*All seminars held in 122 Gates Hall
at 4:00 pm unless otherwise noted*
Date
& Time
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Speaker
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Title
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Host
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| January 30th, 2017 | No Theory Seminar | See short course by Vasilis Syrgkanis |
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| February 6th, 2017 | Rad Niazadeh, Cornell | Bernoulli Factories and Bayesian Mechanism Design | Bobby Kleinberg |
| February 13th, 2017 | No Theory Seminar |
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February 20th, 2017 |
February Break! |
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February 27th, 2017 |
Muthu Venkitasubramaniam, University of Rochester |
Equivocating Yao: Constant-Rounds Adaptively Secure Multiparty Computation in the Plain Model |
Elaine Shi |
March 6th, 2017 |
Daniel Freund, Cornell | Pricing and Optimization in Shared Vehicle Systems: Queuing Models and Approximation Algorithms |
Eva Tardos |
| March 13th, 2017 | Tim Riley, Cornell | The word problem, extreme compression, hydra groups, and magical salmon |
Bobby Kleinberg |
| March 20th, 2017 | Canceled |
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March 27th, 2017
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Nika Haghtalab, Carnegie Mellon | Oracle-efficient Online Learning and Applications to Auction Design |
Joint Meeting with Probability Seminar in Malott 406 |
April 3rd, 2017 |
Spring Break! | ||
April 10th, 2017 |
Sam Hopkins, Cornell |
Sample-optimal inference, the method of moments, and community detection | Bobby Kleinberg |
April 17th, 2017 |
Yang Yuan, Cornell |
Convergence Analysis of Two-layer Neural Networks with ReLU Activation |
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| April 24th, 2017 | Cris Moore, Santa Fe Institute | Bobby Klieinberg | |
| May 1st, 2017 | Rediet Abebe, Cornell and Pooya Jalaly, Cornell |
Fair Division via Social Comparison Simple and Efficient Budget Feasible Mechanisms for Monotone Submodular Valuations |
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May 8th, 2017 *Joint talk with Probability Seminar* 406 Malott Hall |
Eric Vigoda, Georgia Tech |
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