{"id":10014,"date":"2026-08-16T15:45:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=10014"},"modified":"2026-08-16T15:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T20:47:04","slug":"michael-rabin-memorial-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/?p=10014","title":{"rendered":"Michael Rabin memorial conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friend-of-the-blog (well, mainly just friend) <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/akavia\">Adi Akavia<\/a> has asked me to publicize that she&#8217;s helping to organize an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mind-il.org\/conference\/6a3031aea90316da446a7899\">exciting CS conference called Mind-IL<\/a> at Tel Aviv University on October 26, in memory of the Israeli-American Turing Award winner <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_O._Rabin\">Michael O. Rabin<\/a>, who passed away in April.  Please note that October 26 is the day before the <a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/who-will-be-the-next-prime-minister-of-israel-after-the-next-election\">Israeli election<\/a>, for any Israeli citizenship holders living abroad who might want an academic excuse to come to Israel and vote.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-683x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/image.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend-of-the-blog (well, mainly just friend) Adi Akavia has asked me to publicize that she&#8217;s helping to organize an exciting CS conference called Mind-IL at Tel Aviv University on October 26, in memory of the Israeli-American Turing Award winner Michael O. Rabin, who passed away in April. Please note that October 26 is the day before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-complexity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10017,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10014\/revisions\/10017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottaaronson.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}