RR-Fest

Location

Calvin Lab Auditorium

Date

Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024

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8:30 – 8:55 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

8:55 – 9 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9 – 9:18 a.m.

The Conscious Turing Machine (CTM) as a model for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)

Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)

9:18 – 9:36 a.m.

From oracles to learning-based algorithms

Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

9:36 – 9:54 a.m.

34 years with Ronitt: On jogging, food and a mouse

Michal Parnas (Academic College of Tel-Aviv)

9:54 – 10:12 a.m.

From fallible DFAs to DFA-therapy (and some things in-between)

Dana Ron (Tel Aviv University)

10:12 – 10:30 a.m.

On the importance of scale: Some Reflections on Ronitt's work

Oded Goldreich (Weizmann Institute of Science)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 – 11:18 a.m.

The Magic of Ruzsa-Szemeredi Graphs

Ankur Moitra (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

11:18 – 11:36 a.m.

Simple Sublinear Algorithms for Vertex Coloring

Sepehr Assadi (University of Waterloo)

11:36 – 11:54 a.m.

Approximating the Weight …

Artur Czumaj (University of Warwick)

11:54 a.m. – 12:12 p.m.

Sampling Multiple Edges Efficiently

Talya Eden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

12:12 – 12:30 p.m.

Sublinear vignettes

Elena Grigorescu (Purdue University)

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (provided)

1:30 – 3:30 p.m.

3:30 – 4 p.m.

Break

4 – 5 p.m.

Closing Remarks

5:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Reception