Program

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January 4
(Monday)
January 5
(Tuesday)
January 6
(Wednesday)
January 7
(Thursday)
08:20-08:30 Opening Remarks    
08:30-08:45 Session 5
Chair: Shafi Goldwasser

Session 9
Chair: Michael Saks

08:45-10:00 Session 1
Chair:
Sanjeev Arora
10:00-10:10 Registration Group Photo
Coffee Break
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:55 Session 2
Chair:
Bernard Chazelle
Session 6
Chair: Avrim Blum
Session 10
Chair: Aravind Srinivasan
12:00-13:45 Lunch
13:45-15:00 Session 3
Chair: Cynthia Dwork
Session 7
Chair: Rafael Pass

Session 11
Chair: Michael Ben-Or

15:00-15:25 Session 12
Chair: Francis Lau
15:25-15:50 Coffee Break
15:50-15:55 Coffee Break
15:55-16:00 Session 4
Chair: Sanjeev Khanna
Session 8
Chair: Francis Y.L. Chin
16:00-17:10 Discussion
Chair: Andrew Chi-Chih Yao


Closing
Ceremony
17:10-17:35 Poster Session
Chair: Henry Lin
17:35-18:00
18:00-20:00 Dinner Reception Dinner Banquet

 



Monday January 4, 2010
TIME ACTIVITIES VENUE
10:00-20:00 Registration

Lobby of
Wenjin Hotel

18:00-20:00 Dinner 2nd Floor,
Wenjin Hotel



Tuesday January 5, 2010
TIME ACTIVITIES VENUE
08:20-08:45

Session 1
Chair:
Sanjeev Arora

Opening Remarks Lecture Hall
(2nd Floor),
FIT Building
08:45-09:10 Title: Cryptography by Cellular Automata or How Fast Can Complexity Emerge in Nature?[slide]
     Benny Applebaum, Yuval Ishai and Eyal Kushilevitz
09:10-09:35 Title: Breaking and Making Quantum Money: Toward a New Quantum Cryptographic Protocol[slide]
     Andrew Lutomirski, Scott Aaronson, Edward Farhi, David Gosset, Jonathan Kelner, Avinatan Hassidim and Peter Shor
09:35-10:00 Title: Analytical Tools for Natural Algorithms[slide]
     Bernard Chazelle
10:00-10:40 Group Photo & Coffee Break
10:40-11:05 Session 2
Chair:
Bernard Chazelle
Title: A New Approach to Strongly Polynomial Linear Programming[slide]
    Mihály Bárász and Santosh Vempala
11:05-11:30 Title: Computational Complexity and Information Asymmetry in Financial Products (Extended Abstract)[slide]
    Sanjeev Arora, Boaz Barak, Markus Brunnermeier and Rong Ge
11:30-11:55 Title: Pan-Private Streaming Algorithms[slide]
    Cynthia Dwork, Moni Naor, Toniann Pitassi, Guy N. Rothblum and Sergey Yekhanin
12:00-13:45 Lunch 2nd Floor,
Wenjin Hotel
13:45-14:10

Session 3
Chair:
Cynthia Dwork

Title: Robustly Leveraging Collusion in Combinatorial Auctions
    Jing Chen, Silvio Micali and Paul Valiant
Lecture Hall
(2nd Floor),
FIT Building
14:10-14:35 Title: Robust Perfect Revenue From Perfectly Informed Players
    Jing Chen, Avinatan Hassidim and Silvio Micali
14:35-15:00 Title: Playing Games without Observing Payoffs[slide]
    Michal Feldman, Adam Kalai and Moshe Tennenholtz
15:00-15:25 Title: Adversarial Leakage in Games[slide]
    Noga Alon, Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman and Moshe Tennenholtz
15:25-15:55 Coffee Break
15:55-16:20 Session 4
Chair:
Sanjeev Khanna
Title: Game Theory with Costly Computation: Formulation and Application to Protocol Security[slide]
     Joseph Y. Halpern and Rafael Pass
16:20-16:45 Title: Bounding Rationality by Discounting Time[slide]
    Lance Fortnow and Rahul Santhanam
16:45-17:10 Title: Market Equilibrium under Separable, Piecewise-Linear, Concave Utilities[slide]
     Vijay V. Vazirani and Mihalis Yannakakis
17:10-17:35 Title: Beyond Equilibria: Mechanisms for Repeated Combinatorial Auctions[slide]
     Brendan Lucier
18:00-20:00 Reception Grand Ball Room
Wenjin Hotel
 
