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...

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...

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...

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)

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)

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

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

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).

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

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

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