*All seminars held in 122 Gates Hall
at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted* 
  
| Date:
   
    | Speaker | Title | Host | 
| August 28th, 2017 | Laci Vegh, London School of Economics and Political Science | A Simpler and Faster Strongly Polynomial  Algorithm for Generalized Flow Maximization | |
| August 29th, 2017 | Laci Vegh, London School of Economics and Political Science | A Constant-factor Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Traveling Salesman Problem | NOTE: 4:15pm 253 Rhodes Hall* | 
| September 4th, 2017 | Labor Day | No Theory Seminar | |
| September 11th, 2017 | Yuval Peres, Microsoft Research, Redmond | Trace reconstruction for the deletion channel | Note: Joint talk with Probability Seminar. 4pm in Malott 406 | 
| September 18th, 2017 | Vasilis Gkatzelis, Drexel University | Deferred-Acceptance Auctions: Worst-Case Approximation Guarantees | |
| September 25th, 2017 | Gautam Kamath, MIT | Statistical Hypothesis Testing in the Modern Age | Jayadev Acharya | 
| October 2nd, 2017 | Nageeb Ali, Penn State | A Theory of Self-Enforcing Coalitions | Note: Joint talk with Microeconomic Theory Workshop. 4:15pm in 498 Uris Hall. | 
| October 9th, 2017 | Fall Break | No Theory Seminar | |
| October 16th, 2017 | Renato Paes Leme, Google Research New York | Non-Clairvoyant Mechanism Design | *In Room 114 - The talk is based on joint work with Vahab Mirrokni, Pingzhong Tang and Song Zuo: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2873701 | 
| October 23rd, 2017 | Richard Peng, Georgia Tech | Almost-Linear-Time Algorithms for Markov Chains and New Spectral Primitives for Directed Graphs | This talk is based on https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03270, https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00755, and works in progress. They are joint with Michael B. Cohen, Jon Kelner, Rasmus Kyng, John Peebles, Anup B. Rao, Aaron Sidford, and Adrian Vladu. | 
| October 30th, 2017 | Alex Slivkins, Microsoft Research | Bandits and agents: How to incentivize exploration? | Joint work with Yishay Mansour (Tel Aviv University and MSR Israel), Vasilis Syrgkanis (MSR-NE) and Steven Wu (MSR-NYC). | 
| November 6th, 2017 | Seb Bubeck, Microsoft Research | *In Room 114 | |
| November 13th, 2017 | Luciano Pomatto, Caltech | Note: Microeconomics Worksohp. 4:15pm in 498 Uris Hall | |
| November 20th, 2017 | Aleksander Madry, MIT | ||
| November 27th, 2017 | Scott Aaronson (UT Austin) | Complexity - Theoretic Foundations of Quantum Supremacy Experiments | *4p.m. - This is the Physics Colloquium. It will be held in Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall. | 
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