Southern California Theory Day 2016
Department of Computing & Mathematical Sciences
(CMS)
California Institute of Technology
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November 11th, 2016
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Organizer: Thomas Vidick (Caltech).
Administrative assistant: Sydney Garstang. Email:
sydney@caltech.edu.
Graphic design: Omer Tamuz.
1.
Registration
Registration is now closed. If you wish to register, please contact Sydney Garstang at
sydney@caltech.edu.
2.
Program (provisional)
| 9:30 |
Breakfast and Registrant Check-In (Annenberg lobby) |
|
| 10:00 |
Ankur Moitra (MIT) |
Robust Statistics, Revisited |
| 11:00 |
Coffee break |
|
| 11:30 |
Yu Cheng (USC) |
Playing Anonymous Games using Simple Strategies |
| 12:00 |
Lior Pachter (Caltech) |
Some solved and unsolved theory problems in computational biology |
| 1:00 |
Lunch (provided) |
|
| 2:30 |
Sarit Buzaglo (UCSD) |
Combinatorial Switch Codes |
| 3:00 |
Prabhanjan Ananth (UCLA) |
Cryptography with Updates |
| 3:30 |
Sanjoy Dasgupta (UCSD) |
Embedding and projection approaches to fast nearest neighbor search |
| 4:30 |
Coffee break |
|
| 5:00 |
Raghu Meka (UCLA) |
Communication lower bounds by query lower bounds |
3. Venue, accommodation and directions
The workshop will be held
in the
Annenberg Center, room 105, on the Caltech campus in Pasadena, California.
For parking information, see
here.
4. Past Southern California Theory Days
5. Contact
Thomas Vidick:
vidick@cms.caltech.edu.
