The Swiss Winter School in TCS 2026 will take place January 25-30, featuring amazing speakers Ankur Moitra (MIT), Avishay Tal (UC Berkeley), and Vera Traub (ETHZ). Application deadline: October 24 More information: theory.epfl.ch/WinterSchool...

reasoning models reliably prefer music groups with numbers and symbols in their names shown here: Kimi K2 is very modern large agentic model but not a reasoning model o3, gpt5 & Grok 4 all had lists similar to R1 www.tylercosgrove.com/blog/llm-mus...

Spread the word: there is a new prize in Theoretical Computer Science in honor of Luca Trevisan-- cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat... (Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Fabrizio Grandoni, Euiwoong Lee, Chris Schwiegelshohn, Ola Svensson A $(2+\varepsilon)$-Approximation Algorithm for Metric $k$-Median https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10972

Joachim Favre is an *amazing* undergrad at EPFL that has taken notes for all courses he took as a Bachelor student in CS and he continues to do so as a Master student in Quantum. I'd expect the notes to be often better than those of the profs ;) github.com/JoachimFavre...

The submission server for #FOCS2025 is now open! Submit your work: focs25.hotcrp.com

Does anyone know what happened to DBLP? It is very slow for me these days.

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Postdoc positions @ EPFL (soft deadline Jan 20) available in vibrant theory group that covers complexity, quantum, algorithms, theory of ML ... and includes faculty E. Abbe, A. Chiesa, F. Eisenbrand, M. Göös, M. Kapralov, O. Svensson, and last but not least T. Vidick. go.epfl.ch/theory-postdoc