Speaker: Rico Zenklusen Affiliation: ETH Zurich and Johns Hopkins University Title: Multi-Budgeted Matchings via the Ham Sandwich Theorem Abstract: In many applications, one has to deal with multiple, partially conflicting constraints. In this talk, we[...]

Speaker: Rong Ge Affiliation: Microsoft Research New England Title: New Algorithms for Learning Incoherent and Overcomplete Dictionary Abstract: In sparse recovery we are given a matrix A (“the dictionary”) and a vector of the form[...]

Title: Correctness Protection via Differential Privacy Speaker: Aaron Roth Affiliation: UPenn Abstract: False discovery is a growing problem in scientific research. Despite sophisticated statistical techniques for controlling the false discovery rate and related statistics designed[...]