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The Department offers a new dimension to its webpage: we now offer a range of videos of activities in our department, ranging from sample classes to seminars by outside guests. This has been made possible by a generous gift from Alex Gurevich, a member of the Visiting Committee of the Physical Sciences Division. Check out the link above.

Last week our own "Works in Theory" team (Korei Klein, Matthew Steffen, and Louis Wasserman, coached by Borja Sotomayor) travelled to Harbin, China to participate in the ICPC World Finals. The team placed 86th out of 103 teams. You can read a recap of the trip and contest, along with pictures here. Please congratulate the the team on this achievement. Tryouts for the regional contest scheduled for November 6th, 2010 will be held this Spring. If you are interested please contact Borja Sotomayor.

Ian Foster, professor of Computer Science as well as director of the Computation Institute, was named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), on December 1, in recognition of his work in parallel programming languages, collaborative and distributed computing. Congratulations, Ian!

In honor of Laci Babai's 60th birthday, The Ohio State University will be hosting a conference on Combinatorics, Groups, Algorithms, and Complexity. This conference will continue to explore the interactions between combinatorics and theoretical computer science and will be the first conference to highlight the role of group theory in this web. The meeting will take place from March 21-25, 2010. For more information please go to www.babai60.org.

The Simons Foundation has announced that a two-year post-doctoral fellowship was been awarded for a young scholar to come to the department to work with the Theory group, beginning in the fall of 2012. This is one of 68 post-doctoral fellowships awarded by the Foundation in the fields of mathematics, theoretical physics, and theoretical computer science.