Schedule:
09:00-09:30	Gathering
09:30-09:40	Greetings Tamir Tassa (Head of CS division, The Open University of Israel) Gershon Ben-Shakhar (President, The Open University of Israel)
09:40-10:20	Yuval Rabani (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology) Low Distortion Embeddings for Edit Distance.
10:20-11:00	Muli Safra (Tel-Aviv University) On Parallel-Repetition, Unique-Game and Max-Cut.
11:00-11:20	Break
11:20-12:20	Eva Tardos (Cornell University) Bargaining and Trading in Networks.
12:20-12:30	Short Break
12:30-13:10	Assaf Naor (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU) Linear equations modulo 2 and the L_1 diameter of convex bodies.
13:10-14:30	Lunch
14:30-15:10	Uriel Feige (Weizmann Institute of Science) How to refute random unsatisfiable formulas.
15:10-15:50	Ran Raz (Weizmann Institute of Science) A Counterexample to Strong Parallel Repetition.
15:50-16:20	Break
16:20-17:00	Alex Samorodnitsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Low degree tests at large distances.
17:00-17:40	Nati Linial (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Ramanujan Graphs, Lifts and Word Maps.
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