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垂井淳 -------------------------------------------- Exploring the Limits of Computation (ELC) Tokyo Complexity Workshop and Satellite Mini-Workshops: http://www.al.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/elc/ws/
Mar13(Wed) Satellite Mini-Workshop, Shinagawa
venue: Kyoto Univ Shinagawa Office, Shinagawa http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/tokyo-office http://goo.gl/aCgSE registration not necessary; no participation fee; everybody is welcome organizers: Yoshio Okamoto(UEC), Suguru Tamaki(Kyoto U), Jun Tarui(UEC)
each talk will have a 15-min break in the middle 10:30--12:15 TBA 12:15--13:40 lunch (on your own) 13:40--15:25 Ran Raz: Parallel Repetition of Two Prover Games: A Survey 15:25--15:45 break 15:45--17:30 Noam Nisan: Algorithmic Mechanism Design: Multi-unit Auctions 18:00-- impromptu dinner party at Shinagawa
Mar17(Sun) Satellite Mini-Workshop on Geometric Complexity Theory(GCT)
venue: 2nd floor meeting room, Campus Innovation Center, Tamachi http://www.cictokyo.jp/access.html http://goo.gl/aCgSE registration not necessary; no participation fee; everybody is welcome organizers: Takeshi Tokuyama(Tohoku U), Susume Ariki(Osaka U), Jun Tarui(UEC)
speakers: Ketan Mulmuley and Joshua Grochow
14:00--18:15 (with 3 breaks) 18:30-- impromptu dinner party at Tamachi
Mar19(Tue) Satellite Mini-Workshp, Kyoto venue: Room 111, RIMS, Kyoto Univ, Kyoto http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access-01.html http://goo.gl/aCgSE registration not necessary; no participation fee; everybody is welcome organizers: Shin-ichi Tanigawa(RIMS), Suguru Tamaki(Kyoto U), Jun Tarui(UEC)
13:15--14:15 Raghu Meka: Beating the Union Bound via Gaussian Geometry 14:15--14:30 break 14:30--15:30 Zeev Dvir: Locally Decodable Codes: recent progress and open problems 15:30--15:45 break 15:45--17:15 Ketan Mulmuley: talk on geometric complexity theory 18:00-- impropmtu dinner party around Sanjo/Shijo-Kawara-machi
Tokyo Complexity Workshop (Main Workshop): tentative schedule as of Jan 30th venue: Shinagawa Prince Hotel, Main Tower 8th floor, Room: "Turquoise 8" http://www.al.ics.saitama-u.ac.jp/elc/ws/ http://goo.gl/aCgSE fee for reception/banquet; no fee otherwise; please register in all cases
Mar14(Thu) 13:20--13:30 opening 13:30--14:20 Umesh Varirani: Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity: through the computational lens 14:20--14:35 break 14:35--15:25 Rahul Jain: TBA 15:25--15:40 break 15:40--16:30 Pavel Pudlak: Polynomial Hierarchy and Bounded Arithmetic Hierarchy. 16:30--16:45 break 16:45--17:35 Ryan O'Donnell: Approximability and Proof Complexity 18:00--20:00 reception
Mar15(Fri) 09:00--09:50 Noam Nisan: Selling Two Objects (in Three Models) 09:50--10:15 break 10:15--11:05 Ketan Mulmuley: The GCT Chasm 11:05--11:30 break 11:30--12:20 Joshua Grochow: Geometric Complexity Theory unifies and generalizes many known lower bounds (an introduction to GCT) 12:20--14:00 lunch 14:00--14:50 Shachar Lovett: The probabilistic method - new frontiers 14:50--15:15 break 15:15--16:05 Zeev Dvir: Locally Decodable Codes: recent progress and open problems 16:05--16:30 break 16:30--17:20 Luca Trevisan: TBA
Mar16(Sat) 09:00--09:50 Raghu Meka: Recent Progress in Unconditional Derandomization 09:50--10:15 break 10:15--11:05 David Zuckerman: Pseudorandomness from Shrinkage 11:05--11:30 break 11:30--12:20 Irit Dinur: TBA 12:20--14:00 lunch 14:00--14:50 Rocco Servedio: TBA 14:50--15:15 break 15:15--16:05 Pinyan Lu: TBA 16:05--16:30 break 16:30--17:20 Ran Raz: Interactive Channel Capacity 18:00--20:00 banquet
Mar17(Sun) 09:00--09:50 Valentine Kabanets: Yin and Yang of computing: From circuit lower bounds to compression and SAT algorithms, and back 09:50--10:05 break 10:05--10:55 Eric Allender: Strengthening the Link between Complexity Classes and Kolmogorov Complexity 10:55--11:10 break 11:10--12:00 Yuichi Yoshida: Robust approximation of CSPs: Universal algebra meets optimization
Speakers:
Eric Allender (Rutgers) www.cs.rutgers.edu/~allender/ Irit Dinur (Weizmann) www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dinuri/ Zeev Dvir (Princeton) www.cs.princeton.edu/~zdvir/ Josh Grochow (U Toronto) www.cs.toronto.edu/~jgrochow/ Rahul Jain (Nat Univ Singapore) www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~rahul/ Valentine Kabanets (Simon Fraser) www.cs.sfu.ca/~kabanets/ Shachar Lovett (Princeton, IAS) https://sites.google.com/site/shacharlovetthomepage/ Pinyan Lu (Microsoft Research Asia and Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ) http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/pinyanl/ Raghu Meka (Princeton, IAS) www.math.ias.edu/~raghu/ Ketan Mulmuley (Chicago) www.cs.uchicago.edu/people/mulmuley Noam Nisan (Hebrew U) www.cs.huji.ac.il/~noam/ Ryan O'Donnell (CMU) www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/ Pavel Pudlak (Math Institute of Czech Republic) www.math.cas.cz/~pudlak/ Ran Raz (Weizmann) www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~ranraz/ Rocco Servedio (Columbia) www.cs.columbia.edu/~rocco/ Luca Trevisan (Stanford) http://theory.stanford.edu/~trevisan/ Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley) http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/ Yuichi Yoshida (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo) http://research.nii.ac.jp/~yyoshida/ David Zuckerman (U Texas, Austin) www.cs.utexas.edu/~diz/