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Accepted papers at TQC 2025. tqc-conference.org/accepted-talks/. Many interesting-looking titles!

My three-sentence summary of Lakatos's "Proofs and Refutations", with apologies to Don Knuth: "Premature definition is the root of much conceptual evil. Good definitions arise out of a back-and-forth interplay between rough definitions and powerful insight-giving arguments.

The new Romanian president Nicușor Dan is a mathematician, 2 time IMO gold winner with a PhD from ENS Ulm en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicu%C8%9…

An American Great Leap Forward. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

The United States has had a tremendous advantage in science and technology because it has been the consensus gathering point: the best students worldwide want to study and work in the US because that is where the best students are studying and working. 1/

'New York at Night.' (c1912) Charles Hoffbauer's paintings of New York were inspired after seeing photographs of the city in a bookshop window on the Corso in Rome a year before this work was painted. He became an American citizen in 1939.

One of the great joys of 2025 (so far) has been learning about nonlocal quantum computation. It's an astonishingly interesting playground of ideas. In this fun collaboration with Andreas Bluhm, Simon, Alex, Mikka, and Philip, we uncover some hidden structure in this playground.

I'm so pumped to be in the same city as these folks! Welcome to NYC!

I’m sure most people other than my colleagues don’t know what research in TCS or math is like, so here it is: thinking months and years about something and being mostly stuck.

The cost of the military parade on June 14th is 1/5 of the 2024 NSF spending on mathematics research.

CCC’25 will take place August 5-8 at the Fields Institute in Toronto! Students/postdocs (from any institution) are eligible to apply for a travel allowance. For full consideration, please apply by June 20; awards to be announced on June 25. computationalcomplexity.org/travelAllowanc…

Fantastic result!