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Jan. 7 (Thursday) | Jan. 8 (Friday) | Jan. 9 (Saturday) | Jan.10 (Sunday) | |
09:00-10:15 | Session 1 | Session 4 | Session 7 | |
10:15-10:45 | Group Photo Coffee Break | Coffee Break | ||
10:45-12:00 | Session 2 | Session 5 | Session 8 | |
12:00-14:00 | Lunch | |||
14:00-15:30 | Registration | Session 3 | Session 6 | Session 9 |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | |||
16:00-17:00 | Panel 1 | Panel 2 | Panel 3 | |
18:00-20:00 | Banquet | Dinner | Dinner | Dinner |
Friday January 8, 2010 | |||||
TIME | ACTIVITIES | VENUE | |||
09:00-09:15 | Welcoming Comments | Room 1-315, FIT Building | |||
09:15-10:15 | Session 1 Chair: Oded Goldreich |
Title: Testing by Implicit Learning [slide] Rocco Servedio | |||
Title: Testing (subclasses of) Linear Threshold Functions Kevin Matulef | |||||
10:15-10:45 | Group Photo + Coffee Break | ||||
10:45-12:00 | Session 2 Chair: Avrim Blum | Title: Testing Juntas and Function Isomorphism[slide] Eric Blais | |||
Title: Hierarchy Theorems for Property Testing [slide] Michael Krivelevich | |||||
12:00-14:00 | Lunch | Wenjin Hotel | |||
14:00-15:30 | Session 3 Chair: Bernard Chazelle | Title: A Survey on Property Testing in the 'Underlying Graph' or 'Massively Parametrized' Model[slide] Ilan Newman | Room 1-315, FIT Building | ||
Title: Transitive-Closure Spanners with Applications to Monotonicity Testing [slide] Sofya Raskhodnikova | |||||
Title: Testing Euclidean Spanners [slide] Christian Sohler | |||||
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
16:00-17:00 | Panel 1 | On the connection of Property Testing to Computational Learning Theory and Computational Geometry Avrim Blum, Bernard Chazelle, Rocco Servedio | |||
18:00-20:00 | Dinner | Wenjin Hotel |
Saturday January 9, 2010 | |||||
TIME | ACTIVITIES | VENUE | |||
09:00-10:15 | Session 4 Chair: Shafi Goldwasser | Title: Invariance in Property Testing [slide] Madhu Sudan | Room 1-315, FIT Building | ||
Title: Testing Linear-Invariant Non-Linear Properties [slide] Victor Chen | |||||
10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break | ||||
10:45-12:00 | Session 5 Chair: Michael Saks | Title: Testing Linear Invariant Properties [slide] Asaf Shapira | |||
Title: On Constant Time Approximation of Invariants of Bounded Degree Graphs Noga Alon | |||||
Title: Maintaining A Large Matching or A Small Vertex Cover[slide] Ronitt Rubinfeld | |||||
Title: External Sampling [slide] Krzysztof Onak | |||||
12:00-14:00 | Lunch | Wenjin Hotel | |||
14:00-15:30 | Session 6 Chair: Noga Alon | Title: Sublinear Graph Approximation Algorithms [slide] Krzysztof Onak | Room 1-315, FIT Building | ||
Title: Local Monotonicity Reconstruction [slide] Michael Saks | |||||
Title: Testing Properties of Distributions: A Survey [slide] Ronitt Rubinfeld | |||||
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||||
16:00-17:00 | Panel 2 | On the Connection of Property Testing to Coding Theory, Combinatorics, and Statistics Madhu Sudan, Noga Alon, Ronitt Rubinfeld | |||
18:00-20:00 | Dinner | Wenjin Hotel |
Sunday January 10, 2010 | |||
TIME | ACTIVITIES | VENUE | |
09:00-10:15 | Session 7 Chair: Ronitt Rubinfeld | Title: Composition of Low-error 2-query PCPs Using Decodable PCPs[slide] Prahladh Harsha | Room 1-315, FIT Building |
Title: A Hypergraph Dictatorship Test with Perfect Completeness[slide] Victor Chen | |||
Title: Comparing the Strength of Query Types in Property Testing [slide] Michael Krivelevich | |||
10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break | ||
10:45-12:00 | Session 8 Chair: Michael Krivelevich | Title: Some Recent Results on Testing of Sparse Linear Codes [slide] Shubhangi Saraf | |
Title: Optimal Testing of Reed-Muller Codes [slide] Swastik Kopparty | |||
12:00-14:00 | Lunch | Wenjin Hotel | |
14:00-15:30 | Session 9 Chair: Madhu Sudan | Title: Limiting the Rate of Locally Testable Codes [slide] Eli Ben-Sasson | Room 1-315, FIT Building |
Title: Symmetric LDPC Codes and Local Testing Tali Kaufman | |||
Title: Testing Monotone Continuous Distributions on High-dimensional Real Cubes [slide] Artur Czumaj | |||
Title: The Query Complexity of Edit Distance [slide] Krzysztof Onak | |||
Title: Testing and Reconstruction of Lipschitz Functions with Applications to Privacy Sofya Raskhodnikova | |||
Title: Algorithmic Aspects of Property Testing in the Dense Graphs Model Oded Goldreich | |||
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
16:00-17:00 | Panel 3 | On Decoding in the Low-error Regime Prahladh Harsha | |
On Algorithmic vs Complexity Theoretic Aspects Oded Goldreich | |||
18:00-20:00 | Dinner | Wenjin Hotel |