A Workshop in Honor of Michael Ben-Or

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Monday, Mar. 25, 2024

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9 – 9:20 a.m.

Refreshments and welcome

9:20 – 9:55 a.m.

Faster Parallel Algorithms for Basic Linear Algebra Problems

Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

9:55 – 10:30 a.m.

Information Theoretic MPC: Techniques That Age Well

Tal Rabin (University of Pennsylvania and AWS)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 – 11:35 a.m.

Michael Ben-Or Corrects Errors

John Preskill (California Institute of Technology)

11:35 a.m. – 12:10 p.m.

Some Stories of Graphs and Geometry

Nati Linial (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

12:10 – 1:50 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

1:50 – 2:25 p.m.

Talk by

Charles H. Bennett (IBM Research)

2:25 – 3 p.m.

Michael and I and Two Quantum Tales

Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

3 – 3:25 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4:05 p.m.

Holographic Complexity

Umesh Vazirani (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)

4:05 – 4:40 p.m.

From Consensus (Back) to Agreement

Silvio Micali (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

4:40 – 5:40 p.m.

Reception