{"51591":{"#nid":"51591","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Vazirani Helps Organize Theoretical CS Workshops","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E(December 22, 2006)--\u003C\/strong\u003ECollege of Computing Professor Vijay Vazirani recently co-organized a theoretical computer science workshop at Princeton University, concentrating on biology, neuroscience, nanotechnology and ecology. Vazirani will host a second workshop series at Caltech in March, focusing on economics, quantum computing, statistical physics, high energy physics and control theory.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cBroadly, the theme is how algorithms, and more generally theoretical computer science can lead to fundamental insights into other sciences,\u201d says Vazirani. Both workshops are funded by the National Science Foundation, and will result in a 25-page report by Vazirani and the organizing committee.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor information about Vijay Vazirani, \u003Ca href=\u0022..\/component\/option,com_peopledb\/task,view\/contact_id,285896839\/Itemid,238\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor information about the workshop this month, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cs.caltech.edu\/%7Eschulman\/cs-lens-1.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eclick here\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EComputing Science \u0026amp; Systems division Professor Vijay Vazirani recently co-organized an NSF-sponsored workshop at Princeton University, and will host another in March at Caltech.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2010-02-09 21:46:37","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:00","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2006-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2006-12-22T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}