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| Sept 9|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 2107|| [https://karthikabinavs.xyz Karthik A Sankararaman] || Convex Optimization in Small Dimensions (Reading from lecture notes by Sebastien Bubeck)
| 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 23|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 2107|| [http://pha.jhu.edu/~lyang/ Lin Yang] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sept-23-2016 Streaming Symmetric Norms via Measure Concentration]
| 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 30|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 2107|| [https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/mount/ Dave Mount] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Sept-30-2016 Low Complexity Convex Approximation]
| 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 6|| 1:00PM - 2:00PM || AVW 4172 || [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=t3kDJHQAAAAJ&hl=en Michael Cohen] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-6-2016 Computing the Stationary Distribution]
| 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 7|| 11:00AM - 12:00PM || CSIC 2117 || [http://www.immorlica.com/ Nicole Immorlica] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-7-2016 The emergent structure of simple behaviors in complex networks]
| 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 13|| 1:00PM - 2:00 PM || AVW 3258 || [https://barnasaha.net/ Barna Saha] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-13-2016 Language Edit Distance, (min,+)-Matrix Multiplication & Beyond]
| March 17|| 1:00 PM-2:00 PM|| CSIC 3118|| || Special CATS session for visit day
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| Oct 21|| 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM || CSIC 2107 || [http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~jthaler/ Justin Thaler] || [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Oct-21-2016 Approximate Degree, Sign-Rank, and the Method of Dual Polynomials]
| 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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== CATS Talks from previous semesters ==
== CATS Talks from previous semesters ==
* [https://wiki.cs.umd.edu/theory/index.php?title=CATS-Spring-2016 Spring 2016]
* [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]
* [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-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]