Please note that Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing is hosting the 8th Women in Theory (WIT) Workshop from June 3 to June 6, 2025. The application deadline is Jan 31. For more information, visit womenintheory.wordpress.com.

The DIMACS faculty and staff had a wonderful time constructing the Domino-Fred art voted on during FredFest in October! The project is inspired by Robert (Bob) Bosch's Domino Artwork dominoartwork.com.

Thrilled to be spotlighted by NSERC / CRSNG! 🙏 I am dedicated to working alongside communities to develop and deploy mathematical methodologies, providing critical insights into socio-ecological challenges. I’m humbled by the support from NSERC / CRSNG. Thank you so much!

NSF Budget Cuts Would Put the Future of U.S. Innovation and Security at Risk cra.org/nsf-budget-cut…

Save the Dates: Excited to launch our Spring Teatime Meet & Mingle - Open to our CS Faculty, Staff, and students, this event is an excellent way to connect and share with colleagues. First up - this Wednesday, March 5, 2025

The DIMACS Workshop on Hardness of Approximation in P will be held at Rutgers on July 21-23, 2025, organized by Karthik C. S.. Details: dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details…. Webpage has an application (due April 15) for travel support, primarily for students.

Congratulations to Robert Tarjan, winner of the 2025 Basic Science Lifetime Award from the International Congress of Basic Science 🏅 He has been recognized for his outstanding and innovative contributions to theoretical computer science. cs.princeton.edu/news/robert-ta…

Staff members at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were told on 30 April to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice,” according to an email seen by Nature. go.nature.com/3EXWAeB

We are excited to spotlight a recent publication by Dr. Nina Fefferman and Dr. Maggie Sullens titled "Budget Allocation and Illegal Fishing: A Game Theoretic Approach." Congratulations on this wonderful contribution to the field of conservation science! aimspress.com/article/doi/10…

DIMACS & CCICADA announce the Endowed DIMACS Support Fund created by Dr. A. David Mangelsdorff & Dr. Linda A. Smith to support our #homelandsecurity activities. Click the link to read more about their generous gift & what led them to our Centers! #Rutgers dimacs.rutgers.edu/news_archive/m…

Neil Sloane, creator of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) and long-time friend of DIMACS, delivered an engaging talk today for our 2025 REU students. The seminar, titled "In the Footsteps of Heraclitus," explored unsolved problems in number theory. #Rutgers

Today is day 1 of the DIMACS Workshop on Hardness of Approximation in P organized by Karthik C. S. ! Subhash Khot from New York University led off the event with a tutorial on hardness of approximation in the more traditional realm of NP-hard problems. #Rutgers

Yesterday was day 2 of the DIMACS workshop. Here's a glimpse of some of our attendees listening to a presentation on the "Challenges in Fine-Grained #Complexity of Approximation in P" by Amir Abboud from the Weizmann Institute. #Rutgers

Yael Kirkpatrick from MIT Mathematics closed out day 3 of the Workshop on Hardness of Approximation in P with a wonderful talk on "Beyond 2-approximation for k-Center in Graphs"! #Rutgers

At #SIAMAN25, David Thompson of UMass Lowell spoke about a unique student-driven research project that used FEMA's #NationalRiskIndex to explore natural disaster #risk assessment and expected annual loss for various U.S. counties. Read more here! siam.org/publications/s…

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

Thank you to all the participants of the DIMACS Workshop on the Hardness of Approximation in P! The videos of all of the amazing workshop presentations are now available on our YouTube channel youtube.com/playlist?list=… & linked from the workshop web page dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details…