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All events take place in Berdahl Auditorium, Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley, unless otherwise stated.

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Coffee and Check-In
Welcome from Richard Karp, Director of the Simons Institute
Remarks from Greg Hager, incoming CCC Vice Chair
Introduction to the Symposium from Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
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What Should a Computational Theory of Cortex Explain?
Leslie Valiant (Harvard University)
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Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier
John Preskill (California Institute of Technology)
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Break
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Why Biology is Different
Bernard Chazelle (Princeton University)
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Lunch Break
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Big Data and New Models Needed to Study DNA Variation in Evolution and Cancer
David Haussler (UC Santa Cruz)
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Break
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Perfection and Beyond
Maria Chudnovsky (Columbia University)
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Bursts, Cascades, and Hot Spots: Algorithmic Models of Social Phenomena
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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The Cryptographic Lens: Visions of our Past and Future
Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
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"More is Different." Also in Computing?
Marc Mézard (École Normale Supérieure Paris)
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Break
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Theory of Data Streams
Muthu Muthukrishnan (Rutgers University and Microsoft Research India)
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Lunch Break
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Intelligence and Machines: Creating Intelligent Machines By Modeling the Brain
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The Online Revolution: Learning Without Limits
Daphne Koller (Stanford University)
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Break
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Programming Nanoscale Structure Using DNA-Based Information
Ned Seeman (New York University)
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Coffee and Check-In
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Consumer Behavior and Algorithm Design
Prabhakar Raghavan (Google)
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Market Design and Computer-Assisted Markets: An Economist’s Perspective
Alvin Roth (Stanford University)
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Break
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Evolution and Computation
Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University)
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Lunch Break
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The Mathematics of Causal Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning and the Logic of Science
Judea Pearl (UCLA)
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The Gospel According to TCS
Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
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Break
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The Modern Astrophysics Stack: Automated Action and Insight
Josh Bloom (UC Berkeley)