STOCA Workshop
(In conjunction with the STOC 2019 PC meeting)
(In conjunction with the STOC 2019 PC meeting)
Parking Information: There are many visitor parking spots here in front of Building 1950, but please consider carpooling. All entrances to Building 1950 are employee-only; we will have someone to assist visitors into the building here or here. The talks will take place in the "Bodega Bay" meeting room on the first floor of Building 1950.
0930-1000: Breakfast & Welcome
1000-1200: Talks
Inbal Talgam Cohen: Simple vs. optimal contracts
Michal Feldman: Auction design with interdependent values
Yaron Singer: Exponentially faster algorithms for submodular optimization
1200-1300: Lunch (provided)
1300-1500: Talks
Eva Tardos: Online learning with graph based feedback
Xin Li: Deterministic document exchange protocols, and almost optimal binary codes for edit errors
D Sivakumar: Learning algorithms
1500-1530: Break
1530-1700: Talks
Sushant Sachdeva: Improved Lp norm optimization via iterative refinement
Flavio Chierichetti: A reduction for efficient LDA topic reconstruction