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Previous FIND seminar talks

Fall 2021: 

DateSpeakerTitle
9/9/2021Alon OrliskyRobust Learning from Batches: The Best Things in Life are (Almost) Free
9/23/2021Qing ZhaoRandom Walk on a Tree for Stochastic Search and Optimization
10/7/2021Mary WoottersLow-bandwidth Recovery of Linear Functions of Reed-Solomon-encoded Data
10/21/2021Anna ScaglioneA User Guide to Low-Pass Graph Signal Processing and its Applications
11/04/2021Steven H. LowOptimal Power Flow and Smart EV Charging
11/18/2021Vikram KrishnamurthyAdversarial Filtering and Inverse Reinforcement Learning
12/02/2021Jeff ShammaControl Theoretic Modeling of Bounded Rationality in Games

Spring 2022:

DateSpeakerTitle
2/10/2022Chris De SaExample Selection Methods for Stochastic Gradient Descent
2/24/2022Christina Lee YuOvercoming the Long Horizon Barrier for Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Latent Low-Rank Structure
3/10/2022Peter KairouzImproving the Privacy-Accuracy-Communication Tradeoffs in Federated Learning
3/24/2022Sloan NietertOutlier-Robust Optimal Transport: Minimax Estimation, Duality, and Applications to Generative Modeling
4/21/2022Guy BreslerReducibility Amongst Statistical Problems
5/12/2022Giulia FantiThe Overlooked Role of Communication Networks in Blockchain Design

Fall 2022: 

DateSpeakerTitle
09/08/2022Mark WildeInevitability of Knowing Less Than Nothing
09/22/2022FIND CommunityFIND Graduate Day
09/29/2022Haim PermuterData-Driven Approach for Estimating Information Measures
10/06/2022Michael BaileyThe Role of Social Networks in Economic Mobility
10/20/2022Angelia Nedic Penalty Methods for Large-Scale Constrained Optimization Problems
11/17/2022Youssef MrouehLearning with Stochastic Orders
12/01/2022Yury PolyanskiyUniqueness of belief propagation fixed point

Spring 2023: 

DateSpeakerTitle
01/23/2023Maris OzolsQuantum Majority Vote
02/09/2023Aaron WagnerWhat Hockey Teams and Foraging Animals Can Teach Us About Feedback Communication
02/23/2023Maryam KamgarpourLearning equilibria in games with partial information
03/09/2023Baosen ZhangSafe and Efficient Learning for Power System Operations: An Interior Point Approach
03/23/2023Emanuel AbbéLeap complexity and curriculum learning
04/20/2023Nana LiuHow to use quantum simulation for dynamics problems: ordinary and partial differential equations?

Fall 2023: 

DateSpeakerTitle
08/24/2023Amit PrakashBuilding Analytics Tools for everyone using LLMs
09/07/2023Itzhak TamoNonlinear Repair Schemes of Reed-Solomon Codes
09/21/2023FIND CommunityFIND Graduate Day
10/05/2023Manxi WuMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Markov Potential Games and Beyond
10/19/2023John Simpson-PorcoLow-Gain Integral Control for Linear and Nonlinear Systems
11/02/2023Enrique MalladaModel-Free Analysis of Dynamical Systems Using Recurrent Sets: Towards a GPU-Based Approach to Control
11/16/2023Jona BalléPerception: The Next Milestone in Learned Image Compression
11/30/2023Panayotis MertikopoulosAdaptive routing in large-scale networks: Optimality under uncertainty

Spring 2024: 

DateSpeakerTitle
02/29/2024Mark WildeExact solutions for the fundamental limits of communication, discrimination, and estimation of bosonic dephasing channels
03/14/2024Alireza VahidFrom Orderly Spectrum Coexistence to Information Theory of Out-of-Order Media
03/28/2024Ziteng SunStatistical methods for efficient inference from large language models
04/11/2024Cheng GuoCopositive Duality for Discrete Economic Equilibrium Problems
04/25/2024Shirin JalaliEmerging computational imaging inverse problems: from theory to algorithms
06/13/2024Rick JohnsonMatching manufactured patterns in art supports: a path into computational art history

Fall 2024: 

DateSpeakerTitle
09/12/2024Mark WildeInformation-theoretic aspects of hypothesis exclusion
09/26/2024Karthik SridharanConnections Between Gradient Based Optimization, Sampling and Lyapunov Functions
10/10/2024Gayane VardoyanDeveloping a Framework for Quantum Network Utility Maximization
10/24/2024FIND CommunityFIND Graduate Day
11/07/2024Galen ReevesNon-asymptotic bounds for approximate message passing via Gaussian coupling
11/14/2024Haim PermuterData-Driven Approach for Capacity Estimation and Polar Codes
12/05/2024Tianyi ChenFoundations of Bilevel Optimization for Learning and Computing

Spring 2025: 

DateSpeakerTitle
02/06/2025Zoë HolmesDoes provable absence of barren plateaus imply classical simulability?
02/20/2025Lang TongEquitable Energy Access through Energy Communities
03/06/2025Christoph HircheNew quantum f-divergences and their applications
03/13/2025Subhonmesh BoseAutonomous Design in Piecewise-Stationary Environments
04/17/2025Rachel CummingsDifferentially Private Space-Efficient Algorithms for Counting Distinct Elements in the Turnstile Model
06/04/2025John B AndersonAdvances in Narrow Bandwidth Coding

Summer 2025: 

DateSpeakerTitle
08/15/2025Nengkun YuVerifying NISQ Supremacy: Marginals Are All You Need

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