3/3 Registration is free (but required). Limited student travel support available—apply by April 15 for full consideration (travel support forms linked on the workshop pages). See individual workshop pages for additional details.

2/3 Workshops (dates + links):
• Algebraic Techniques in FGC (July 20–22): dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/detai...
• FGC of String Problems (July 23–25): dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/detai...
• FGC of Graph Problems (July 27–31): dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/detai...

1/3 Fine-Grained Complexity Fest at DIMACS this July! Three back-to-back workshops on Algebraic Techniques, String Algorithms, and Graph Algorithms in fine-grained complexity, with a terrific speaker lineup. Organized by
@jalman.bsky.social , Elazar Goldenberg, and
@eigx.bsky.social.

Michael and Sheila Held Prize – NAS The Michael and Sheila Held Prize is presented annually to honor outstanding, innovative, creative, and influential research in the areas of combinatorial and discrete optimization, or related parts of computer science, such as the design and analysis of algorithms and complexity theory. This $100,000 prize is intended to recognize recent…

The 2026 Michael and Sheila Held Prize goes to Irit Dinur, Subhash Khot, Guy Kindler, Dor Minzer and Muli Safra for their work on the 2-to-2 Games Theorem.

DIMACS Workshop on Hardness of Approximation in P held July 21-23, 2025 - YouTube DIMACS Workshop on Hardness of Approximation in P July 21, 2025 - July 23, 2025 Rutgers Academic Building, Room 4225 (East Wing) Rutgers University Many impo...

Video playlist from the recently concluded DIMACS workshop titled, "Hardness of Approximation in P" are now available here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Call for Papers (CfP) for #SODA26 is out: www.siam.org/conferences-...

The submission server is open: soda26.hotcrp.com

Deadline: ⏰ Monday, July 14, AoE (July 15, 11:59am UTC)