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| Sep 19|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~kasarpa/ Kanthi Kiran Sarpatwar] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sep-19-2014 Approximation Algorithms for Container Selection Problems.]
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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 26|| 11:00-12:00 PM|| CSIC2117|| [http://people.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~mehlhorn/ Kurt Mehlhorn] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sep-26-2014 Certifying Computations: Algorithmics meets Software Engineering]
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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 3|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~manishp/ Manish Purohit] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-3-2014 Elementary Properties of Geometric Objects in High Dimensions]  
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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 10|| 8:30-5:00 PM|| CSIC2460|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~manishp/tday14.html Assorted Speakers]|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~manishp/tday14.html Maryland Theory Day]
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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 17|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~amitc/ Amit Chavan]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-17-2014 Random Graphs]
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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 24|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/people/tpensyl Thomas Pensyl]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-24-2014 An Improved Approximation for k-median, and Positive Correlation in Budgeted Optimization]
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| March 17|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 3118|| || Special CATS session for visit day
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| Oct 30|| 2:00-3:00 PM|| AVW4172|| [http://grigory.us/ Grigory Yaroslavtsev]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-31-2014 Parallel Algorithms for Geometric Graph Problems]
 
 
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| Nov 7|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~blucier/ Brendan Lucier]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Nov-7-2014 Duelling Games]  
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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 14|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://crab.rutgers.edu/~guyk/ Guy Kortsarz] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Nov-14-2014 TBA]
 
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| Nov 21|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [TBA] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Nov-21-2014 TBA]
 
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| Dec 5 || 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jshun Julian Shun] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Dec-5-2014 A Framework for Processing Large Graphs in Shared Memory]
 
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| Dec 12|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [TBA] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Dec-12-2014 TBA]
 
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| Dec 19|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [TBA] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Dec-17-2014 TBA]
 
 
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(*) Sponsored by CS Dept and Northrop Grumman.
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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-2014 Spring 2014]
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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]
 
* [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]
 
* [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]

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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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