Program

The Symposium will take place on the U-M North Campus in the Bob and Betty Beyster Building, with the program as follows:

8:00 - 9:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:10am Welcome and Opening Remarks

Karem Sakallah
Professor and Associate Chair, Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan

9:10 - 10:00am "Something for Almost Nothing: Recent Advances in Sublinear Time Algorithms"

Ronitt Rubinfeld
Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University

10:10 - 11:00am "Meta-Algorithms: Links between Algorithm Design and Lower Bounds"

Russell Impagliazzo
Professor, Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, San Diego

11:10am - 12:00pm "Is Machine Learning Easy?"

Sanjeev Arora
Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science
Princeton University

12:30 - 1:30pm Lunch and Recognitions

David C. Munson, Jr.
Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, U-M College of Engineering and Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan

Marios C. Papaefthymiou,
Professor and Chair, Computer Science and Engineering
University of Michigan