<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><h1 style="font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px;font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px;text-align:center"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">2022 Chicago Quarterly Junior Theorists Workshop</span></h1><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;margin:0px"><h4 style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:22.5px;text-align:center">Thursday. Jan. 5 & Friday. Jan 6, 2023<br></h4><h4 style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:22.5px;text-align:center">9:00 am - 5:00 pm Central Time </h4><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32)">Dear Colleagues,<br></div><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);margin:10px 0px"><font color="#202020">We are inviting you to attend the <b>2022 Chicago Quarterly Junior Theorists </b></font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><b>Workshop</b></span><font color="#202020">. The </font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)">workshop</span><font color="#202020"> will take place at </font><font color="#674ea7"><b>Northwestern University</b></font><font color="#202020"> on Thursday, Jan 5, and </font><font color="#0b5394"><b>Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago</b></font><font color="#202020"> on Friday, Jan 6. This </font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)">workshop</span><font color="#202020"> will be in person, please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. </font><br></p><p style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:10px 0px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(36,36,36);margin:10px 0px"><font color="#202020">You can find more information about the </font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)">workshop</span><font color="#202020"> at the </font><font color="#000000"><b><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us20.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https*3A*2F*2Ftheory.cs.northwestern.edu*2Fquarterly-theory-workshop-2022-junior-theorists-workshop*2F&xid=55fa87b603&uid=125117802&iid=a972f82a63&pool=cts&v=2&c=1671824588&h=8c180f322e2c3a49fdde04144c9db50824ed1c97b63b0e87d08881db7b85b366__;JSUlJSU!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!V1vsMMz7gr2-0qe6cHcOWaIVj4Dw2qiC6Spp4VLCX3KWci2iFJKF9bw5RfsHUVY8yGwAncn0Zt2jbjX98m9B3UxzwpX5qDC3sg0$" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">workshop webpage</a>.</b></font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"> </span></p><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">SYNOPSIS</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px">The 2022 Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop is being held jointly by Northwestern University and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago on Jan 5-6, 2023. The focus of this workshop will be on junior researchers in all areas of theoretical computer science.<br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">SPEAKERS:</span></div><ul style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><li style="margin-left:15px">Maryam Aliakbarpour, BU and Northeastern University</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Robert Andrews, UIUC</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, UIUC</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Li Chen, Georgia Tech</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Zongchen Chen, MIT</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Yang Liu, Stanford</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Tamalika Mukherjee, Purdue University</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Mingda Qiao, Stanford</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Jessica Sorrell, UPenn</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Min Jae Song, NYU</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Ewin Tang, University of Washington</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Roei Tell, DIMACS/IAS</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Clayton Thomas, Princeton University</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Lydia Zakynthinou, Northeastern University</li></ul><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">LOGISTICS</span></div><ul><li style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin-left:15px"><strong>Date: </strong>Thursday, Jan 5 & Friday, Jan 6, 2023</li><li style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin-left:15px"><strong>Organizers:</strong> <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us20.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=http*3A*2F*2Fwww.mit.edu*2F*7Evakilian*2F&xid=55fa87b603&uid=125117802&iid=a972f82a63&pool=cts&v=2&c=1671824588&h=83f4b1c3bff5748a5ca6de35d96bb9d966fe2675fee99ff106943f0df8c0b0ca__;JSUlJSUl!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!V1vsMMz7gr2-0qe6cHcOWaIVj4Dw2qiC6Spp4VLCX3KWci2iFJKF9bw5RfsHUVY8yGwAncn0Zt2jbjX98m9B3UxzwpX5otDeyTo$" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);margin:0px" target="_blank">Ali Vakilian</a> and <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us20.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https*3A*2F*2Fsites.google.com*2Fview*2Fsuprovat&xid=55fa87b603&uid=125117802&iid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(128,0,128)"><em>How to Make Your Approximation Algorithm Private: A Black-Box Differentially-Private Transformation for Tunable Approximation Algorithms of Functions with Low Sensitivity</em></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong>2:30-3:00 – Mingda Qiao </strong><em><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(128,0,128)">Stronger Calibration Lower Bounds via Sidestepping</span></em></li><li style="margin-left:15px">3:00-3:30 – Coffee Break</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong>3:30-4:30 – Local talks </strong>Omar Montasser</li></ul><p style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:10px 0px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:10px 0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">ABOUT THE SERIES</span><br></p><p style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:10px 0px">The Quarterly Junior Theorists Workshop brings in theoretical computer science experts to present their perspective and research on a common theme.