Computer Science And Its Impact On Our Future - Agenda
Day One / Monday, September 16, 2019
10:00 Greetings
Nili Cohen, President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (IASH)
Ken Fulton, Executive Director, National Academy of Sciences (NAS)
SESSION I
Chair: David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science
Quantum Science & Technology – Part I
10:15 Charles H. Bennett, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
The Quantum Impact on Technology and Fundamental Questions
11:00 Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute of Science
Harnessing Topological Physics for Quantum Computation
11:45 Coffee Break
Computer Science & Society – Part I
12:15 Noam Nisan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Complexity and Simplicity in Economic Design
13:00 Omer Reingold, Stanford University
Complexity-Theoretic Perspectives on Algorithmic Fairness
13:45 Lunch Break
SESSION II
Chair: Michal Feldman, Tel Aviv University
Computation and the Life Sciences – Part I
15:00 Aviv Regev, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Design for Inference in Biology
15 45 Ron Shamir, Tel Aviv University
Integrated Computational Analysis in Cancer and Precision Medicine
16:30 Coffee Break
AI & Autonomous Systems – Part I
17:00 Sarit Kraus, Bar-Ilan University
Robot-Human Collaboration and Learning for Improving Human Well-Being
17:45 Eva Tardos, Cornell University
Learning in Multi-Agent Environments
Keynote Speaker
18:30 Amnon Shashua, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Mobileye
The Promise of Machine Learning and AI in Transforming Industries
Day Two / Tuesday, September 17, 2019
SESSION III
Chair: Shimon Ullman, Weizmann Institute of Science
Quantum Science & Technology – Part II
09:00 Dorit Aharonov, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Quantum Information Science: A Computational Lens on Quantum Physics
09:45 Thomas Vidick, California Institute of Technology
Secure Computation with Quantum Devices: From Device-Independent Cryptography to
Verification of Quantum Computers
10:30 Coffee Break
Computer Science & Society – Part II
11:00 Shafi Goldwasser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Safe Machine Learning
11:45 Moshe Vardi, Rice University
Humans, Machines, and Work: The Future is Now
Day Three / Wednesday, September 18, 2019
SESSION IV
Chair: Moshe Vardi, Rice University
AI & Autonomous Systems – Part II
09:00 Naftali Tishby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Similarities and Differences between Deep Learning and our Biological Brains
09:45 Gal Kaminka, Bar Ilan University
Smart Swarms in the Wild and in the Small
10:30 Coffee Break
Computation and the Life Sciences – Part II
11:00 Uri Alon, Weizmann Institute of Science
Design Principles of Physiological Circuits
11:45 Leroy (Lee) Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
Big Data, Wellness and Disease
Closing Remarks
12:30 David Harel, Weizmann Institute of Science;
Vice-President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
