Tried Peter Cat today, pretty nice

my timeline of cryptographers has switched from its usual math and code chatter, now it’s mostly people panicking about the asiacrypt venue dress code that disallows *checks notes* tshirts 😱

An advent calendar of some of my favourite TCS/Maths talks. Day #1: Avi Wigderson on Reading Alan Turing.

It is a gem of a talk, full of insights about Turing's work, writing style, and influences on mathematics and computer science. Pure joy!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Uk_...

Congrats to the winners of the 2024 #IACR Test-of-Time Award for #Asiacrypt: "Fiat-Shamir with aborts: Applications to lattice and factoring-based signatures", by V. Lyubashevsky and "Efficient public key encryption based on ideal lattices", by D. Stehlé, R. Steinfeld, K. Tanaka and K. Xagawa !

Are you attending Asiacrypt2024? If you are a women-in-cryptography, you can participate in our coffee breaks: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We will match you with someone and you can grab a coffee/tea in person!

Things you need as a PhD student:
- coffee ☕
- a living stipend 💰
- a website 🔗

For the last one, @kiragoldner.bsky.social has good resources: www.kiragoldner.com/blog/website..., www.kiragoldner.com/resources.html

The Asiacrypt 2024 program is finally up!

asiacrypt.iacr.org/2024/program...

Please answer / dm us to be added/ removed.

go.bsky.app/8daoJcj

Reminder that, if you're applying to grad school, postdocs, faculty positions etc., you should have asked your writers 2 to 4 weeks ago.

The second best time to ask is today. Here's my post on how to ask for a letter of recommendation.
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The perfect definition of a heuristic doesn't exi-

It’s like we graduated from high school and we’re all finding each other in university classes. lol