*All seminars held on Mondays in 114 Gates Hall
at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted*
Date
& Time
|
Speaker
|
Title
|
Host
|
| January 29th, 2018 | NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK | *This week, first CS Colloquium of Semester on Thurs, Feb. 1st. Info here: Pravesh Kothari | |
| February 5th, 2018 | Wei-Kai Lin, Cornell University | Cache-Oblivious and Data-Oblivious Sorting and Applications | |
| February 12th, 2018 | *No Theory Seminar | Cancelled | |
| February 19th, 2018 | No Theory Seminar due to February Break | ||
| February 26th, 2018 | Jayadev Acharya, Cornell University | Estimating Symmetric Properties of Distributions: Maximum Likelihood Strikes Back! |
Joint work with Hirakendu Das, Alon Orlitsky, and Ananda Theertha Suresh. |
| March 5th, 2018 | Thodoris Lykouris, Cornell University | Stochastic Bandits Robust to Adversarial Corruptions | Joint work with Vahab Mirrokni and Renato Paes Leme |
| March 12th, 2018 | Jacopo Perego, Columbia | Media Competition and the Source of Disagreement | *Joint Meeting of CS Theory Seminar and Microeconomic Theory Workshop --Will be held in Uris Hall 498 from 4:15p.m.-5:45 p.m. |
| March 19th, 2018 | Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University | Efficiency and Information Aggregation in Heterogeneous Markets | *Joint Meeting of CS Theory Seminar and Microeconomic Theory Workshop. It will be held in Uris Hall 498 from 4:15p.m.-5:45 p.m. |
| March 26th, 2018 | Jin-Yi Cai, University of Wisconsin | Offerings from the Classification Program for Counting Problems |
|
| April 2nd, 2018 | No Theory Seminar due to Spring Break | ||
| April 9th, 2018 | Ilan Komargodski, Cornell Tech | White-Box vs. Black-Box Complexity of Search Problems: Ramsey and Graph Property Testing | |
| April 16th, 2018 | Aaron Wagner, Cornell University | An Operational Measure of Information Leakage in Side Channels |
This is joint work with Ibrahim Issa and Sudeep Kamath. |
| April 23rd, 2018 | Cancelled - No Theory Seminar | Other Option: Distinguished Lecture Series: Engineering & Scientific Culture w/ Radhika Nagpal | 101 Phillips Hall at 4:45 p.m. - Food provided prior to the event. |
| April 30th, 2018 | Dylan Foster, Cornell University | Online Learning, Probabilistic Inequalities, and the Burkholder Method | |
| May 7th, 2018 | Sylvain Chassang, New York University | *Joint Meeting of CS Theory Seminar and Microeconomic Theory Workshop | Note* Will be held in Uris Hall 498 from 4:15p.m.-5:45 p.m. |
| May 18th, 2018 | Madhu Sudan, Harvard University |
General Strong Polarization |
*Room 122 at 3:15 p.m. |
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