You are invited to attend the Patrick C. Fischer Professorship Symposium on Monday, November 5. The symposium is hosted by the U-M Computer Science and Engineering Division and will celebrate the establishment of the Patrick C. Fischer Professorship in Theoretical Computer Science.
Ronitt Rubinfeld, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Something for Almost Nothing: Recent Advances in Sublinear Time Algorithms
Russell Impagliazzo, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
Meta-Algorithms: Links between Algorithm Design and Lower Bounds
Sanjeev Arora, Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton
Is Machine Learning Easy?
A luncheon and recognitions will follow. Please register to attend the symposium.
Patrick C. Fischer Professorship Symposium
8:00am - 1:30pm, November 5, 2012
Bob and Betty Beyster Building, U-M North Campus
The Symposium will feature lectures from three prominent computer scientists who will offer their perspectives and discuss recent advances in the field of theoretical computer science:
Ronitt Rubinfeld, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT
Something for Almost Nothing: Recent Advances in Sublinear Time Algorithms
Russell Impagliazzo, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
Meta-Algorithms: Links between Algorithm Design and Lower Bounds
Sanjeev Arora, Charles C. Fitzmorris Professor of Computer Science, Princeton
Is Machine Learning Easy?
A luncheon and recognitions will follow. Please register to attend the symposium.
Patrick C. Fischer:
Michigan alumnus and Ann Arbor native Patrick C. Fischer was a pioneering researcher in computational complexity and interactive database systems. His contributions helped to establish theoretical computer science as a discipline separate from mathematics and electrical engineering. After teaching at Harvard, Cornell, Waterloo, and Pennsylvania State University, serving also as Chair at the latter two, Professor Fischer was appointed Chair of the computer science department at Vanderbilt University in 1980. There he served as Chair of computer science until 1995 and retired in 1998.He was the first chair of SIGACT, the Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory of the Association for Computing Machinery, which he founded in 1968. He also founded the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, which is one of the two flagship conferences in theoretical computer science, and he served five times as chair of the conference.
