Lens of Computation on the Sciences

Opening Remarks

Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor

Welcome Remarks
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Director and Leon Levy Professor Institute for Advanced Study

Introduction of Economics Session
Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics
Institute for Advanced Study

Theoretical Computer Science and Economics
Tim Roughgarden, Stanford University

Theoretical computer science...

The Computational Universe

Leslie Valiant

Opening Remarks and Introduction of Biology Session
Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics
Institute for Advanced Study

The Computational Universe
Leslie Valiant, Harvard University

The idea that computation has...



Many natural and social phenomena may be viewed as inherently computational; they evolve patterns of information that can be described algorithmically and studied through computational models and techniques. This workshop on the computational lens...