Feb 01 2021

Discussion of: Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching

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Monday, February 1, 2021
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Type: Seminars | DIMACS Matching Reading Group
The paper to be presented is: Title: Correlation Neglect in Student-to-School Matching Authors: A. Rees-Jones, R. Shorrer, and C. Tergiman Paper Abstract: A growing body of evidence suggests that decision-makers
Jan 28 2021

Counting Matrices that are Squares

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Thursday, January 28, 2021
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar
Presenter(s): Victor Miller - Anduril Industries
On the math-fun mailing list (7 May 2013), Neil Sloane asked to calculate the number of n times n matrices with entries in {0,1} which are squares of other such
Jan 20 2021

Near-Optimal Algorithms for Approximate Min-Cost Flow and Dynamic Shortest Paths

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Wednesday, January 20, 2021
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Theoretical Computer Science Seminar
Presenter(s): Aaron Bernstein - Rutgers University
Organizer(s): Swastik Kopparty || Sepehr Assadi
In the decremental single-source shortest paths problem, the goal is to maintain distances from a fixed source s to every vertex v in a graph undergoing deletions. In this paper,
Jan 09 2021

CCICADA/CEEZAD/ADAC Workshop on Vaccine Distribution & Prioritization

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Saturday, January 9, 2021 - Saturday, January 9, 2021
11:30 AM - 2:25 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
Jan 08 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines: Distribution & Prioritization

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Friday, January 8, 2021
11:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Type: Seminars | CCICADA Seminar Series in Homeland Security

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

Jan 08 2021

COVID-19 VACCINE WORKSHOPS-DHS UNIVERSITY CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS

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Friday, January 8, 2021 - Saturday, January 9, 2021
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Fred Roberts
January 7 2021 DAY 1 VACCINE EFFICACY SAFETY KEYNOTE DR FLORIAN KRAMMER January 8 2021 DAY 2 DISTRIBUTION PRIORITIZATION KEYNOTE TBA WHERE Virtual meeting information sent after request for invitation received SUMMARY These workshops will each be 90 minutes in length each organized around a keynote and panel discussion including
Jan 07 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines: Efficacy & Safety

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Thursday, January 7, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:15 PM
Type: Seminars | CCICADA Seminar Series in Homeland Security

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

Jan 07 2021

CCICADA/CEEZAD Workshop on COVID-19 Vaccines: Efficacy & Safety

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Thursday, January 7, 2021 - Thursday, January 7, 2021
1:30 PM - 3:30 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

Jan 05 2021

TRIPODS Data Science Boot Camp: Matching Robot Simulations to Reality

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Tuesday, January 5, 2021
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Type: Meetings
Organizer(s): Abdeslam Boularias || Mridul Aanjaneya
In the field of simulation, computer scientists write programs that model the behavior of virtual worlds unfolding over time.
Dec 18 2020

Artificial Intelligence for Wildlife Conservation: AI and Humans Combating Extinction Together

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Friday, December 18, 2020
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Type: Seminars | DATA-INSPIRE TRIPODS Seminars
Presenter(s): Tanya Berger-Wolf - Ohio State University
Photographs, taken by field scientists, tourists, automated cameras, and incidental photographers, are the most abundant source of data on wildlife today. I will show how fundamental data science and machine
Dec 14 2020

Discussion of: The Influence of One Strategic Agent on the Core of Stable Matchings

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Monday, December 14, 2020
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Type: Seminars | DIMACS Matching Reading Group
The paper to be presented is: Title: The Influence of One Strategic Agent on the Core of Stable Matchings Author: Ron Kupfer Paper Abstract: In this work, we analyze the
Dec 10 2020

Algorithmically Distinguishing Irreducible Characters of the Symmetric Group

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Thursday, December 10, 2020
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar
Presenter(s): Timothy Chow - Princeton University
Abstract : Suppose χλ and χμ are two distinct irreducible characters of the symmetric group Sn. How hard is it to find a permutation π such that χλ(π) differs from
Dec 10 2020

Rutgers AI and Pandemics Initiative: 3MP Competition

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Thursday, December 10, 2020
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Type: Meetings
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the world to critically evaluate the ways in which state-of-the-art technology, and in particular Artificial Intelligence (AI), can be leveraged to dampen the impact of current and future threats.
Dec 09 2020

Optimal Lower Bounds for Matching and Vertex Cover in Dynamic Graphs

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Theoretical Computer Science Seminar
Presenter(s): Christian Konrad - University of Bristol
Organizer(s): Sepehr Assadi || Swastik Kopparty
Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss simple optimal lower bounds on the one-way two-party communication complexity of approximate Maximum Matching and Minimum Vertex Cover with deletions. In this model,
Dec 09 2020

Gomory-Hu Trees

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Wednesday, December 9, 2020
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Type: Seminars | Graduate Combinatorics Seminar
Presenter(s): Aditi Dudeja - Rutgers University
The all-pairs minimum-cut size problem asks for a minimum s-t cut over all pairs of vertices s, t. This can clearly be solved in time O(n^2 T) where T is
Dec 07 2020

Discussion of: The Complexity of Interactively Learning a Stable Matching by Trial and Error

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Monday, December 7, 2020
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Type: Seminars | DIMACS Matching Reading Group
The paper to be presented is: Title: The Complexity of Interactively Learning a Stable Matching by Trial and Error Authors: Ehsan Emamjomeh-Zadeh, Yannai A. Gonczarowski, David Kempe Paper Abstract: In
Dec 04 2020

Long Duration Autonomy With Applications to Persistent Environmental Monitoring

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Friday, December 4, 2020
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Type: Seminars | DATA-INSPIRE TRIPODS Seminars
Presenter(s): Magnus Egerstedt - Georgia Institute of Technology
When robots are to be deployed over long time scales, optimality should take a backseat to “survivability”, i.e., it is more important that the robots do not break or completely
Dec 03 2020

Risky Decisions: How Mathematical Paradoxes and Other Conundrums Have Shaped Economic Science

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Thursday, December 3, 2020
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar
Presenter(s): George Szpiro - Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Abstract : At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making
Nov 21 2020

TRIPODS/DATA-INSPIRE Workshop on Making Predictions with Big Data: Fitting, Overfitting and Physics-aided Learning

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Saturday, November 21, 2020 - Saturday, November 21, 2020
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Type: Workshops
Organizer(s): Ying Hung
This workshop focuses on the roles of overfitting and physical systems in making predictions with big data
Nov 19 2020

From Stern's Triangle to Upper Homogeneous Posets

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Thursday, November 19, 2020
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Type: Seminars | Experimental Math Seminar
Presenter(s): Richard Stanley - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Organizer(s): Robert Dougherty Bliss || Doron Zeilberger
Stern's triangle S is an array of numbers similar to Pascal's triangle, except that in addition to adding two adjacent numbers we also copy each number down to the next