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A rigorous foundational approach to private data analysis has emerged in theoretical computer science in the last decade, with differential privacy and its close variants playing a central role. We…
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Kunal Talwar Date
04/01/2019
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This talk will examine the proposition that age-related memory problems are largely attributable to declines in attentional resources and executive control. It will illustrate the arguments with…
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Fergus I.M. Craik Date
03/25/2019
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Three dimensions of Cattell's persons by variables by time data box are discussed in the context of three types of researchers each wanting to answer their own categorically different question.…
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Steven M. Boker Date
01/30/2019
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Self-management of chronic conditions increases among older adults at the same time capacity for self-management may diminish. Addressing limitations in prospective memory through strategies…
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Kathleen C. Insel Date
01/16/2019
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The use of mobile technology affords novel opportunities to mitigate temporal, geographic, and personnel constraints imposed by in-person cognitive testing procedures, and to improve temporal…
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Martin J. Sliwinski Date
12/05/2018
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We develop efficient algorithms to approximate the partition function and sample from the hard-core and Potts models on lattices at sufficiently low temperatures in the phase coexistence regime. In…
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Will Perkins Date
11/05/2018
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In this talk we survey some formulations of fairness requirements for decision making under uncertainty. We then discuss results from 3 recent papers:1) Treating individuals fairly is not in conflict…
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Sampath Kannan Date
10/29/2018
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The Paulsen problem is a basic open problem in operator theory. We define a continuous version of the operator scaling algorithm to solve this problem. A key step is to show that the continuous…
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Lap Chi Lau Date
10/15/2018
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Work and family are two core sources of personal identity, facilitating joy, accomplishment, and belonging. At the same time, work and family roles may conflict with one another, resulting in…
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Kimberly French biography
Kimberly French is an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech. Date
09/19/2018
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Ever since the first astronomical telescope observations made by Galileo (1610), optical astronomy has developed increasingly sophisticated methods for exploring the universe using only the …
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David B. Kieda Date
10/01/2018
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List-decoding is an important primitive in the theory of error correcting codes, and it has long been a goal to obtain explicit constructions of capacity-achieving, efficiently list-decodable codes. …
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Mary Wootters biography
Mary Wootters is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Date
10/01/2018
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The Graph Matching problem is a robust version of the Graph Isomorphism problem: given two not-necessarily-isomorphic graphs, the goal is to find a permutation of the vertices which maximizes the…
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Tselil Schramm biography
Tselil Schramm is a postdoc in theoretical computer science at Harvard and MIT. Date
09/24/2018
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Are we alone in the universe? The scientific hunt for extraterrestrial intelligence is now well into its fifth decade, and we still haven’t discovered any cosmic company. Could all this mean…
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Seth Shostak biography
Seth Shostak is a Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute. Date
09/24/2018
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Euclidean k-means clustering, a problem having numerous applications, is NP-hard in the worst case but often solved efficiently in practice using simple heuristics. A quest for understanding the…
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Anand Louis Date
09/10/2018
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Older adults are more likely to fear losing their cognitive abilities than their physical abilities. Fortunately, a growing body of research suggests that cognitive decline isn’t inevitable for…
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George W. Rebok Date
05/02/2018
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We give a deterministic 2^O(rank) approximation algorithm to count the number of bases of a given matroid and the number of common bases of any two matroids. Based on a lower bound of Azar et al.,…
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Nima Anari Date
05/30/2018
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