Workshops

Summer 2022

Women in Theory 2022

Jun 7, 2022 to Jun 10, 2022

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Tuesday, June 7th, 2022
5:30 pm–7:00 pm		Registration and Reception
7:00 pm–8:30 pm		Introduction and playback with Shafi Goldwasswer and group

Wednesday, June 8th, 2022
7:30 am–8:30 am		Breakfast at the dorms
9:30 am–10:30 am		How to Address the Growing Distrust in Algorithms with More Mathematics Shafi Goldwassser (UC Berkeley)
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work Laurie Weingart (CMU)
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch outdoors at Simons
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		Graphons: Modeling and Estimation of Sparse Networks at Scale Jennifer Chayes (UC Berkeley)
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:10 pm		Student Rump session 1
4:10 pm–4:40 pm		Break
4:40 pm–5:20 pm		Student Rump session 2

Thursday, June 9th, 2022
7:30 am–8:30 am		Breakfast at the dorms
9:30 am–10:30 am		Surpassing the Scalability Bottleneck of Oblivious Storage Raluca Ada Popa (UC Berkeley)
10:30 am–11:00 am		Break
11:00 am–12:00 pm		Challenges in Learning from Out-of-Distribution Data Kamalika Chaudhuri (UCSC and Meta AI)
12:00 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch outdoors at Simons
2:00 pm–3:00 pm		Sublinear Time Algorithm for Edit Distance Barna Saha (UCSD)
3:00 pm–3:15 pm		Break

Friday, June 10th, 2022
7:30 am–8:30 am		Breakfast at the dorms
9:00 am–10:00 am		Zero-Knowledge Proofs on Distributed Data and Cryptographic Applications Elette Boyle (Reichman University (IDC) and NTT Research)
10:00 am–10:30 am		Break
10:30 am–12:30 pm		Industry Talks and Q&A Gagan Aggarwal (Google Research), Naama Ben-David (VMware), and Kshipra Bhawalkar (Google Research)
12:30 pm–2:00 pm		Lunch outdoors at Simons