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2nd Eastern Great Lakes Theory of Computation Workshop Schedule

NOTE: All the talks and the provided meals will be at the Center for Tomorrow.

Saturday, October 3, 2009

12:00pm

Lunch

1:20pm

Welcome Remarks

1:30pm

Allan Borodin

Simple Algorithms for Sequential k-Independent Graphs

2:30pm

Katrina Ligett

Differentially Private Approximation Algorithms

3:30pm

Coffee Break

4:00pm

Mark Braverman

Poly-logarithmic Independence Fools AC0 Circuits

5:00pm

Yevgeniy Vahlis
Graduate Student Hour

Leakage Resilient Computation

5:15pm

Yogeshwer Sharma
Graduate Student Hour

Characterizing Truthful Multi-Armed Bandit Mechanisms

5:30pm

Yi Wu
Graduate Student Hour

Agnostic Learning of Monomials by Halfspaces is Hard

5:45pm

Georgios Piliouras
Graduate Student Hour

No Regret Learning in Oligopolies: Cournot vs Bertrand

6:00pm

Dinner

Attendees on their own

Sunday, October 4, 2009

8:00am

Breakfast

9:00am

Dexter Kozen

Optimal Coin Flipping

10:00am

Coffee Break

10:30am

Adam Smith

Integrating Differential Privacy with Statistical Theory

11:30am

Nick Harvey

Approximating Submodular Functions Everywhere

12:30pm

Lunch

2:00pm

Workshop Over

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