Workshops & Symposia

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)
Challenges in Quantum Computation
Jun. 11 – Jun. 15, 2018
Program: 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)
Pseudorandomness Reunion
Jun. 18 – Jun. 21, 2018
Program: Pseudorandomness

Organizers:

Julia Wolf (University of Bristol; chair), Jacob Fox (Stanford University), Ben Green (University of Oxford), Russell Impagliazzo (UC San Diego), Luca Trevisan (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley), David Zuckerman (University of Texas, Austin)
Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity Boot Camp
Aug. 20 – Aug. 24, 2018
Program: Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity

Organizers:

Anup Rao (University of Washington), Ryan Williams (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Amir Yehudayoff (Technion Israel Institute of Technology)
Foundations of Data Science Boot Camp
Aug. 27 – Aug. 31, 2018
Program: Foundations of Data Science

Organizers:

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), David Woodruff (IBM Almaden)
Boolean Devices
Sep. 10 – Sep. 14, 2018
Program: Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity

Organizers:

Benjamin Rossman (University of Toronto; chair), Rahul Santhanam (University of Oxford), Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra and Applications
Sep. 24 – Sep. 28, 2018
Program: Foundations of Data Science

Organizers:

Petros Drineas (Purdue University; chair), Ken Clarkson (IBM Almaden), Prateek Jain (Microsoft Research India), Michael Mahoney (International Computer Science Institute and UC Berkeley)
Interactive Complexity
Oct. 15 – Oct. 19, 2018
Program: Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity

Organizers:

Kasper Green Larsen (Aarhus University; chair), Mark Braverman (Princeton University), Michael Saks (Rutgers University)
Robust and High-Dimensional Statistics
Oct. 29 – Nov. 2, 2018
Program: Foundations of Data Science

Organizers:

Andrea Montanari (Stanford University; chair), Emmanuel Candès (Stanford University), Ilias Diakonikolas (University of Southern California), Santosh Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Sublinear Algorithms and Nearest-Neighbor Search
Nov. 27 – Nov. 30, 2018
Program: Foundations of Data Science

Organizers:

Robert Krauthgamer (Weizmann Institute; chair), Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick), Aarti Singh (Carnegie Mellon University), Rachel Ward (University of Texas at Austin)
Algebraic Methods
Dec. 3 – Dec. 7, 2018
Program: Lower Bounds in Computational Complexity

Organizers:

Shubhangi Saraf (Rutgers University; chair), Amir Shpilka (Tel Aviv University), Madhu Sudan (Harvard University)
Geometry of Polynomials Boot Camp
Jan. 22 – Jan. 25, 2019
Program: Geometry of Polynomials

Organizers:

Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington), Nikhil Srivastava (UC Berkeley)
Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications Boot Camp
Jan. 28 – Feb. 1, 2019
Program: Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications

Organizers:

Adam Smith (Pennsylvania State University; chair), Vitaly Feldman (Google), Katrina Ligett (Hebrew University), Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University)
Beyond Randomized Rounding and the Probabilistic Method
Feb. 11 – Feb. 15, 2019
Program: Geometry of Polynomials

Organizers:

Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington; chair), Nikhil Srivastava (UC Berkeley)
From Foundations to Applications
Mar. 4 – Mar. 8, 2019
Program: Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications

Organizers:

Marco Gaboardi (SUNY Buffalo; chair), Ashwin Machanavajjhala (Duke University), Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University), Natalie Shlomo (University of Manchester)
Deterministic Counting, Probability, and Zeros of Partition Functions
Mar. 18 – Mar. 22, 2019
Program: Geometry of Polynomials

Organizers:

Alistair Sinclair (UC Berkeley; chair), Alexander Barvinok (University of Michigan), Leonid Gurvits (City University of New York), David Wagner (University of Waterloo)
Privacy and the Science of Data Analysis
Apr. 8 – Apr. 12, 2019
Program: Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications

Organizers:

Vitaly Feldman (Google; chair), Kamalika Chaudhuri (UC San Diego), Aleksandra Slavkovic (Pennsylvania State University), Adam Smith (Pennsylvania State University), Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley)
Hyperbolic Polynomials and Hyperbolic Programming
Apr. 29 – May 3, 2019
Program: Geometry of Polynomials

Organizers:

Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley; chair), Michel Goemans (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Pablo Parrilo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jim Renegar (Cornell University)
Beyond Differential Privacy
May 6 – May 10, 2019
Program: Data Privacy: Foundations and Applications

Organizers:

Katrina Ligett (Hebrew University; chair), Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown University), Omer Reingold (Stanford University), Aaron Roth (University of Pennsylvania)