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Women In Theory Workshop - program

All talks are in Room 006 in the Friend center, corner of Olden and Williams streets. See this map.

Saturday, June 14,

6pm Reception - Friend convocation room (113)

Sunday, June 15

8:30-9:00 -- Breakfast

9:00-9:15 -- Opening remarks, Tal Rabin

9:15-10:45 -- Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research; Differential Privacy and Robust Statistics

10:45-11:15 -- Coffee break

11:15-12:45 -- Shuchi Chawla, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Algorithmic Mechanism Design

12:45-2:15 -- Lunch - Friend convocation room (113)

2:15-3:45 -- Dorit Aharonov, Hebrew University;

3:45-4:30 -- Mentoring program

Free afternoon/evening

Monday, June 16

8:30-9:00 -- Breakfast

9:00-10:30 -- Tal Malkin, Columbia University;

10:30-10:45 -- Coffee break

10:45-12:45 -- Panel, work life balance

12:45-2:15 -- Lunch - Friend convocation room (113)

2:15-3:45 -- Lisa Zhang, Bell-Labs; Scheduling Algorithms for Wireless Data Systems

3:45-4:15 -- Coffee break

4:15-5:45 -- Cathy O'Neil, DE Shaw; Portfolio Analysis and CAPM

6:15pm -- Banquet - Palmer House - corner of Nassau St. and Bayard Lane.

Tuesday, June 17

8:30-9:00 -- Breakfast

9:00-10:30 -- Eva Tardos, Cornell;

10:30-11:00 -- Coffee break

11:00-12:30 -- Julia Chuzhoy, TTI; Network design for vertex connectivity

12:30-2:00 -- Lunch - Friend convocation room (113)

2:00-3:30 -- Irit Dinur, Weizmann Institute; Local Testing of Codes

3:30-4:00 -- Coffee break

4:00-5:30 -- Tiffani Williams, Texas A&M; How to give a presentation

8:00pm -- Poster Session

Wednesday, June 18

8:30-9:00 -- Breakfast

9:00-10:30 -- Joan Feigenbaum, Yale; Modeling and Analysis of Anonymous-Communication Systems

10:30-10:45 -- Coffee break

10:45-11:45 -- Sara Laschever; Why Women Don't Ask

11:45-12:45 -- Panel, moderator Sara Laschever

12:45-2:15 -- Lunch - Friend convocation room (113)

2:15-3:45 -- Shafi Goldwasser, MIT and Weizmann Institute; Obfuscation and One-Time-Programs