Past Workshops & Symposia

Challenges in Quantum Computation
Jun. 11 – Jun. 15, 2018
Program: Summer Cluster: Challenges in Quantum Computation

Organizers:

Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology; chair), Andrew Childs (University of Maryland), Ignacio Cirac (Max Planck Institute, Garching), Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley)
Foundations of Machine Learning Reunion
Jun. 4 – Jun. 7, 2018
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning

Organizers:

Sanjoy Dasgupta (UC San Diego; chair), Sanjeev Arora (Princeton University), Nina Balcan (Carnegie Mellon University), Peter Bartlett (UC Berkeley), Sham Kakade (University of Washington), Santosh Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Mathematical and Computational Challenges in Real-Time Decision Making
Apr. 30 – May 4, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making

Organizers:

Evdokia Nikolova (University of Texas at Austin; chair), Anna Gilbert (University of Michigan), Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Richard Karp (UC Berkeley), Leonard Schulman (California Institute of Technology)
New Directions in Societal Networks
Apr. 23, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making

Organizers:

Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University; chair), Devavrat Shah (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Shmoys (Cornell University)
Computational Theories of the Brain
Apr. 16 – Apr. 19, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation

Organizers:

Wolfgang Maass (Technische Universität Graz; chair), Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley), S. Murray Sherman (University of Chicago)
Societal Networks
Mar. 26 – Mar. 29, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making

Organizers:

David Shmoys (Cornell University; chair), Frank Kelly (University of Cambridge), Steven Low (California Institute of Technology), Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University), Pravin Varaiya (UC Berkeley)
Targeted Discovery in Brain Data
Mar. 19 – Mar. 22, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation

Organizers:

Fritz Sommer (UC Berkeley; chair), Terry Sejnowski (Salk Institute, UC San Diego)
Applications in the Natural Sciences and Physical Systems
Feb. 26 – Mar. 2, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making

Organizers:

Josh Bloom (UC Berkeley), Peter Nugent (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Representation, Coding and Computation in Neural Circuits
Feb. 12 – Feb. 15, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation

Organizers:

Bartlett Mel (University of Southern California; chair), Sophie Denève (École Normale Supérieure), Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley)
Real-Time Decision Making Boot Camp
Jan. 22 – Jan. 26, 2018
Program: Real-Time Decision Making

Organizers:

Richard Karp (UC Berkeley; chair), Josh Bloom (UC Berkeley), Steven Low (California Institute of Technology), Evdokia Nikolova (University of Texas at Austin), Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University)
The Brain and Computation Boot Camp
Jan. 16 – Jan. 19, 2018
Program: The Brain and Computation

Organizers:

Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley; chair), Wolfgang Maass (Technische Universität Graz), Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley), Santosh Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Logical Structures in Computation Reunion Workshop
Dec. 11 – Dec. 14, 2017
Program: Logical Structures in Computation

Organizers:

Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford), Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge), Phokion G. Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz and IBM Research - Almaden), Prakash Panangaden (McGill University)
Spectral Graph Theory and Optimization Symposium
Dec. 8, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization

Organizers:

Jelena Diakonikolas (Boston University), Rasmus Kyng (Yale University)
Algorithms and Uncertainty Reunion Workshop
Dec. 4 – Dec. 6, 2017
Program: Algorithms and Uncertainty

Organizers:

Anupam Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University; co-chair), Stefano Leonardi (Sapienza University of Rome; co-chair), Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon University), Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University), Eli Upfal (Brown University), Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology)
Optimization, Statistics and Uncertainty
Nov. 28 – Dec. 1, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization

Organizers:

Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond; chair), Moritz Hardt (UC Berkeley), Aleksander Mądry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Seffi Naor (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Philippe Rigollet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Michael Cohen Memorial Symposium
Nov. 27, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization

Organizers:

Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research Redmond), Aleksander Mądry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Optimization and Fairness Symposium
Nov. 17, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization

Organizers:

Swati Gupta (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), David Williamson (Cornell University)
Hierarchies, Extended Formulations and Matrix-Analytic Techniques
Nov. 6 – Nov. 9, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization

Organizers:

Prasad Raghavendra (UC Berkeley; chair), Nick Harvey (University of British Columbia), Pablo Parrilo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sebastian Pokutta (Georgia Institute of Technology), Cynthia Vinzant (North Carolina State University)
Robotics and Optimization Symposium
Nov. 3, 2017
Program: Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization

Organizers:

Benjamin Recht (UC Berkeley)
Safe Machine Learning Workshop
Oct. 19 – Oct. 20, 2017

Organizers:

Hava Siegelmann (DARPA; chair), Peter Bartlett (UC Berkeley), Shafi Goldwasser (MIT), Moritz Hardt (UC Berkeley), Dawn Song (UC Berkeley)

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