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Jul 20 2017

Counting, Entropy, and Compression

Information: Thursday, July 20, 2017; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | REU Seminar; Presenter(s): Anand Sarwate - Rutgers University; Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos; Description
Information Theory started out as the study of the fundamental limits of data compression and communication. Information-theoretic models for data use simple probabilistic models and derive expressions for the asymptotic

Jul 18 2017

Women in Data Science and Mathematics Research Collaboration Workshop (WiSDM)

Information: Tuesday, July 18, 2017 - Saturday, July 22, 2017; 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): Xu Wang | Sibel Tari | Emina Soljanin | Linda Ness | Deanna Needell | Julie Mitchell | Regina Liu | Kathryn Leonard | Giseon Heo | Ellen Gasparovic | Carlotta Domeniconi; Description
Research Collaboration Workshop for Women in Data Science and Mathematics WiSDM This program will bring together women at all stages of their careers from graduate students to senior researchers to collaborate on problems in data science The scientific focus will be on cutting edge problems in the areas of predictive

Jul 11 2017

Mathematical ecology: A century of progress, and challenges for the next century

Information: Tuesday, July 11, 2017; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | REU Seminar; Presenter(s): Simon Levin - Princeton University; Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos; Description
The subject of theoretical ecology is an old and productive one, and has helped in the management of natural systems and infectious diseases. In the past several decades, much progress

Jul 07 2017

DIMACS Workshop on Outsourcing Computation Securely

Information: Friday, July 7, 2017 - Saturday, July 8, 2017; 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): Guy Rothblum | Michael Walfish | Marina Blanton; Description
In modern computing sensitive computations are routinely outsourced to remote providers This paradigm comes with tremendous promise For example weak individuals and devices can be empowered by access to vast computation resources fine grained data about individuals can be tracked and analyzed to improve services and quality of life and

Jul 05 2017

Why Memory Consistency Models Matter in a World of Parallelism and Shared Memory

Information: Wednesday, July 5, 2017; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | REU Seminar; Presenter(s): Caroline Trippel - Princeton University; Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos; Description
Computer architecture is a mediator between technology and applications. It is what enables us to separate interface i.e., the specification of what services and functionality technology must provide from the

Jun 26 2017

How to compute Pi as Slowly as Possible

Information: Monday, June 26, 2017; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | REU Seminar; Presenter(s): Doron Zeilberger - Rutgers University; Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos; Description
Computing Pi as fast as possible is a science, but computing it as slowly as possible is a fine art.

Jun 20 2017

Kelly Betting and Prediction Markets

Information: Tuesday, June 20, 2017; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | REU Seminar; Presenter(s): David Pennock - Microsoft Research; Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos; Description
Suppose you had 10,000 to invest in a startup that had a 10 chance of succeeding. If the startup succeeded, your investment would multiply by twenty times. But if the

Jun 13 2017

Auditing Black-box Models

Information: Tuesday, June 13, 2017; 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM; Type: Seminars | REU Seminar; Presenter(s): Sorelle Friedler - Haverford College; Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos; Description
Machine learning models are becoming increasingly opaque to human examination, even to their designers. Understanding model predictions is broadly important across public policy, scientific hypothesis generation, and model optimization, and

Jun 11 2017

Reconnect 2017: Mathematical and Computational Tools for Energy Efficiency and Reliability of Data Centers and the Electrical GridIndividual Interests vs. the Common Good

Information: Sunday, June 11, 2017 - Saturday, June 17, 2017; 8:45 AM - 4:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Mark Ginn; Description
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development 2008 indicates that buildings account for as much as 40 percent of energy use in industrialized countries Data centers computing facilities with electronic equipment for data processing storage and communications networking are especially inefficient users of energy The amount of carbon dioxide emitted

Jun 09 2017

Registration and Breakfast

Information: Friday, June 9, 2017; 8:30 AM - 9:30 AM; Type: Seminars

Jun 09 2017

DIMACS Workshop on Complexity of Cryptographic Primitives and Assumptions

Information: Friday, June 9, 2017 - Saturday, June 10, 2017; 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): Tal Malkin | Oded Regev | Shai Halevi | Rosario Gennaro; Description
It is well accepted that the discovery of public key cryptography revolutionized the field of cryptology One of its most long lasting effects has been the development of a solid foundation for the field grounded in the concepts of complexity theory This foundation is arguably one of the reasons for

Jun 06 2017

The OEIS: World's Most Useful Web Site for Math?

