MSCS Departmental Colloquium

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Departmental Colloquium - Spring 2018

Usually meets Friday at 3:00 pm in SEO 636.

Date	Speaker	Title
January 9	Florian Frick Cornell	Intersections of Finite Sets: Geometry and Topology
January 12	Cyrus Jeffrey DiCiccio Stanford University	Improving Efficiency of Hypothesis Tests via Data Splitting
January 16	Xiongtao Dai The University of California at Davis	Principal Component Analysis for Functional Data on Riemannian Manifolds and Spheres
January 17	Xiaoxiao Sun University of Georgia	Theory Informs Practice: Smoothing Parameters Selection for Smoothing Spline ANOVA Models in Large Samples
January 18	Will Perkins University of Birmingham	Randomized computational problems and the cavity method
January 19	John Wilmes Georgia Institute of Technology	The Complexity of Learning Neural Networks
January 23	Elynn Y. Chen Rutgers University	Constrained Factor Models for High-Dimensional Matrix-Variate Time Series
January 24	Boxiang Wang University of Minnesota	Modern Classification with Big Data
January 25	Ping-Shou Zhong Michigan State University	Unified tests for functional concurrent linear models and the phase transition from sparse to dense functional data
January 26
February 2
February 5	Daniel Lokshtanov University of Bergen	Coping with NP-hardness
February 9
February 16	Joseph M. Landsberg Texas A&M University	On the geometry of matrix multiplication
February 23	Mirela Ciperiani University of Texas at Austin	Divisibility and solvability in the arithmetic of genus one curves.
March 2
March 9	Michael Loss Georgia Institute of Technology	Mark Kac's perspective on kinetic theory
March 16	Avrim Blum Toyota Technology Institute at Chicago	Learning about Agents and Mechanisms from Opaque Transactions
March 23 (3:00 pm; Lecture Center A1)	Joe Harris Harvard	The Maximal Rank Theorem
March 30	Spring Vacation
April 6	Andre Neves University of Chicago and Imperial College London	Wow, so many minimal surfaces!
April 13	Harm Derksen University of Michigan	Constructive Invariant Theory and Noncommutative Rank
April 20	Steve Shkoller University of California at Davis	PDE Methods for the Numerical Simulation of Compressible Fluids
April 27	Adrian Diaconu University of Minnesota	Multiple Dirichlet series and moments of L-functions
May 4	Ramin Takloo-Bighash UIC	TBA (Colloquium in Celebration of 10 years of Atkin Memorial Lectures)

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Departmental Colloquium - Spring 2018