Sep 20 2021

Bounds for subsets of $mathbb{F}_p^n times mathbb{F}_p^n$ without L-shaped configurations

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Monday, September 20, 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Rutgers Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Presenter(s): Sarah Peluse - Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study
I will discuss the difficult problem of proving reasonable bounds in the multidimensional generalization of Szemeredi’s theorem and describe a proof of such bounds for sets lacking nontrivial configurations of
Sep 16 2021

Difference Ring Algorithms for Symbolic Summation and Challenging Applications

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Thursday, September 16, 2021
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar
Presenter(s): Carsten Schneider - RISC-Linz (Austria)
A major breakthrough in symbolic summation was Doron Zeilberger's creative telescoping method to compute linear recurrences of definite hypergeometric sums. In this talk I will illustrate the algorithmic framework in
Sep 15 2021

Cryptographic Hardness under Projections for Time-Bounded Kolmogorov Complexity

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Wednesday, September 15, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Theoretical Computer Science Seminar
Presenter(s): Eric Allender - Rutgers University
A version of time-bounded Kolmogorov complexity, denoted KT, has received attention in the past several years, due to its close connection to circuit complexity and to the Minimum Circuit Size
Sep 13 2021

Upper Tails of Subgraph Counts in Sparse Regular Graphs

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Monday, September 13, 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Rutgers Discrete Mathematics Seminar
Presenter(s): Benjamin Gunby - Rutgers University
Given a random graph G, what is the probability that it contains a constant fraction more copies of a fixed graph K than expected? This question has been well-studied when
Sep 09 2021

Lovely New Problems From the Past Months

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Thursday, September 9, 2021
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar
Presenter(s): Neil Sloane - OEIS Foundation
Tired of the sequence [Covid, drought, fires, floods, war, repeat]? Then come and hear about the astonishing Inventory Sequence 0; 1, 1, 0; 2, 2, 2, 0; ...; a new
Jul 14 2021

DIMACS Workshop on Arithmetic and Boolean Circuit Complexity

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Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - Thursday, July 15, 2021
9:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Swastik Kopparty | Ran Raz
COVID 19 Notice This workshop has been cancelled Proving lower bounds on the circuit complexity in both the Boolean and arithmetic settings is among the most exciting most challenging and most important topics in theoretical computer science The workshop will focus on lower bounds for Boolean and arithmetic circuits and
Jul 08 2021

AI Day!

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Thursday, July 8, 2021 - Thursday, July 8, 2021
11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): David Pennock
AI Day is an event that aims to engage undergraduates in learning about artificial intelligence AI by highlighting important topics and applications especially those that illustrate the use of AI to benefit society This year s program see below features three engaging presentations on the theme of artificial intelligence for
Jul 07 2021

The Seeing-eye Robot Grand Challenge: Developing a Human-Aware Artificial Collaborator

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Reuth Mirsky - UT Austin
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
In this talk I will present the seeing-eye robot grand challenge and discuss the components required to design and build a service robot that can replace or surpass the functionalities
Jul 07 2021

Auditing and countering algorithmic bias

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Vivek Singh - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
Today Artificial Intelligence algorithms are used to make multiple decisions affecting human lives, and many such algorithms, such as those used in parole decisions, have been reported to be biased.
Jul 07 2021

Making AI useful and usable

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Wednesday, July 7, 2021
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar
Presenter(s): Samantha Kleinberg - Stevens Institute
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos
We explore the critical importance of making AI not just accurate, but genuinely useful and usable within complex, high-stakes environments like the neurological ICU. A shift from traditional prediction-focused machine
Jun 29 2021

Weak saturation on graphs and hypergraphs

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Tuesday, June 29, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar, DATA-INSPIRE TRIPODS Seminars
Presenter(s): Misha Tyomkyn - Charles University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos

Suppose a pandemic spreads on the edges of a graph G as follows. Initially a subset of edges are infected. If at any point two out of three edges forming

Jun 22 2021

Necklace splitting on trees

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar, DATA-INSPIRE TRIPODS Seminars
Presenter(s): Martin Tancer - Charles University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos

In the classical necklace splitting problem k thieves steal an open-ended necklace with t different types of gems. The number of gems of each type is divisible by k. The

Jun 22 2021

CCICADA/ADAC/CREATE Workshop on Suez Canal Incident Impact and Implications for the Global Maritime Supply Chain

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Tuesday, June 22, 2021 - Tuesday, June 22, 2021
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
The Department of Homeland Security university centers of excellence COEs have established a COVID 19 Supply Chain Initiative under support of the DHS Office of University Programs and under the leadership of the CCICADA Center at Rutgers University This event is part of a sequence of short workshops that the
Jun 15 2021

Pushing the boundaries of educational technology

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Tuesday, June 15, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar, DATA-INSPIRE TRIPODS Seminars
Presenter(s): Amy Ogan - Carnegie Mellon University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos

The COVID-19 pandemic has enabled new opportunities for some learners but starkly reminds us that these resources are still not equally distributed new technologies can foster opportunities for education and

Jun 08 2021

TRIPODS Data Science Boot Camp Summer 2021

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Tuesday, June 8, 2021 - Saturday, June 12, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Ying Hung | Matthew Stone | Peng Zhang | Hoa Wang
Machine Learning Research Making the most of your data This boot camp will run June 7 11 2021 at 11 00 am 12 30 pm each day Machine learning is a powerful tool for making predictions that you can use to make sense of scientific data sets and to develop
Jun 03 2021

Topology and Geometry of Urban Road Networks

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Thursday, June 3, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar, DATA-INSPIRE TRIPODS Seminars
Presenter(s): Saray Shai - Wesleyan University
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos

Street networks act as an urban substrate for social and economical developments and control many aspects of our society -- from disease spread to urban sprawl and population growth. In

May 28 2021

Robotic Rearrangement - Two Talks by DIMACS TRIPODS Students

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Friday, May 28, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Type: Seminars | DATA-INSPIRE TRIPODS Seminars
Presenter(s): Rui Wang - Rutgers University || Kai Gao - Rutgers University
10:00 - 10:20 AM On Minimizing the Number of Running Buffers for Tabletop Rearrangement Speaker: Kai Gao, Rutgers University For tabletop rearrangement problems with overhand grasps, storage space outside the
May 27 2021

A Guided Tour of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

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Thursday, May 27, 2021
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Type: Seminars | REU Seminar, DATA-INSPIRE TRIPODS Seminars
Presenter(s): Neil Sloane - The OEIS Foundation
Organizer(s): Lazaros Gallos

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences or OEIS - see nbsp https oeis.org is a free database of number sequences containing 350,000 entries. nbsp We get 100 new submissions every

May 25 2021

Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (MIP2021)

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Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - Friday, May 28, 2021
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Yuri Faenza | Robert Hildebrand | Carla Michini | Yuan Zhou | Timo Berthold
DIMACS is a sponsor for the 2021 Mixed Integer Programming Workshop MIP2021 MIP is a single track workshop that is recognized as a major meeting covering many aspects of mathematical optimization including integer programming stochastic and nonconvex optimization Many of the most challenging optimization problems that arise in practice are
May 21 2021

Co-evolution of Opinion and Social Tie Dynamics Towards Structural Balance

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Friday, May 21, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Type: Seminars | DATA-INSPIRE TRIPODS Seminars
Presenter(s): Haotian Wang - Rutgers University
In the natural network structure, especially in the social networks, community structures are one of the prominent properties. An extreme case of that is when the network is partitioned into