at The Open University, Dorothy de Rothschild Campus 1 University Road, Raanana Schedule 09:30 - 10:00 Gathering, refreshments 10:00 - 10:20 Greetings: Tamir Tassa, The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, The Open University (OUI) Aviad Heifetz, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, OUI First Session: Chair -  – Manor Mendel, The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, OUI 10:20 - 11:10 Keren Censor-Hillel, Technion Optimal Dynamic Distributed Maximal Independent Set 11:10 - 12:00 Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University, Linear Algebraic Structure of Word Meanings 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch Second Session: Chair - Tamir Tassa, The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, OUI 13:00 - 13:50 Benny Pinkas, Bar Ilan University, Private Set Intersection 13:50 - 14:40 Moran Feldman, The Open University        Unconstrained Submodular Maximization 14:40 - 15:10 Afternoon gathering Third Session: Chair - Zeev Nutov, The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, OUI 15:10 - 16:00 Dana Ron, Tel Aviv University Fast, cheap, but in control: sublinear-time algorithms for approximate computations 16:00 - 16:50 Yishay Mansour, Microsoft Research and Tel Aviv University Robust inference and local algorithms   Participation is free. Pre-registration will be appreciated Tel. *3337 or please press here