ICS Theory Group

CompSci 269S, Fall 2021: Theory Seminar


The Theory Group normally meets Fridays at 1:00pm; this quarter we are meeting in DBH 1427, possibly also streaming through Zoom

Below is this quarter's schedule.

September 24
Organizational meeting
 
October 1
Ofek Gila
Beyond Big O: Teaching Experimental Algorithmics
 
October 8
Ryuto Kitagawa
Low-Span Parallel Algorithms for the Binary-Forking Model
 
October 15
Thorben Tröbst
Recent Advances in Online Matching: Edge-Weighted
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Shashank Uppoor
Algorithmic Fairness
 
October 22
Will Overman
Global Convergence of Multi-Agent Policy Gradient in Markov Potential Games
 
October 29
Shion Fukuzawa
On the 2-Center Problem Under Convex Polyhedral Distance Function
 
November 5
Matt Ferland
Winning the War by (Strategically) Losing Battles: Settling the Complexity of Grundy-Values in Undirected Geography
 
November 12
Evrim Ozel
Fast and Stable Repartitioning of Road Networks
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Anson Nguyen
Recoloring subgraphs of K2n for sports scheduling
 
November 19
Daniel Frishberg
Glauber dynamics and rapid mixing: a survey of problems and techniques
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Hadi Khodabandeh
Online Euclidean Spanners
 
December 3
Martha Osegueda
Geometric Polyhedral Pointset Pattern Matching
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Ramtin Afshar
Spin-the-Bottle Sort and Annealing Sort: Oblivious Sorting via Round-Robin Random Comparisons

Previous quarters' theory seminars