Description
The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing will hold its second annual Industry Day on Thursday, September 24, 2015. The goal of the day is to foster exchange and collaboration between the Institute’s Industrial Partners and the graduate student, postdoctoral and senior researchers at the Institute and on the broader Berkeley campus.
Participation is open to our Industrial Partners and Sponsors. Learn more about our Industrial Partnerships program here, or contact kakane [at] berkeley.edu (subject: Industrial%20Sponsorship) (Kristin Kane) for further information.
Schedule:
| 9:30 am | Coffee and check-in |
| 10:00 am | Introduction Richard Karp, Director, Simons Institute |
| 10:10 am | Industrial Partner presentations Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research D. Sivakumar, Google Michael Luby, Qualcomm |
| 11:00 am | Break |
| 11:20 am | Lightning talks Tselil Schramm, UC Berkeley Graduate Student, EECS Antonio Blanca, UC Berkeley Graduate Student, EECS Payam Delgosha, UC Berkeley Graduate Student, EECS Nicholas Boyd, UC Berkeley Graduate Student, Statistics Ahmed El Alaoui, UC Berkeley Graduate Student, EECS Horia Mania, UC Berkeley Graduate Student, EECS Gautam Kamath, MIT Graduate Student, EECS Marc Khoury, UC Berkeley Graduate Student, EECS Lirong Xia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Simons Institute Research Fellow Dimitris Papailiopoulos, UC Berkeley Postdoctoral Researcher, EECS Aviad Rubinstein, UC Berkeley Graduate Student, EECS Jonah Brown-Cohen, UC Berkeley Graduate Student, EECS Nima Haghpanah, MIT Postdoctoral Researcher, EECS |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch at the Bancroft Hotel |
| 2:00 pm | Simons Institute Industry Fellow presentations Daniela Saban, Google Research Fellow Karl Bringmann, Qualcomm Research Fellow Matthew Weinberg, Microsoft Research Fellow |
| 3:00 pm | Tea |
| 3:30 pm | Views from the programs Russell Impagliazzo, UCSD Constantinos Daskalakis, MIT |
| 4:30 pm | Reception |
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