The 9th Israel CS Theory Day

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2017

The Open University Campus, 1 University Road, Ra'anana



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)
Kobi Metzer, President, OUI
First Session: Chair -  Zeev Nutov, The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, OUI
10:20 - 11:10 Avinatan Hassidim, Bar Ilan University
Maximizing monotone submodular functions under noise
11:10 - 12:00 Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University
How computer science informs modern auction design
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
Second Session: Chair - Moran Feldman, The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, OUI
13:00 - 13:50 Leonid Barenboim, The Open University
Distributed symmetry-breaking in static and dynamic networks
13:50 - 14:40 Eli Ben-Sasson, Technion
Scalable computational integrity and privacy, with applications to Bitcoin and Zerocash
14:40 - 15:00 Afternoon gathering
Third Session: Chair - Manor Mendel, The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, OUI
15:00 - 15:50 Guy Kindler, The Hebrew University
Playing 2-to-2 games with Grassman graphs
15:50 - 16:40 Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research
Local max-cut in smoothed polynomial time
 
Participation is free. Pre-registration will be appreciated
Tel. *3337 or please press here.