Shayan Oveis Gharan @oveisgharan.bsky.social wins the Abacus prize. Congrats, Shayan! Well-deserved! See mathunion.org/fileadmin/do... for the citation See quanta article for a more detailed exposition of Shayan's work. www.quantamagazine.org/shayan-oveis...

Interested in joining the PhD program in Learning, Information and Data Sciences at TIFR, Mumbai? GATE-based applications are open now. Last date: 10 April 2026. See STCS admissions page for more details: tcs.tifr.res.in/web/admissions

Announcing the STCS Vigyan Vidushi'26: A 2-week summer school for women students with a background in CS, EE and related areas. The program aims to promote research in computer science as a career option among women students. For more details, see www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~stcs-vv-26/ Deadline: 29 Mar

Information in Games & Mechanisms, a pre-FSTTCS workshop organized by Umang Bhaskar (TIFR) & Rohit Vaish (IIT Delhi). 16 Dec '25 @ BITS Pilani Goa, KK Birla Goa Campus. Exploring learning, elicitation, persuasion & the role of information in strategic settings. 🔗 tcs.tifr.res.in/~igm-25/inde...

Delhi launch of Sumana Ramanan's "The Secret Master", a musical detective story which explores the secret of the life, art and milieu of the singer, Arun Kashalkar. The book is also an excavation of Khayal's history and a meditation on its aesthetics and contemporary practice.

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Tata Institute of Fundamental Research@tifr.res.in · 10mo ago

Apply to TIFR’s Graduate School 2026 for our MSc, PhD, and Integrated MSc–PhD programs. We invite eligible candidates to join our vibrant academic community & contribute to cutting-edge fundamental science research across disciplines. Know more: www.tifr.res.in/academics/gs...

Congratulations, Neha!

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research@tifr.res.in · last yr.

Dr. Neha Sangwan has been awarded the 2025 Thomas M. Cover Dissertation Award by the IEEE Information Theory Society (@ieee_itsoc) for her work on secure communication in adversarial networks. Official @IEEEAwards citation here: www.itsoc.org/news/2025-th... 🧵👇

Big news in physics! The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics has been awarded to over 13,500 scientists across ATLAS, CMS, ALICE & LHCb at CERN's LHC — including TIFR's Department of High Energy Physics. @cmsexperiment.bsky.social @cern.bsky.social #BreakthroughPrize #TIFR

Interested in joining the PhD program in Learning, Information and Data Sciences at TIFR, Mumbai? GATE-based applications are open now. Last date: 31 March 2025. See STCS admissions page for more details: tcs.tifr.res.in/web/admissions

Announcing the STCS Vigyan Vidushi 2025: A 2-week summer school for women students with a background in CS, EE and related areas. The programme aims to promote research in computer science as a career option among women students. For more details, see www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~stcs-vv-25/

Irit Dinur, Venkat Guruswami and I are organizing a 2-week program on HDX and Codes at ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru, India. See attached poster for more details and how to apply for the program. www.icts.res.in/program/HDXa...

Congratulations, Sreejata!

Tata Institute of Fundamental Research@tifr.res.in · 2y ago

We are thrilled to announce that the work of Sreejata Bhattacharya, a graduate student in the School of Technology & Computer Science at #TIFR-Mumbai, is one of the joint winners of the Best Student Paper Award in the upcoming Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS 2025) conference.

Congratulations Sreejata !

Dr. Manmohan Singh, one of the architects of modern India passes away. India owes him a lot. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manmoha...

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The third election of the year I have been following closely and the second I voted in: the 2024 Maharastra Legislative Assembly Elections.