OPEN UNIVERSITY
 
COMPUTER SCIENCE DAY
 
The Third Israel CS Theory Day will take place on March 22nd at the Open
University. For more details and (most appreciated) registratrion -
 <http://www.openu.ac.il/theoryday>
 
The program is also appended below.
 
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The 3rd Israel CS Theory Day
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
 
Schedule
 
09:30 - 10:00 	Gathering, refreshments
10:00 - 10:20 	Greetings:
Tamir Tassa, The Department of Computer Science, The Open University
Hagit Messer-Yaron, President of the Open University
First Session: 	Chair - Manor Mendel
10:20 - 11:10 	Uri Zwick, Tel Aviv University
Local Improvement/Policy Iteration Algorithms
11:10 - 12:00 	Piotr Indyk, MIT
Sparse Recovery Using Sparse Random Matrices
12:00 - 14:00 	Lunch
Second Session: 	Chair – Tamir Tassa
14:00 - 14:50 	Shafi Goldwasser, Weizmann Institute
On the Possibility of Cryptography without (so many) Secrets
14:50 - 15:40 	Amos Beimel, Ben Gurion University
Are There Efficient Secret Sharing Schemes?
15:40 - 16:10 	Coffee Break
Third Session: 	Chair - Michael Langberg
16:10 - 17:00 	Zeev Nutov, The Open University
17:00 - 17:50 	Gil Kalai, The Hebrew University
Analysis and Probability of Boolean Functions
17:50 - 18:00 	Concluding Remarks
19:00 	Dinner
 
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