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is an extraordinary amount of variation in social behavior within and across
species. However, when phenotypic convergence in behavior (e.g., sociality) is
observed, it begs the question as to…
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Aubrey Kelly Date
October 7th, 2019
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The Matrix Spencer Conjecture asks whether given n symmetric matrices in ℝn×n with eigenvalues in [−1,1] one can always find signs so that their signed sum has singular values bounded by…
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Thomas Rothvoss Date
October 7th, 2019
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This talk surveys the usage of Lagrangian Duality in the design and analysis of auctions. Designing optimal (revenue maximizing) auctions in multi-parameter settings has been among the most active…
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Nikhil Devanur Date
September 30th, 2019
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The ability to learn and produce skilled movements is required for humans to successfully engage with each other and their environment. A principal role of the brain is to guide current, and plan…
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Michael Borich Date
September 30th, 2019
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Glia are the most abundant cell types in the mammalian nervous system. They are integral to normal brain physiology, yet we still understand very little about what functions they perform, how they…
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Steven A. Sloan Date
September 23rd, 2019
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The last 20 years of brain imaging research has revealed the functional organization of the human brain in glorious detail, including dozens of cortical regions each of which is specifically engaged…
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Nancy Kanwisher Date
September 16th, 2019
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Modern online marketplaces feed themselves. They rely on historical data to optimize content and user-interactions, but further, the data generated from these interactions is fed back into the system…
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Shipra Agrawal Date
September 23rd, 2019
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Symmetric properties of distributions arise in multiple settings. For each of these, separate estimators and analysis techniques have been developed. Recently, Orlitsky et al showed that a single…
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Moses Charikar Date
September 9th, 2019
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How the brain makes movements fast, smooth and accurate has remained a mystery. In this talk I will discuss our studies identifying predictive, adaptively scaled activity in a cerebellar output…
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Abigail Person Date
September 9th, 2019
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A central goal in private data analysis is to estimate statistics about an unknown distribution from a dataset possibly containing sensitive information, so that the privacy of any individual…
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Aleksandar Nikolov Date
August 19th, 2019
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We show how to solve linear programs with accuracy epsilon in time n^{omega+o(1)} log(1/epsilon) where omega~2.3728639 is the current matrix multiplication constant. This hits a natural barrier of…
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Yin Tat Lee Date
May 20th, 2019
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will give two lectures introducing abstract polymer models and the cluster
expansion from statistical physics. I will describe some of the original
applications of these tools in statistical…
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Will Perkins Date
May 6th, 2019
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The traveling salesman problem is one of the most fundamental optimization problems. Given n cities and pairwise distances, it is the problem of finding a tour of minimum distance that visits each…
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Ola Svensson Date
April 24th, 2019
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The traveling salesman problem is one of the most fundamental optimization problems. Given n cities and pairwise distances, it is the problem of finding a tour of minimum distance that visits each…
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Ola Svensson Date
April 25th, 2019
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This talk will discuss the principles of epidemiologic thinking and a foundation for population health sciences. Basic epidemiologic concepts including how best to answer a scientific question,…
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Rachel Patzer Date
April 18th, 2019
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Sparse data computations are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Two widely used applications requiring sparse data computations are graph algorithms and linear algebra operations such as Sparse…
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Oded Green Date
April 16th, 2019
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