Past Workshops & Symposia

Interactive Learning
Feb. 13 – Feb. 17, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning

Organizers:

Nina Balcan (Carnegie Mellon University; chair), Emma Brunskill (Carnegie Mellon University), Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Andrea Thomaz (University of Texas, Austin)
Expanders and Extractors
Jan. 30 – Feb. 3, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness

Organizers:

Noga Alon (Tel Aviv University; chair), Ben Green (University of Oxford), Peter Sarnak (Princeton University), David Zuckerman (University of Texas, Austin)
Foundations of Machine Learning Boot Camp
Jan. 23 – Jan. 27, 2017
Program: Foundations of Machine Learning

Organizers:

Sanjeev Arora (Princeton University), Nina Balcan (Carnegie Mellon University), Peter Bartlett (UC Berkeley), Sanjoy Dasgupta (UC San Diego), Sham Kakade (University of Washington), Santosh Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Pseudorandomness Boot Camp
Jan. 17 – Jan. 20, 2017
Program: Pseudorandomness

Organizers:

Jacob Fox (Stanford University), Ben Green (University of Oxford), Russell Impagliazzo (UC San Diego), Luca Trevisan (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley), Julia Wolf (University of Bristol), David Zuckerman (University of Texas, Austin)
Fine-Grained Complexity and Algorithm Design Reunion
Dec. 12 – Dec. 15, 2016
Program: Fine-Grained Complexity and Algorithm Design

Organizers:

Russell Impagliazzo (UC San Diego), Dániel Marx (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Ramamohan Paturi (UC San Diego), Ryan Williams (Stanford University), Virginia Vassilevska Williams (Stanford University)
Compositionality
Dec. 5 – Dec. 9, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation

Organizers:

Samson Abramsky (University of Oxford; chair), Lucien Hardy (Perimeter Institute), Michael Mislove (Tulane University)
Learning, Algorithm Design and Beyond Worst-Case Analysis
Nov. 14 – Nov. 18, 2016
Program: Algorithms and Uncertainty

Organizers:

Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon University; chair), Nir Ailon (Technion Israel Institute of Technology), Nina Balcan (Carnegie Mellon University), Ravi Kumar (Google), Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia), Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University)
{Symmetry, Logic, Computation}
Nov. 7 – Nov. 10, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation

Organizers:

Anuj Dawar (University of Cambridge; chair), Neil Immerman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Alexandra Silva (University College London)
Uncertainty in Computation
Oct. 4 – Oct. 7, 2016
Program: Logical Structures in Computation

Organizers:

Prakash Panangaden (McGill University; chair), Dan Roy (University of Toronto), Dan Suciu (University of Washington), Eli Upfal (Brown University)
Optimization and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
Sep. 19 – Sep. 23, 2016
Program: Algorithms and Uncertainty

Organizers:

Nikhil Bansal (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven; chair), Shipra Agrawal (Columbia University), Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University), Kamesh Munagala (Duke University), Jay Sethuraman (Columbia University), Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology)
Logical Structures in Computation Boot Camp
Aug. 29 – Sep. 2, 2016
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)
Algorithms and Uncertainty Boot Camp
Aug. 22 – Aug. 26, 2016
Program: Algorithms and Uncertainty

Organizers:

Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon University), Anupam Gupta (Carnegie Mellon University), Robert Kleinberg (Cornell University), Stefano Leonardi (Sapienza University of Rome), Eli Upfal (Brown University), Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology)
Cryptography Reunion
Aug. 9 – Aug. 12, 2016
Program: Cryptography

Organizers:

Guy Rothblum (Samsung Research America; chair), Shafi Goldwasser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tal Rabin (IBM Research)
Real-Time Decision Making
Jun. 27 – Jul. 1, 2016

Organizers:

Josh Bloom (UC Berkeley), Balaji Prabhakar (Stanford University)
Information Theory Reunion
Jun. 6 – Jun. 9, 2016
Program: Information Theory

Organizers:

Venkat Guruswami (Carnegie Mellon University), David Tse (Stanford University)
Women in Theory
May 22 – May 25, 2016
Integer Linear Programming in Computational Biology
May 9, 2016

Organizers:

Dan Gusfield (UC Davis)
Random Instances and Phase Transitions
May 2 – May 6, 2016
Program: Counting Complexity and Phase Transitions

Organizers:

Andrei Bulatov (Simon Fraser University; chair), Amin Coja-Oghlan (Goethe University Frankfurt am Main), Alan Frieze (Carnegie Mellon University), Mike Molloy (University of Toronto), Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)
New Directions in Computational Social Science & Data Science
Apr. 25 – Apr. 26, 2016

Organizers:

Tom Griffiths (UC Berkeley), Jennifer Johnson-Hanks (UC Berkeley), Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley), Jasjeet S. Sekhon (UC Berkeley), Chris Shannon (UC Berkeley), Laura Stoker (UC Berkeley), Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)
Network Biology
Apr. 11 – Apr. 15, 2016
Program: Algorithmic Challenges in Genomics

Organizers:

Mona Singh (Princeton University; chair), Roded Sharan (Tel Aviv University), Donna Slonim (Tufts University)

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