SUNDAY, March 3. 
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 (Holiday Inn Hotel)

11:00 - 11:15 
Opening.

11:15 - 12:30 
N.Linial, Theory of finite metric spaces: Introduction via a tour of 
          open problems.



12:30 - 14:30
          LUNCH and INTERACTION.



14:30 - 16:20 (with break in the middle)
P.Indyk, Computational aspects of embeddings.

16:40 - 17:25
A.Magen, An extension of Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma for volumes.



  MONDAY, March 4.
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 (Holiday Inn Hotel)

9:30  - 10:20 
Y. Bartal, Embeddings into dominating trees. 

10:30 - 11:20
G.Cormode, Metrics on strings and permutations.



11:30 - 13:00 
         EXCURSION TO BAHAI SHRINE AND GARDENS.

13:00 - 15:00
         LUNCH AT HOTEL and INTERACTION.



15:00 - 15:50 
U.Feige, Volumes in embeddings.

16:05 - 16:40         
C.Chekuri, Deterministic embeddings into dominating trees.  

16:55 - 17:25
M.Elkin, Semi-embeddings with additive distortion.


  TUESDAY, March 5.
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 (Holiday Inn Hotel)

9:30 - 10:20
Y.Rabani, On geometric nearest neighbour.

10:30 - 11:20
S.Rao, Partitioning for metric spaces, and distributed shortest-paths 
       algorithms.   

11:30 - 12:20
U.Zwick, Approximate distance oracles.
of the TBA.   

12:30 -
          EXCURSION TO NATURE, Including getting there/back by a bus, 
          approximately 2-HOUR (MODERATE) WALK, with SANDWICHES before 
          and a DINNER at a restaurant after. 
          LOCATION: TBA (beautiful and secure.)
          

   WEDNESDAY, March 6.  
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   (Haifa University)

9:30  - 10:30
M.Katz, Dense packings, systolic geometry and period map. 
        

10:40 - 11:40
G.Schechtman, Tight linear embeddings of finite-dimensional normed spaces.

11:50 - 12:40
Y.Rabinovich, Graphs and their metrics.


12:40 - 14:00
                LUNCH


14:00 - 14:45
A.Naor, On Markov type of a metric space. 

15:00 - 15:35
C.Chekuri, Metric Labeling.

15:50 - 16:30
Short (~10 min) presentations session.

16:30 - 17:30
              INTERACTION/FREE TIME

17:30 - 19:30    
              RECEPTION at HAIFA UNIVERSITY

20:30 -
Open problems session (Holiday Inn Hotel).


  THURSDAY, March 5.
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 (Holiday Inn Hotel)


9:30  - 10:15
S. Guha, Stream algorithms and embeddings.

10:25 - 11:10
R. Ravi, Application of embedding technique in Approximation Algorithms.

11:20 - 12:05
I.Newman, Outer-planar metrics and beyond.



12:05 - 16:00
                 LUNCH AND INTERACTION             


16:00 - 16:45
M.Deza, Computation of cones of metrics, and cones of
        quasi-, hemi- and , super-  metrics.

16:55 - 17:25
L.Roditty, Round-trip spanners and round-trip routing in directed
           graphs.