• Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

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?

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Video
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Quantum Computing and the Entanglement Frontier

John Preskill (California Institute of Technology)
Video
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Break
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Why Biology is Different

Bernard Chazelle (Princeton University)
Video
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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)
Video
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Break
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Perfection and Beyond

Maria Chudnovsky (Columbia University)
Video
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Bursts, Cascades, and Hot Spots: Algorithmic Models of Social Phenomena

Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Video
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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, MIT, Resi)
Video
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"More is Different." Also in Computing?

Marc Mézard (École Normale Supérieure Paris)
Video
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Break
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Theory of Data Streams

Muthu Muthukrishnan (Amazon)
Video
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Lunch Break
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Intelligence and Machines: Creating Intelligent Machines By Modeling the Brain

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Video
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The Online Revolution: Learning Without Limits

Daphne Koller (Stanford University)
Video
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Break
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Programming Nanoscale Structure Using DNA-Based Information

Ned Seeman (New York University)
Video
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Coffee and Check-In
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Consumer Behavior and Algorithm Design

Prabhakar Raghavan (Google)
Video
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Market Design and Computer-Assisted Markets: An Economist’s Perspective

Alvin Roth (Stanford University)
Video
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Break
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Evolution and Computation

Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University)
Video
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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)
Video
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The Gospel According to TCS

Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Video
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Break
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The Modern Astrophysics Stack: Automated Action and Insight

Josh Bloom (UC Berkeley)
Video