Simons Institute Director Venkat Guruswami has been honored this summer with STOC and CCC 2026 Test of Time Awards for papers that transformed coding theory and pseudorandomness, and emerged from a common algebraic core. simons.berkeley.edu/news/guruswa...

Guruswami Receives Test of Time Awards at STOC and CCC 2026

We’re delighted to share that Simons Institute Director Venkatesan Guruswami has been honored this summer with two 2026 Test of Time Awards for papers that transformed coding theory and pseudorandomne...

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By the time Hong Wang’s proof of the three-dimensional Kakeya set conjecture was published, she was ready for other, even harder-to-prove conjectures. www.quantamagazine.org/hong-wang-wi...

For Shayan Oveis Gharan, research has always been a struggle: “It has a lot of ups and downs, mostly downs. You always think, ‘Can I ever come up with something that doesn’t fail?’” He’s now a IMU Abacus Medal winner. www.quantamagazine.org/shayan-oveis...

INBOX: the last dedicated science reporter at The Wall Street Journal, @aylinwoodward.bsky.social, has left the newsroom. This came after the Murdoch-owned newspaper dissolved its Health and Science Bureau last October. NPR, CBS, and WaPo also gutted their climate desks in the last eight months.

breakthrough in binary search trees!

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Helsinki CS Theory Seminar: Wednesday, July 15, 2026, at 14.15. Václav Rozhoň: Near dynamic optimality of Splay trees. Aalto University, Maarintie 8, room TU1. https://research.cs.aalto.fi/theory/seminar/seminar.html

incredibly honored that our paper on Scheduler Augmentation won this year's _Best Paper Award_ at SPAA! This is joint work with my students Darshan Dinesh Kumar and Seong-Heon Jung. Excellent work Darshan and Seong-Heon!! Check out the talk (starts at ~1hr): rhul.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Page...

Professor Justin Cappos has been named to the inaugural cohort of OpenSSF Ambassadors, recognized for creating five Linux Foundation security projects whose protections are used by Google, Amazon, Red Hat, and millions of automobiles worldwide. #NYUTandonMade

Introducing the First Cohort of the OpenSSF Ambassador Program – Open Source Security Foundation

🎙️ Submit your proposal for OpenSSF Community Day Europe by July 12 | Register

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Have fond memories of Domagoj, @goranzuzic.bsky.social, Sahil Singla, and I jamming on robust secretary problems: it's lovely to see him doing excellent research, as always!

Lance Fortnow@lance.fortnow.com · 2mo ago

Domagoj Bradač gives a tight exponent for the smallest n, such that any graph on n vertices has either a clique of size s or an independent set of size k. For fixed s and large k, n is k^{s-1} up to polylog factors. A major result in Ramsey theory.

The call for workshop proposals at #FOCS2026 is up! focs.computer.org/2026/call-fo... Submission deadline: ⏰ July 31

Congratulations to my @nyucourant.bsky.social colleague Allen Liu for winning the @acm.org Doctoral Dissertation Award! "Learning Theoretic Foundations for Understanding Quantum Systems" This is given to the most outstanding CS doctoral dissertation in the world.

Huge congratulations to Ilias Diakonikolas, Gautam Kamath, Daniel Kane, Jerry Li, Ankur Moitra, and Alistair Stewart on being awarded the Gödel prize for their breakthrough work on algorithmic robustness! www.sigact.org/prizes/g%C3%...

A very clear summary of the very stupid thing that is happening. See comments for actions to take.

Congratulations to Tal Rabin, Shubhangi Saraf, and Lisa Zhang, recognized by the SIGACT Distinguished Service Award for their role in making Theoretical Computer Science more welcoming and inclusive with the Women In Theory (WIT) workshop! sigact.org/prizes/servi... (via @gautamkamath.com)

On December 3, 1984, a dense cloud of poisonous gas leaked from a pesticide plant and, borne on a soft, northern wind, enveloped the Indian city of Bhopal. A day after the disaster, Raghu Rai, a photojournalist, arrived in the city to document the aftermath. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/T1Eda6

The 2026 EATCS Distinguished Achievements Award goes to Yishay Mansour! Laudatio here:

I can't imagine what would more effectively recruit US scientific talent to other countries around the world than destroying universities, eliminating research funding, and demonizing the very concept of expertise.

Delighted to see the Presburger Award go to two brilliant young scientists who happen to be locals and colleagues: Gautam Kamath at NYU, and Vincent Cohen-Addad at Google! Congratulations! @nyucourant.bsky.social @nyutandon.bsky.social

European Association for Theoretical Computer Science@eatcs.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The 2026 Presburger Award for Young Scientists goes to Vincent Cohen-Addad and @gautamkamath.com 🥳🎉 You can read the laudatio here:

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

Ranking Member Lofgren Reacts to Latest Trump Scheme to Undermine Science | House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology

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'The NSF has only committed $500 million of the $8 billion it was appropriated for the fiscal year, which began on Oct. 1. The NSF will lose the billions of remaining funding if it does not spend it by Sept. 30.' thehill.com/homenews/adm...

National Science Foundation’s future in limbo as Trump eyes cuts

The National Science Foundation’s (NSF) future is in limbo as President Trump pushes for more budget cuts and his nominee to helm the research agency awaits Senate confirmation.  Since Trump’s retu…

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The ACM Transactions on Algos now has the Harold N. Gabow Annual Best Paper Award, for research contributions with lasting significance in algos. Hal Gabow, an amazing algos researcher, was founding editor of TALG, and helped establish this award. Thanks Hal! (Submit yr best papers to TALG!) 1/n

🏅 Runners-up: - Xizhi Tan (Drexel), advised by @gkatzelis.bsky.social, for: "Learning-augmented mechanism design" - @yifanwu.bsky.social (Northwestern), advised by @jasonhartline.bsky.social, for: "Trustworthy AI: Foundations from Proper Scoring Rules"

📢 Announcing the 2025 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Awardees! 🏆 Winner: Noah Golowich (MIT), advised by Constantinos Daskalakis and Ankur Moitra, for the thesis: "Theoretical Foundations for Learning in Games and Dynamic Environments"

Sadly, it appears Michael Rabin passed away on April 14. Among other achievements, Rabin received the Turing Award with Dana Scott in 1976 for their paper "Finite Automata and Their Decision Problems", a highly influential work in automata theory. www.haaretz-evel.co.il/%D7%9E%D7%99...

Science is good. We should fund it.

Former NASA climate scientist, now Senior Scientist at Project Drawdown, Dr. Kate Marvel, has a fantastic piece in the New York Times today. This is a must-read if you care about science, the planet, and the future. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/o...

Opinion | NASA Flew by the Moon, but Behind the Scenes, Its Science Is a Chaotic Mess

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Huge congratulations to Julia Stoyanovich, Institute Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Responsible AI, on being named on The 2026 Above & Beyond: Women list by City & State NY. #NYUTandonMade www.cityandstateny.com/power-lists/...

So sad #academicsky #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/big-...

Big drop in international students coming to US (particularly from India)

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Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets

The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

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