The list of accepted papers at #FOCS2026 is out! sanjeevkhanna.org/FOCS2026_Acc...

FOCS 2026 (New York, Nov 8-11) is inviting workshop proposal submissions: focs.computer.org/2026/call-fo... #FOCS2026 Submission deadline: ⏰ July 31

Reminder: the deadline to nominate papers for the #FOCS2026 Test of Time Award is approaching! Do it by ⏰ July 13. More info: tc.computer.org/tcmf/2026/05...

FOCS 2026 will be held in November in New York, at NYU. They're soliciting proposals for workshops, with a submission deadline of July 31. STOC just had an amazing lineup of creative workshop, help make FOCS even better! focs.computer.org/2026/call-fo...

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

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

FOCS 2026 will be held in New York City Nov 8 - 11! CFP is up (link below). Submit your best work in theoretical computer science by April 1, 5pm ET.

New year, new team, new FOCS! Follow this account for updates and announcements about #FOCS2026!

The Call for Papers and submission server for #FOCS2026 are up! ⏰ Deadline: April 1, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC) sanjeevkhanna.org/FOCS2026_CFP...

And... that's a wrap for #FOCS2025! Thanks to authors, attendees, program committee members, and sponsors who all made it happen! (Also, the occasional bin chicken)

Best #FOCS2025 Paper talks: Rachel Yun Zhang (left), Michael Jaber (middle), and Mohammad T. Hajiaghayi (right) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machtey...

Best #FOCS2025 Student Paper (Machtey award) talks: Rahul Ilango (left) and Miryam Mi-Ying Huang and Er-Cheng Tang en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machtey...

Ready for the conference banquet!

The info and slides of the 18 🎓 "Graduating Bits" participants are now available on the website! Look at them, hire them! focs.computer.org/2025/graduat...

The info and slides of the 18 🎓 "Graduating Bits" participants are now available on the website! Look at them, hire them! focs.computer.org/2025/graduat...

Second plenary session of the conference: Sebastien Bubeck (OpenAI) on "Recent Advances in LLMs for Mathematics" #FOCS2025

📢 #FOCS2026 will be held in NewYork City, USA! Nov 8–11, 2026 at NYU (colocated with TCC) General Chair: Marshall Ball PC Chair: Sanjeev Khanna (Co-Chair: Sepehr Assadi)

Winners of the #FOCS2025 Cartoon Caption Contest: - "This guy is about to blow up the polynomial hierarchy." [ Rachel Zhang ] - "Not exactly what I meant by 'increase FOCS acceptance rate.'" [ @mahdi.ch ]

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The conference is starting in a few hours! We'll post here information about #FOCS2025 as it goes, including the blog posts attendees write about the talks and events. And the "cartoon caption contest" (courtesy of Mary Wootters) has started, along with the offline scavenger hunt! Here's a teaser:

And from my " #FOCS2025 General Chair report" (note: the actual number is 302, there was an on-site registration later that day)

🏆 #FOCS2025 Best Paper Awards (3 papers!) Explicit Lossless Vertex Expanders Jun-Ting Hsieh, Alexander Lubotzky, Sidhanth Mohanty, Assaf Reiner, Rachel Yun Zhang

🏆 #FOCS2025 Best Student Paper Awards 🎓 Godel in Cryptography: Effectively Zero Knowledge Proofs for NP with No Interaction, No Setup, and Perfect Soundness Rahul Ilango Obfuscation of Unitary Quantum Programs Mi-Ying Huang, Er-Cheng Tang

🏆 FOCS 2025 Test of Time awards: Private Information Retrieval Benny Chor, Eyal Kushilevitz, Oded Goldreich, Madhu Sudan 36th FOCS, 1995 Gambling in a rigged casino: The adversarial multi-armed bandit Paul Auer, Nicoló Cesa-Bianchi Yoav Freund, Robert Schapire 36th FOCS, 1995

📢 #FOCS2026 will be held in NewYork City, USA! Nov 8–11, 2026 at NYU (colocated with TCC) General Chair: Marshall Ball PC Chair: Sanjeev Khanna (Co-Chair: Sepehr Assadi)

First plenary session of the conference: Shafi Goldwasser (MIT and Berkeley) on "A Crypto/Complexity Theorist Perspective on Trusting AI" #FOCS2025

Kicking off the first day of the main conference with proper caffeination! #FOCS2025

Wonderfully crowded "Graduating Bits" session at #FOCS2025!

The conference is starting in a few hours! We'll post here information about #FOCS2025 as it goes, including the blog posts attendees write about the talks and events. And the "cartoon caption contest" (courtesy of Mary Wootters) has started, along with the offline scavenger hunt! Here's a teaser:

The pre-recorded videos (for the talks whose authors opted in to submit one) are now available on our YouTube channel: m.youtube.com/@FOCS2025 They're also linked from the main website's schedule!

FOCS 2025

Videos from the 66th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 2025

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The pre-recorded videos (for the talks whose authors opted in to submit one) are now available on our YouTube channel: m.youtube.com/@FOCS2025 They're also linked from the main website's schedule!

FOCS 2025

Videos from the 66th IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) 2025

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Getting the final touches ahead of #FOCS2025...