The mathematical conundrums that Marijn Heule has helped crack in the last decade sound like code names lifted from a sci-fi spy novel: the empty hexagon. Schur Number 5. Keller’s conjecture, dimension seven.

There is a lot to be appreciated about someone with an actual humanities education and a capacity to think writing about AGI. www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/on-inco... by @eruditorumpress.com

my timeline of cryptographers has switched from its usual math and code chatter, now it’s mostly people panicking about the asiacrypt venue dress code that disallows *checks notes* tshirts 😱

An advent calendar of some of my favourite TCS/Maths talks. Day #1: Avi Wigderson on Reading Alan Turing. It is a gem of a talk, full of insights about Turing's work, writing style, and influences on mathematics and computer science. Pure joy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uk_...

Congrats to the winners of the 2024 #IACR Test-of-Time Award for #Asiacrypt: "Fiat-Shamir with aborts: Applications to lattice and factoring-based signatures", by V. Lyubashevsky and "Efficient public key encryption based on ideal lattices", by D. Stehlé, R. Steinfeld, K. Tanaka and K. Xagawa !

Are you attending Asiacrypt2024? If you are a women-in-cryptography, you can participate in our coffee breaks: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We will match you with someone and you can grab a coffee/tea in person!

Things you need as a PhD student: - coffee ☕ - a living stipend 💰 - a website 🔗 For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.html

The Asiacrypt 2024 program is finally up! asiacrypt.iacr.org/2024/program...

Please answer / dm us to be added/ removed. go.bsky.app/8daoJcj

Reminder that, if you're applying to grad school, postdocs, faculty positions etc., you should have asked your writers 2 to 4 weeks ago. The second best time to ask is today. Here's my post on how to ask for a letter of recommendation. kamathematics.wordpress.com/2021/08/18/h... 1/2

The perfect definition of a heuristic doesn't exi-

It’s like we graduated from high school and we’re all finding each other in university classes. lol