Mathematicians reveal that tiling your multidimensional bathroom will lead to never-ending disorder. My latest for @sciam on a result from Greenfeld and Tao (yes, THAT Tao!)
https://t.co/EjZRR4INOO
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📄 Verifying Alignment Constraints in Composite-Data Regimes
Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness Across Alignment Procedures & Agentic Systems, 4/26, 211
📄 Towards Statistical Verification for Trustworthy AI
Workshop on Principled Design of Trustworthy AI, 4/27, 204 A/B
Incredibly sad to miss out on #ICLR2026 in Rio this week (and the churrasco!) but thankfully my fantastic co-authors will be there presenting several of our papers. Here is a full rundown, with info on each paper's presentation at the end /🧵
My 21st Ph.D. student, Suho Shin, just defended his thesis Game Theory & joins Stanford and MIT for postdocs. All 21 of my students’ theses focus on challenging deep theoretical foundations applied to auctions, games, big data, networks, algorithms, distributed & intelligent sys
Meet the Members of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. ✨
Forty experts from around the world coming together to put science at the core of international AI efforts.
Learn more: https://t.co/JdLxUZdvba
Tuesday Seminars begin again for the semester tomorrow 1/27 with Max Springer's (@MaxSpringer23) talk entitled "A Geometric Perspective on LLM Behavior".
https://t.co/4OACp9VsNn
Get here early for a sandwich & a chat. Seminar promptly at 12:15. Sherrerd 306.
Livestream 🔗👇
Days in a work week: 5
Days in a month: 30
Total new submissions to arXiv in September: 26,646
arXiv editorial and user support staff: 7
someone who is good at science please help me with this. our team isn't sleeping.
#openaccess#preprints
Max Springer grew up reading @sciam, but he never expected to write for the prestigious publication.
Read how this recent @math_umd grad cast a media spotlight on math, including writing about the mathematics of @LoveIsland and promoting #PiDay on TV: https://t.co/BCdv8QE2MY
A team led by Mohammad Hajiaghayi (@MTHajiaghayi) has solved the Steiner Forest problem—a 35-year-old mathematical quandary. The resulting 126-page proof and algorithm could boost chip design for computing and AI, cutting energy use and costs. Read more: https://t.co/SKgNqmPJoN
After his @math_umd Ph.D., Max Springer is heading to @PrincetonCS to continue his #GameTheory research as a postdoc!
While at #UMD, he interned at @nokiabell, Google
Research and @NIH and was selected as an @aaas Mass Media Fellow and @NSF Graduate Research Fellow. #UMDGrad
Part of my current group of 20 exceptional PhD students, many already with medals in IOI, IMO, and ICPC from different parts of the world, focuses on Theory, likely the largest theory groups in the world. I am proud of all my current students and 17 already PhD graduated ones.
SODA 2025 has a paper by a middle schooler! Maybe first in its history. Gains-from-Trade in Bilateral Trade with a Broker
Suho Shin, Gary Peng (University of Maryland); Ilya Hajiaghayi (Takoma Park Middle School); Mohammad Taghi Hajiaghayi (University of Maryland)
NASA is gearing up to send astronauts back to the moon for the first time in over 50 years as part of its Artemis program. Despite delays and budget challenges, the first crewed mission is set to launch in fall 2025.
But why has it taken so long, and why has it been so difficult to match the achievements of the Apollo missions from the 1960s? Read our October issue to learn more: https://t.co/ctvdxMAVVZ