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| Sep 17|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW3258|| [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ninamf/ Maria-Florina Balcan] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sep-17-2013 The Power of Localization for Active and Passive Learning of Linear Separators]
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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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| Sep 20|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC1122|| [http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~yliang39/ Yingyu Liang] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sep-20-2013 Clustering under Perturbation Resilience]
 
 
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| Sep 27|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC1122|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~rchitnis/ Rajesh Chitnis] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sep-27-2013 List H-Coloring a Graph by Removing Few Vertices]  
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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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| Oct 4|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC1122|| [http://labs.ebay.com/people/kamal-jain/ Kamal Jain] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-4-2013 Algorithmic Game Theory of eBay's Buyer-Selling matching]  
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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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| Oct 11|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC1122|| [http://ect.bell-labs.com/who/dmandrews/ Matthew Andrews] || [to be announced]
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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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| Oct 25|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC1122|| Anshul Sawant || [to be announced]  
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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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| Nov 1|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC1122|| [http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~zhenming/ Zhenming Liu] || [to be announced]
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| March 17|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 3118|| || Special CATS session for visit day
 
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| Nov 15|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC1122|| [http://mhbateni.com/academic/ Mohammad Hossein Bateni] || [to be announced]  
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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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| Nov 22|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC1122|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~gasarch/ William Gasarch] || Pretty good, though still Exponetial, algorithms for 3-SAT and Min Ind Set
 
 
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== Summer 2013 ==
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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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| 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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==  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-2013 Spring 2013]
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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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