Description
The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing will hold its fourth annual Industry Day on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. The goal of the day is to foster exchange and collaboration between the Institute’s Industrial Partners and the graduate students, postdoctoral research fellows, 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 Development Officer Annie Averitt for further information.
Schedule:
| 9:30 a.m. | Coffee and Check-in |
| 10:00 a.m. | Welcome Shafi Goldwasser, Director, Simons Institute |
| 10:10 a.m. | Industrial Partner Presentations Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research Kunal Talwar, Google Parikshit Gopalan, VMware |
| 11:20 a.m. | Break |
| 11:30 a.m. | Lightning Talks Swati Gupta Rishidev Chaudhuri Sofya Vorotnikova Evelyn Tang Jonathan Shafer Adithya M. Devraj Jess Banks Fotis Iliopoulos Siqi Liu Grace Dinh Chinmay Nirkhe |
| 12:45 p.m. | Lunch at The Bancroft Hotel |
| 2:00 p.m. | Current and Upcoming Programs Quantum Computation (Umesh Vazirani, UC Berkeley) Real-Time Decision Making (David Shmoys, Cornell University) The Brain and Computation (Christos Papadimitriou, Columbia University) Foundations of Data Science (Ravi Kannan, Microsoft Research India) Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications (Moritz Hardt, UC Berkeley) Proofs, Consensus, and Decentralizing Society (Alessandro Chiesa, UC Berkeley) Lattices (Shafi Goldwasser, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley) |
| 3:30 p.m. | Reception |
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