Interested in data-driven decision making, online learning, and optimization? Consider registering for the bootcamp (Aug 22-26) of the Simons program on data-driven decision processes simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/sche… . Its free, live-streamed and recorded! Thodoris Lykouris Sid Banerjee

This starts in less than 45 minutes with a (not so) brief introduction to bandits by yours truly.

There is still time (deadline this friday) to submit a student poster to present at the first workshop of Simons program on data-driven decision processes. More details here. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/data… Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing #d3p

Thank you Martin Puterman this is right on time for my course this fall!

Deadline for submitting ACML tutorial proposal is in two days (sep 2). If you were considering it, there is still time! The proposal needs only a 2-page description.

The deadline for submitting a poster to the upcoming Simons workshop is coming soon (this Friday, Sep 30). Fill out this short form if you are interested. forms.gle/uVYBZZSoW5ut3D…

Vow! Highly recommended. It asks some uncomfortable questions, but with a lot of empathy.

Oh vow, just checked mastodon. It makes me feel I am not geek enough 🤣 no thank you. (Or not yet, thank you),

Congratulations to Niki Hasrati Niki Hasrati and Shai Ben-David for their paper "On Computable Online Learning" that has been selected for the best paper award at #ALT2023. We thank the authors for their contribution and look forward to celebrating soon in Singapore (Feb 20-23)!

Congratulations to Sinho Chewi, Sebastien Bubeck , Sebastien Bubeck and Adil Salim Adil Salim for their paper "On the complexity of finding stationary points of smooth functions in one dimension" that has been selected for the best student paper award at #ALT2023!

Columbia IEOR has two tenure-track openings this year: apply.interfolio.com/133324

Come to our workshop on Fairness in OR/OM/AI! Nov. 30 - Dec. 1 at Columbia. Register here: sites.google.com/view/cu-fairne… Shipra Agrawal Rachel Cummings Christian Kroer Eric Balkanski Nikhil Garg Rad Niazadeh Karmel S. Shehadeh Jiahao Chen Negin Golrezaei Phebe Vayanos Matthew Leisten Justin Brookman

At 11am EST (Thursday nov 30). I will be speaking at WINDSMATH SEMINAR windsmath.com/upcoming_event… about our latest work on dynamic pricing with Bayesian persuasion (neurips 23), with Wei Tang and Yiding Feng. Join if you can!!