Past Workshops & Symposia

Concentration of Measure Phenomena
Oct. 19 – Oct. 23, 2020
Program: Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions

Organizers:

Bo'az Klartag (Weizmann Institute of Science; chair), Ramon Van Handel (Princeton University), James R. Lee (University of Washington), Jelani Nelson (UC Berkeley), Prasad Tetali (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Sep. 28 – Oct. 2, 2020
Program: Theory of Reinforcement Learning

Organizers:

Lihong Li (Google Brain; chair), Marc G. Bellemare (Google Brain)
Computational Phase Transitions
Sep. 21 – Sep. 25, 2020
Program: Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions

Organizers:

Cris Moore (Santa Fe Institute; co-chair), Ryan O'Donnell (Carnegie Mellon University; co-chair), David Gamarnik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Andrea Montanari (Stanford University), Lenka Zdeborová (CNRS)
Geometry of Polynomials Reunion
Sep. 8 – Sep. 11, 2020
Program: Geometry of Polynomials

Organizers:

Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington; co-chair), Nikhil Srivastava (UC Berkeley; co-chair), Leonid Gurvits (City University of New York), Pablo Parrilo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alistair Sinclair (UC Berkeley)
Theory of Reinforcement Learning Boot Camp
Aug. 31 – Sep. 4, 2020
Program: Theory of Reinforcement Learning

Organizers:

Csaba Szepesvari (University of Alberta, Google DeepMind; chair), Emma Brunskill (Stanford University), Sébastien Bubeck (MSR), Alan Malek (DeepMind), Sean Meyn (University of Florida), Ambuj Tewari (University of Michigan), Mengdi Wang (Princeton)
Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions Boot Camp
Aug. 19 – Aug. 28, 2020
Program: Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions

Organizers:

Nike Sun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; chair), Jian Ding (University of Pennsylvania), Ronen Eldan (Weizmann Institute), Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Joe Neeman (University of Texas at Austin), Jelani Nelson (UC Berkeley), Tselil Schramm (Stanford University; Microsoft Research Fellow)
Deep Learning Reunion
Aug. 10 – Aug. 13, 2020
Program: Foundations of Deep Learning

Organizers:

Samy Bengio (Google), Aleksander Mądry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Matus Telgarsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species
Aug. 3 – Aug. 4, 2020

Organizers:

Michael Bronstein (Imperial College London), Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley), David Gruber (City University of New York)
Algorithm Design, Law, and Policy Virtual Kick-Off
Jul. 20 – Jul. 21, 2020

Organizers:

Inbal Talgam-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; chair), Niva Elkin-Koren (University of Haifa), Michal Feldman (Tel Aviv University), Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
Women in Theory
May 10, 2020

Organizers:

Tal Rabin (Algorand Foundation), Shubhangi Saraf (Rutgers University), Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs)
Quantum Devices: Simulation, Supremacy, and Optimization
May 4 – May 8, 2020
Program: The Quantum Wave in Computing

Organizers:

David DiVincenzo (RWTH Aachen; chair), Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik), Barbara Terhal (Delft University of Technology)
Lattices: From Theory to Practice
Apr. 27 – May 1, 2020
Program: Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography

Organizers:

Vadim Lyubashevsky (IBM Research; chair), Shai Halevi (IBM Research), Damien Stehlé (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Vinod Vaikuntanathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Quantum Protocols: Testing & Quantum PCPs
Mar. 30 – Apr. 2, 2020
Program: The Quantum Wave in Computing

Organizers:

Henry Yuen (University of Toronto; chair), Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Yael Kalai (Microsoft Research New England), Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology)
Lattices: New Cryptographic Capabilities
Mar. 23 – Mar. 27, 2020
Program: Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography

Organizers:

Hoeteck Wee (CNRS and ENS; chair), Shweta Agrawal (IIT Madras), Zvika Brakerski (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Quantum Algorithms
Feb. 25 – Feb. 28, 2020
Program: The Quantum Wave in Computing

Organizers:

Iordanis Kerenidis (CNRS - Université Paris Diderot & QC Ware; chair), Fernando Brandao (California Institute of Technology), Stacey Jeffery (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
Quantum Cryptanalysis of Post-Quantum Cryptography
Feb. 22 – Feb. 24, 2020
Program: The Quantum Wave in Computing, Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography

Organizers:

Vadim Lyubashevsky (IBM Research), Stacey Jeffery (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), Elena Kirshanova (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University)
Lattices: Geometry, Algorithms and Hardness
Feb. 18 – Feb. 21, 2020
Program: Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography

Organizers:

Daniele Micciancio (UC San Diego; chair), Daniel Dadush (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica), Chris Peikert (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
The Quantum Wave in Computing Boot Camp
Jan. 27 – Jan. 31, 2020
Program: The Quantum Wave in Computing

Organizers:

Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology; chair), Andrew Childs (University of Maryland), Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik), Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley)
Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography Boot Camp
Jan. 21 – Jan. 24, 2020
Program: Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography

Organizers:

Vinod Vaikuntanathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; chair), Shafi Goldwasser (UC Berkeley), Daniele Micciancio (UC San Diego), Oded Regev (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University), Hoeteck Wee (CNRS and ENS)
Foundations of Data Science Reunion
Dec. 16 – Dec. 19, 2019
Program: Foundations of Data Science

Organizers:

David Woodruff (Carnegie Mellon University; chair), Ken Clarkson (IBM Almaden), Ravi Kannan (Microsoft Research India), Michael Mahoney (International Computer Science Institute and UC Berkeley), Andrea Montanari (Stanford University), Santosh Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology), Rachel Ward (University of Texas at Austin)

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