Past Public Lectures

Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture — Secure Multiparty Computation
Speaker: Yuval Ishai (Technion Israel Institute of Technology) 
Oct. 14, 2019
Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture — Algorithmic Opportunities in Matching Markets
Speaker: Vijay Vazirani (UC Irvine) 
Sep. 9, 2019
Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lectures — Launch Celebration
Speaker: Sanjeev Arora, Faith Ellen, Dan Gusfield, Dorit Hochbaum, Russell Impagliazzo, Ravi Kannan, Don Knuth, Mike Luby, Antony Ng, Prabhakar Raghavan, Scott Shenker, Robert Tarjan, Vijay Vazirani, and Dick Karp.
Sep. 3, 2019
Theoretically Speaking Series — Algorithms and the Law
Speaker: Peter Bartlett (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, moderator) Panelists: Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing), Martha Minow (Harvard University), Elliot Schrage (Facebook) and Patricia Williams (Columbia University) 
Jun. 7, 2019
Open Lecture — Randomness in Number Theory
Speaker: Peter Sarnak (Princeton University)
Apr. 15, 2019
Blockchains, Micropayments and Zero Knowledge (ZK Day 2019)
Apr. 13, 2019
Theoretically Speaking Series — What We Can Learn from AdNauseam about the Threat and Power of Data Obfuscation
Speaker: Helen Nissenbaum (Cornell Tech)
Mar. 27, 2019
Open Lecture — The Polynomial Paradigm in Algorithms
Speaker: Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington) and Nikhil Srivastava (UC Berkeley)
Mar. 11, 2019
Theoretically Speaking Series — The Predictive Brain
Speaker: Anil Ananthaswamy (Fall 2018 Simons Institute Journalist in Residence, moderator) Panelists: Celeste Kidd (UC Berkeley), Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley), Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University) and Michael Pollan (UC Berkeley) 
Mar. 7, 2019
When Scientists Write for the Public: Objective Consideration of Contemporary Phenomena
Speaker: Konstantin Kakaes (Simons Institute Journalist in Residence)
Feb. 6, 2019

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