New Perspectives on Distributed Computing Systems
April 6th, 2016
The workshop will highlight recent advances in the field of Distributed Computing Systems, via presentations by Barbara Liskov and a number of leading young researchers in the field of distributed computing who joined the Israeli academia in recent years.
The workshop will be co-located with the Weizmann Institute’s celebration, in which Barbara Liskov will receive the Weizmann Women & Science Award for 2015.
Location:
Lecture room 1, Ziskind Building
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Program:
| 10:00 – 10:50 | Using Information Theory to Understand Multi-Party Communication |
| Rotem Oshman, Tel-Aviv University | |
| 10:50 – 11:40 | Light spanners |
| Shiri Chechik, Tel-Aviv University | |
| 11:40 – 12:30 | Optimal Dynamic Distributed MIS |
| Keren Censor-Hillel, The Technion | |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Introducing the speaker |
| Vered Rom-Kedar, Weizmann Institute of Science | |
| 14:10 – 15:20 | Keynote Lecture |
| Barbara Liskov, M.I.T |
Registration: Attendance is free, but advance registration is requested.
Contact: Carol Weintraub carol.weintraub@weizmann.ac.il