from Lane A. Hemaspaandra: JOEL I. SEIFERAS RETIREMENT CELEBRATION: JoelFest: A Day of Talks by Zvi Galil, Shafi Goldwasser, Jon Kleinberg, and Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam

JOEL I. SEIFERAS RETIREMENT CELEBRATION:
JoelFest: A Day of Talks by
Zvi Galil,
Shafi Goldwasser,
Jon Kleinberg, and
Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam

Monday, September 4, 2017 (Labor Day), 9AM—5PM


ANNOUNCEMENT AND REGISTRATION REQUEST

Our dear colleague Joel I. Seiferas retired on December 31, 2016,
after more than 37 years at the University of Rochester's Department
of Computer Science, and became professor emeritus of computer
science.

Joel generously asked that the department make his retirement
celebration be a day of accessible, enjoyable talks by interesting
theoreticians.

So to celebrate Joel's career and recognize his transition to emeritus
status, the department is hosting a day of accessible, enjoyable talks
by interesting theoreticians, namely, we'll have a day of talks from
9AM to 5PM on Monday, Sept. 4 (Labor Day), by:
* Zvi Galil, the John P. Imlay Dean of Computing and Professor
at Georgia Tech's College of Computing,
* Shafi Goldwasser, the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science at MIT,
* Jon Kleinberg, Tisch University Professor of Computer Science
at Cornell University, and
* Muthuramakrishnan Venkitasubramaniam, Department of Computer
Science, University of Rochester.

The talks are all free and open to the public, and we very much hope
you will attend them. The web page

http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/lane/=joelfest/

has the information (schedule, travel, lodging, etc.) on the event,
and on how to register (**please register by August 22nd** so we know
how many will attend and can get right the room size for the talks;
registering is about a 1-minute process), and on how---if you won't be
able to attend but would like to send a message for Joel to be given
on that day---to do so.

Much hoping to see you there!

Cheers,
Lane A. Hemaspaandra, Daniel Stefankovic, and Muthu Venkitasubramaniam