Ola Svensson

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...

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...

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...

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.)

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

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...

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.

Good morning!