Former NSF theory program director Peter Brass guest posts on the state of the foundation.

In my latest blog, I discuss the challenges of building a powerful #cryptographic technique that aims to “obfuscate” the internal implementation details of programs- lnkd.in/gT3smPZh Thanks Seyoon Ragavan and Rahul llango for the nice chat about their works @simonsinstitute.bsky.social! #TCS

The workshops for #FOCS2025 have been announced! They will take place on the first day of the conference, December 14 (Sunday), over 3 parallel sessions.

Excellent talk yesterday at UTS by Seyoon Ragavan, on #quantum algorithms for factoring: focusing on Regev's recent improvement, and subsequent improvements by Seyoon and his coauthors.

Wonderful article by @lakshmic.bsky.social about work on the Jacobi factoring circuit with Seyoon, Greg and Katherine!

How would you respond if your lab got destroyed by a missile? "I wish that a day will come very, very soon in which Iranian scientists and Israeli scientists will collaborate and work together and perform scientific research for the future of mankind." apnews.com/article/isra...