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== '''Capital Area Theory Seminar''' ==
 
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| Aug 2|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW4172|| [http://i.cs.hku.hk/~hubert/ Hubert Chan] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Aug-02-2013 Revisiting the Ranking Algorithm for Greedy Randomized Matching on Arbitrary Graphs]
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| Feb 3, Feb 10|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 3118|| [https://karthikabinavs.xyz Karthik A Sankararaman] || Introduction to Sum-of-Squares (Reading from lecture notes by Boaz Barak)
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| Jan 25|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW4172|| [http://www.tks.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/monemizadeh Morteza Monemizadeh] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Jan-25-2013 Property Testing in Planar Graphs and Euclidean Facility Location in the Streaming Model]
 
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| Feb 1|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW2120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~khani/ Reza Khani] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-01-2013 Movement Repairman Problem]
 
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| Feb 15|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW4172 || [http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~dmalec/ David Malec] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-15-2013 Approximations in Bayesian optimal multi-dimensional mechanism design]
 
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| Feb 22|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW2120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~koyelm/ Koyel Mukherjee] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-22-2013 To send or not to send: Reducing the cost of data transmission]
 
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| Mar 1|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW4172|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~kasarpa/Welcome.html Kanthi Kiran Sarpatwar] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Mar-01-2013 New Approximation Results for Resource Replication Problems]
 
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| Mar 8|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW2120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rchitnis/ Rajesh Chitnis] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Mar-08-2013 New Connections between Fixed-Parameter Algorithms and Approximation Algorithms]
 
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| Mar 15|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW4172|| [http://users.eecs.northwestern.edu/~nickle/ Nicole Immorlica] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Mar-15-2013 The Degree of Segregation in Social Networks]
 
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| Mar 29|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW2120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~vliaghat/ Vahid Liaghat] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Mar-29-2013 Improvements for Prize Collecting Steiner Connectivity Problems]
 
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| Apr 5|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW4172|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~vliaghat/ Vahid Liaghat] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Apr-05-2013 Online Node-Weighted Steiner Connectivity Problems]
 
 
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| Apr 12|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSI3117|| [http://www2.research.att.com/~dsj/ David Johnson] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Apr-12-2013 The Combinatorics of Hidden Diversity]  
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| Feb 17|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| AVW 3258|| [http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~kothari/ Pravesh Kothari] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-17-2017  Approximate Constraint Satisfaction Requires Sub-exponential Size Linear Programs]
 
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| Apr 17|| 9:00-10:00 AM|| AVW4172 || [http://www.research.att.com/people/Karloff_Howard_J/?fbid=0gJQQVm-4ux Howard J. Karloff] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Apr-17-2013 Maximum Entropy Summary Trees]  
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| Feb 24|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 3118|| Tongyang Li || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-24-2017  Classical and quantum query complexity of entropy estimation]
 
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| Apr 19|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW4172 || [http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/nikolova/ Evdokia Nikolova] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Apr-19-2013 Risk in Routing Games]
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| March 3|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 3118|| Ahmed Abdelkader ||Max-Cut algorithm using SoS (Reding from lecture notes by Boaz Barak)
 
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| Apr 26|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW4172|| Thomas Pensyl, Khoa Trinh || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Apr-26-2013 The breakthrough on k-median by Li and Svensson]  
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| March 10|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 3118|| Aditya Acharya || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Mar-10-2017 Hadwiger Debrunner problem on convex sets, and a special case]
 
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| May 3|| 11:00-12:00 AM|| CSI1122|| [http://theory.stanford.edu/~tim/ Tim Roughgarden] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-May-3-2013  Porting the Computer Science Toolbox to Game Theory and Economics]
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| March 17|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 3118|| || Special CATS session for visit day
 
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| May 10|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW4172 || [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/slivkins/ Alex Slivkins] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-May-10-2013 Reconstructing Latent Similarities in a Multiplex Social Network]  
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| March 31|| 12:00PM-1:00PM || AVW 3258 || Khoa Trinh || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Mar-31-2017 Approximation Algorithms for Facility Location and Clustering Problems ( Dissertation Defense)]
 
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| May 13|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW3258 || [http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~jochen/ Jochen Koenemann] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-May-13-2013 Network Diffusion & Node-Weighted Steiner Trees]
 
 
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(*) Sponsored by CS Dept and Northrop Grumman.
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Access a google calendar for this series at: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=d58efrcl8l81c4utn77s88fijs%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Toronto
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(**) Supported in part by NSF CAREER award 1053605, NSF grant CCF-1161626, ONR YIP award N000141110662, DARPA/AFOSR grant FA9550-12-1-0423, and a grant from Simons Foundation.
 
  
 
==  CATS Talks from previous semesters ==
 
==  CATS Talks from previous semesters ==
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* [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Spring-2016 Spring 2016] [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Fall-2016 Fall 2016]
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* [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Spring-2015 Spring 2015] [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Fall-2015 Fall 2015]
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* [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Spring-2014 Spring 2014] [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Fall-2014 Fall 2014]
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* [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Spring-2013 Spring 2013] [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Summer-2013 Summer 2013] [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Fall-2013 Fall 2013]
 
* [http://www.cs.umd.edu/areas/Theory/CATS/catss12.html Spring 2012] [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Fall-2012 Fall 2012]
 
* [http://www.cs.umd.edu/areas/Theory/CATS/catss12.html Spring 2012] [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Fall-2012 Fall 2012]
 
* [http://www.cs.umd.edu/areas/Theory/CATS/catss11.html Spring 2011]  [http://www.cs.umd.edu/areas/Theory/CATS/catsf11.html Fall 2011]
 
* [http://www.cs.umd.edu/areas/Theory/CATS/catss11.html Spring 2011]  [http://www.cs.umd.edu/areas/Theory/CATS/catsf11.html Fall 2011]

Latest revision as of 14:55, 16 March 2017

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)

Access a google calendar for this series at: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=d58efrcl8l81c4utn77s88fijs%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/Toronto

CATS Talks from previous semesters[edit]

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