GoldbergFest 2026

A workshop on algorithms and complexity theory at the University of Oxford.

General Information

• Date: Saturday, 20th June 2026
• Location: Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
• Organisers: Andreas Galanis (Oxford), Paul Goldberg (Oxford), and Standa Živný (Oxford)

Leslie Goldberg is turning 60 this year!

We are celebrating her birthday with a day of talks on 20th June.

The talks will take place in the Bill Roscoe Lecture Theatre, Department of Computer Science.

If you want to participate, please contact the organisers.

Further details will be added here in due course.

Confirmed Speakers

• Josep Díaz (UPC)
• Martin Dyer (University of Leeds)
• Martin Farach-Colton (NYU)
• Andreas Göbel (HPI)
• Heng Guo (University of Edinburgh)
• Mark Jerrum (QMUL)
• Steven Kelk (Maastricht University)
• John Lapinskas (University of Bristol)
• David Richerby (University of Essex)
• Marc Roth (QMUL)

Participants

• Hesham Al-Ammal (University of Bahrain)
• Konrad Anand (University of Edinburgh)
• Miriam Backens (INRIA)
• Alistair Benford (University of Edinburgh)
• Petra Berenbrink (University of Hamburg)
• Christian Coester (Oxford)
• Artur Czumaj (Warwick)
• Jacob Focke (d-fine)
• Tom Friedetzky (Durham University)
• Christina Goldschmidt (Oxford)
• Tom Gur (Cambridge)
• Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh)
• Alexandros Hollender (Oxford)
• Varun Kanade (Oxford)
• Amirhossein Kazeminia (Oxford)
• Sandra Kiefer (Oxford)
• Elias Koutsoupias (Oxford)
• Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford)
• Ursula Martin (Oxford)
• Colin McDiarmid (Oxford)
• Xandru Mifsud (Oxford)
• Prakash Panangaden (McGill University)
• Rahul Savani (University of Liverpool)
• Paulina Smolarova (Oxford)
• Perdita Stevens (University of Edinburgh)
• James Stewart (Amazon)
• Ben Worrell (Oxford)
• Kuan Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
• Xusheng Zhang (Durham University)