Plenary lectures
Leslie Ann Goldberg (University of Oxford)
Tuesday 2 April, 10:15 – 11:00
Leslie Ann Goldberg is a Professor at the University of Oxford, where she is also the Head of the Department of Computer Science. Leslie’s academic interest is in the mathematical foundations of Computer Science, where the goal is to quantify the inherent complexity of computational problems, and the inherent quality of approximation algorithms (giving rigorous proofs about what is possible in terms of computation). Leslie focusses especially on the role of randomness in computation. She has received several awards for her academic work, including 5 best-paper prizes, an ERC Advanced Grant, election to Academia Europaea, a Suffrage Science award (which “celebrates women in science for their scientific achievement and for their ability to inspire others”) and was elected as a Fellow the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science “for fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical computer science, primarily focusing on randomized algorithms and their limitations
Andrew Sutherland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Beeger lecture, Tuesday 2 April, 16:15 – 17:15
Stefanie Jegelka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Wednesday 3 April, 10:00 – 10:45
Amie Wilkinson (University of Chicago)
Wednesday 3 April, 16:00 – 16:45
