The 62nd Annual IEEE Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS) will be held (virtually) February 7-10, 2022 — this coming Monday!

Thanks to the effort of the progam committee, the FOCS 2021 program consists of 118 amazing papers in three parallel sessions. All talks will be live and of the usual length of 20 minutes. The program has also set aside ample time for breaks to enable the participants to socialize and connect on gather and slack.

FOCS 2021 also has three exciting workshops as a part of the main program:

1) Recent directions in Machine Learning: co-organized by Daniel Hsu, Aleksander Madry, and Aravindan Vijayaraghavan, and and featuring Anima Anandkumar, Elias Bareinboim, Risi Kondor, Christopher Manning, Andrej Risteski, Cynthia Rush, Jacob Steinhardt.

2) Reflections on Propositional Proofs in Algorithms and Complexity: co-organized by Toni Pitassi, Susanna de Rezende, and Robert Robere, and featuring Sam Buss, Joshua Grochow, Pravesh K. Kothari, Jan Krajíček, Toni Pitassi, Susanna de Rezende, Robert Robere, Rahul Santhanam, Neil Thapen.

3) Workshop on Cryptography: co-organized by Dan Boneh and Amit Sahai, and featuring Elette Boyle, Aayush Jain, Yuval Ishai, Rachel Lin, Wilson Nguyen, Rafael Pass, Hoeteck Wee.

Registration is still open and available at a reduced rate of $100-150 for participants.

Thanks to generous support from the National Science Foundation, there will be a total of $15,000 in support for FOCS 2021 for eligible students and postdoctoral fellows towards registration fee.

Looking forward to seeing many of you next week!

Update: Junior/Senior Lunches by Clement Cannone and Gautam Kamath:

Back by popular demand! As part of FOCS 2021, and in view of the success of similar events in the past, a “junior/senior lunch” will take place on Tuesday February 8, 1:30PM-2:30pm ET. Importantly, this is not limited to FOCS attendees! As in previous years, this virtual lunch will be the occasion for senior researchers in the field, broadly construed, to have an informal chat with students, postdocs, and junior faculty, answer their questions, discuss their research, and generally have a nice conversation.

To participate as either a senior or junior researcher, please write your name in this spreadsheet. Further instructions will be sent to people who sign up.  If you are on the “senior” side of the lunch, you will be responsible for contacting the corresponding juniors, and provide a Zoom link.