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Jason Hartline
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Professor at Northwestern CS. Economics, by courtesy. Study mechanism design, economics of algorithms, regulation of algorithms, AI and society. https://sites.northwestern.edu/hartline/
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I am recruiting PhD students at NYU Courant to conduct research in learning theory, algorithmic statistics, and trustworthy machine learning, starting Fall 2026. Please share widely! Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025.
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Reminder, the CSLaw Workshop meets Friday 1pm-3pm Central [Nov 14, 2025]. This month we have

- Grimmelmann (@jtlg.bsky.social), Sobel, and Stein on "Generative Misinterpretation" and
- Aileen Nielsen on "Law is vulnerable to AI influence; interface design can help"

Details: www.cslawworkshop.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Just wrapped up teaching a module on Calibration in my Foundations of Data Economics class (PhD level), that I am cocreating with Bo Waggoner and Nicole Immorlica.

The final lecture which was on "Loss minimization yields multicalibration for large neural networks." arxiv.org/abs/2304.09424
Loss Minimization Yields Multicalibration for Large Neural Networks
Multicalibration is a notion of fairness for predictors that requires them to provide calibrated predictions across a large set of protected groups. Multicalibration is known to be a distinct goal tha...
arxiv.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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If your institution wants to advertise Theory jobs to the FOCS 2025 attendees, a form has been set up on our website: focs.computer.org/2025/activit...

The spreadsheet collating job openings in TCS will be made available to attendees (and online), to help graduating students and junior researchers.
FOCS 2025: Job openings for postdocs and researchers
Please provide details about any theory job openings in your group (e.g., postdoc openings, research-related jobs or academic positions). This information will be made available as a Google Spreadshee...
docs.google.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Econ, artificial intelligence and machine learning …
#EconConf #econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/11/econ...
Economics and CS (AI+ML) in Ithaca in June: call for papers
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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If you work at the intersection of CS and economics (or think your work is of interest to those who do!) consider submitting to the ESIF Economics and AI+ML meeting this summer at Cornell: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...
2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting - The Econometric Society
2026 ESIF Economics and AI+ML Meeting (ESIF-AIML2026) June 16-17, 2026 Cornell University Department...
www.econometricsociety.org
November 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Computational Complexity Conference launches its first test of time award. Nominations due by March 2.

computationalcomplex...
November 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
So US Supreme Court is now teaming up with Republicans to allow Trump to starve Americans that rely on federal assistance ... in order to pressure Democrats to allow him to raise the price of Americans health care ... while building himself a ballroom? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/u...
Families in Limbo After Supreme Court Order Interrupts Food Stamp Payments
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Announcing the 7th Learning Theory Alliance mentoring workshop on November 20. Fully free & virtual!

Theme: Harnessing AI for Research, Learning, and Communicating

Ft @aaroth.bsky.social @andrejristeski.bsky.social @profericwong.bsky.social @ktalwar.bsky.social &more
November 7, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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MSc and PhD programs in statistics at the University of British Columbia
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/07/m...
MSc and PhD programs in statistics at the University of British Columbia | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Nominations due today!
November 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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I’m recruiting students this upcoming cycle at UIUC! I’m excited about Qs on societal impact of AI, especially human-AI collaboration, multi-agent interactions, incentives in data sharing, and AI policy/regulation (all from both a theoretical and applied lens). Apply through CS & select my name!
November 6, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hello @chicagocta.bsky.social, for several days at least, the CTA train tracker is not showing the northbound purple line at Wilson. (These are usually above the red line in the attached screenshot.) www.transitchicago.com/traintracker...
November 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Join us for this semester's BEACH Day!

Topic: Predictions for Decision Making: Scoring Rules, Calibration, and Information Elicitation
When: Tues, Nov 18, 2025
Where: BU CDS @bucds.bsky.social

Registration: Free-but-required (forms.gle/k71pqBosDhiA...) by Nov 11.
Schedule: On the website below!
Boston Economics and Computing Hub
www.boston-ec-hub.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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🧠⚙️ Interested in decision theory+cogsci meets AI? Want to create methods for rigorously designing & evaluating human-AI workflows?

I'm recruiting PhDs to work on:
🎯 Stat foundations of multi-agent collaboration
🌫️ Model uncertainty & meta-cognition
🔎 Interpretability
💬 LLMs in behavioral science
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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📢Excited to announce: EC'26

📅 When: July 6–10, 2026
🍝 Where: Rome, Italy

General Chair: Stefano Leonardi
PC Chairs: Alex Teytelboym & Matt Weinberg

Hope to see as many of you there!

@acmsigecom.bsky.social
#ACMEC26
August 8, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Nominate your final-year TCS PhD students or postdoc for the 2025 Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop (hosted by Northwestern and TTIC).

theory.cs.northwestern.edu/2025/10/30/2...
2025 Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop (Call for Nominations) | Northwestern CS Theory Group
We seek nominations of outstanding final-year Ph.D. students and postdocs to attend and present their recent research at the 2025 Chicago Junior Theoris...
theory.cs.northwestern.edu
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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STOC'26 will have an experimental program: Automated pre-submission feedback. It is opt-in, providing authors with "pre-submission feedback on their papers generated by an advanced LLM-based tool based on Google’s Gemini model that has been optimized for mathematical rigor". Deadline Nov 1, 5pm EST
STOC 2026 Experimental Program: Automated Pre-Submission Feedback
acm-stoc.org
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Two brief advertisements!

TTIC is recruiting both tenure-track and research assistant professors: ttic.edu/faculty-hiri...
NYU is recruiting faculty fellows: apply.interfolio.com/174686

Happy to chat with anyone considering either of these options
TTIC Faculty Opportunities at TTIC
ttic.edu
October 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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I’m giving an IDE seminar at @mitsloan.bsky.social tomorrow at 11am, on optimizing AI as decision support. Joint work w/ @ziyang.bsky.social @yifanwu.bsky.social @jasonhartline.bsky.social @berkustun.bsky.social
Come by if you’re around!

www.eventbrite.com/e/fall-2025-...
October 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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I wasn't expecting this!
October 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Interesting to find out what is built on AWS and what isn't.
October 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The war economy comes to Harvard
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/10/harv...
Harvard University's Financial Report for 2025
marketdesigner.blogspot.com
October 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

And then there were 5. Meanwhile the White House is trying to find others willing to sign on.
University of Virginia Won’t Join White House’s Compact for Colleges
www.nytimes.com
October 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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When this statement from university prez came out ten days ago, it has ~ 180 signatures.

Today it is nearing 600.

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

A hard choice for many of these institutions. Especially earliest signers, who had no idea how much company they'd have.

But people keep standing up.
May 2, 2025 at 4:30 PM