Past Public Lectures

Theoretically Speaking Series — Artificial Stupidity: The New AI and the Future of Fintech

Speaker: Andrew W. Lo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Dec. 3, 2019

Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture — Average-Case Complexity through the Lens of Interactive Arguments

Speaker: Rafael Pass (Cornell University)

Dec. 2, 2019

Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture — Byzantine Fault Tolerance Meets Flexibility

Speaker: Dahlia Malkhi (Calibra)

Nov. 4, 2019

Theoretically Speaking Series — Algorand's Forthcoming Blockchain Technology

Speaker: Silvio Micali (Founder of Algorand and faculty at MIT)

Oct. 30, 2019

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

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