Aug 23 2018

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Automated Biometric Identification of Individual Cheetahs and Leopards

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Thursday, August 23, 2018 - Saturday, August 25, 2018
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Fred Roberts | Barbara Cozzens | Stuart Pimm
Over the last few decades many large carnivore species have undergone drastic declines This is especially true for cheetahs and leopards which have seen range reductions of approximately 83 and 61 respectively To assess the efficacy of conservation efforts we must be able to obtain accurate population estimates at the
Aug 20 2018

Beyond Crypto: A TCS Perspective

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Monday, August 20, 2018 - Monday, August 20, 2018
9:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Yuval Ishai | Guy Rothblum
This workshop is an affiliated event of the Crypto 2018 Conference It is presented under the auspices of the DIMACS Special Focus on Cryptography as part of the DIMACS Simons Collaboration in Cryptography The Crypto 2018 Conference will be preceded by several one day and two day affiliated workshops This
Aug 14 2018

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Global Change and Vector-borne Diseases: Mapping Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Tuesday, August 14, 2018 - Thursday, August 16, 2018
8:15 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Introduction Emerging infectious diseases EIDs are responsible for a significant burden of morbidity and mortality across the globe and they directly threaten human health security Across many parts of the United States for example a diversity of potentially debilitating tick borne infections anaplasmosis babesiosis ehrlichiosis Lyme disease and spotted fever
Aug 13 2018

DIMACS/TRIPODS Workshop on Optimization and Machine Learning

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Monday, August 13, 2018 - Wednesday, August 15, 2018
8:45 AM - 5:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Edo Liberty | Han Liu | Stefanie Jegelka | Francesco Orabona | Frank Curtis | Martin Takáč | Katya  Scheinberg | Satyen Kale

The DIMACS TRIPODS workshop on Optimization in Machine Learning is being held at Lehigh University in association with two related events It is immediately preceded by a three day summer school for doctoral students interested in improving their theoretical and practical skills related to optimization approaches in machine learning The

Aug 06 2018

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Urban Environmental Sustainability in a Smart and Connected World

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Monday, August 6, 2018 - Wednesday, August 8, 2018
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Andrew Grundstein | Deepak Mishra | Laksmish Ramaswamy | Margaret (Midge) Cozzens
Urban areas account for nearly 80 of heat trapping GHG emissions yet emissions are highly varied both within and across cities depending on each city s mix of population and energy consumption features Techniques for estimating future emissions under a range of population growth and urban development scenarios will be
Jul 25 2018

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Mathematics of Planet Earth - The Future

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Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - Friday, July 27, 2018
7:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Fred Roberts

In 2013 13 North American mathematical sciences research institutes including the DIMACS Center based at Rutgers launched a year on mathematics and its applications to the problems of the planet called Mathematics of Planet Earth MPE That became a world wide activity with involvement of universities the private sector professional

Jul 20 2018

Symbolic Evaluation of Determinants and Rhombus Tilings of Holey Hexagons

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Friday, July 20, 2018
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar
Presenter(s): Elaine Wong - Austrian Academy of Sciences || Christoph Koutschan - Austrian Academy of Sciences
We investigate a curious determinant that was first mentioned by George Andrews in 1980 in the context of descending plane partitions. It is found to be a special instance of
Jul 20 2018

How to Generate all Possible WZ-pairs Algorithmically?

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Friday, July 20, 2018
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar
Presenter(s): Shaoshi Chen - KLMM, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Wilf-Zeilberger theory has become a bridge between symbolic computation and combinatorics. Through this bridge, not only classical combinatorial identities from handbooks and long-standing conjectures in enumerative combinatorics are proved
Jul 05 2018

Mathematical Modeling of Cardiovascular Dynamics during Orthostatic Stress

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Thursday, July 5, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Nakeya Williams - West Point
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos

This study develops a non-pulsatile model, from the integration of a pulsatile model, for the prediction of blood ow and pressure during orthostatic stress. Patients su ering from orthostatic intolerance,

Jun 28 2018

Wagering Games

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Thursday, June 28, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): David Pennock - Microsoft Research
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
In one online contest, the average prediction of 2231 people beat all but 0.3 of individual players. This is a striking, yet typical, example of the wisdom of crowds. I
Jun 19 2018

A taste of celestial mechanics

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Tuesday, June 19, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Charles Fefferman - Princeton University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
The talk presents some classical problems and results about N points in R 3 that attract one another by gravity according to Newton s laws think of the Solar System.
Jun 18 2018

MPE 2013+ Workshop: IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN: Employing Citizen Science to Map Reptile and Amphibian Distributions

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Monday, June 18, 2018 - Wednesday, June 20, 2018
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Niki Cagle | David Black
Amphibians and reptiles collectively herpetofauna or herps are declining faster than any other group of animals on the planet Scientists now estimate that one in four of the nation s amphibian and reptile species are at risk of extinction Many of these species are highly sensitive to temperature fluctuations and
Jun 12 2018

DIMACS Workshop on ADMM and Proximal Splitting Methods in Optimization

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018 - Thursday, June 14, 2018
- 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Jean-Paul Watson | Jonathan Eckstein | Farid Alizadeh | David L. Woodruff

In the past decade the alternating direction method of multipliers ADMM and related algorithms have gained significant popularity for convex optimization problems arising from areas such as machine learning and analysis of big data image processing and stochastic optimization ADMM based approaches to stochastic programming have recently been applied in

Jun 12 2018

Ligero: Lightweight Sublinear Zero-Knowledge Arguments

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Tuesday, June 12, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Muthu Venkitasubramaniam - University of Rochester
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
Succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge ZK argument of knowledge or zk-SNARKs, a variant of ZK proof systems, have recently gained a lot of attention as a tool that enables anonymity and integrity
Jun 11 2018

Not in My Back Yard (NIMBY): Mathematical and Computational Tools for Decision Making

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Monday, June 11, 2018 - Friday, June 15, 2018
12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Eugene Fiorini | Margaret (Midge) Cozzens
Not in My Backyard explores how mathematical tools can be used to consider social and environmental justice when making decisions like where to put a toxic waste dump Often such facilities are located in economically depressed areas based on priorities that further disadvantage those who are already disadvantaged Similar to
Jun 06 2018

Trans-disciplinary adventures in the mathematical biology of networks: from disease outbreaks to cyber attacks

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Wednesday, June 6, 2018
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Nina Fefferman - University of Tennessee
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
Networks appear throughout nature, from the connections between cells to the chemical signals between neurons to communication between animals and plants. Mathematical analysis of the structure and behaviors of these
May 25 2018

MPE 2013+ Workshop on Developing Sustainability Modules for the Community College Classroom

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Friday, May 25, 2018 - Saturday, May 26, 2018
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Eugene Fiorini | Katrina Palmer
A key mission of the Mathematics of Planet Earth program is to increase the engagement of mathematics and mathematicians researchers teachers students and the public with issues of planet Earth and in particular creating a sustainable society and economic system Encouraging mathematics teachers at all levels to create and use
May 16 2018

DIMACS Advisory Board Meeting

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Type: Meetings
Organizer(s): Rebecca  Wright
May 16 2018

DIMACS Advisory Board Meeting

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Wednesday, May 16, 2018
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Meetings
May 02 2018

Set Cover in Sub-linear Time

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Wednesday, May 2, 2018
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Theoretical Computer Science Seminar
Presenter(s): Sepideh Mahabadi - Columbia University
Given access to a collection of $m$ sets over a ground set of $n$ elements, the classic set cover problem asks for the minimum number of sets in the collection