is a fake FOCS website that ranks first or second on searches for "FOCS 2019". The website is under the domain "aconf … Continue reading FOCS 2019 Real website and submission server

[Guest post by Aleksander Mądry] To me, one of the best things about working in theoretical computer science has always the exciting rate of progress we make as a community. On (what appears to be) a regular basis, we produce breakthroughs on problems that are absolutely fundamental to our field. Problems that often look impossible to tackle, right … Continue reading Nominate TCS papers for research highlights

If, like others following the pace of modern life, you're the kind of person that needs to get just on time updates on the state of theoretical computer science, consider signing up for the newsletter of CATCS. You can get information about funding opportunities, advocacy efforts, and more. Sure, at the hectic rate of two … Continue reading News addicts: Sign up for the CATCS newsletter

[Posted at the request of Craig Gentry. I think this is actually a great idea that should be imitated by other sub-areas of TCS as well. --Boaz] Update: The Conference for Failed Approaches and Insightful Losses in cryptology is celebrating our first failure early: the failure to keep a deadline! We are extending the submission … Continue reading Submit your failures to CFAIL 2019

This is the season that people are applying for postdoc positions. Unlike student and faculty hiring, which each have a fairly fixed schedule, postdoc availability can change from time to time, with new opportunities opening up all the time. So, I encourage everyone looking for a postdoc position to periodically check out https://cstheory-jobs.org/ . (For … Continue reading Looking a postdoc opportunity?

The Theory of Computing Blog Aggregator is now back online at a new website: http://cstheory-feed.org/ . There is also a twitter feed at https://twitter.com/cstheory . See this blog post by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (who, together with Arnab Bhattacharyya, is responsible for the aggregator's revival - thank you!!) for more details. This is a good opportunity to … Continue reading Theory Blog Aggregator Up!