Anupam Gupta

Big drop in international students coming to US (particularly from India)

So sad
#academicsky #econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/big-...

White House stalls release of approved US science budgets The US Congress rejected sweeping cuts to science agencies. But the NIH, the NSF and NASA have had their spending slowed.

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers.

The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

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.

A line graph showing NSF grant awards made through 2/27/26 for fiscal year 2026 compared with grant awards for fiscal years 2021-2025.

NSF Update (Awards through 2/27/26)

Directorates to follow

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I discuss fully quantum complexity theory with @benbenbrubaker.bsky.social. Although we're not really sure, it seems like our understanding of computing on quantum data needs new foundations. Transforming quantum data is less like solving a hard math problem, and more like doing an intricate dance.

Oops, sorry for the misses (and thanks @thesasho.bsky.social)!

2026 Fellows | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.

Congrats to Sloan fellows: @nyucourant.bsky.social colleagues Florian Schäfer and Joe Tassarotti, and theory colleagues @behnezhad.bsky.social, @surbhigoel.bsky.social, Aayush Jain, Anand Natarajan, @adtraghunathan.bsky.social, @soledadvillar.bsky.social, and John Wright!

sloan.org/fellowships/...

2026 Congratulations, Sloan Research Fellows!

Congrats to the 126 early-career scholars awarded a 2026 Sloan Research Fellowship, whose creativity and innovation set them apart as the next generation of scientific leaders! Our #SloanFellows represent 7 fields and 44 institutions across the US and Canada.

Full list: sloan.org/fellowships/...

Congratulations to my colleague Subhash Khot (down the hall), Irit Dinur (across the river and through the woods), Dor Minzer (up the coast), and Guy Kindler and Muli Safra (across the seas), who just got the 2026 Held Prize for their groundbreaking work on 2-2 games!

2025 ACM Fellows’ Excellence and Impact Recognized by World’s Preeminent Computing Society ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, has named 71 new Fellows. ACM Fellows are registered members of the society and were selected by their peers for achieving remarkable results through thei...

Congratulations to my NYU colleagues Oded Regev and Ted Rappaport for being named ACM Fellows --- and also to Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi, Jian Ma (@jianma.bsky.social), Noam Nisan, Ariel Procaccia, and Adam Wierman!!

www.acm.org/media-center...

Semester starts tomorrow and I'm way ahead of schedule. I'm already completely tired and burnt out.

History of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)

The NSF has played a key role in American science, and risks being collateral damage in the war against science.
#econsky #academicsky #NSF #science
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/01/hist...

Checkbox question: do you decline to provide a referral for this candidate?

Newest form of captcha: making sure you have the right number of negations for your reference letter to count....

If you are looking for a postdoc, there's a lot of great algorithms/theory research (and in all parts of CS) happening at NYU!

Come work with the best, as @gautamkamath.com says!

Courant CS: apply.interfolio.com/175537
CDS: apply.interfolio.com/174686

two wombats are standing next to each other on the ground . Alt: Two wombats are standing next to each other on the ground, the photo zooms on the face of the second one, which turns its head to look directly at the camera.

Only 25 hours left before the #FOCS2025 early bird registration deadline! focs.computer.org/2025/register/

I used AI to create an easier-to-navigate schedule for SODA and SOSA 26 here:
soda26.netlify.app

The original one is hard to see the overview. meetings.siam.org/program.cfm?...

The Empire State Building flanked by two buildings, under a broken cloudy sky.

Sometimes you just gotta look up and marvel about the things that human beings have built together.

Happy #STOC2026 deadline to all who celebrate!

I hope this is a good step towards "clarity", an essential goal in science.

This is a joint work with the fantastic team: Aaron Bernstein, Joakim Blikstad, Jason Li, and Ta-Wei Tu.

Joakim and Ta-wei coded up the algorithm.
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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.

And if you're faculty: I beg you, for the sake of everyone else in the world, strongly consider creating your own public webpages for your course instead of having everything locked up in Canvas.

Congratulations to Thomas Rothvoss and Lang Liu, the inaugural winners of the Trevisan Prize at Bocconi University.

cs.unibocconi.eu/trevisan-pri...

Five surprising ways federal data makes your life better

Bats save billions. The humble bat is working for free to get food on your table, to the tune of $53 BILLION a year in free pest management. The NABat database monitors these little critters so that highway construction and mining operations don’t infringe on their habitats.

In space no one can hear you mine Rare-earth elements aren’t just on earth – they are abundant in the final frontier. America depends on rare earths to build next gen fuel cells, develop cutting-edge medical imaging tech, and make the screens you’re using to read this right now. Thanks to NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, we can find these elements on the moon, and reduce our dependence on foreign nations.

Get your Labubus faster A shipping tech startup trains its AI algorithms for planning the safest and most fuel-efficient ocean routes on data collected by NOAA's Argo fleet of drifting buoys.

Here are FIVE surprising ways federal data make your life better, with our friends at @essentialdata.us:

1. We get up to $53B/yr free pest control because we don't accidentally build bridges through bat habitats

2. We know where to get those sweet, sweet space minerals

3. Labubu matcha

A view of the opera house at night

Teaser: #FOCS2025 will include a banquet dinner on Tuesday, December 16. Based on the view from the place, can you guess where?

A university and an academic publisher walk into a bar.

The publisher orders a pint, sells it back to the university, asks the barman to pay the bill.

I’m an award-winning mathematician. Trump just cut my funding. The “Mozart of Math” tried to stay out of politics. Then it came for his research.

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made Virtually every smartphone on the planet runs on a chip paid for by American taxpayers — a chip that I helped invent. Now Congress is moving to cut funding for the National Science Foundation that …

Dave Patterson (UC Berkeley) points out why public investment in basic research and education is vital, and defunding it is incredibly short-sighted.

thehill.com/opinion/tech...

💡 For students, the yearly IEEE (or ACM) membership costs less than USD 20. And leads to a #FOCS2025 registration fee reduced by USD 80...

Applications for travel support, for students and postdocs, are open! ⏰ Deadline: Sep 19 #FOCS2025 #TCSSky

focs.computer.org/2025/travel-...

(no requirement to have a paper at the conference to apply)

My thoughts on the crucial importance of methodology on self-reported AI performance on mathematics competitions, and my policy on commenting on such reports going forward: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...