Past Workshops & Symposia

Complexity Meets Condensed Matter
Monday, Mar. 24–Thursday, Mar. 27, 2014
Program: Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity

Organizers:

Matt Hastings (Microsoft Research), Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley)
Computational Theories of Evolution
Monday, Mar. 17–Friday, Mar. 21, 2014
Program: Evolutionary Biology and the Theory of Computing

Organizers:

Nick Barton (IST Austria), Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley), Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Leslie Valiant (Harvard University)
Quantum Games and Protocols
Monday, Feb. 24–Friday, Feb. 28, 2014
Program: Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity

Organizers:

Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Thomas Vidick (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Microsoft Research Fellow), John Watrous (University of Waterloo)
Computation-Intensive Probabilistic and Statistical Methods for Large-Scale Population Genomics
Tuesday, Feb. 18–Friday, Feb. 21, 2014
Program: Evolutionary Biology and the Theory of Computing

Organizers:

Andrew Clark (Cornell University), Rasmus Nielsen (UC Berkeley), Yun S. Song (UC Berkeley)
Evolutionary Biology Boot Camp
Tuesday, Jan. 21–Friday, Jan. 24, 2014
Program: Evolutionary Biology and the Theory of Computing

Organizers:

Yun S. Song (UC Berkeley)
Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity Boot Camp
Wednesday, Jan. 15–Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014
Program: Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity

Organizers:

Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley)
Big Data and Differential Privacy
Wednesday, Dec. 11–Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013
Program: Theoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis

Organizers:

Kunal Talwar (; chair), Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon University), Kamalika Chaudhuri (UC San Diego), Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University), Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)
Neo-Classical Methods in Discrete Analysis
Monday, Dec. 2–Friday, Dec. 6, 2013
Program: Real Analysis in Computer Science

Organizers:

Luca Trevisan (Stanford University), Julia Wolf (University of Bristol)
Unifying Theory and Experiment for Large-Scale Networks
Monday, Nov. 18–Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013
Program: Theoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis

Organizers:

Michael Kearns (University of Pennsylvania; co-chair), Jennifer Neville (Purdue University; co-chair), Deepak Agarwal (LinkedIn), Edo Airoldi (Harvard University), Ashish Goel (Stanford University), Matt Jackson (Stanford University)
Parallel and Distributed Algorithms for Inference and Optimization
Monday, Oct. 21–Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013
Program: Theoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis

Organizers:

Michael Mahoney (International Computer Science Institute and UC Berkeley; chair), Guy Blelloch (Carnegie Mellon University), John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara), Chris Ré (Stanford University), Martin Wainwright (UC Berkeley)
Functional Inequalities in Discrete Spaces with Applications
Monday, Sep. 30–Friday, Oct. 4, 2013
Program: Real Analysis in Computer Science

Organizers:

Alex Samorodnitsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem; chair), Gil Kalai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Michel Ledoux (University of Toulouse), Oded Regev (Courant Institute, NYU)
Succinct Data Representations and Applications
Monday, Sep. 16–Thursday, Sep. 19, 2013
Program: Theoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis

Organizers:

Petros Drineas (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; chair), Francis Bach (INRIA and École Normale Supérieure Paris), Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zürich), Emmanuel Candès (Stanford University), Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Ravi Kannan (Microsoft Research India), Muthu Muthukrishnan (Rutgers University and Microsoft Research India), Robert Nowak (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Stephen Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Real Analysis Boot Camp
Monday, Sep. 9–Friday, Sep. 13, 2013
Program: Real Analysis in Computer Science

Organizers:

Elchanan Mossel (UC Berkeley)
Big Data Boot Camp
Tuesday, Sep. 3–Friday, Sep. 6, 2013
Program: Theoretical Foundations of Big Data Analysis

Organizers:

Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)
Real Analysis in Testing, Learning and Inapproximability
Monday, Aug. 26–Friday, Aug. 30, 2013
Program: Real Analysis in Computer Science

Organizers:

Prasad Raghavendra (UC Berkeley; chair), Johan Håstad (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Subhash Khot (Courant Institute, NYU), Rocco Servedio (Columbia University)
Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing
Wednesday, May 29–Friday, May 31, 2013

Organizers:

Richard Karp (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley), Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley), Alistair Sinclair (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
Workshop on Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity
Tuesday, Feb. 19–Friday, Feb. 22, 2013

Organizers:

Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Matt Hastings (Microsoft Research), Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley), Frank Verstraete (University of Vienna)

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