SoCAL Theory Day 2017


University of California, Los Angeles
Location: Faculty Center (Address: 480 CHARLES E. YOUNG DR. EAST, LOS ANGELES, CA)
Parking: Parking Structure 2 - 719 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90024. (Get map and directions here.).
When: 9:30AM - 6PM, November 11, 2017
Registration: Please register for the event


Plenary Speakers

Kamalika Chaudhuri Omer Reingold Amit Sahai Thomas Vidick

Schedule


Breakfast and Check-in: 9:30 - 10


Thomas Vidick (10 - 11): Quantum PCP Conjectures


Coffee Break: 11 - 11:30


Dakshitha Khurana (11:30 - 12): Revisiting Secure Computation


Omer Reingold (12 - 1): Calibration for the Masses


Lunch 1-2:30


Kamalika Chaudhuri (2:30 - 3:30): Foundational Questions in Adversarial Learning


Alistair Stewart (3:30 - 4): Statistical Query Lower Bounds for High-Dimensional Unsupervised Learning


Coffee Break: 4 - 4:30


Amit Sahai (4:30 - 5:30): Hiding Secrets in Software


Sankeerth Rao (5:30 - 6): The Independence Number of the Birkhoff Polytope Graph, and Applications to Maximally Recoverable Codes


Previous Theory Days


SoCal Theory Day 2016, Caltech.


SoCal Theory Day 2015, USC.


SoCal Theory Day 2014, UC San Diego.


Contact: Raghu Meka