Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing

66023 Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing 2013-05-29 00:00:00 00:00:00 2013-05-29 DAILY 1 2013-05-31 Stanley Hall On Campus

Berdahl Auditorium

3 Conference/Symposium Primary This three-day symposium will bring together distinguished speakers and participants from the Bay Area and all over the world to celebrate both the excitement of fundamental research on the Theory of Computing, and the accomplishments and promise of computational research in effecting progress in other sciences — the two pillars of the Simons Institute's research agenda. Symposium on Visions of the Theory of Computing http://simons.berkeley.edu/symposium_visions2013.html Josh Bloom Speaker Astrophysicist UC Berkeley Bernard Chazelle Speaker Computer scientist Princeton University Maria Chudnovsky Speaker Mathematician Columbia University Shafi Goldwasser Speaker Computer scientist MIT David Haussler Speaker Bioinformatician UC Santa Cruz Jeff Hawkins Speaker Neuroscientist Numenta Jon Kleinberg Speaker Computer scientist Cornell University Daphne Koller Speaker Computer scientist Stanford University Marc Mézard Speaker Physicist ENS Paris S. Muthu Muthukrishnan Speaker Computer scientist Rutgers University and Microsoft Research Christos Papadimitriou Speaker Computer scientist UC Berkeley Judea Pearl Speaker Computer scientist UCLA John Preskill Speaker Physicist Caltech Prabhakar Raghavan Speaker Computer scientist Google Alvin Roth Speaker Economist Stanford University Ned Seeman Speaker Chemist New York University Leslie Valiant Speaker Computer scientist Harvard University Avi Wigderson Speaker Computer scientist Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Happening As Scheduled 64752 Prof. Peter Bickel to give COPSS Fisher Lecture at Joint Statistical Meetings From Fisher to "Big Data": Continuities and discontinuities 2013-08-07 16:00:00 17:00:00 4 5 p.m. Joint Statistical Meetings Off Campus

Montreal, Canada

19 Lecture Primary 1692 News and Events Secondary Prof. Peter Bickel to give COPSS Fisher Lecture at Joint Statistical Meetings http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2013/invitedsessions.cfm Prof. Peter J. Bickel UC Berkeley American Statistical Association Institute of Mathematical Statistics International Biometric Society Statistical Society of Canada Happening As Scheduled