Speakers for the Spring Semester 2014
January 28
Esther Ezra (NYU)
Geometric Discrepancy Via the Entropy Method
February 7, 3 pm, 317 Mudd
!!! Please note the unusual day, time and location !!!
Julia Chuzhoy (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)
Polynomial Bounds for the Grid-Minor Theorem
February 11
Krzysztof Choromanski
(Google Research)
Semiconsistent rankings of objects and the Erdos-Hajnal Conjecture
February 18
Yared Nigussie (Columbia)
Hall's marriage theorem and finite structures
February 25
Choongbum Lee (MIT)
Two approaches to Sidorenko's conjecture
March 4
no seminar
March 11
Sonja Mapes (University of Notre Dame)
Minimal resolutions of rigid monomial ideals
March 18
no seminar --- Spring Break
March 27, 11:30 am, 633 Mudd
!!! Please note the unusual day, time and place!
Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley)
Quartic Spectrahedra
April 1
no seminar
April 8
Yuval Filmus (IAS)
The structure of almost linear Boolean functions
April 15
no seminar --- Passover
April 22
David P. Moulton (Center for Communications Research, Princeton, NJ)
Are Maximal Non-Hamiltonian Graphs Spanned by Thetas?
April 29
Peter Maceli (Columbia)
Coloring Graphs with Forbidden Induced Subgraphs
Past Talks
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