This is the third iteration of an annual tradition at Cornell. We have invited six of the best junior (i.e., PhD or postdoc) theorists to visit Cornell to each give a talk and to meet with Cornell faculty and students.
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Location: Gates Hall G01
Schedule
Thursday, May 7
10:00 a.m. - Breakfast
10:30-11:30 a.m. - Miranda Christ, Ph.D. student, Columbia University
11:30-11:45 a.m. - Break
11:45 a.m. -12:45 p.m - Charlotte Peale, Ph.D. student in Computer Science Theory, Stanford University
1-2 p.m. - Lunch break
2:15-3:15 p.m. - Barak Nehoran, Postdoctoral Scholar in Computer Science, Columbia University
3:30-5 p.m. - Socializing/meetings
Friday, May 8
10:00 a.m. - Breakfast
10:30-11:30 a.m. - Prasanna Ramakrishnan, Ph.D. student, Stanford University
11:30-11:45 a.m. - Break
11:45-12:45 p.m. - Jane Lange, Ph.D. student, MIT CSAIL
1-2 p.m. - Lunch break
2:15-3:15 p.m. - Zihan Zhang, Ph.D. candidate in computer science, The Ohio State University
3:30-5 p.m. - Socializing/meetings
Speakers
Bio: Miranda Christ is a final-year computer science P.hD. student at Columbia University, where she is a member of the Theory Group and the Crypto Lab. Co-advised by Tal Malkin and Mihalis Yannakakis. She is interested in practically motivated theoretical problems in cryptography.
Bio: Charlotte Peale is a fifth year Ph.D. student in Computer Science Theory at Stanford University, advised by Omer Reingold. Her research is supported by the 2024 Apple Scholars in AIML Fellowship, and she spent the summers of 2024 and 2025 interning at Apple under the mentorship of Parikshit Gopalan, Aravind Gollakota, Udi Wieder, and Moises Goldszmidt.
Bio: Barak Nehoran is a postdoctoral research scientist in theoretical computer science at Columbia University, where he is hosted by Professor Henry Yuen. He completed my Ph.D. at Princeton University where he was fortunate to be co-advised by Professors Ran Raz and Mark Zhandry, and where he also previously worked in the lab of Sebastian Seung.
His research lies in the areas of quantum information, cryptography, and complexity theory, and more generally at the intersections of physics, information, and computation.
Bio: Prasanna Ramakrishnan is a Ph.D. student at Stanford University in the CS Theory group. He is co-advised by Moses Charikar and Li-Yang Tan.
Bio: Jane Lange is a sixth-year Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL, where she studies theoretical computer science under Ronitt Rubinfeld. Broadly, she is interested in algorithms related to machine learning and property testing. More specifically, Jane is interested in the application of techniques from the fields of sublinear algorithms and analysis of Boolean functions for the purpose of designing efficient algorithms for learning, property testing, and other similar problems.
Bio: Zihan is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at The Ohio State University under the guidance of Prof. Zeyu Guo. His current research interests are in theoretical computer science with a focus on coding theory, combinatorics, pseudorandomness, and applications of coding theory in cryptography.