New: Also post-doc positions at ITU, application deadline March 15, affiliated with BARC and/or AHA. Link: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
The PhD position previously announced has deadline March 10. Join us in Copenhagen!
My awesome BARC colleague @nutanlimaye.bsky.social is starting a major research project in algebraic complexity. Anyone interested in joining as a PhD student should check out the call (deadline March 1).
barc.ku.dk/news/profess...
Do you have recent work on differential privacy? Submit it to TPDP 2026 in Boston, whose deadline is in ~2 weeks.
TPDP is a lightly reviewed workshop, whose main purpose is getting researchers in DP together in one place. Dual submissions allowed (and encouraged!).
A screenshot of a Google-style analytics card titled βHow do people find you?β showing βTop growing queries compared to previous month.β It lists three search queries: βdatabase examsβ (+5 clicks), βdatabase exam questions and answers pdf free downloadβ (+2 clicks), and βsql database exam questions and answers pdfβ (+2 clicks).
According to Google Search, my primary contribution to human knowledge is the collection of database exams (with answers) that I developed in 2003-2012.
The recommendations of this paper, published in Science yesterday, should be required reading for policymakers across the world. We need to make democratic debate more robust. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.06299
Maximum speed achieved by humans 1900 to 2026
Of course, physical and economical limits stopped the growth of, which has in fact been zero since 1969. Extrapolation of trends has limits, something we should remember when someone points at data that seems scary.
Between 1939 and 1969 the fastest speed at which a human could move was subject to a dramatic growth of around 17% per year due to technological advances. If this trend had continued to this day we would now be traveling at near light speed.
There is also the notation f(x)β²g(x), used in some parts of math, to mean that inequality holds up to a universal multiplicative factor. This strengthening of big-O notation has various advantages as explained in Kalle Rutanenβs thesis.
ELLIS Institute Finland
@ellisinstitute.fi
has an open call for postdocs (DL 9 Feb) www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr...
There are 45 PIs with different topics to choose from, including privacy in machine learning with me!
Today I realized that the power mean inequality extends AMβGMβHM to P_r β₯ A β₯ G β₯ H.
Unexpected perk: my surname is now a theorem.
The papers on the DL are open access starting this year, so I think there is good movement towards open access. Making some metadata paywalled is a setback but hopefully it can be reversed.
Consider signing this petition regarding restoring free access to the ACM digital library: www.ipetitions.com/petition/res...
The deadline for BARC's annual call for PhD positions is soon (January 10)!
Starting in the fall (Gemini 2.5 pro launched experimentally at the end of March) LLMs that were useful for math launched. I didn't have much luck using them within their web interface, but I found them to be extremely useful within coding agent harnesses like Windsurf.
Postdoc and PhD positions in combinatorial optimization and/or TCS at Lund University. Application deadline January 16. Postdoc position info at jakobnordstrom.se/openings/Pos... and PhD info at jakobnordstrom.se/openings/PhD....
Want to join the ambitious, creative, collaborative, and fun environment at BARC? Our annual call for PhD or integrated MSc + PhD fellowship in Algorithms has been posted! Apply by January 10. employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=15...
STOC'26 will have an experimental program: Automated pre-submission feedback. It is opt-in, providing authors with "pre-submission feedback on their papers generated by an advanced LLM-based tool based on Googleβs Gemini model that has been optimized for mathematical rigor". Deadline Nov 1, 5pm EST
"use of generative AI tools and technologies to create content is permitted but must be fully disclosed in the Work [..] Basic word processing systems that recommend and insert replacement text, perform spelling or grammar checks [..] are to be considered exceptions to this disclosure requirement"
As the STOC deadline is approaching it may be of interest to authors that the ACM policy on authorship (www.acm.org/publications...) applies to submissions. Unfortunately this does not yet seem to be reflected in the CFP. In particular, the policy describes how use of generative AI must be declared:
Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles!
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
Auditorium with projector showing: Wave | women in algorithms venture into exploration
Getting ready to celebrate 150 years of women at @ucph.bsky.social with the Wave workshop, focusing on algorithmic research
barc.ku.dk/wave-confere...
In anticipation of this weekβs Nobel prizes? Sign next to UCPH Nobel prize reserved parking says βBeware of crossing trafficβ
View of MalmΓΆ Stadium from above, Γresund in the background
My run yesterday passed by MalmΓΆ Stadium, where West Germany defeated Argentina 3-1 in the 1958 soccer World Cup, after an early Argentinian goal. Sadly the stadium will soon be demolished to make room for new sports facilities.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EUβs Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
Proud to learn that BARC alumnus Jakub TΔtek was chosen as one of 4 winners (out of 260 PhD theses) of the @ucph.bsky.social SCIENCE PhD award. Congratulations to Jakub and the other winners!
kunet.ku.dk/newsroom/new...
150 years ago the first women were enrolled at University of Copenhagen. To celebrate, four of my awesome BARC colleagues are arranging the WAVE workshop on October 10th.
Amazing speakers and panelists, full-day catering, and Copenhagen culture night in the evening! Join us!
t.co/zIeUnYVXMC
Agreed, if what we are seeing is a lot of AI-generated, mediocre applications being added to the pool it won't mean much for the chances (but additional work for the panels...). I guess time will tell.
Announcement: vldb.org/2025/?confer...
Paper: vldb.org/pvldb/volume...
