A man with glasses and grey hair sits in front of a blackboard covered with mathematical equations and symbols, looking slightly to the side and smiling gently.

Celebration of Complexity

A man with glasses and grey hair sits in front of a blackboard covered with mathematical equations and symbols, looking slightly to the side and smiling gently.
Professor Johan Håstad

Registration is needed. For more information and registration – see website.

For more than 40 years, Professor Johan Håstad has been a leading researcher in computational complexity theory. This mini-symposium will celebrate and explore his profound impact on a number of different areas ranging from circuit complexity and cryptography to approximation algorithms and pseudorandomness.

Talks by invited speakers; collaborators, friends, and others influenced by Johan’s work, including:

  • Avi Wigderson (Institute for Advanced Study)
  • Shafi Goldwasser (MIT)
  • Venkatesan Guruswami (UC Berkeley)
  • Prahladh Harsha (TIFR Mumbai)
  • Ryan O’Donnell (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Pavel Pudlák (Czech Academy of Sciences)
  • Madhu Sudan (Harvard University)

The conference is co-sponsored by Digital Futures.

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