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LucaFest@Simons
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Calvin Lab auditorium
Date
Tuesday, Oct. 8
–
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024
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Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
9:45 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
9:45
–
10:15 a.m.
La joie de la souffrance—a memoir of my husband, Luca Trevisan
Junce Zhang
10:20
–
10:50 a.m.
Building a brain
Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University)
10:50
–
11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20
–
11:50 a.m.
Luca in theory and algorithms for cubic optimization
Pravesh Kothari (Carnegie Mellon University)
11:55 a.m.
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12:25 p.m.
Certificates of sparse matrix quasi-randomness, Luca style
Tommaso D'Orsi (Bocconi University)
12:25
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1:55 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1:55
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2:25 p.m.
Sparsification, importance sampling, and optimization
James Lee (University of Washington)
2:30
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3 p.m.
Spectral graph theory with the lens of higher order eigenvalues
Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington)
3
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3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
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4 p.m.
Lower bounds for Max-Cut in H-free graphs via semidefinite programming
Charlie Carlson (UCSB)
4:05
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4:50 p.m.
Remembrances and Open Mic
5
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6:30 p.m.
Aperitivo
8
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9:30 p.m.
Playback theater with The Owls
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-In
9:30
–
9:45 a.m.
Welcome Remarks
9:45
–
10:15 a.m.
Trevisan's contributions to distributed computing
Emanuele Natale (INRIA)
10:20
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10:50 a.m.
The span of Luca
Ronitt Rubinfeld (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
10:50
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11:20 a.m.
Break
11:20
–
11:50 a.m.
Encrypted computation from lattices
Hoeteck Wee (NTT Research)
11:55 a.m.
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12:25 p.m.
Separations: With and from Luca
Omer Reingold (Stanford University)
12:25
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1:55 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
1:55
–
2:25 p.m.
Three things I learned from Luca
Madhur Tulsiani (TTI-Chicago)
2:30
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3 p.m.
2 functions walk into a bar: A new regularity theorem, interpreted in the spirit of Luca
Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University)
3
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3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
–
4 p.m.
Approximation algorithms for connectivity problems via witness trees
Laura Sanità (Bocconi University)
4:05
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4:50 p.m.
Remembrances and Open Mic
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