DavidFest: A Pseudorandomness Workshop in Austin

In honor of David Zuckerman’s 60^th birthday

October 25-26 2025. The GDC auditorium, The University of Texas at Austin.

Note: The conference will not be held on October 18-19, 2025 as originally planned, since Austin will host the US Formula 1 Grand Prix at that time.

Keynote speakers:

Russell Impagliazzo (UCSD)

Salil Vadhan (Harvard)

Avi Wigderson (IAS)

Raghu Meka (UCLA)

Program:

The talks will be on Saturday Oct 25 and the morning of Sunday Oct 26. There will be keynote talks as well as shorter talks about new results in the field. The full schedule will be announced in September 2025.

Registration:

The workshop is free and open to everyone! For planning purposes, if you intend to come, please fill out your name and email address here.

Organizing committee:

Eshan Chattopadhyay (Cornell), Dean Doron (Ben-Gurion University), Jesse Goodman (UT Austin), William Hoza (Chicago), Xin Li (Johns Hopkins), Raghu Meka (UCLA), Dana Moshkovitz (UT Austin), Anup Rao (UW).