Thank you so much for coming!

Organizers Francisco, Jessie, and Gili

The schedule for the day

The boston college eagle

Had a wonderful BEACH Day today @bostoncollege.bsky.social! Thanks so much to @jessiefin.bsky.social, Maneesha Papireddygari, Francisco Marmolejo-Cossio, and Gili Rusak for organizing!

TCS+ RSVP: Natalie Collina (2025/12/03) Title: Swap regret and correlated equilibria beyond normal-form games

📢 Our last TCS+ talk of the season will be Wed, Dec 3 (10am PT, 1pm ET, 19:00 CET): Natalie Collina (@ncollina.bsky.social), from UPenn, will tell us about "Swap regret and correlated equilibria beyond normal-form games"!

RSVP to receive the link (one day before the talk): forms.gle/utLgSxLpqvpx...

Map by @jessiefin.bsky.social, in collaboration with Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío, Jacqueline Caulderon, and Lizet Jarquin. Data from INEGI.

This map (+ Day 11) is part of their ongoing collaboration continuing some of the work from the 2024 EAAMO social hackathon in San Luis Potosí, Mexico.

⚠️ WANTED: PhD student ⚠️
The topic? GPU-friendly algorithms for discrete optimization and mathematical programming, to be used inside decision-focused learning pipelines.
The mentors? My colleague Axel Parmentier and myself.
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My hypothesis is that writing is easier to critique than content, so if you don’t understand the content, you can still “offer a meaningful review” by commenting on writing. A hasty generalization but 🤷🏻‍♀️

So much fun to meet new folks at BEACH yesterday and share some recent work of mine! Huge thanks to the organizers

#30DayMapChallenge day 10: Air

@jessiefin.bsky.social + Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío visualize the presence of ladrilleras, or brick kilns, which emit pollution across the state. Data cleaned by Jacqueline Calderón and Lizet Jarquin at UASLP.

Full interactive map: tinyurl.com/map10-air

@bostoncollege.bsky.social is launching a PhD program in Computer Science! Help spreading the word to interested undergrads would be appreciated; our department has faculty research clustered in ML and CS theory, and Boston's a nice place to be :) www.bc.edu/content/bc-w...

Boston Economics and Computing Hub

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!

If you work on theory in responsible computing and are looking for a job, fill out this form before September 28!

Responsible computing includes private data analysis, fairness, robustness, mathematical approaches bridging computer science, law, ethics, etc.

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Apparently the one vote to keep maybe have been an accident, too (according to Time)

It's time for the Theory Jobs spreadsheet for 2025! The theory CS community crowdsources who accepted which jobs every year.

Links in next post 1/2

Maybe my opinion is weird because I didn’t start drinking coffee until the job market, but decaf is my nice alternative if I’ve already had caffeine (either because of double booking or poor foresight)

Boston Economics and Computing Hub

Please join us for our inaugural BEACH Day: a workshop from the Boston Economics and Computing Hub.

On What: Behavioral Models in EconCS
When: Friday April 4, 2025
Where: BU CDS @bucds.bsky.social
Registration: Free-but-required (forms.gle/ZkB3qVMqQYjA...) by March 28.
Schedule: In-progress below!

I haven't seen anything come out yet, but does anyone know about details and dates for SAGT this year? The only info I see is last year's call and wasn't sure if the timing should be similar this year. TIA

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

This looks great! Thanks to @sjgreenwood.bsky.social as well— excited to try it out

🚨 Call for Papers – #EAAMO25 🚨

We invite researchers, practitioners & policymakers to submit work on equity, access, & fairness in algorithms, optimization & mechanism design.

📅 Abstracts due Apr-17
📅 Papers due April-24

🔗 Learn more: conference.eaamo.org/cfp/

TLDR: if you have infinite model expressiveness, loss function choice probably doesn't matter. BUT if you have a limited model class (even if the Bayes optimal model is in class), then task-specific surrogates perform better than task-agnostic + thresholding, formalized through H-calibration.

Excited to share some recent work with @sunk8th.bsky.social and Milind Tambe on the effects of loss function choice with limited model capacity: arxiv.org/pdf/2502.19522

(Thanks to my @hcrcs.bsky.social postdoc for introducing me to these great folks, too!)