HIGHLIGHTS OF ALGORITHMS

The London School of Economics and Political Science (virtual), May 31 - June 3, 2021

Survey speakers

Invited speakers

    Shalev Ben-David (University of Waterloo) — A New Minimax Theorem for Randomized Algorithms

    Omri Ben-Eliezer (Harvard University) — A Framework for Adversarially Robust Streaming Algorithms

    Pawel Gawrychowski (University of Wrocław) — Minimum Cut in O(m log2 n) Time

    Mohsen Ghaffari (ETHZ) — Distributed Derandomization and Network Decomposition

    Siyao Guo (NYU Shanghai) — Data Structures Meet Cryptography: 3SUM with Preprocessing

    Steve Hanneke (TTIC) — Proper Learning, Helly Number, and an Optimal SVM Bound

    Zhiyi Huang (University of Hong Kong) — Online Correlated Selection and Its Applications in Online Matching Problems

    Nathan Klein (University of Washington) — A (Slightly) Improved Approximation Algorithm for Metric TSP

    Euiwoong Lee (University of Michigan) — The Karger-Stein Algorithm is Optimal for k-cut

    Shachar Lovett (University of California San Diego) — Recent Progress on the Sunflower Conjecture, and Connections to CS

    Shay Moran (Technion) — An Equivalence Between Private PAC Learning and Online Learning

    Eva Rotenberg (Technical University of Denmark) — Fully-Dynamic Planarity Testing in Polylogarithmic Time

    Saurabh Sawlani (Carnegie Mellon University) — Near-Optimal Fully Dynamic Densest Subgraph

    Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University) — Optimal Oblivious RAM and Sorting Circuits for Short Keys

    Santosh Vempala (Georgia Tech) — Solving Sparse Linear Systems Faster than Matrix Multiplication

    John Wright (University of Texas at Austin) — MIP*=RE

 

Abstracts can be found in the programme.