Kamathematics

The Theory community has a tradition of a crowdsourced spreadsheet of sharing who has accepted which jobs (see, e.g., 2025).

Some of the discussion online has been about how not to use AI in making academic talks (see, e.g., this post by Jessica Hullman).

If you are incredibly lucky at some point in your life, you will be blessed with the choice of multiple opportunities, of which you can only accept one.

This is a guest post by Chhavi Yadav — a personal and thoughtful retrospective on her PhD experience and lessons learned therein.

The Theory community has a tradition of a crowdsourced spreadsheet of sharing who has accepted which jobs, previously hosted by Grigory Yaroslavtsev and Lance Fortnow.

I was a kinda awkward teenager.

The following is a guest post by Abhradeep Guha Thakurta, on differences between the interview process for faculty and industry research positions in computer science.

Adam Smith, Jon Ullman, and I compiled a collection of profiles of “FORC-y” people on the faculty job market this season.

Clément Canonne asked to pass along the following registration info for ISAAC 2024, which will be in Sydney in early December.

Workshops are my favourite type of academic meeting.