Amos (nearly) @ 61

Tel Aviv University, November 20-21, 2017

AmosFest - A workshop in honor of Amos Fiat's 61st birthday





Participants (preliminary list): Yossi Azar, Yair Bartal, Avrim Blum, Allan Borodin, Ran Canetti, Marek Chrobak, Alon Eden, Dan Feldman, Michal Feldman, Kira Goldner, Magnus Halldórsson, Haim Kaplan, Anna Karlin, Howard Karloff, Valerie King, Elias Koutsoupias, Stefano Leonardi, Meital Levy, Nati Linial, Yishay Mansour, Claire Mathieu, Manor Mendel, Uri Nadav, Moni Naor, Noam Nisan,  Svetlana Olonestski, Yuval Rabani, Adi Rosén, Yossi Tulpan, Lior Shultz, Uri Zwick


Registration

Registration is free, but mandatory by Nov. 12, 2017.  Please register  here.
Registration is now closed. Should you wish to participate and have not registered,
please email Adi Rosén to see if this is still possible.

List of Participants

Venue

Tel-Aviv University. Various lecture halls (please see below for details).

Local information

Map with information on lecture halls, food on campus, venues of social events (please open in a new tab for full information) 

                        


Program (please note a few changes)

Please note that AmosFest will be followed by the annual FILOFOCS workshop, FILOFOCS 2017, to be held at
Tel-Aviv University on November 22-23, 2017.

Program PDF version

Program PDF version with abstracts



Monday, November 20, 2017 -  Morning: Beit Hatefutzot, Zeevi Auditorium; Afternoon: Shenkar Building, Melamed 006 / Holcblat 007

  8:30 - 9:00
 Gathering and Registration
  9:00 - 9:10
 Opening
  9:10 - 9:40
 Moni Naor - Fiat-Shamir and Proofs of Non-Membership
  9:40 - 10:10
Benny Pinkas - From Broadcast Encryption to Multi-Party Set Intersection
10:10 - 10:40
Ran Canetti - Using Diffie and Hellman to Wield the Magic of Fiat and Shamir
10:40 - 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40
Avrim Blum - Learning about Agents and Mechanisms from Opaque Transactions
11:40 - 12:20
 Dan Feldman - Provable Real-Time Learning with applications to Robotics
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00 - 14:30
Michal Feldman - Working with Amos on Pricing is Priceless
14:30 - 15:00
Uri Nadav - Bid Limited Targeting in Ad Auctions
15:00 - 15:30
Stefano Leonardi - Approximately Optimal Mechanisms in Two-Sided Markets
15:30 - 16:10
Nati Linial - Hypertrees
16:10 - 16:40
Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:10
 A session of Short Announcements  
17:10 - 17:45
 Anna Karlin - The top 10 reasons it's awesome to work with Amos Fiat


20:00 -
PARTY


Tuesday, November 21, 2017 -  Beit Hatefutzot, Zeevi Auditorium

9:00 - 9:40
 Howard Karloff - On the Optimal Bmi
9:40 - 10:20
Alon Eden - Harnessing prices for efficiency
10:20 - 11:00
Yishay Mansour -  Adaptive pricing, online learning and metric movement cost
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:10
Yuval Rabani - LP Relaxations for Reordering Buffer Management
12:10 - 12:40
Elias Koutsoupias - The infinite server problem
12:40 - 14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00 - 14:40
Noam Nisan - The communication complexity of cake-cutting
14:40 - 15:20
Valerie King - The communication cost of broadcasting
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:30
Kira Goldner - The Space Between Single- and Multi-Dimensional Mechanism Design
16:30 - 17:10
Uri Zwick - Selection from heaps, row-sorted matrices and X+Y using soft heaps



Organizers