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Previous FIND seminar talks

Fall 2021:

Date	Speaker	Title
9/9/2021	Alon Orlisky	Robust Learning from Batches: The Best Things in Life are (Almost) Free
9/23/2021	Qing Zhao	Random Walk on a Tree for Stochastic Search and Optimization
10/7/2021	Mary Wootters	Low-bandwidth Recovery of Linear Functions of Reed-Solomon-encoded Data
10/21/2021	Anna Scaglione	A User Guide to Low-Pass Graph Signal Processing and its Applications
11/04/2021	Steven H. Low	Optimal Power Flow and Smart EV Charging
11/18/2021	Vikram Krishnamurthy	Adversarial Filtering and Inverse Reinforcement Learning
12/02/2021	Jeff Shamma	Control Theoretic Modeling of Bounded Rationality in Games

Spring 2022:

Date	Speaker	Title
2/10/2022	Chris De Sa	Example Selection Methods for Stochastic Gradient Descent
2/24/2022	Christina Lee Yu	Overcoming the Long Horizon Barrier for Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Latent Low-Rank Structure
3/10/2022	Peter Kairouz	Improving the Privacy-Accuracy-Communication Tradeoffs in Federated Learning
3/24/2022	Sloan Nietert	Outlier-Robust Optimal Transport: Minimax Estimation, Duality, and Applications to Generative Modeling
4/21/2022	Guy Bresler	Reducibility Amongst Statistical Problems
5/12/2022	Giulia Fanti	The Overlooked Role of Communication Networks in Blockchain Design

Fall 2022:

Date	Speaker	Title
09/08/2022	Mark Wilde	Inevitability of Knowing Less Than Nothing
09/22/2022	FIND Community	FIND Graduate Day
09/29/2022	Haim Permuter	Data-Driven Approach for Estimating Information Measures
10/06/2022	Michael Bailey	The Role of Social Networks in Economic Mobility
10/20/2022	Angelia Nedic	Penalty Methods for Large-Scale Constrained Optimization Problems
11/17/2022	Youssef Mroueh	Learning with Stochastic Orders
12/01/2022	Yury Polyanskiy	Uniqueness of belief propagation fixed point

Spring 2023:

Date	Speaker	Title
01/23/2023	M a ris Ozols	Quantum Majority Vote
02/09/2023	Aaron Wagner	What Hockey Teams and Foraging Animals Can Teach Us About Feedback Communication
02/23/2023	Maryam Kamgarpour	Learning equilibria in games with partial information
03/09/2023	Baosen Zhang	Safe and Efficient Learning for Power System Operations: An Interior Point Approach
03/23/2023	Emanuel Abbé	Leap complexity and curriculum learning
04/20/2023	Nana Liu	How to use quantum simulation for dynamics problems: ordinary and partial differential equations?

Fall 2023:

Date	Speaker	Title
08/24/2023	Amit Prakash	Building Analytics Tools for everyone using LLMs
09/07/2023	Itzhak Tamo	Nonlinear Repair Schemes of Reed-Solomon Codes
09/21/2023	FIND Community	FIND Graduate Day
10/05/2023	Manxi Wu	Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Markov Potential Games and Beyond
10/19/2023	John Simpson-Porco	Low-Gain Integral Control for Linear and Nonlinear Systems
11/02/2023	Enrique Mallada	Model-Free Analysis of Dynamical Systems Using Recurrent Sets: Towards a GPU-Based Approach to Control
11/16/2023	Johannes Ballé	Perception: The Next Milestone in Learned Image Compression
11/30/2023	Panayotis Mertikopoulos	Adaptive routing in large-scale networks: Optimality under uncertainty

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