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 CSE 590z - Theory Seminar, Spring 2004
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    This seminar meets Tuesdays, 1:30am-2:20pm in MGH 287.
 
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590z this quarter will consist of a mix of external and internal speakers presenting current research.


Talk Schedule     

Day Speaker(s) Title
Oct 5 Nati Linial Expanders: How to construct them and why
Oct 12 Frank McSherry A Spectral Algorithm for Learning General Gaussian Mixtures
Oct 19 Mohammad Mahdian Algorithms for online buffer management
Oct 26 Ning Chen Incentive Compatibility and SemiDynamic Auctions
Nov 2 Nate Segerlind Lower Bounds for Cutting Plane Logics via Communication Complexity --- an introduction to communication methods in proof complexity
Nov 9 Assaf Naor Graph Partitioning, Clustering with Qualitative Information, and Grothendieck-type Inequalities
Nov 16 Ryan O'Donnell Decision Trees Have Large Influences
Nov 23 Amin Saberi On the Spread of Viruses on the Internet
Nov 30 Adi Akavia Proving Hard-Core Predicates Using List Decoding
Dec 7 Kunal Talwar Bypassing the Embedding: Algorithms for low dimensional metrics



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