ShaiFest, in honor of Shai Ben-David, will take place on Feb 27, 2026, immediately after ALT. You can register for free with your registration for the main conference.
The morning program will include a tutorial for graduate students (everyone welcome!) by Shai Ben-David. During the afternoon, there will be invited talks by some of Shai’s most significant collaborators.
| Friday, Feb 27 | |
| 9:30 – 10:30 | Tutorial I: Set Theory background: Cardinals, well orderings and independence of set theory |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Tutorial II: Infinite combinatorics and applications to ML theory |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Open Mic(*) |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Invited talk by Peter Bartlett Title: Collaborating with Shai in the twentieth century |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Invited talk by Shay Moran Title: Minimax for Infinite Games |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Invited talk by Hans Simon Title: The Pioneering Era of Computational Learning and the First Years of my Collaboration with Shai |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Invited talk by Nati Srebro Title: The Negative Result Minsky and Papert Got Wrong: Why SVMs and the Perceptron Don’t Work, and Does Deep Learning Help? |