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| Aug 3|| 11:00 AM-12:00 PM|| CSIC 1121|| [http://www.cs.nyu.edu/spencer/ Joel Spencer] || Finding Needles in Exponential Haystacks
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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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| Sept 11|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3118|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~manishp/ Manish Purohit] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sept-10-2015 Approximation Algorithms for Connected Maximum Cut and Related Problems]  
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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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| Sept 25|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3118|| [http://karthikabinavs.xyz Karthik A Sankararaman] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sept-25-2015 Lassere Hierarchy]  
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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 2|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3118|| Pan Xu || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-2-2015 Lassere Hierarchy]
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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 9|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3118|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hossein/ Hossein Esfandiari] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-9-2015 Online Allocation with Traffic Spikes: Mixing Adversarial and Stochastic Models]  
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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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| Oct 30|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3118|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~manishp/ Manish Purohit] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-30-2015 Two Faces of Algorithm Design: Optimization and Learning]
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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 6 || 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3118|| Khoa Trinh || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Nov-6-2015 An Improved Approximation Algorithm for Knapsack Median]  
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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 13|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3118|| Soheil Ehsani || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Nov-13-2015 Online Degree-Bounded Steiner Network Design]
 
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| Nov 20|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| AVW 4424|| Saeed Seddighin ||  [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Nov-20-2015 The power of stochastic modeling, beating theoretically proven lower bounds of optimization problems]
 
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| Dec 4 || 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3118|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~dehghani/ Sina Dehghani] ||  [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Dec-4-2015 Pricing the Cloud]
 
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| Dec 11 || 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3118|| [http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~babis/ Charalampos Tsourakakis]  || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Dec-11-2015 Scalable Large Near-Clique Detection in Large-Scale Networks]
 
 
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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
  
 
==  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-2015 Spring 2015]
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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]
 
* [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]
 
* [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]
 
* [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]
 
* [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]

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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)

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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