School of Technology and Computer Science

Past events

Optimization for Derandomization: Polynomial Identity Testing, Geodesically Convex Optimization and More
Speaker:
Ankit Garg (Microsoft Research New England 1 Memorial Dr. Cambridge, MA 02142 United States of America)
Organiser:
Prahladh Harsha
Date:
Wednesday, 10 Jan 2018, 14:30 to 15:30
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Theoretical Guarantees for MCMC Algorithms
Speaker:
Raaz Dwivedi (University of California, Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Berkeley, CA United States of America)
Organiser:
Hariharan Narayanan
Date:
Tuesday, 9 Jan 2018, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Beyond Parametric Models: Robust Machine Learning with Permutation-based Models
Speaker:
Ashwin Pananjady (University of California, Berkeley Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Berkeley, CA United States of America)
Organiser:
Rahul Vaze
Date:
Monday, 8 Jan 2018, 14:00 to 15:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Parametric Shortest Paths in Directed Graphs
Speaker:
Kshitij Gajjar
Organiser:
Anamay Tengse
Date:
Friday, 5 Jan 2018, 17:15 to 18:45
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

Outlier Detection Via Dimension Reduction
Speaker:
Parikshit Gopalan (VMware Research 3425 Hillview Ave. Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States of America)
Organiser:
Jaikumar Radhakrishnan
Date:
Tuesday, 2 Jan 2018, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

On the Exact Amount of Missing Information that makes Finding Possible Winners Hard
Speaker:
Palash Dey
Organiser:
Anamay Tengse
Date:
Friday, 29 Dec 2017, 17:15 to 18:15
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

Network Verification -- When Clarke Meets Cerf
Speaker:
George Varghese (University of California Los Angeles Department of Computer Science 4531C Boulter Hall CA 90095 United States of America)
Organiser:
Piyush Srivastava
Date:
Thursday, 28 Dec 2017, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Monotone Circuit Lower Bounds from Resolution
Speaker:
Pritish Kamath (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. The Stata Center, Building 32 32 Vassar Street Cambridge, MA 02139 United States of America)
Organiser:
Ramprasad Saptharishi
Date:
Thursday, 28 Dec 2017, 14:00 to 15:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar

Security of Cyber-Physical Systems
Speaker:
Bharadwaj Satchidanandan (Texas A&M University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering 400 Bizzell St. College Station, TX 77843 United States of America)
Organiser:
Gowtham Raghunath Kurri
Date:
Friday, 22 Dec 2017, 15:00 to 16:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Student Seminar

Phase Transitions in Hard-core Models
Speaker:
Kavita Ramanan (Brown University Department of Applied Mathematics 182, George Street Providence, RI 02912 United States of America)
Organiser:
Sandeep K Juneja
Date:
Thursday, 21 Dec 2017, 16:00 to 17:00
Venue:
A-201 (STCS Seminar Room)
Category:
STCS Seminar