Max Springer

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!) scientificamerican.com/article/high-d…

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: tinyurl.com/ai-panel-membe…

Tuesday Seminars begin again for the semester tomorrow 1/27 with Max Springer's (@MaxSpringer23) talk entitled "A Geometric Perspective on LLM Behavior". citp.princeton.edu/events/2026/ma… 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: go.umd.edu/springer

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: go.umd.edu/1zd2

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.

Excited to present our recent works at #NeurIPS2024 with my amazing collaborators! Come check out our papers if you're at Vancouver next week:

Proof by rolling

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)

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In my latest for @sciam, I finally get to talk about my guilty pleasure: reality TV. ...uh, I mean combinatorial algorithms.

Tschau, @dagstuhl! Vielen Dank für die Einladung, faire Algorithmen sowohl in der Theorie als auch in der Praxis zu diskutieren.

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: bit.ly/3B80wY6

Coming to a newsroom near you: learn how the @AAASMassMedia Science & Engineering Fellowship weaves #ScienceJournalism into communities across the country in the latest edition of @AAASmember Member Update newsletter. brnw.ch/21wMbyl

A new mathematical technique shows how to build small objects in any dimension that roll like a wheel, expanding our understanding of higher dimensional space trib.al/caogZ8z

In a mere *three page* proof, mathematicians construct a small n-dimensional shape that rolls like a wheel. My latest for @sciam explores the wonky world of Euclidean geometry and how new shapes are built from old ones. scientificamerican.com/article/mathem…