Theory Seminar & talks
2010-2011
Academic Year



Date Event / Seminar
Tuesday
May 31, 2011
Theory Seminar
Bridging Shannon and Hamming: Codes for computationally simple channels
Venkat Guruswami (CMU)
10:00am, 4310 CS
Friday
May 27, 2011
Theory Seminar
Optimal Auction Design with Correlated Valuations
Hu Fu (Cornell University)
11:00am, 4310 CS
Friday
May 20, 2011
Theory Seminar
Covering demands with intervals
Venkat Chakaravarthy (IBM Research, New Delhi)
2:00pm, 3310 CS
Wednesday
May 18, 2011
Preliminary Exam
Approximation in Bayesian Mechanism Design
David Malec
2:00pm, 4310 CS
Friday
April 29, 2011
Theory Seminar
Optimal Crowdsourcing Contests
Balu Sivan
4:00pm, 3310 CS
Friday
April 1, 2011
Theory Seminar
Secretary Problems with Convex Costs
Seeun Umboh
4:00pm, 3310 CS
Tuesday
November 16, 2010
Theory Seminar
Contribution Games in Social Networks
Elliot Anshelevich (RPI)
1:00pm, 3310 CS
(Cookies during talk)
Thursday
October 28, 2010
Theory Seminar
Randomized Local Embeddings
Ben Recht
4:00pm, 3310 CS
Friday
October 22, 2010
Theory Seminar
The Lov\'{a}sz Local Lemma Constructive
Barna Saha (University of Maryland, College Park)
11:00am, 4310 CS
(Cookies during talk)
Monday
September 13, 2010
Theory Seminar
Reducing Baysian Mechanism Design to Algorithm Design
Azarakhsh Malekian (Northwestern University)
2:30pm, 4310 CS