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UmeshFest: Don't Miss This Flight!
Location
Calvin Lab auditorium
Date
Friday, Apr. 26
–
Sunday, Apr. 28, 2024
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All talks listed in Pacific Time. Schedule subject to change.
Friday, Apr. 26, 2024
4
–
5 p.m.
Reception
Saturday, Apr. 27, 2024
9
–
9:25 a.m.
Coffee and Check-in
9:25
–
9:30 a.m.
Opening Remarks
9:30
–
9:45 a.m.
Umesh's Classical Era
Sanjeev Arora (Princeton University)
,
Madhu Sudan (Harvard)
9:45
–
10:15 a.m.
The Story of BQP
Scott Aaronson (University of Texas at Austin)
10:15
–
10:45 a.m.
Break
10:45
–
11 a.m.
On Random Quantum Circuits, Black Holes, and Umesh's Wisdom
Bill Fefferman (University of Chicago)
11
–
11:15 a.m.
Error Correction in Dynamical Codes
Daniel Gottesman (University of Maryland)
11:15
–
11:30 a.m.
Quantum Lower Bounds
Andris Ambainis (University of Latvia)
11:30
–
11:45 a.m.
Some Thoughts on Quantum Complexity Theory, Then and Now
Henry Yuen (Columbia University)
11:45 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Quantum Advantages in Analog Quantum Simulation?
Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik)
12
–
2 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2
–
2:15 p.m.
Talk by
Adam Bouland (Stanford University)
2:15
–
2:30 p.m.
Talk by
Alexandra Kolla (UC Santa Cruz)
2:30
–
3 p.m.
(polynomial) Time With Umesh
Zeph Landau (UC Berkeley)
3
–
3:30 p.m.
Break
3:30
–
3:45 p.m.
Educability
Les Valiant (Harvard University)
3:45
–
4 p.m.
Talk by
Manuel Blum (Carnegie Mellon University)
4
–
4:30 p.m.
Online Bipartite Matching and Adwords
Vijay Vazirani (UC Irvine)
Sunday, Apr. 28, 2024
9
–
9:30 a.m.
Coffee and Check-in
9:30
–
9:45 a.m.
Survival Skills
Leonard Schulman (Caltech)
9:45
–
10 a.m.
At the Source of the Source
Miklos Santha (National University of Singapore)
10
–
10:30 a.m.
The Discovery of the Factoring Algorithm
Peter Shor (MIT)
10:30
–
11 a.m.
Break
11
–
11:15 a.m.
Random Access Codes
Ashwin Nayak (University of Waterloo)
11:15
–
11:30 a.m.
Does ER really = EPR?
Lenny Susskind (Stanford)
11:30 a.m.
–
12 p.m.
Umesh Vazirani, Physicist
John Preskill (Caltech)
12
–
2 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
2
–
2:15 p.m.
Talk by
Sanjoy Dasgupta (UC San Diego)
2:15
–
2:30 p.m.
Talk by
Satish Rao (UC Berkeley)
2:30
–
3 p.m.
In Conversation with Umesh
Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia University)
3
–
3:30 p.m.
Break
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