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The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing will hold its third annual Industry Day on Thursday, March 23, 2017. 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 | Welcome Richard Karp, Director, Simons Institute |
10:05 am | Industrial Partner presentations Gagan Aggarwal, Google Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research Joseph Soriaga, Qualcomm Michael Karasick, IBM |
11:20 am | Break |
11:30 am | Lightning talks Aviad Rubinstein, UC Berkeley Alexander Anderson, UC Berkeley Anup Rao, Georgia Institute of Technology Manuel Sabin, UC Berkeley Pasin Manurangsi, UC Berkeley Akshayaram Srinivasan, UC Berkeley Maithra Raghu, Cornell University & Google Xiaorui Sun, Columbia University Dylan Foster, Cornell University Marcell Vazquez-Chanlatte, UC Berkeley Ahmed Alaoui, UC Berkeley Shrinu Kushagra, University of Waterloo Abbas Mehrabian, University of British Columbia Ilan Shomorony, UC Berkeley |
12:45 pm | Lunch at the Bancroft Hotel |
2:00 pm | Simons Institute Industry Fellow presentations Eshan Chattopadhyay, Microsoft Research Fellow Hamed Hassani, Qualcomm Research Fellow Ruth Urner, Google Research Fellow |
3:00 pm | Tea |
3:30 pm | Views from the programs Luca Trevisan, UC Berkeley, Pseudorandomness Sanjoy Dasgupta, UC San Diego, Machine Learning |
4:30 pm | Reception |
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