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The I'm W.O.K.E. Project - Widening Option through Knowledge and Empowerment

The I'm W.O.K.E. Project - Widening Option through Knowledge and EmpowermentTonya Clarke, Charlene Matthew, Tiffanie Nealy, and Alana Pittman The “I'm W.O.K.E. Project” improves…

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Wesley Pegden - Detecting gerrymandering with mathematical rigor

In recent years political parties have more and more expertly crafted political districtings to favor one side or another, while at the same time, entirely new techniques to detect and measure…

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Grigoris Paouris - Concentration and Convexity, Part 3

The Concentration of measure phenomenon is a fundamental tool of high dimensional probability and of Asymptotic Geometric Analysis. Independence or Isoperimetry are two typical reasons for the…

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Grigoris Paouris - Concentration and Convexity, Part 2

The Concentration of measure phenomenon is a fundamental tool of high dimensional probability and of Asymptotic Geometric Analysis. Independence or Isoperimetry are two typical reasons for the…

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Elisabeth Werner - Floating Bodies and Approximation, Part 3

Two important closely related notions in affine convex geometry are the floating body and the affine surface area of a convex body. The floating body of a convex body is obtained by cutting off caps…

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Alexander Koldobsky - Fourier analysis in geometric tomography, Part 3

Geometric tomography is the study of geometric properties of solids based on data about sections and projections of these solids. The lectures will include: 1. An outline of proofs of two of the main…

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Alexander Koldobsky - Fourier analysis in geometric tomography, Part 2

Geometric tomography is the study of geometric properties of solids based on data about sections and projections of these solids. The lectures will include: 1. An outline of proofs of two of the…

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Elisabeth Werner - Floating Bodies and Approximation, Part 2

Two important closely related notions in affine convex geometry are the floating body and the affine surface area of a convex body. The floating body of a convex body is obtained by cutting off…

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Grigoris Paouris - Concentration and Convexity, Part 1

The Concentration of measure phenomenon is a fundamental tool of high dimensional probability and of Asymptotic Geometric Analysis. Independence or Isoperimetry are two typical reasons for the…

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Alexander Koldobsky - Fourier analysis in geometric tomography, Part 1

Geometric tomography is the study of geometric properties of solids based on data about sections and projections of these solids. The lectures will include: 1. An outline of proofs of two of the…

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Elisabeth Werner - Floating Bodies and Approximation, Part 1

Two important closely related notions in affine convex geometry are the floating body and the affine surface area of a convex body. The floating body of a convex body is obtained by cutting off…

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Rafael de la Llave - An introduction to KAM theory II: The twist theorem

The KAM (Kolmogorov Arnold and Moser) theory studies the persistence of quasi-periodic solutions under perturbations. It started from a basic set of theorems and it has grown into a systematic…

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Rafael de la Llave - An introduction to KAM theory: I the basics

The KAM (Kolmogorov Arnold and Moser) theory studies the persistence of quasi-periodic solutions under perturbations. It started from a basic set of theorems and it has grown into a systematic…

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Sivakanth Gopi - Locally decodable codes and arithmetic progressions in random settings

(1) A set D of natural numbers is called t-intersective if every positive upper density subset A of natural numbers contains a (t+1)-length arithmetic progression (AP) whose common differences is in…

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Gabor Lugosi - Combinatorial Testing Problems

In these lectures we discuss some statistical problems with an interesting combinatorial structure behind. We start by reviewing the "hidden clique" problem, a simple prototypical example…

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Lutz Warnke - Large girth approximate Steiner triple systems

In 1973 Erdos asked whether there are n-vertex partial Steiner triple systems with arbitrary high girth and quadratically many triples. (Here girth is defined as the smallest integer g \ge 4 for…

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