Schedule subject to change.

All talks held in Pacific Time.

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Coffee and Check-In
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Opening Remarks
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In Search of the Ideal: Toni Pitassi and her work on Algebraic Proof Systems
Russell Impagliazzo (UCSD)
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TBD
Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University)
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Break
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Extension-Based Proofs
Faith Ellen (University of Toronto)
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Theory and Practice: Some Things I Learned About Computation and Life From Toni Pitassi
Josh Buresh-Oppenheim (Akamai Technologies)
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Lunch
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Student Session
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Break
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Student Session
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How to Solve Math Problems Without Talent
Noriko Arai (National Institute of Informatics)
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Reception
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Coffee and Check-In
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TBD
Sam Buss (UC San Diego)
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Working with Toni in Algebraic Proof Complexity
Josh Grochow (University of Colorado at Boulder) *presenting virtually
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Break
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Open Problems that Baffled Toni (so far)
Mika Göös (Harvard University)
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My Collaborations with Toni Pitassi
Alasdair Urquhart (University of Toronto)
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Lunch
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Student Session
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Break
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Student Session
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Coffee and Check-In
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TBD
Paul Beame (University of Washington)
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TBD
María Luisa Bonet Carbonell (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
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Break
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Randomized versus Deterministic Decision Tree Size
Arkadev Chattopadhyay (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
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TBD
Rahul Santhanam (University of Oxford)
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Lunch
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Afternoon Activity
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