Deepak Bansal, Microsoft Abstract: Customer networks have grown, mostly organically, large and complex in cloud environments like Azure. Customers are often afraid to make changes and find it hard to diagnose when things go wrong. In this talk, I am going to share how Microsoft is using LLMs to simplify network operations at scale in… Read More »Leveraging LLMs for Networking & Security in Cloud Environments

Vijay V. Vazirani , University of California, Irvine. It is well known that the proof of some prominent results in mathematics took a very long time --- decades and even centuries. The first proof of the Micali-Vazirani (MV) algorithm, for finding a maximum cardinality matching in general graphs, was recently completed --- over four decades… Read More »A Theory of Alternating Paths and Blossoms, from the Perspective of Minimum Length

Rajeev Barua, University of Maryland. The battle between cyber attackers and attack detection teams is an arms race that is not letting up. Attackers constantly devise new ways of exploiting system vulnerabilities, and new methods to hide from detection. In response, detection teams have responded with new technologies to detect attacks. This talk will overview… Read More »Cybersecurity: Why its hard, solutions, and careers

Allan Borodin, University of Toronto What can and cannot be computed by “conceptually simple algorithms"? In this regard, my primary interest is in approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems and the relation of such problems to areas such as scheduling, algorithmic game theory and computational social choice. Why do we care about conceptual simplicity, and… Read More »Online, greedy, and conceptually simple algorithms

Sourav Chakraborty  (Indian Statistical Institute) We will present a very simple streaming algorithm on F0 estimation that also caught the eye of Donald E. Knuth.  In a recent article, Donald E. Knuth started with the following two paragraphs:   "Sourav Chakraborty, N. V. Vinodchandran, and Kuldeep S. Meel have recently proposed an interesting algorithm for the following… Read More »Distinct Elements in Streams and the Klee’s Measure Problem