[Noisebridge-discuss] Oct 24 Computer Scientists Webcast [Fwd: Theory Day Announcement]

Leif Ryge leif at synthesize.us
Wed Oct 21 20:20:08 UTC 2009


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Subject: Theory Day Announcement
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:17:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Annette Rohrs <rohrs at math.gatech.edu>
To: Theory at ai.sri.com Day: ;

 Dear Colleagues,

I am wondering if you could please distribute the announcement below
to undergraduate and graduate students in your department or group.
We will be streaming live lectures by four prominent computer scientists,
and believe that your students might be interested.

Thank you very much for your kind assistance. Sincerely,

Robin Thomas
ACO Director

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      Live web streaming available at no charge

           Theory Day
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           Celebrating
   50th Anniversary of Foundations of Computer Science
              and
   20th Anniversary of the ACO Program at Georgia Tech

will be held in conjunction with FOCS 2009 on Saturday, October 24, 2009
in the LeCraw Auditorium on the Georgia Tech campus. The event will be
webcast live from the link below and will consist of one hour lectures by

12:30-1:30 Richard Karp, University of California, Berkeley
          What Makes an Algorithm Great?

 1:50-2:50 Mihalis Yannakakis, Columbia University
          Computational Aspects of Equilibria

 3:10-4:10 Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University
          Disjoint paths, isoperimetric problems, and graph eigenvalues

 5:00-6:00 Manuel Blum, Carnegie Mellon University
          Can (Theoretical Computer) Science come to grips with
          Consciousness?

The times listed are EDT, same time zone as New York.

To register, for more information and to watch the lectures live please 
visit
   http://www.aco.gatech.edu/conference/focs-aco/
Videos of the lectures will be archived at the same location.

ACO is a multidisciplinary PhD Program in Algorithms, Combinatorics and
Optimization at the Georgia Institute of Technology.



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