All talks listed in Pacific Time. Schedule subject to change. Please note this workshop is only 4 days long; it concludes on Thursday, July 11.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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Talk by

Mitali Bafna (MIT)
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Break
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Near Optimal Alphabet-Soundness Tradeoff PCPs

Kai Zheng (MIT)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Locally Stationary Distributions: A Framework for Analyzing Slow-Mixing Markov Chains

Sidhanth Mohanty (MIT)
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Break
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Talk by

Tselil Schramm (Stanford University)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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On the Pauli Spectrum of QAC0

Natalie Parham (Columbia University)
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Break
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Derandomizing the Haar Measure

Makrand Sinha (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Importance sampling suffices for active linear regression

James Lee (University of Washington)
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Break
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Parallel Sampling via Counting

Nima Anari (Stanford University)
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Short Talks Session (2nd Floor Interaction Space)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Talk by

Esty Kelman (BU and MIT)
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Break
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Derandomized Non-Abelian Homomorphism Testing in Low Soundness Regime

Tushant Mittal (University of Chicago)
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Boxed Lunches & Hike
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New Directions in Property Testing | Richard M. Karp Distinguished Lecture

Rocco Servedio (Columbia University)
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Coffee and Check-In
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A graph counting lemma and Kelley-Meka type bounds for all binary systems of linear forms

Hamed Hatami (McGill University)
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Break
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Some Applications of Global Hypercontractivity in Matrix Groups

Nathan Lindzey (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
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Lunch (on your own)
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Gaussian Polytope Approximation

Shivam Nadimpalli (Columbia University)
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Break
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Sparsifying suprema of Gaussian processes

Rocco Servedio (Columbia University)