STOC2010

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Tutorial Day at Microsoft Research

Please be aware you may need to show a picture ID to enter into the building at One Memorial Drive for the Tutorials on Saturday, June 5th. This is a security requirement from the building management.

The STOC 2010 tutorials are being hosted at Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge MA at One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA. For direction and maps click here.

                    Saturday, June 5, 2010
9:00-
9:30
— Registration —  (1st floor)
9:30-
11:30
Chair: P. Gopalan
Spectral Methods for Matrices and Tensors (Click to view video)
Ravindran Kannan (Microsoft Research Lab, India)
11:30-
1:00
— Lunch —
1:00-
3:00
Chair: R. Kleinberg
Are Many Small Sets Explicitly Small? (Click to view video)
Michel Talagrand (Universite Paris VI)
3:00-
3:30
— Break —
3:30-
5:30
Chair: P. Indyk
Message Passing Algorithms: a Success Looking for Theoreticians (Click to view video)
Andrea Montanari (Stanford University)
5:30-
6:00
— Travel to Hyatt —
6:00-
9:00
Opening Reception at Hyatt Regency