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Ringing in the new year by celebrating some of the people, programs, and activities that made 2024 special! Best wishes for 2025 from all of us at DIMACS!

#DIMACS REU alum and Tufts U student David Cutler is making headlines for his research on the "Lazy Caterer" problem, inspired by Neil Sloane's talk at REU. Check out Cutler's exciting discovery, which involves cutting pancakes with a bent knife! #Rutgers phys.org/news/2026-03-s…

David O.H. Cutler, A26, alongside a Rutgers faculty member, published a paper that solves a longstanding math challenge that asks for the maximum number of pieces a circular object can be divided into with a given number of straight cuts. | @NYTimes brnw.ch/21wZgE6

The next installment of the Beyond the Classroom: Careers in Computer Science Series is scheduled for Wednesday, March 25th at 5 pm. Guest speaker: Jean Steiner, Ph.D. Data Science Tech Lead Manager at Google. RSVP docs.google.com/forms/d/1LFLaK…

3/3 Registration is free (but required). Limited student travel support available—apply by April 15 for full consideration (travel support forms linked on the workshop pages). See individual workshop pages for additional details.

2/3 Workshops (dates + links): • Algebraic Techniques in FGC (July 20–22): dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details… • FGC of String Problems (July 23–25): dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details… • FGC of Graph Problems (July 27–31): dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/details…

1/3 Fine-Grained Complexity Fest @DIMACSCenter this July! Three back-to-back workshops on Algebraic Techniques, String Algorithms, and Graph Algorithms in fine-grained complexity, with a terrific speaker lineup. Organized by @firebat03, @ElazarGoldenbe1, and @eig.

DIMACS is excited to announce Fine-Grained Complexity Fest, which will be held in July at #Rutgers! The #FGCFest will feature three independent workshops that focus on different aspects of fine-grained complexity. For more information visit: dimacs.rutgers.edu/events/list. @karthikcs_

#Now: Picture of Sigal, now an Associate Professor in Computer Science at @bengurionu, delivering a keynote talk on "Revenue Maximization with Minimal Information" this week at the WINE Conference hosted by DIMACS and Rutgers.

#Then: Picture of Sigal Oren the last time she was on Rutgers campus: a baby in her parents' arms outside the Johnson Apartments. Her father earned his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Rutgers University! #FunFact

The award was presented by Program Committee co-chair Zhiyi Huang for the paper "Degree-bounded Online Bipartite Matching: OCS vs. Ranking" co-authored with Haolong Li, Xiaowei Wu, Shengwei Zhou.

Congratulations to Yilong Feng of the University of Macau on receiving the award for Best Student Paper at the WINE conference!

Congratulations to Yiheng Shen of @DukeU on receiving the Best Paper award at the WINE conference! The award was presented by Program Committee co-chair Zhiyi Huang for the paper "The Limits of Interval-Regulated Price Discrimination" co-authored w/ Kamesh Munagala & Renzhe Xu.

Day 2 of the WINE Conference commenced with an official welcome  from conference co-chair Arpita Biswas and #DIMACS Director @pennockd. Today is the beginning of the full conference, following yesterday's series of insightful tutorials. #Rutgers

The WINE Conference serves as an interdisciplinary venue that brings together researchers from a range of fields: theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence, operations research & economics, to present their latest research, exchange ideas & foster collaboration.

The 21st Annual Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE) is being held today through December 11, 2025. This year, #DIMACS at #RutgersUniversity is honored to serve as the official host for the conference.

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.

DIMACS is hiring postdocs! Please share this opportunity. Are you completing a PhD in #CSTheory, #DiscreteMath, #AI, #EconCS, #COMSOC or related fields? Join us at #Rutgers! Apply here: jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/261432 #NowHiring

Link to article: siam.org/publications/s… #Fema #NationalRiskIndex

David Thompson presented an undergraduate research project at the 2025 SIAM conference that was motivated by an educational module developed by Diana Cheng of @TowsonMath & Angelyn Flowers of @udc_edu during the DIMACS Reconnect Program. It is featured in @TheSIAMNews! #SIAMAN25

At #SIAMAN25, David Thompson of @UMassLowell spoke about a unique student-driven research project that used @fema's #NationalRiskIndex to explore natural disaster #risk assessment and expected annual loss for various U.S. counties. Read more here! siam.org/publications/s…