TGIF
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Spring 2007 Schedule
Fridays, 3:30pm, 373 Soda, unless otherwise specified.
- January 19, Alexandre on counting triangulations on a grid
- January 26, Grant on a non-standard introduction to coding theory
- February 2, Hoeteck on property testing
- February 9, Madhur on parallel repetition
- February 16, Theory Retreat
- February 23, Alexandre on playing against the multi-armed bandit
- March 2, Lorenzo on singular value decompositions
- March 10, Omid on the infinity lemma
- March 17, Oriana on convex recolorings of phylogenetic trees
- March 24, No TGIF
- March 31, Spring Break
- April 6, Brighten on balls and bins with structured choices
- April 13, Costis on connectivity and equilibrium in random games
- April 20, BAGT
- April 27, Henry on simple routing schemes in the preferential attachment model
- May 4, Grant on lower bounds for locally decoded codes
- May 11, Sam on TBA
Fall 2006 Schedule
Fridays, 1:30pm, 380 Soda, unless otherwise specified.
- September 1, Madhur on inapproximability results for Lovasz-Schrjver procedures
- September 8, Lorenzo on dimension reduction
- September 15, Omid on refutation of random SAT formulas
- September 22, Alex on complexity of game dynamics
- September 29, BAGT
- October 6, Kamalika on embeddings with low average distortion
- October 13, Dan on dissecting a square
- October 20, FOCS
- October 27, Mani on wonderful approximations
- November 3, Brighten on open problem session
- November 10, Veteran's Day
- November 17, Costis on preferential attachment with fitness
- December 1, BATS
- December 8, Henry on Polya urn with power of choice