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The great thing about chairing a conference is that either: 1. You can handle/fix all the little details that bother you for other conferences; or 2. You can learn how hard it is to chair and get every little detail right. (Probably both)

Congratulations to Ilias Diakonikolas, recipient of the 2024 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award! He is recognized for making contributions to the field of algorithmic robust statistics by introducing new techniques to robustly estimate high-dimensional distributions.

Unironic/genuine advice: every dude needs a group chat with the guys. Make one yourself if you don't have one already.

group chats are the only thing getting me through this week

They're kinda cute before they become bloodthirsty killers

FYI, in case you haven't heard: content older than one year will be deleted from your free Slack workspace starting June 27, 2025

Congratulations to Tracy Kimbrel, winner of the 2025 SIGACT DIstinguished Service Award! sigact.org/prizes/service…

💥 My awesome University of Waterloo ugrad student Sisi Li - with the help of Ronak Pradeep - slapped an MCP server in front of Pyserini to create MCPyserini and connected it to Claude to create DeepResearcherini! 🤪 Here, an example of RAG using the MS MARCO v1 passage collection.

Register now (first-come first-served) for the "Math of Trustworthy ML workshop" at #LagoMaggiore, Switzerland, Oct 12-16 this year, with a great speaker lineup and the opportunity to present your work as a poster session or contributed talk. Details @ mmlworkshop.ethz.ch

Starstruck by all these amazing speakers and honored to be in their company. Also excited to visit Switzerland for the first time! Don't miss out -- register today!

Chat, Theory jobs crowd sourcing for 2025 is here.

Addressing an (anonymous) comment: this is intended to be a theory jobs spreadsheet. I'm happy to allow that to be broadly construed, as long as it doesn't get out of hand. But this is not an AI jobs spreadsheet. Someone else can make that, if they want.

It's a thrill to announce names of the amazing set of theory people joining NYU CS+CSE this year: Ainesh Bakshi, Allen Liu, Fermi Ma, Sanjeev Khanna, Tony Metger, and Juan Perdomo.

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.