Convex Relative Entropy Decay in Markov Chains Seminar Speaker: Venkat AnantharamOrganisers: Sandeep K JunejaTime: Tuesday, 5 August 2014, 16:00 to 17:00 Venue: D-405 (D-Block Seminar Room) Webpage: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ananth/ Read more about Convex Relative Entropy Decay in Markov Chains
Randomized Interior Point Methods for Sampling and Optimization Seminar Speaker: Hariharan NarayananOrganisers: Jaikumar RadhakrishnanTime: Tuesday, 5 August 2014, 14:30 to 15:30 Venue: AG69 Webpage: http://faculty.washington.edu/harin/ Read more about Randomized Interior Point Methods for Sampling and Optimization
Testing the Manifold Hypothesis Seminar Speaker: Hariharan NarayananOrganisers: Jaikumar RadhakrishnanTime: Monday, 4 August 2014, 14:30 to 15:30 Venue: AG-69 Webpage: http://faculty.washington.edu/harin/ Read more about Testing the Manifold Hypothesis
On the Size of Kakeya Sets in Finite Fields Seminar Speaker: Amey BhangaleOrganisers: Gaurav SoodTime: Friday, 1 August 2014, 14:30 to 16:00 Venue: D-405 (D-Block Seminar Room) Webpage: http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/people/directory.php?type=grad&netid=arb182 Read more about On the Size of Kakeya Sets in Finite Fields
Test-Driven Detection and Repair of Data Races in Structured Parallel Programs Seminar Speaker: Vivek SarkarOrganisers: R K ShyamasundarTime: Wednesday, 30 July 2014, 11:30 to 12:30 Venue: AG-80 Webpage: http://vsarkar.blogs.rice.edu/ Read more about Test-Driven Detection and Repair of Data Races in Structured Parallel Programs
On the Structure of Boolean Functions With Small Spectral Norm Student Seminar Speaker: Swagato Sanyal, TIFR Organisers: Nikhil S MandeTime: Friday, 18 July 2014, 14:30 to 16:00 Venue: D-405 Read more about On the Structure of Boolean Functions With Small Spectral Norm
Topology of a Randomly Evolving Erdos Renyi Graph Student Seminar Speaker: Gugan Thoppe, TIFR Time: Friday, 11 July 2014, 14:30 to 16:00 Venue: D-405 (D-Block Seminar Room) Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/gugancth/ Read more about Topology of a Randomly Evolving Erdos Renyi Graph
Communication Complexity VSRP Talk Speaker: Arkadev Chattopadhyay, TIFR Organisers: Rahul VazeTime: Friday, 4 July 2014, 14:30 to 15:30 Venue: AG-80 Webpage: http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~arkadev/ Read more about Communication Complexity
Recent Developments in Simulation-based Stochastic Optimization Wednesday Colloquia Speaker: Peter W. GlynnTime: Wednesday, 2 July 2014, 16:00 to 17:00 Venue: AG-66 (Lecture Theatre) Webpage: http://web.stanford.edu/~glynn/ Read more about Recent Developments in Simulation-based Stochastic Optimization
Private Information Retrieval (PIR) Seminar Speaker: Deepesh Data, TIFR Organisers: Naqueeb Ahmad WarsiTime: Friday, 27 June 2014, 14:30 to 16:00 Venue: D-405 (D-Block Seminar Room) Webpage: http://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~deepeshd/ Read more about Private Information Retrieval (PIR)