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FDS Colloquium: Steven Johnson (MIT), “Co-design of Optics & Inference”
Abstract: Over the past two decades, an explosion in fabrication capabilities for nano-structured optics has coincided with the development of powerful techniques for “inverse design” — large-scale PDE-constrained optimization, sometimes with millions of degrees of freedom, that reveals surprising irregular structures for a diverse range of devices. Light emission, sensing, communications, and imaging have all…
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FDS Colloquium: Lorenzo Orecchia (Chicago), “Variational Characterizations of First-Order Algorithms via Self-Duality”
Talk summary: First-order methods for convex optimization play an important role in the efficient deployment of machine learning algorithms. While a large number of such methods exist, each tuned to the specific properties of the problem under consideration, it is not always clear how to generalize their approach to a new setting or to a…
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FDS Colloquium: Pravesh Kothari (Princeton), “The surprising reach of spectral algorithms for smoothed k-SAT”
Abstract: Semirandom input models are hybrids of the classical worst-case and average-case models in algorithm design. They were introduced in the 1990s to inspire “robust heuristics” that, on the one hand, escape worst-case hardness results, while, on the other, avoid “overfitting” to a specific distribution of input instances. Over the past five years, rapid progress…
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FDS/CADMY Research in Motion Colloquium: Nicolas Stier-Moses (Meta), “Pacing Mechanisms For Ad Auctions”
Research in Motion Series is co-hosted by the Center for Algorithms, Data, and Market Design at Yale (CADMY) and the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS). Abstract: Budgets play a significant role in real-world sequential auction markets such as those implemented by Internet companies. To maximize the value provided to auction participants, spending…
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Computational Biology & Biomedical Informatics (CBB) and Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS) Project Match
Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (CBB) and Biomedical Informatics & Data Science (BIDS) faculty will give 5–7-minute presentations on their research to recruit MS/PhD students into their labs. *This event is for first-year students searching for research lab rotations* Speakers: Corey O’Hern, PhD: “Computational studies of protein-protein interactions” Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering…
