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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Algorithms & Randomness Center (ARC)
Fall 2016 Colloquium Series
Mondays at 11am in Klaus 1116 East
September 12 Shayan Oveis Gharan - University of Washington
Title: Strongly Rayleigh Distributions and their Applications in Algorithm Design
September 19 ARC Faculty Research Lunch with Chris Rozell (at noon in Klaus 2222)
September 26 David Karger - MIT
Title: A Fast and Simple Unbiased Estimator for Network (Un)reliability
October 3 Brendan Lucier - Microsoft
Title: Prices, Auctions, and Combinatorial Prophet Inequalities
October 10 No Talk – Fall Break
October 17 Alina Ene - Boston University
Title: Recent progress on minimizing decomposable submodular functions
October 24 ARC10: 9:30 am–1:30 pm
Featuring ARC-IDEaS Distinguished Lecturer:
Additional speakers:
October 31 Ankur Moitra - MIT
Title: Revisiting Robust Statistics
November 7 Sofya Raskhodnikova - Penn State
Title: Differentially Private Analysis of Graphs
November 14 David Zuckerman - UT Austin
Title: Explicit Two-Source Extractors and Resilient Functions
November 21 No Talk – Thanksgiving Week
November 28 Rasmus Kyng - Yale
Title: Approximate Gaussian Elimination for Laplacians: Fast, Sparse, and Simple
