LIDS@80: A Celebration

Friday, November 1, 2019 + Saturday November 2, 2019

#LIDS80

Thursday, October 31

(LIDS 6th floor lounge, Stata Center)

6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Opening Reception

Friday, November 1, 2019

(Daytime sessions: Wong Auditorium, Tang Center; Invitation-only banquet: Morss Hall, Walker Memorial)

8:00 AM Breakfast + Registration

9:00 AM Welcome + Opening Remarks

Anantha Chandrakasan, Dean, MIT School of Engineering
Dan Huttenlocher, Dean, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
John Tsitsiklis, LIDS Director. Honoring Mike Athans: LIDS from the Athans Times to the Present

Session 1: Systems, Optimization, and Control

10:00 AM Introduction + Keynote

Honoring Dimitri Bertsekas, with remarks by Angelia Nedich (Arizona State University)
Session Introduction: Sertac Karaman (MIT) Session Chair and Panel Moderator
Keynote Talk: Benjamin Van Roy (Stanford University) — “Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning”

11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM Panel Discussion

Luca Carlone (MIT)
Angelia Nedich (Arizona State University)
Asu Ozdaglar (MIT)
Benjamin Recht (University of California, Berkeley)
Cathy Wu (MIT)

1:00 PM Lunch

Session 2: Communications, Information Theory, and Networks

2:00 PM Introduction + Keynote

Honoring Bob Gallager, with remarks by Emre Telatar (EPFL)
Honoring Dave Forney, with remarks by Frank Kschischang (University of Toronto)
Session Introduction: Yury Polyanskiy (MIT) Session Chair and Panel Moderator
Keynote Talk: David Tse (Stanford University) — “Solving the Blockchain Trilemma”

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM Panel Discussion

Erdal Arikan (Bilkent University)
Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University)
Muriel Médard (MIT)
Michael Neely (University of Southern California)
Emre Telatar (EPFL)

6:00 PM Reception + Banquet (by invitation only)

Saturday, November 2, 2019

(Kirsch Auditorium, Stata Center)

8:00 AM Breakfast + Registration

9:00 AM Opening Remarks: Munther Dahleh (MIT)

Session 3: From Data to Inference and Machine Learning

9:30 AM Introduction + Keynote

Honoring Alan Willsky, with remarks by Ahmed Tewfik (University of Texas at Austin)
Session Introduction: Caroline Uhler (MIT) Session Chair and Panel Moderator
Keynote Talk: Peter Bartlett (University of California, Berkeley) — “Machine learning: computation versus statistics”

10:30 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM Panel Discussion

Guy Bresler (MIT)
Constantine Caramanis (University of Texas at Austin)
Emily Fox (University of Washington)
Suvrit Sra (MIT)
Ahmed Tewfik (University of Texas at Austin)

12:30 PM Lunch

Session 4: Transitions

2:00 PM Introduction + Keynote

Honoring Sanjoy Mitter, with remarks by Thomas Richardson (Qualcomm)
Session Introduction: Devavrat Shah (MIT) Session Chair and Panel Moderator
Keynote Talk: Emilio Frazzoli (Aptiv)

3:00 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM Panel Discussion

Hamsa Balakrishnan (MIT)
Richard Barry (Barry Family Office)
Shashi Borade (Engineers Gate)
Thomas Richardson (Qualcomm)
Sridevi Sarma (Johns Hopkins University)

5:00 PM End of Event

All are welcome to continue mingling at the LIDS@80 Closing Reception. Light refreshments provided.

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Special Post-Event Screening of “The Bit Player”
Sunday, November 3, 2019 // 2pm // 26-100

LIDS is pleased to host a special screening of the IEEE Information Theory Society film, The Bit Player — the first-ever full-length feature film about Claude Shannon. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with filmmaker Mark A. Levinson, Prof. Robert Gallager (MIT), and Prof. Andrea Goldsmith (Stanford University). M ORE INFORMATION