The Return of the Page Limit
Boaz is pointing out that page limit is back for STOC 2018. Too bad. When we got rid of the page limit (FOCS 2013), we discussed our rational before and after, and I think it [...]
The Racist Side of ‘Fairness’
At times I have a title that is only waiting for a paper or a joke that is only waiting for a talk. And (with some effort) the opportunity usually presents itself. I am now [...]
Piotr Indyk’s Motwani Distinguished Lecture
Since 2011, the Stanford theory group has hosted the Rajeev Motwani Distinguished Lecture Series, a series of theory colloquia aimed at a broad audience. You can see the [...]
Universal Traversal on the Clique?
Consider a -regular undirected graph. A walk from a vertex is a sequence of edge labels in , which corresponds to a path on the graph that starts at and at step follows the [...]
Theory Explosion at Stanford
It’s exciting times for theory at Stanford these days, with more activity than ever. In the computer science department alone, we’ve hired six new theory [...]
Struggles of the Pioneers
Pseudorandom Functions (PRFs) are among the most fundamental Cryptographic primitives. with applications as basic as private-key encryption, identification and authentication [...]
Intransitive Dice
About a month ago, Tim Gowers described a fun potential new polymath project. Here is the basic setup: Say are -sided dice, i.e. each takes values in . We say that beats if [...]
Does Pigeonhole Degrade Gracefully?
By Steve Mussmann and Jacob Steinhardt. The celebrated pigeonhole principle says that if we have disjoint sets each of size , then (the number of sets) is at most . [...]
Theory – a Dish Best Served Warm
Theory Dish – A new research blog by the warm theory of computing community here at Stanford. Enjoy!
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