[Guest post by Virgi Vassilevska Williams on the TCS women program at STOC. In particular the TCS Women Spotlight workshop has a great program and is open to all. --Boaz] Dear all, The TCS Women 2019 program is finalized: https://sigact.org/tcswomen/tcs-women-2019/. Here are some details: On June 23rd, we have our TCS Women Spotlight workshop from 2 … Continue reading TCS Women at STOC (guest post by Virginia Williams)

We invite you to submit your papers to the 11th Innovations inTheoretical Computer Science (ITCS). The conference will be held atthe University of Washington in Seattle, Washington from January 12-14,2020. ITCS seeks to promote research that carries a strong conceptual message(e.g., introducing a new concept, model or understanding, opening a newline of inquiry within traditional … Continue reading ITCS 20 call for papers (guest post by Thomas Vidick)

[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

In the Fall, Boaz and I co-taught a grad seminar on physics and computation (see here for some of the original press coverage). We were lucky to attract an intrepid group of students from multiple fields, with representatives from computer science, physics, math and biology. As part of the course, we asked our students to … Continue reading Physics & Computation Blog Post Round-up

[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