Ola Svensson
@algosvensson.bsky.social
Theoretical Computer Science @ EPFL
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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...
Application deadline: 15 December 2025. Contact me for informal inquiries. See more details and apply here:
www.cst.cam.ac.uk/assistantass...
October 7, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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...
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...
Application deadline: October 24
More information: theory.epfl.ch/WinterSchool...
Swiss Winter School on Theoretical Computer Science
theory.epfl.ch
September 29, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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...
Application deadline: October 24
More information: theory.epfl.ch/WinterSchool...
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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...
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...
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August 19, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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...
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...
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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.)
cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat...
(Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)
cs.unibocconi.eu
June 9, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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.)
cs.unibocconi.eu/call-nominat...
(Intent-to-nominate letters due by July 31.)
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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
A $(2+\varepsilon)$-Approximation Algorithm for Metric $k$-Median
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10972
March 17, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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
A $(2+\varepsilon)$-Approximation Algorithm for Metric $k$-Median
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10972
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...
github.com/JoachimFavre...
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
github.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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...
github.com/JoachimFavre...
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The submission server for #FOCS2025 is now open! Submit your work: focs25.hotcrp.com
FOCS25
focs25.hotcrp.com
March 16, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The submission server for #FOCS2025 is now open! Submit your work: focs25.hotcrp.com
Does anyone know what happened to DBLP? It is very slow for me these days.
March 13, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Does anyone know what happened to DBLP? It is very slow for me these days.
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
go.epfl.ch/theory-postdoc
Postdoctoral position in the Theory Group
Postdoctoral position in the Theory Group
go.epfl.ch
December 17, 2024 at 8:18 AM
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
go.epfl.ch/theory-postdoc