There are 14 theory mailing lists, but the following four are particularly important. All mailing lists are @cs.stanford.edu


Some of the groups listed above can be broken down.

thstud consists of students doing theory-related work. It is made up of thphd which consists of theory PhD candidates, and a list (not available separately) of theory-related students who are not pursuing their PhD in theory.

thfac consists of theory division professors (thdivfac) and theory-affiliated professors (thfacaff).


thstaff is the list of current theory staff. It is part of the theoryall mailing list.

thvis consists of visiting researchers in theory. It is part of the theoryall list as well as the thseminar list.

thres consists of theory researchers at Stanford who are not faculty or PhD students. This includes masters students, post-docs, etc. thaff consists of researchers affiliated to Stanford in the local area.

theoryall is the largest mailing list, consisting of current theory students, theory faculty (including affiliated faculty), theory staff, and theory visitors. In addition, it includes thres and thaff.

Finally, thalum is a list of Stanford PhD alumni. It is not included in any other list.

Contact Mukund Sundararajan for additions, deletions etc.