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/Abstract: Interior point methods are algorithms that optimize convex functions over high dimensional convex sets. Read more about Randomized Interior Point Methods for Sampling and Optimization
(Deterministic) Communication Amid Uncertainty Colloquium Speaker: Madhu SudanTime: Tuesday, 20 November 2012, 14:00 to 15:00 Venue: AG69 Most natural communication among humans is characterized by a lack of perfect understanding among the communicating players. Read more about (Deterministic) Communication Amid Uncertainty