Friday, April 14, 2017

[DMANET] 2nd Call for Participation: Highlights of Algorithms 2017, Berlin, Germany

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Highlights of Algorithms - HALG 2017
June 9-11, 2017, Berlin, Germany
highlightsofalgorithms.org
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The Highlights of Algorithms conference is designed to be a forum for presenting the highlights of recent developments in algorithms and for discussing potential further advances in this area. The conference will provide a broad picture of the latest research in algorithms through a series of survey and invited talks, as well as possibility for all researchers and students to present their recent results through a series of short talks and poster presentations. Attending the Highlights of Algorithms conference will also be an opportunity for networking and meeting leading researchers in algorithms.

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PROGRAM

The conference will begin on Friday, June 9, at 8:45 and end on Sunday, June 11, at 17:45. On Friday evening at 18:00 there will be a poster session with reception. On Saturday evening at 18:00 there will be another poster session and at 19:00 the Business Meeting will take place.

A detailed schedule and a list of all accepted posters can be found at: highlightsofalgorithms.org

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REGISTRATION

Please register on our webpage highlightsofalgorithms.org by choosing the menu item "Registration" and following the instructions there. We have done our best to keep registration fees at a minimum:

Early registration (by April 30, 2017)
- academic rate (incl. postdocs): 150€
- student rate: 110€

Regular registration (by May 31, 2017)
- academic rate (incl. postdocs): 190€
- student rate: 150€

On-site registration: 250€

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CONFERENCE VENUE

The symposium will take place at TU Berlin (Str. des 17. Juni 136, 10623 Berlin, Germany) in the heart of the city close to the Tiergarten park.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

Survey Speakers:

- Sanjeev Arora, Princeton University
- László Babai, University of Chicago
- Nikhil Bansal, TU Eindhoven
- Claire Mathieu, École normale supérieure
- Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University


Invited Speakers:

- Karl Bringmann, MPI for Informatics
- Constantinos Daskalakis, MIT
- Ilias Diakonikolas, USC
- Zachary Friggstad, U Alberta
- Mohsen Ghaffari, MIT
- Bart M. P. Jansen, TU Eindhoven
- David Karger, MIT
- Sanjeev Khanna, U Penn
- Mathias Bæk T. Knudsen, U Copenhagen
- Simon MacKenzie, U New South Wales
- Aleksander Madry, MIT
- Marco Mondelli, ETH
- Renato Paes-Leme, Google
- Merav Parter, MIT
- Ilya P. Razenshteyn, MIT
- Aviad Rubenstein, Berkeley
- Ami Paz, Technion
- Sushant Sachdeva, Google
- Aravind Srinivasan, U Maryland
- Gregory Valiant, Stanford
- S. Matthew Weinberg, Princeton

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