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Capital Area Theory Seminar[edit]

Spring 2017[edit]

Date Time Location Speaker Title
Feb 3, Feb 10 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CSIC 3118 Karthik A Sankararaman Introduction to Sum-of-Squares (Reading from lecture notes by Boaz Barak)
Feb 17 1:00 PM-2:00 PM AVW 3258 Pravesh Kothari Approximate Constraint Satisfaction Requires Sub-exponential Size Linear Programs
Feb 24 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CSIC 3118 Tongyang Li Classical and quantum query complexity of entropy estimation
March 3 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CSIC 3118 Ahmed Abdelkader Max-Cut algorithm using SoS (Reding from lecture notes by Boaz Barak)
March 10 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CSIC 3118 Aditya Acharya Hadwiger Debrunner problem on convex sets, and a special case
March 17 1:00 PM-2:00 PM CSIC 3118 Special CATS session for visit day
March 31 12:00PM-1:00PM AVW 3258 Khoa Trinh Approximation Algorithms for Facility Location and Clustering Problems ( Dissertation Defense)

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CATS Talks from previous semesters[edit]