</p><p style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:10px 0px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:10px 0px"><br></p><p style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:10px 0px"><br></p></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, Rm 517</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">773-834-1757</font></i></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 24, 2022 at 1:31 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><table width="100%" style="font-size:15px;border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(36,36,36);min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="padding-top:9px"><table align="left" width="100%" style="border-collapse:collapse;max-width:100%;min-width:100%"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="word-break:break-word;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;padding:0px 18px 9px"><h1 style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px;font-size:26px;line-height:32.5px;text-align:center"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">2022 Chicago Quarterly Junior Theorists Workshop</span></h1><div style="margin:0px"><h4 style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:22.5px;text-align:center">Thursday. Jan. 5 & Friday. Jan 6, 2023<br></h4><h4 style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:22.5px;text-align:center">9:00 am - 5:00 pm Central Time </h4><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32)">Dear Colleagues,<br></div><p style="margin:10px 0px"><font color="#202020">We are inviting you to attend the <b>2022 Chicago Quarterly Junior Theorists </b></font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><b>Workshop</b></span><font color="#202020">. The </font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)">workshop</span><font color="#202020"> will take place at </font><font color="#674ea7"><b>Northwestern University</b></font><font color="#202020"> on Thursday, Jan 5, and </font><font color="#0b5394"><b>Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago</b></font><font color="#202020"> on Friday, Jan 6. This </font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)">workshop</span><font color="#202020"> will be in person, please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. </font><br></p><p style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:10px 0px"><br></p><p style="margin:10px 0px"><font color="#202020">You can find more information about the </font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)">workshop</span><font color="#202020"> at the </font><font color="#000000"><b><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us20.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https*3A*2F*2Ftheory.cs.northwestern.edu*2Fquarterly-theory-workshop-2022-junior-theorists-workshop*2F&xid=55fa87b603&uid=125117802&iid=a972f82a63&pool=cts&v=2&c=1671824588&h=8c180f322e2c3a49fdde04144c9db50824ed1c97b63b0e87d08881db7b85b366__;JSUlJSU!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!V1vsMMz7gr2-0qe6cHcOWaIVj4Dw2qiC6Spp4VLCX3KWci2iFJKF9bw5RfsHUVY8yGwAncn0Zt2jbjX98m9B3UxzwpX5qDC3sg0$" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="margin:0px" target="_blank">workshop webpage</a>.</b></font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"> </span></p><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">SYNOPSIS</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px">The 2022 Chicago Junior Theorists Workshop is being held jointly by Northwestern University and Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago on Jan 5-6, 2023. The focus of this workshop will be on junior researchers in all areas of theoretical computer science.<br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">SPEAKERS:</span></div><ul style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><li style="margin-left:15px">Maryam Aliakbarpour, BU and Northeastern University</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Robert Andrews, UIUC</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Bhaskar Ray Chaudhury, UIUC</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Li Chen, Georgia Tech</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Zongchen Chen, MIT</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Yang Liu, Stanford</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Tamalika Mukherjee, Purdue University</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Mingda Qiao, Stanford</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Jessica Sorrell, UPenn</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Min Jae Song, NYU</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Ewin Tang, University of Washington</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Roei Tell, DIMACS/IAS</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Clayton Thomas, Princeton University</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Lydia Zakynthinou, Northeastern University</li></ul><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">LOGISTICS</span></div><ul style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong>Date: </strong>Thursday, Jan 5 & Friday, Jan 6, 2023</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong>Organizers:</strong> <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us20.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=http*3A*2F*2Fwww.mit.edu*2F*7Evakilian*2F&xid=55fa87b603&uid=125117802&iid=a972f82a63&pool=cts&v=2&c=1671824588&h=83f4b1c3bff5748a5ca6de35d96bb9d966fe2675fee99ff106943f0df8c0b0ca__;JSUlJSUl!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!V1vsMMz7gr2-0qe6cHcOWaIVj4Dw2qiC6Spp4VLCX3KWci2iFJKF9bw5RfsHUVY8yGwAncn0Zt2jbjX98m9B3UxzwpX5otDeyTo$" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);margin:0px" target="_blank">Ali Vakilian</a> and <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us20.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https*3A*2F*2Fsites.google.com*2Fview*2Fsuprovat&xid=55fa87b603&uid=125117802&iid=a972f82a63&pool=cts&v=2&c=1671824588&h=45e061f07bc179465a4428afb2534e2c0b37c2796bb148052d2a74883794ed67__;JSUlJSU!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!V1vsMMz7gr2-0qe6cHcOWaIVj4Dw2qiC6Spp4VLCX3KWci2iFJKF9bw5RfsHUVY8yGwAncn0Zt2jbjX98m9B3UxzwpX53Uh3SDU$" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);margin:0px" target="_blank">Suprovat Ghoshal</a></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong>Location:</strong>  <a href="https://maps.northwestern.edu/facility/91" target="_blank">Mudd 3514</a> Northwestern University (Thursday); <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Toyota+Technological+Institute+at+Chicago/@41.7846982,-87.5925848,15z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x1ffc05b5f0c4e498!8m2!3d41.7846982!4d-87.5925848" target="_blank">Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago</a> (Friday)</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong>Registration:</strong> <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://us20.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https*3A*2F*2Fdocs.google.com*2Fforms*2Fd*2Fe*2F1FAIpQLSe0KqqnbgEvg_BYzgNSA-4cyUUvqI0-D-nMyu6iu7IpfeU6JA*2Fviewform*3Fusp*3Dpp_url&xid=55fa87b603&uid=125117802&iid=a972f82a63&pool=cts&v=2&c=1671824588&h=7068496aac0a3b7f335aabd6354ded0a6a2f291d436813270375c33bcfa8b94e__;JSUlJSUlJSUlJQ!!Dq0X2DkFhyF93HkjWTBQKhk!V1vsMMz7gr2-0qe6cHcOWaIVj4Dw2qiC6Spp4VLCX3KWci2iFJKF9bw5RfsHUVY8yGwAncn0Zt2jbjX98m9B3UxzwpX57lnDRMc$" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:rgb(0,124,137);margin:0px" target="_blank">click here to register</a></li></ul><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(75,0,130)">TENTATIVE SCHEDULE</span><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:0px">All times are Central (CST), UTC -6.</div><p style="color:rgb(32,32,32);margin:10px 0px">Thursday (at NU):</p><ul style="color:rgb(32,32,32)"><li style="margin-left:15px">9:00-9:25 – Breakfast</li><li style="margin-left:15px">9:25-9:35 – Welcome Remarks</li><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong>9:35-10:05 – Maryam Aliakbarpour </strong><span style="margin:0px;color:rgb(128,0,128)"><em>Entropy estimation in constant space: an example of statistical inference in limited memory</em></span></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><strong>10:05-10:35 – Clayton Thomas </strong><span style="m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