Past Workshops & Symposia

Learning and Testing in High Dimensions
Monday, Dec. 14–Friday, Dec. 18, 2020
Program: Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions

Organizers:

Adam Klivans (University of Texas at Austin; chair), Guy Bresler (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Sébastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research), Anindya De (University of Pennsylvania), Philippe Rigollet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
New Developments in Obfuscation
Thursday, Dec. 10–Friday, Dec. 11, 2020

Organizers:

Boaz Barak (Harvard University)
Proofs, Consensus, and Decentralizing Society Reunion
Monday, Dec. 7–Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020
Program: Proofs, Consensus, and Decentralizing Society
Reinforcement Learning from Batch Data and Simulation
Monday, Nov. 30–Friday, Dec. 4, 2020
Program: Theory of Reinforcement Learning

Organizers:

Mengdi Wang (Princeton; chair), Emma Brunskill (Stanford University), Sean Meyn (University of Florida)
Foundations of Data Science Institute Retreat
Thursday, Nov. 12–Friday, Nov. 13, 2020

Organizers:

Peter Bartlett (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley), Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Foundations of Data Science Institute Kickoff Workshop
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020

Organizers:

Peter Bartlett (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley), Piotr Indyk (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Mathematics of Online Decision Making
Monday, Oct. 26–Friday, Oct. 30, 2020
Program: Theory of Reinforcement Learning

Organizers:

Shipra Agrawal (Columbia University; chair), Sébastien Bubeck (MSR), Alan Malek (DeepMind)
Concentration of Measure Phenomena
Monday, Oct. 19–Friday, Oct. 23, 2020
Program: Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions

Organizers:

Bo'az Klartag (Weizmann Institute of Science; chair), Ramon Van Handel (Princeton University), James R. Lee (University of Washington), Jelani Nelson (UC Berkeley), Prasad Tetali (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Deep Reinforcement Learning
Monday, Sep. 28–Friday, Oct. 2, 2020
Program: Theory of Reinforcement Learning

Organizers:

Lihong Li (Google Brain; chair), Marc G. Bellemare (Google Brain)
Computational Phase Transitions
Monday, Sep. 21–Friday, Sep. 25, 2020
Program: Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions

Organizers:

Cris Moore (Santa Fe Institute; co-chair), Ryan O'Donnell (Carnegie Mellon University; co-chair), David Gamarnik (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Andrea Montanari (Stanford University), Lenka Zdeborová (CNRS)
Geometry of Polynomials Reunion
Tuesday, Sep. 8–Friday, Sep. 11, 2020
Program: Geometry of Polynomials

Organizers:

Shayan Oveis Gharan (University of Washington; co-chair), Nikhil Srivastava (UC Berkeley; co-chair), Leonid Gurvits (City University of New York), Pablo Parrilo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Alistair Sinclair (UC Berkeley)
Theory of Reinforcement Learning Boot Camp
Monday, Aug. 31–Friday, Sep. 4, 2020
Program: Theory of Reinforcement Learning

Organizers:

Csaba Szepesvari (University of Alberta, Google DeepMind; chair), Emma Brunskill (Stanford University), Sébastien Bubeck (MSR), Alan Malek (DeepMind), Sean Meyn (University of Florida), Ambuj Tewari (University of Michigan), Mengdi Wang (Princeton)
Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions Boot Camp
Wednesday, Aug. 19–Friday, Aug. 28, 2020
Program: Probability, Geometry, and Computation in High Dimensions

Organizers:

Nike Sun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology; chair), Jian Ding (University of Pennsylvania), Ronen Eldan (Weizmann Institute), Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Joe Neeman (University of Texas at Austin), Jelani Nelson (UC Berkeley), Tselil Schramm (Stanford University; Microsoft Research Fellow)
Deep Learning Reunion
Monday, Aug. 10–Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020
Program: Foundations of Deep Learning

Organizers:

Samy Bengio (Google), Aleksander Mądry (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Elchanan Mossel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Matus Telgarsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Decoding Communication in Nonhuman Species
Monday, Aug. 3–Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020

Organizers:

Michael Bronstein (Imperial College London), Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley), David Gruber (City University of New York)
Algorithm Design, Law, and Policy Virtual Kick-Off
Monday, Jul. 20–Tuesday, Jul. 21, 2020

Organizers:

Inbal Talgam-Cohen (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology; chair), Niva Elkin-Koren (University of Haifa), Michal Feldman (Tel Aviv University), Shafi Goldwasser (Simons Institute, UC Berkeley)
Women in Theory
Sunday, May 10, 2020

Organizers:

Tal Rabin (Algorand Foundation), Shubhangi Saraf (Rutgers University), Lisa Zhang (Bell Labs)
Quantum Devices: Simulation, Supremacy, and Optimization
Monday, May 4–Friday, May 8, 2020
Program: The Quantum Wave in Computing

Organizers:

David DiVincenzo (RWTH Aachen; chair), Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik), Barbara Terhal (Delft University of Technology)
Lattices: From Theory to Practice
Monday, Apr. 27–Friday, May 1, 2020
Program: Lattices: Algorithms, Complexity, and Cryptography

Organizers:

Vadim Lyubashevsky (IBM Research; chair), Shai Halevi (IBM Research), Damien Stehlé (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), Vinod Vaikuntanathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Quantum Protocols: Testing & Quantum PCPs
Monday, Mar. 30–Thursday, Apr. 2, 2020
Program: The Quantum Wave in Computing

Organizers:

Henry Yuen (University of Toronto; chair), Dorit Aharonov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Yael Kalai (Microsoft Research New England), Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology)

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