Wednesday January 6, 2010
TIME ACTIVITIES VENUE
08:30-08:55 Session 5
Chair:
Shafi Goldwasser
Title: A New Look at Selfish Routing [slide]
    Christos Papadimitriou and Gregory Valiant
Lecture Hall
(2nd Floor),
FIT Building
08:55-09:20 Title: Local Algorithms for Finding Interesting Individuals in Large Networks[slide]
    Mickey Brautbar and Michael Kearns
09:20-09:45 Title: Circumventing the Price of Anarchy: Leading Dynamics to Good Behavior[slide]
     Maria-Florina Balcan and Avrim Blum and Yishay Mansour
09:45-10:10 Title: Reaching Consensus on Social Networks[slide]
    Elchanan Mossel and Grant Schoenebeck
10:10-10:40  Coffee Break
10:40-11:05 Session 6
Chair:
Avrim Blum
Title: Robustness of the Learning with Errors Assumption[slide]
    Shafi Goldwasser, Yael Kalai, Chris Peikert and Vinod Vaikuntanathan
11:05-11:30 Title: Distribution-Specific Agnostic Boosting[slide]
    Vitaly Feldman
11:30-11:55 Title: Space-Efficient Estimation of Robust Statistics and Distribution Testing[slide]
     Steve Chien, Katrina Ligett and Andrew McGregor
12:00-13:45 Lunch 2nd Floor,
Wenjin Hotel
13:45-14:10 Session 7
Chair:
Rafael Pass
Title: Cryptographic Complexity Classes and Computational Intractability Assumptions[slide]
     Hemanta K. Maji, Manoj Prabhakaran and Mike Rosulek
Lecture Hall
(2nd Floor),
FIT Building
14:10-14:35 Title: Hard Instances for Satisfiability and Quasi-one-way Functions[slide]
    Andrej Bogdanov, Kunal Talwar and Andrew Wan
14:35-15:00 Title: On the Construction of One-Way Functions from Average Case  Hardness[slide]
     Noam Livne
15:00-15:25 Title: Proof-Carrying Data and Hearsay Arguments from Signature Cards[slide]
     Alessandro Chiesa and Eran Tromer
15:25-15:55 Coffee Break
15:55-16:20 Session 8
Chair:
Francis Y.L. Chin
Title: Are Stable Instances Easy?[slide]
     Yonatan Bilu and Nathan Linial
16:20-16:45 Title: A New Approximation Technique for Resource-Allocation Problems[slide]
     Barna Saha and Aravind Srinivasan
16:45-17:10 Title: Global Alignment of Molecular Sequences via Ancestral State Reconstruction[slide]
     Alexandr Andoni, Constantinos Daskalakis, Avinatan Hassidim and Sebastien Roch
17:10-17:25 Poster Session
Chair:
Henry Lin
Title: Sufficient Conditions for Agnostic Active Learnable[slide]
     Liwei Wang
17:25-17:40

Title: An Analysis of the Chaudhuri and Monteleoni Algorithm[slide]
     Cynthia Dwork, Parikshit Gopalan, Huijia Lin, Toniann Pitassi, Guy Rothblum, Adam Smith, Sergey Yekhanin

17:40-17:55 Title: A Structured Wikipedia for Mathematics[slide]
     Henry Lin
18:00-20:00 Dinner 2nd Floor,
Wenjin Hotel
 
Thursday January 7, 2010
TIME ACTIVITIES VENUE
08:30-09:00 Session 9
Chair:
Michael Saks
Title: Effectively Polynomial Simulations[slide]
    Toniann Pitassi and Rahul Santhanam
Lecture Hall
(2nd Floor),
FIT Building
 09:00-09:30 Title: Circuit Lower Bounds, Help Functions, and the Remote Point Problem[slide]
    V. Arvind and Srikanth Srinivasan
09:30-10:00 Title: Derandomizing Algorithms on Product Distributions and Other Applications of Order-Based Extraction[slide]
     Ariel Gabizon and Avinatan Hassidim
10:00-10:40  Coffee Break
10:40-11:05 Session 10
Chair:
Aravind Srinivasan
Title: Symmetric LDPC Codes and Local Testing
     Tali Kaufman and Avi Wigderson
11:05-11:30 Title: Weight Distribution and List-Decoding Size of Reed-Muller Codes
    Tali Kaufman, Shachar Lovett and Ely Porat
11:30-11:55 Title: Non-Malleable Codes
     Stefan Dziembowski, Krzysztof Pietrzak and Daniel Wichs 
12:00-13:45 Lunch 2nd Floor,
Wenjin Hotel
13:45-14:10 Session 11
Chair:
Michael Ben-Or
Title: Interactive Proofs For Quantum Computations[slide]
    Dorit Aharonov, Michael Ben-Or and Elad Eban
Lecture Hall
(2nd Floor),
FIT Building
14:10-14:35 Title: On the Power of a Unique Quantum Witness[slide]
     Rahul Jain, Iordanis Kerenidis,Greg Kuperberg, Miklos Santha, Or Sattath and Shengyu Zhang
14:35-15:00 Title: Bounds on the Quantum Satisfiability Threshold[slide]
    Sergey Bravyi, Cristopher Moore and Alexander Russell
15:00-15:25 Session 12
Chair:
Francis Lau
Title: Memory Consistency Conditions for Self-Assembly Programming[slide]
    Aaron Sterling
15:25-15:50 Title: Cache Replacement Policies for Multicore Processors[slide]
    Avinatan Hassidim
15:50-16:00  Coffee Break
16:00-18:00 Discussion
Chair: Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Closing Ceremony
18:00-20:00 Banquet Grand Ball Room
Wenjin Hotel