Brown University MAY 12–15 Nima Arkani-Hamed 250Th Anniversary Symposium: 2015 the Next 250 Years Kenneth Arrow

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Brown University MAY 12–15 Nima Arkani-Hamed 250th Anniversary Symposium: 2015 The Next 250 Years Kenneth Arrow

We acknowledge with tremendous gratitude former President Ruth Simmons’ many valuable contributions to the organization of the previous two Symposia in this series, David Berson hosted by the Computer Science Department and organized together with the Office of the President. The symposium “John von Neumann Days at Brown University” (http://www.brown.edu/Research/Istrail_Lab/symp_2010.php) was organized by the von Patricia S. Churchland Neumann professor “cluster” in 2010, and “The Genome and the Computational Sciences: The Next Paradigms” symposium (http://www.brown.edu/Research/Istrail_Lab/ Leon Cooper symp_2006.php) in 2006. In particular, with funding from the Office of the President, room 368 of the CIT has just been renovated into a modern 21st-century classroom. We are delighted to have former President Simmons cut the ribbon to the new classroom on the Vincent Crawford occasion of this Symposium, which continues a tradition co-founded with her office and now enthusiastically supported by President Christina Paxson. These symposia were designed as an “academic cathedral” unified by von Neumann’s vision of “computation as a Freeman Dyson scientific lens.” We want to express our admiration and thanks to both Presidents Simmons and Paxson for their inspiring leadership and most generous support. Michael Jordan

Organized by the von Neumann professors “cluster” together with the Office of the President Cristina Paxson Hosted by the Department of Computer Science Tom Leighton Supported in part by the National Science Foundation

We acknowledge with gratitude the financial support for our symposium from: Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Vice President of Research, Christos Papadimitriou Office of Brown’s 250th Anniversary, Department of Computer Science, Department of Economics, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Physics, Center for Computational Molecular Biology, and Department of Biostatistics. Mark Satterthwaite

Susanne Schennach

Leslie Valiant

Frank Wilczek

History of the Sweatbox Concept Funded by the National Science Foundation as a workshop called “Q&A Boot Camp at Brown University: Asking Tough Scientific Questions,” the “Sweatbox” “Johnny was here*” “Johnny session as a didactic concept was inspired by the famous 8-week “Summer Course/Boot Camp on Embryology” at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hall, MA and the director of the course for 15 years, Professor Eric Davidson of John Von Neumann the Division of Biology at California Institute of Technology. The story goes that Distinguished Lecture Series invited speakers at this course would talk in the laboratory’s Warm Room and would be subjected there to tough scientific questions about their scientific Organized by findings and their claims. Professor Davidson, professor-in-chief of Leon Cooper developmental gene regulatory network biology and a beacon of critical Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science and Director, Institute for Brain and Neural Systems (Department of Physics) discourse, has mentored about 300 PhDs, postdocs and faculty in his laboratory. Stuart Geman Basing his work on causality-focused and genomics-based systems, and with James Manning Professor of Applied Mathematics (Division of Applied Mathematics) insights from experimental biology, biochemistry, physics and engineering, he Sorin Istrail Julie Nguyen Brown Professor of Computational and Mathematical Sciences and has been bringing together all us biologists, physicists, biochemists, engineers, Professor of Computer Science (Department of Computer Science) mathematicians, statisticians and computer scientists in a renaissance research Roberto Serrano quest for the functional meaning of DNA. The resulting symbiosis of insights is Harrison S. Kravis University Professor of Economics, Brown University (Department of Economics) von Neumannesque in spirit and fits well with von Neumann’s unfinished research towards a new logical and computational model for the biological cell *John von Neumann lectured at Brown University the week before April 17, 1934, exactly 80 years ago. The information is from his letter to Rudolf Ortvay on April 17, 1934. “We are well, although I am a bit pumped dry, for I held three lectures last week at Yale, Harvard by unifying continuous and discrete mathematics via a concept of and Brown Universities.” From John von Neumann: Selected Letters, Miklos Redei, editor, American Mathematical Society, History of Mathematics volume 27, 2005. thermodynamic error. Our “Sweatbox” is so named to honor Professor Davidson’s academic legacy.

For more information, please visit: https://cs.brown.edu/events/brown250symposium/ Organizing Committee All events held in Brown University’s Thomas J. Watson Sr. Center for Information Sorin Istrail (Symposium Chair, [email protected], Technology, 115 Waterman Street, 3rd floor, Providence, Rhode Island. 401-863-6196), Suzanne Alden (Symposium Coordinator, Directions available at: www.cs.brown.edu/about/directions/ [email protected], 401-863-6511). Brown University and the Department of Computer Science

Twelve John von Neumann Lectures on Economics, Physics, Computer, Science and Brain and Neuroscience unified by von Neumann’s vision of “Computation as a Scientific Lens”

Dr. Dyson is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Institute for Dyson is Professor Emeritus of Physics Dr. accomplishments, he made Among his many Advanced Study. seminal contributions to quantum electrodynamics; he was Prize for progress in religion 2000, the Templeton awarded the Prize by the Henri Poincaré and in 2012 he was awarded Congress. International Mathematical Physics Sciences at Arkani-Hamed is Professor in the School of Natural Dr. He is one of the leading particle the Institute for Advanced Study. and has been phenomenologists of his generation, physics theories that are being testedprominent in proposing new physical at the Large Hadron Collider CERN in Switzerland. at Professor of Physics Wilczek is the Herman Feshbach Dr. (with the Nobel Prize in Physics In 2004 he was awarded MIT. of for the discovery Politzer) Gross and H. David J. David asymptotic freedom in the theory of strong interactions. St. Professor of Science (Research) Watson Cooper is the T.J. Dr. Systems at and Neural and Director of the Institute for Brain in the Nobel Prize in Physics He was awarded Brown University. Schrieffer) for their theory of 1972 (with John Bardeen and J.R. superconductivity (BCS); he is also known for his contributions to the BCM theory of synaptic modification. Chen Distinguished Professor of Jordan is the Pehong Dr. As one of the Computer Science and Statistics at UC Berkeley. world’s most influential researchers in machine learning and ACM/ by the artificial intelligence, his work was recognized Networks AAAI Allen Newell Award and the IEEE Neural of Pioneer Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences. Engineering and of the National Academy and Dorothea Doctors Fox A. Fox Berson is the Sidney Dr. Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences His highly regarded of Neuroscience at Brown University. research into the structure and function of visual system of the American has led to his appointment as a Fellow Association for the Advancement of Science. at Churchland is the UC President’s Professor of Philosophy Dr. of California, San Diego. She is a pioneer in the the University the interface between neuroscience field of neurophilosophy, Her work has been recognized with a and philosophy. and she was named a Humanist MacArthur Fellowship, of Humanism. the International Academy Laureate by

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About Brown’s 250th The semiquincentenary celebration gives us the opportunity to celebrate Brown’s many triumphs in education, research, and service; reflect on the issues that Brown has confronted vero time; consider Brown of today; and imagine Brown’s future in the 21st century and beyond.

Brown University 250th Anniversary Symposium: The Next 250 Years May 12–15, 2015