Ola Svensson

Cambridge is recruiting Assistant/Associate Professors in Theoretical Computer Science. #TCS #AcademicJobs

Application deadline: 15 December 2025. Contact me for informal inquiries. See more details and apply here:
www.cst.cam.ac.uk/assistantass...

The Swiss Winter School in TCS 2026 will take place January 25-30, featuring amazing speakers Ankur Moitra (MIT), Avishay Tal (UC Berkeley), and Vera Traub (ETHZ).

Application deadline: October 24

More information: theory.epfl.ch/WinterSchool...

deepseek-r1-0528 TOP 20 ARTISTS 1. Suicideboy$ 11. 2Pac 2. $WAGGOT 12. 21 Savage 3. (had) p.e. 13. 311 4. * NSYNC 14. 3 Doors Down 5. 16 Horsepower 15. A$AP Ferg 6. 100 gecs 16. [theatre] 7. 30H!3 17. 10cc 8. 2814 18. +44 9. 88rising 19. 1349 10. 18 Carat Affair 20. 24kGoldn

moonshotai-kimi-k2 TOP 20 ARTISTS 1. JPEGMAFIA 11. David Bowie 2. Floating Points 12. KAYTRANADA 3. GRiZ 13. The Midnight 4. SOPHIE 14. GUNSHIP 5. Siriusmo 15. Róisin Murphy 6. Tom Waits 16. MASTER BOOT RECORD 7. Prince 17. A. R. Rahman 8. Nujabes 18. DROELOE 9. Caroline Polachek 19. Gregory Alan Isakov 10. 椎名林檎 20. Fabrizio De André

reasoning models reliably prefer music groups with numbers and symbols in their names

shown here: Kimi K2 is very modern large agentic model but not a reasoning model

o3, gpt5 & Grok 4 all had lists similar to R1

www.tylercosgrove.com/blog/llm-mus...

Spread the word: there is a new prize in Theoretical Computer Science in honor of Luca Trevisan--

cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat...

(Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)

Congratulations, looks amazing!

One of my favorite algorithms to teach!!

Vincent Cohen-Addad, Fabrizio Grandoni, Euiwoong Lee, Chris Schwiegelshohn, Ola Svensson
A $(2+\varepsilon)$-Approximation Algorithm for Metric $k$-Median
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10972

GitHub - JoachimFavre/UniversityNotes: Typed notes I took during university lectures, containing computer science, maths and physics classes from EPFL. Some of them are in French, but most are in Engl... Typed notes I took during university lectures, containing computer science, maths and physics classes from EPFL. Some of them are in French, but most are in English. - JoachimFavre/UniversityNotes

Joachim Favre is an *amazing* undergrad at EPFL that has taken notes for all courses he took as a Bachelor student in CS and he continues to do so as a Master student in Quantum. I'd expect the notes to be often better than those of the profs ;)

github.com/JoachimFavre...

The submission server for #FOCS2025 is now open! Submit your work: focs25.hotcrp.com

Looks like a 100% biased letter to me

Works like a dream like usual!

Brilliant, that seems to work better. Can you now delete the tweet announcing this secret server? :)

PS. Shouldn't there be a simple load-balancing protocol so that there could be a single URL to enter?

Does anyone know what happened to DBLP? It is very slow for me these days.

Good morning!

And newly hired Andres Christi!

Postdoc positions @ EPFL (soft deadline Jan 20) available in vibrant theory group that covers complexity, quantum, algorithms, theory of ML ... and includes faculty E. Abbe, A. Chiesa, F. Eisenbrand, M. Göös, M. Kapralov, O. Svensson, and last but not least T. Vidick.

go.epfl.ch/theory-postdoc

Thanks for mentioning me. I am pretty excited about this and what you are doing, and I think the impact of these tools on teaching can be significant.

That's a great group of colleagues. I had the pleasure of collaborating with Euiwoong recently and with Nikhil in the past.