We are happy to invite you to Columbia University for a three-day celebration of Mihalis Yannakakis’ contributions to science on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
DESCRIPTION:
Professor Mihalis Yannakakis has been one of the leading lights in theoretical computer science for many years. He has made deep and lasting contributions to an extraordinary range of research areas, including algorithms and complexity theory, combinatorial optimization, automated verification and testing theory, and database theory. This workshop will bring together leading researchers in computer science to celebrate Yannakakis' 70th birthday, and to survey the state of the art and future horizons in the various research areas that have been strongly influenced by Yannakakis' work.
BIO:
Mihalis Yannakakis is currently the Hudson Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1979 and then spent many years at Bell Laboratories, where he headed the Computing Principles Research Department. He was Director of Computing Principles Research at Avaya Labs and a professor of computer science at Stanford University before joining Columbia University in 2004.
