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karthikcs.bsky.social @karthikcs.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

DIMACS is hosting not one, not two, but three workshops on fine-grained complexity next month, from July 20–31! Registration is free but required. To register, click each relevant workshop page on the DIMACS events page: dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/list Hope to see many of you there!

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 12/06/2026

The website and registration link for WoLA 2026, the Workshop on Local Algorithms, is up! Registration is free, and the workshop will take place on August 16-18 at Boston University. Details and registration: www.local-algorithms.com/WOLA2026/

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 28/05/2026

Congratulations to the recipients of the #STOC2026 Best Paper Awards! Including a property testing paper, by Mark Chen, Xi Chen, Hao Cui, William Pires, and Jonah Stockwell! acm-stoc.org/stoc2026/STO...

Lower Estimates for L_1-Distortion of Transportation Cost Spaces
Chris Gartland; Mikhail Ostrovskii
Separating QMA from QCMA with a classical oracle
John Bostanci; Jonas Haferkamp; Chinmay Nirkhe; Mark Zhandry
Boolean function monotonicity testing requires (almost) n^1/2 queries
Mark Chen, Xi Chen, Hao Cui, William Pires, Jonah Stockwell
NP-membership for the boundary-boundary art-gallery problem
Jack Stade
MIPco=coRE
Junqiao (Randy) Lin

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Jason Hartline @jasonhartline.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

The 2025 Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop is December 8-9, hosted jointly by Northwestern and TTIC. Monday Dec 8 will be at TTIC and Tuesday Dec 9 will be at Northwestern (in the SkAI/NITMB in the Hancock tower in downtown Chicago). Register in advance. theory.cs.northwestern.edu/2025/11/14/j...

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Junior Theorists Workshop 2025 | Northwestern CS Theory Group

Synopsis: The Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop 2025 is being held jointly by Northwestern University and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago on ...

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 25/06/2025

Ahead of the Sublinear Algorithms reunion next week at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social, scribe notes for last year's "hidden gems" and open problems (curated by Nathan Harms and Santhoshini Velusamy) have been uploaded to the reunion's webpage: Check them out: simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/su...

Screenshot of the (first) page of the scribe notes for the "Hidden Gems" curated and illustrated by Nathan Harms

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 30/04/2025

The Call for Papers (CfP) for #SODA26 is out: www.siam.org/conferences-... The submission server is open: soda26.hotcrp.com Deadline: ⏰ Monday, July 14, AoE (July 15, 11:59am UTC)

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Samson Zhou @szhoucs.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Taking a break from the submission season? Swing by the Workshop on Algorithms for Large Data (Online), WALDO 2025 🗓️ April 14—16: waldo-workshop.github.io/2025.html Registration is free! (but necessary by April 7)

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 17/03/2025

An announcement: the Workshop on Algorithms for Large Data (Online) 2025 will take place 🗓️ April 14—16. waldo-workshop.github.io/2025.html Goal: "to generate new collaborations through an emphasis on big data algorithms, broadly defined" Register (free) by ⏰ April 7 to access the virtual platform

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Anupam Gupta @anupamg.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Congratulations to the 2025 Sloan Fellows, including Aviad Rubinstein, Lerrel Pinto, Mark Sellke, Mohsen Ghaffari, Thatchaphol Saranurak, and David J. Wu! sloan.org/fellowships/... @aviad-rubinstein.bsky.social @lerrelpinto.com @eigx.bsky.social

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2025 Fellows | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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FOCS 2026 @focs2026.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

The #FOCS2025 website is up! Featuring a Call for Papers and important dates: focs.computer.org/2025/ ⏰ Deadline: April 3, 2025 (8pm ET) ⏰ Notification: July 8, 2025 🗓️ Conference: December 14–17, 2025 Content and info will be added as it becomes available (workshops, activities, travel support).

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Kasper Green Larsen @kasperglarsen.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Excited to co-organise another summer school on learning theory! This time in beautiful Odense, Denmark. Please share and apply here: event.sdu.dk/algoml2025

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PhD School on Intersections of Algorithms and Machine Learning Theory

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Jelani Nelson @jelaninelson.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Postdoc opportunity: if interested in a postdoc related to sketching starting Summer/Fall'25, especially applied to more efficient foundation model architectures (e.g. faster approx attention), please follow the instructions on the left column of theory.cs.berkeley.edu/postdoc.html by Jan 31

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Online Parallels (mastodon @onlineparallels) @onlineparallels.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

We are launching an 𝐮𝐧𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 and experimental online parallel event for the conference ITCS25, aimed at everyone who cannot attend the conference in person for whatever reasons. (1/2) sites.google.com/view/itcs202... #ITCS25 #ITCS2025 #OnlineParallels

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ITCS'25 online parallel

What we do Welcome! This site is about an online parallel event for the conference ITCS'25 that aims to provide an inclusive platform for the TCS researchers unable to attend the conference in person....

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