I hope this is a good step towards "clarity", an essential goal in science.

This is a joint work with the fantastic team: Aaron Bernstein, Joakim Blikstad, Jason Li, and Ta-Wei Tu.

Joakim and Ta-wei coded up the algorithm.
3/3

And if you're faculty: I beg you, for the sake of everyone else in the world, strongly consider creating your own public webpages for your course instead of having everything locked up in Canvas.

💡 For students, the yearly IEEE (or ACM) membership costs less than USD 20. And leads to a #FOCS2025 registration fee reduced by USD 80...

Some of you may be wondering about the omission of Richard Cole --- algorithmist extraordinaire --- from this list. It is with much admiration (and just as much regret) that I write that he is retiring after 43(!) years at NYU. No worries: we'll make sure he spends a big part of his time with us!

They join the current theorists: Boris Aronov, Marshall Ball, Aaron Bernstein, Nir Bitansky, Yevgeniy Dodis, Martin Farach-Colton, @gautamkamath.com, Lisa Hellerstein, Subhash Khot, Chris Musco, Oded @regevlab.bsky.social, and me. (And many other colleagues in closely related areas.)

And the next three: Sanjeev (who's making the move up the Northeast Corridor from Penn to NYC), Tony, and Juan. Again, broad and deep: algorithms (especially sublinear algos), quantum+complexity+crypto, and ML theory for prediction-making.

The post was not big enough for 6 photos (apparently the limit is 4), so here are the pics: Ainesh, Allen, Fermi, all three of them broad (numerical linear algebra and optimization, high-dimensional and robust statistics, and crypto resp.), and all three with recent exciting results in quantum!