Workshop Schedule

Under construction (all times are US Eastern Time)

Day 1

September 29, 2020

10:45 - 11:15

Kickoff

Chai Wah Wu

11:15 - 12:00

The quantum information lens on optimization and many-body physics

Aram Harrow

12:00 - 12:45

Types and capacities of bosonic Gaussian observables

Alexander Holevo

12:45 - 1:30

Computational complexity, mathematical, and statistical aspects of NISQ computers.

Gil Kalai

1:30 - 2:15 Q/A + Panel discussion moderated by Charles Bennett

2:15 - 3:00

Information, reversibility, and the thermodynamics of fault tolerance

Charles H. Bennett

3:00 - 3:45

Grand unification of quantum algorithms

Isaac Chuang

3:45 - 4:30

Shadow Tomography of Quantum States: Progress and Prospects

(slides)

Scott Aaronson

4:30 - 5:15

Sample-efficient learning of quantum many-body systems

Srinivasan Arunachalam

5:15 - 6:00 Q/A + Panel discussion moderated by John Smolin

Day 2

September 30, 2020

10:45 - 11:15

Introduction

Jon Lenchner

11:15 - 12:00

Indeterminism in Physics and Intuitionistic Mathematics

Nicolas Gisin

12:00 - 12:45

Rebooting Mathematics

Doron Zeilberger

12:45 - 1:30

Communication Amid Uncertainty

(slides)

Madhu Sudan

1:30 - 2:15 Q/A + Panel discussion moderated by Jon Lenchner

2:15 - 3:00

Byzantine Consensus Through the Lens of Information Theory

David Tse

3:00 - 3:45

Fun facts about polynomials, and applications to coding theory

Mary Wootters

3:45 - 4:30

Randomization in Numerical Linear Algebra (RandNLA): approximating the log-determinant and the Von Neumann entropy

(slides)

Petros Drineas

4:30 - 5:15

Reasoning about Generalization via Conditional Mutual Information

Lydia Zakynthinou

5:15 - 6:00 Q/A + Panel discussion moderated by Kenneth Clarkson

Day 3

October 1, 2020

10:45 - 11:15

Introduction

Yuhai Tu

11:15 - 12:00

The Information Bottleneck framework as an Information Lens

Naftali Tishby

12:00 - 12:45

Analytic Pattern Matching: From DNA to Twitter

Wojciech Szpankowski

12:45 - 1:30

Information-theoretic computational rationality

Chris Sims

1:30 - 2:15 Q/A + Panel discussion moderated by Gustavo Stolovitzky

2:15 - 3:00

Language and Representation in the Brain

Christos H. Papadimitriou

3:00 - 3:45

Using information to learn what matters

Ilya Nemenman

3:45 - 4:30

Why Deep Learning Works: Traditional and Heavy-Tailed Implicit Self-Regularization in Deep Neural Networks

Michael Mahoney

4:30 - 5:15

What are the Computational Challenges for Cortex?

Leslie Valiant

5:15 - 6:00 Q/A + Panel discussion moderated by Payel Das

Day 4

October 2, 2020

10:45 - 11:15

Introduction

Charles Bennett

11:15 - 12:00

Time Out of Joint: Reparametrization Invariant Tools for Time Series

Yuliy Baryshnikov

12:00 - 12:45

Quantum Mechanics and Physical Laws in a Non-deterministic World

Sandu Popescu

12:45 - 1:30 Q/A + Panel discussion moderated by Mark Squillante

1:30 - 2:15

Break

2:15 - 3:00

The stochastic thermodynamics of computation

David Wolpert

3:00 - 3:45

Thermodynamics of information processing in living systems: The energy cost of time keeping in a single cell

Yuhai Tu

3:45 - 4:00

Break

4:00 - 4:45

Thermodynamic efficiency and predictive inference

Susanne Still

4:45 - 5:30 Q/A + Panel discussion moderated by Chai Wah Wu

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