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During academic year 2017-18, the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a Special Year on Combinatorics and Complexity. This year will be organized by Noga Alon, Boaz Barak, Jacob Fox, Madhu Sudan, Salil Vadhan, and...

Undergraduate student Sitan Chen ’16, joint mathematics/computer science concentrator at Harvard College, wins Fay Prize for his senior thesis on holographic algorithms, and presents his work at the 2016 ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing https://www...

We are thrilled to announce that Cynthia Dwork will be joining our faculty on Spring 2017. Cynthia who is currently holds the position of a Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research, has done seminal work in cryptography and distributed computing, and...

The Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University seeks applicants for the inaugural Michael O. Rabin Postdoctoral Fellowship in Theoretical Computer Science . Please see http://toc.seas.harvard.edu/rabin-postdoc...

Boaz Barak and Madhu Sudan have joined the faculty of Harvard SEAS starting in the 2015-2016 academic year, bolstering the already strong group in theoretical computer science.

Harvard has received a $400M dollar donation from John A. Paulson to its School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, of which Computer Science is a part. This is the largest donation in Harvard's history and will go a long way toward ensuring the strength...

Harvard received a sizable gift from Steve Ballmer that will help significantly grow the Computer Science faculty (and theoretical Computer Science in particular) and make what is an already strong area even more vibrant and robust.