Simons Institute for ToC: Opportunities and Deadlines

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing would like to announce the following opportunities and deadlines:

– First annual round of Research Fellow positions (deadline Jan 15, 2013).
– Biannual call for program proposals (deadline Dec 15, 2012).
– New (temporary) website, which in addition to the above also gives details of upcoming programs and other activities in 2013-14.

The topics of the research programs for Fall 2013 are “Real Analysis in Computer Science” and “Theoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis,” and the topics for Spring 2014 are “Algorithms and Models in Evolutionary Biology” and “Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity.”

FOCS 2012 workshops

On Saturday, October 20th, from 9am till 6pm, there will be three workshops as part of the FOCS 2012 conference:

• Bayesian Mechanism Design. (Organizers: Constantinos Daskalakis and Jason Hartline)
• Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra: Theory and Practice.  (Organizers: Christos Boutsidis, Petros Drineas, and Haim Avron)
• Data Structures (in memory of Mihai Patrascu) (Organizers: Alexandr Andoni, Erik Demaine, Piotr Indyk, and Mikkel Thorup)

See this page for more details.