*All seminars held in 310 Gates Hall
at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted*
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Date
& Time |
Speaker |
Title |
Host |
| February 1st, 2016 | Aaron Potechin, MIT | Sum of squares lower bounds for planted clique |
Eva Tardos |
| February 8th, 2016 | No Theory Seminar | ||
| February 15th, 2016 | No Theory Seminar | February Break |
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February 22nd, 2016 (joint ECE colloquium) ***Phillips Hall 233*** |
Asu Ozdaglar, MIT | ||
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February 29th, 2016 (joint Probability Seminar) ***MALOTT 406*** |
Eva Tardos |
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March 7th, 2016 |
No Theory Seminar |
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| March 14th, 2016 | Pravesh Kothari, UT Austin | Exponential Lower Bounds for Strong Convex Relaxations for Approximate Constraint Satisfaction |
David Steurer |
| March 21st, 2016 | Sam Hopkins, Cornell | Fast spectral algorithms from sum-of-squares proofs | |
| March 28th, 2016 | No Theory Seminar | Spring Break |
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April 4th, 2016 |
No Theory Seminar | ||
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April 11th, 2016 |
No Theory Seminar |
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April 18th, 2016 |
Aaron Sidford, Microsoft |
A Faster Cutting Plane Method and its Implications for Combinatorial and Convex Optimization |
David Steurer |
| April 25th, 2016 | Jamie Morgenstern, UPenn | Compression Schemes: Bounding the Pseudo-Dimension of Simple Auctions | Eva Tardos |
| May 2nd, 2016 | No Theory Seminar | ||
| May 9th, 2016 | Eshan Chattopadhyay, UTexas | David Steurer | |
| May 16th, 2016 | Anke van Zuylen, William & Mary | Eva Tardos |
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