Past Events

Playlist of workshop videos Following the successful EC 2017 Workshop on Forecasting we will hold the DIMACS Workshop on Forecasting in 2021 We welcome submissions describing recent research on crowd sourced data driven or hybrid approaches to forecasting We especially encourage contributions that leverage forecasts to improve decisions Please see

This week's meeting will depart from the usual convention of discussing a specific paper or papers. The meeting will be structured in two parts. The first part will involve people

American Sign Language (ASL) is a primary means of communication for over 500,000 people in the US, and a distinct language from English, conveyed through hands, facial expressions, and body

In several different contexts (mathematical) physicists have proposed a nonlinear system of PDEs which can be recast into a single Schroedinger equation with a Schroedinger potential that is the solution

Abstract: We give new and efficient black-box reconstruction algorithms for some classes of depth-$3$ arithmetic circuits. As a consequence, we obtain the first randomized polynomial-time algorithm for computing the tensor

Over the past decade Artificial Intelligence, in general, and Machine Learning, in particular, have made impressive advancements, in image recognition, game playing, natural-language understanding and more. But there were also

What happens when we attempt to construct the Fibonacci spiral with triangles instead of squares? We get a new sequence, the Padovan sequence, which answers its own collection of unique

I will give an introduction to random walks on graphs, deriving some useful identities and touching upon the fruitful analogy to electric networks. I'll then apply what has been developed

Edit distance is a classic measure of similarity between strings, with applications ranging from computational biology to coding. Computing edit distance is also a classic dynamic programming problem, with a

The paper to be presented is: Title: A Simply Exponential Upper Bound on the Maximum Number of Stable Matchings Authors: Anna Karlin, Shayan Oveis Gharan, and Robbie Weber Paper Abstract:

Recent advances in the use of clinical sequencing platforms in precision oncology settings have resulted in unprecedented access to the genomes of individual tumors. These assays aim to reliably identify

Ramsey theory concerns itself with the emergence of patterns in sufficiently large structures. Data miners search for patterns in extremely large data sets. This is a cautionary tale for data

Planning motion for robots and other artifacts toward desired goal positions while avoiding obstacles on the way becomes harder when the environment is tight or densely cluttered. Indeed, prevalent motion-planning

Santorini, a board game designed by mathematician Gordon Hamilton, is a two-player game of perfect information (a partizan combinatorial game) with simple rules and great depth of strategy. The structure

Let b=(b_1, b_2, b_3, ...) be a sequence of 0s and 1s. We say b is stopped at time T if, for every index t in (T/2, T], b_t =

The paper to be presented is: Title: Need vs. Merit: The Large Core of College Admissions Markets Authors: Avinatan Hassidim, Assaf Romm, and Ran I. Shorrer Paper Abstract: We study

Cumulant sequences are numerical sequences that play a fundamental role in noncommutative probability theory. West's stack-sorting map is a combinatorially-defined operator that acts on permutations. In this talk, we will

With most activities being conducted online it can be hard to connect with people when you join a new place or to meet new people who join your organization The goal of this virtual gathering is to introduce the participants to available research and career opportunities through Rutgers DIMACS and

Richard Stanley proved that the distribution of descent number over all the shuffles of two permutations depends only on the descent numbers of the permutations. We present an explicit cyclic