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 |