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| Sept 11|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://karthikabinavs.xyz/ Karthik A Sankararaman] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sept-11-2015 Lassere Hierarchy]
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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 21|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~abraka/ Katarzyna Paluch] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Jan-21-2015 Maximum ATSP with Weights Zero and One via Half-Edges]
 
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| Jan 22|| 11:00-12:00 PM|| '''CSIC3118'''|| Howard Karloff || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Jan-22-2015 Variable Selection is Hard] 
 
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| Feb 6|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/people/ngupta12 Neal Gupta ] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-6-2015 Foundations of Clustering] 
 
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| Feb 13|| '''2:30-3:30 PM'''|| '''AVW3258'''|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~manishp Manish Purohit ] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-13-2015  Vertex Connectivity under Sampling] 
 
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| Feb 19|| '''11:00-12:00 PM'''|| '''AVW4172'''|| [http://people.csail.mit.edu/dmoshkov/ Dana Moshkovitz ] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-19-2015  Hard Problems in Hardness of Approximation: Sharp Thresholds, Parallel Repetition and Unique Games] 
 
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| Feb 20|| '''11:00-12:00 PM'''|| '''CSI3117'''|| [http://scottaaronson.com/ Scott Aaronson ] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-20-2015  Exploring the limits of the Efficiently Computable] 
 
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| Feb 27|| '''1:00-2:00 PM'''|| '''CSI3120'''|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~kabinav/ Karthik Abinav Sankararaman ] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Feb-27-2015 Spectral Sparsification]
 
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| Apr 3|| '''1:00-2:00 PM'''|| '''CSI3120'''|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu Brian Brubach ] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Apr-3-2015 Space-efficient Local Computation Algorithms]
 
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| Apr 10|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/bdsullivan/ Blair Sullivan]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Apr-10-2015  Models to Motifs: A Graph Structure Success Story]
 
 
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| Apr 24|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://www.cs.umd.edu/~akader/ Ahmed Abdelkader]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Apr-24-2015 Convexity, Colors, LP and PPAD]  
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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 30|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| '''AVW4172'''|| [http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view.php?person=us-dpwoodru David Woodruff]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Apr-30-2015 Sketching as a Tool for Numerical Linear Algebra]  
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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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| May 8|| '''3:00-4:00 PM'''|| '''CSIC3117'''|| [http://people.csail.mit.edu/costis/ Constantinos Daskalakis]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-May-8-2015  Computing on Strategic Inputs]
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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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| 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 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|| 2:00-3:00 PM|| AVW4172|| [http://grigory.us/ Grigory Yaroslavtsev]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-30-2014 Parallel Algorithms for Geometric Graph Problems]
 
 
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| Nov 7|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| [http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/brlucier/ Brendan Lucier]|| [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Nov-7-2014  Non-Bayesian Learning in Sparse and Expansive Networks]
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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 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 The Interesting Behavior of the Source Location Problem.]  
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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 21|| 1:00-2:00 PM|| CSIC3120|| Brian Brubach || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Nov-21-2014 Frequency Moments of Data Streams]
 
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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 Large-Scale Parallel Graph Algorithms]
 
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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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(*) 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-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]

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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