Information: Tuesday, June 6, 2017; 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM; Type: Seminars | REU Seminar; Presenter(s): Neil Sloane - The OEIS Foundation; Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos; Description
The OEIS The Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, oeis.org has sometimes been called the most useful math site on the Web. If you have ever run across a number sequence

Jun 06 2017

DIMACS Workshop on Algorithms for Data Center Networks

Information: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 - Thursday, June 8, 2017; 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): Lisa Zhang | Baruch Schieber | Hadas Shachnai; Description
Data center networks DCN have become the nexus of Cloud services providing an infrastructure for effective data sharing among different applications and collaborators DCNs use the innovative paradigm of software defined networks SDN that advocates decoupling the control plane and the data plane of networks Many DCNs support also network

May 18 2017

IMS/ASA Spring Research Conference 2017

Information: Thursday, May 18, 2017 - Saturday, May 20, 2017; 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): Myong K. Jeong | John Kolassa | Regina Liu | Weihong Guo | Elsayed A. Elsayed | Harry Crane | Yasuo Amemiya | Susan Albin | William Strawderman | Han Xiao | Min-ge Xie | Dan Yang | Ying Hung; Description
The Spring Research Conference SRC is sponsored by the American Statistical Association ASA Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences SPES and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics IMS In 2017 the conference is hosted by the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics at Rutgers The goal of the conference is to promote

May 01 2017

How To Avoid a Pattern

Information: Monday, May 1, 2017; 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar; Presenter(s): Yonah Biers-Ariel - Rutgers University; Description
This talk will define permutation pattern avoidance classes and give some (in my opinion) surprising results regarding which patterns are easiest to avoid. Time permitting, we will then discuss pattern

Apr 25 2017

DIMACS/Northeast Big Data Hub Workshop on Privacy and Security for Big Data

Information: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 - Wednesday, April 26, 2017; 9:00 AM - 4:45 PM; Type: Workshops; Organizer(s): RenÃ© BastÃ³n | Joseph Lorenzo Hall | Adam Smith | Sean Smith | Rebecca Wright | Moti Yung; Description
Privacy and security are critical for realizing big data s promise to advance society If data is used without regard to privacy of individuals or protection of the data then individuals may be hurt If data s authenticity is not guaranteed or if data is not permitted to be used

Apr 24 2017

Oriented Matroids

Information: Monday, April 24, 2017; 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar; Presenter(s): Charles Wolf - Rutgers University; Description
Oriented matroids are a class of matroids with a geometric flavor. We will see several examples of these, and find out why you should care about oriented matroids (or at

Apr 17 2017

Threshold(s) for Perfect Matchings in Graphs

Information: Monday, April 17, 2017; 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar; Presenter(s): Aditya Potukuchi - Rutgers University; Description
We will study the quite well known threshold for perfect matchings in G_{n,p}, and (hopefully) hypergraphs. Due to the relatively lengthy nature of these proofs, I will try to confine

Apr 12 2017

Ergodic Ramsey Theory

Information: Wednesday, April 12, 2017; 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar; Presenter(s): Mike Donders - Rutgers University; Description
Ergodic theory, being the study of invariant measures of dynamical systems, and Ramsey theory, being the study of structures within partitions of sets, seem like they would have little relation

Apr 05 2017

Exploring the Connections between Model Theory and Combinatorics

Information: Wednesday, April 5, 2017; 12:10 PM - 1:00 PM; Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar; Presenter(s): Rebecca Coulson - Rutgers University; Description
Model theory, the area in mathematical logic which focuses broadly on mathematical theories and structures, has long been show to have applications to other areas of mathematics. Some of these