CATS
Capital Area Theory Seminar
Spring 2017
| 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) |
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CATS Talks from previous semesters
- Spring 2016 Fall 2016
- Spring 2015 Fall 2015
- Spring 2014 Fall 2014
- Spring 2013 Summer 2013 Fall 2013
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- Spring 1996 Summer 1996 Fall 1996
- Fall 1995