Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing at the new Berkeley Simongs Institute

Berkeley's new Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing announces the following symposium:

 Symposia | Spring 2013

Visions of the Theory of ComputingMay 29–31, 2013
Berdahl Auditorium, Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley

Schedule

Pending speaker approval

Wednesday, May 29
8:15 – 8:45 a.m.Coffee and Check-In
8:45 a.m.
Welcome from Richard Karp, Director of the Simons Institute
Remarks from Greg Hager, incoming CCC Vice Chair
Introduction to the Symposium
Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
9 – 10 a.m.What Should a Computational Theory of Cortex Explain?
Leslie Valiant, Harvard University
10 – 11 a.m.Why You Should Love Quantum Entanglement
John Preskill, Caltech
11 – 11:30 a.m.Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Why Biology is Different
Bernard Chazelle, Princeton University
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.Big Data and New Models Needed to Study DNA Variation in Evolution and Cancer
David Haussler, UC Santa Cruz
2:30 – 3 p.m.Break
3 – 4 p.m.Perfection and Beyond
Maria Chudnovsky, Columbia University
4 – 5 p.m.Bursts, Cascades, and Hot Spots: Algorithmic Models of Social Phenomena
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
5 – 6:30 p.m.Reception

Thursday, May 30
8:30 – 9 a.m.Coffee and Check-In
9 – 10 a.m.Interaction: How and Why?
Shafi Goldwasser, MIT
10 – 11 a.m.Phase Transitions in Large Scale Computation: A Statistical Physics Perspective
Marc Mézard, ENS Paris
11 – 11:30 a.m.Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Theory of Data Streams
S. Muthu Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University and Microsoft Research
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.Intelligence and Machines: Creating Intelligent Machines By Modeling the Brain
Jeff Hawkins, Numenta
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.The Online Revolution: Learning Without Limits
Daphne Koller, Stanford University
3:30 – 4 p.m.Break
4 – 5 p.m.Programming Nanoscale Structure Using DNA-Based Information
Ned Seeman, New York University

Friday, May 31
8:30 – 9 a.m.Coffee and Check-In
9 – 10 a.m.Five Discontinuities that Reshaped My Research (and a Lot Else)
Prabhakar Raghavan, Google
10 – 11 a.m.Market Design and Computer-Assisted Markets: An Economist’s Perspective
Alvin Roth, Stanford University
11 – 11:30 a.m.Break
11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.Evolution and Computation
Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley
12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:30 p.m.The Mathematics of Casual Inference, with Reflections on Machine Learning and the Logic of Science
Judea Pearl, UCLA
2:30 – 3:30 p.m.The Gospel According to TCS
Avi Wigderson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
3:30 – 4 p.m.Break
4 – 5 p.m.The Modern Astrophysics Stack: Automated Action and Insight
Josh Bloom, UC Berkeley

1 comment:

UA said...

Dear Professor,

Would it be possible for you to post the transcript of your talk on this blog?