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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/
The 2025 Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop is December 8-9, hosted jointly by Northwestern and TTIC. Monday Dec 8 will be at TTIC and Tuesday Dec 9 will be at Northwestern (in the SkAI/NITMB in the Hancock tower in downtown Chicago). Register in advance.

theory.cs.northwestern.edu/2025/11/14/j...
Junior Theorists Workshop 2025 | Northwestern CS Theory Group
Synopsis: The Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop 2025 is being held jointly by Northwestern University and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago on ...
theory.cs.northwestern.edu
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Every year I track the number of CS faculty jobs ads in the November issues of CRA News. It's not a perfect measure but it is forward looking to the upcoming job season.

This year at 27 pages is down 69% from last year, 83% from the peak in 2022 and the lowest since 2011.
November 19, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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🚨 EC'26 website is now live! 🚨

Deadline for abstracts 2 Feb & for papers 9 Feb ⏱️ 1st round decisions 26 March 😥 Rebuttal period 21-25 April 🙅 Decisions by 18 May 🎯 Conference 6-10 July in Rome 🍕🇮🇹🍝.

Instead of tracks, there are 13 amazing track chairs!
ec26.sigecom.org/index.html
November 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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The 2026 SIGecom job market candidate profiles are now available online!

Share the following article with anyone who may be interested in hiring at the intersection of computer science, operations research, and economics:
www.sigecom.org/exchanges/vo...
www.sigecom.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Best resource every year, come look who's on the market!

Thanks for editing, @gkatzelis.bsky.social and @jasonhartline.bsky.social!
The 2026 SIGecom job market candidate profiles are now available online!

Share the following article with anyone who may be interested in hiring at the intersection of computer science, operations research, and economics:
www.sigecom.org/exchanges/vo...
www.sigecom.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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📣 Postdocs at Yale FDS! 📣 Tremendous freedom to work on data science problems with faculty across campus, multi-year, great salary. Deadline 12/15. Spread the word! Application: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31114 More about Yale FDS: fds.yale.edu
Yale University, Institute for the Foundations of Data Science
Job #AJO31114, Postdoc in Foundations of Data Science, Institute for the Foundations of Data Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US
academicjobsonline.org
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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A truly incredible BEACH Day today on Predictions for Decision Making, full of amazing talks.

Hope everyone enjoyed the view from @bucds.bsky.social!

Photos of Yiling Cheng and @yifanwu.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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@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...
Ph.D. Program
www.bc.edu
November 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The monthly CSLaw Workshop is today! Virtual!
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 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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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