Women in Theory 2022

Location

Calvin Lab

Date

Tuesday, June 7 – Friday, June 10, 2022

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5:30 – 7 p.m.

Registration and Reception

7 – 8:30 p.m.

Introduction and playback with Shafi Goldwasswer and group

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast at the dorms

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

How to Address the Growing Distrust in Algorithms with More Mathematics

Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work

Laurie Weingart (CMU)

12 – 2 p.m.

Lunch outdoors at Simons

2 – 3 p.m.

Graphons: Modeling and Estimation of Sparse Networks at Scale

Jennifer Chayes (UC Berkeley)

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4:10 p.m.

Student Rump session 1

4:10 – 4:40 p.m.

Break

4:40 – 5:20 p.m.

Student Rump session 2

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast at the dorms

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.

Surpassing the Scalability Bottleneck of Oblivious Storage

Raluca Ada Popa (UC Berkeley)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Challenges in Learning from Out-of-Distribution Data

Kamalika Chaudhuri (UCSC and Meta AI)

12 – 2 p.m.

Lunch outdoors at Simons

2 – 3 p.m.

Sublinear Time Algorithm for Edit Distance

Barna Saha (UCSD)

3 – 3:15 p.m.

Break

7:30 – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast at the dorms

9 – 10 a.m.

Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Distributed Data and Cryptographic Applications

Elette Boyle (Reichman University (IDC)

10 – 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Industry Talks and Q&A

Gagan Aggarwal (Google Research),
Naama Ben-David (VMware),
Kshipra Bhawalkar (Google Research)

12:30 – 2 p.m.

Lunch outdoors at Simons