Organizers:
Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Chandra Chekuri (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Jan Vondrak (Stanford University)
Sponsors:
This workshop is part of the 2025 TTIC Summer Workshop Program and is generously supported by TTIC and NSF.
Registration (free but required): https://forms.gle/DhYWVppkXTJREPtt9
Venue:
Toyota Technological Institute Chicago (TTIC)
6045 S. Kenwood Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Travel:
TTI Chicago is located in the University of Chicago campus. See here for travel directions to the University of Chicago campus.
Chicago has two airports: Midway (Southwest Airlines operates from here) and O'Hare (most other airlines operate here). On Sundays, there is not much traffic from/to either airports, but weekday traffic from/to O'Hare can be heavy, so allocate 90 mins to get to O'Hare during the week.
Parking:
Free parking is available in the commuter parking lot at 60th St. and Stony Island Ave. and free street parking on many streets near TTIC (just beware of "permit parking" and "street cleaning" signs!). Parking can be found on 61st Street (between Woodlawn Ave and Blackstone Ave), on Dorchester Street (between 60th and 61st Streets).
Accommodation:
There is a renowned music festival (Lollapalooza) happening Thu, Jul 31 - Sun, Aug 3 in Chicago (day before the workshop begins). Consequently, it might be challenging to book hotels for Sun night, so book early.
There are several hotels near the University of Chicago campus in Hyde Park, where TTIC is located. These include:
The Study (a five minute walk from TTIC)
There are also many good and reasonably-priced hotels in downtown Chicago if you prefer to stay downtown and take an uber/taxi to TTIC. See this list for more options, including hotels in downtown Chicago.
Participants:
Eric Balkanski (Columbia University)
Kristóf Bérczi (ELTE, Hungary)
Deeparnab Chakrabarty (Dartmouth University)
Alina Ene (Boston University)
Andrei Graur (Stanford University)
Anupam Gupta (New York University)
Satoru Iwata (Univ. of Tokyo)
Rhea Jain (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Haotian Jiang (Univ. of Chicago)
Sanjeev Khanna (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Pooja Kulkarni (Northwestern)
Shi Li (Nanjing University)
Siyue Liu (CMU)
Viswanath Nagarajan (Univ. of Michigan)
Rad Niazadeh (Univ. of Chicago)
Neil Olver (London School of Economics)
Debmalya Panigrahi (Duke University)
Aaron Putterman (Harvard University)
Kent Quanrud (Purdue University)
Sherry Sarkar (CMU)
Sahil Singla (Georgia Tech)
Mohit Singh (Georgia Tech)
Chao Xu (Univ. of Electronic Science and Technology of China)
Weihao Zhu (Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)