RobertoFest, To Be Held On October 24, Will Honor Roberto Tamassia's Remarkable Impact
- Posted by Jesse Polhemus
- on Sept. 26, 2025
In celebration of Roberto Tamassia's sixty-fifth birthday, five of his former students are organizing RobertoFest, a symposium that will honor his remarkable impact on computer science and academia. Friends, students, and collaborators will gather at the CIT (115 Waterman Street in Providence, Rhode Island, home of Brown University's Department of Computer Science) on October 24, 2025, for a full day of talks designed to reflect Roberto’s forty years of contributions to algorithms, data structures, geometric computing, graph drawing, security, cryptography, and privacy.
Prospective attendees can learn more here and are asked to kindly RSVP here.
"Let’s revisit the early days," say the organizers, "celebrate the milestones, and look ahead to the future, all while raising a toast to Roberto’s inspiring legacy!"
Speakers will include Giuseppe di Battista (Università Roma Tre), Michael Goodrich (University of California, Irvine), Giuseppe Liotta (University of Perugia), Anna Lysyanskaya (Brown University), Franco Preparata (Brown University), John Savage (Brown University), Elaine Shi (Carnegie Mellon University), Ioannis G. Tollis (University of Crete), Alin Tomescu (Aptos Labs), Goce Trajcevski (Iowa State University), Jeffrey Vitter (Tulane University), and Moti Yung (Google).
