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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?

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