Michael Cohen Memorial Symposium

Program

Bridging Continuous and Discrete Optimization

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Monday, Nov. 27, 2017

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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.

1 – 1:20 p.m.

Coffee and Check-In

1:20 – 1:30 p.m.

Welcome and Bird's Eye View of Michael's Work

Sébastien Bubeck, Microsoft Research,
Aleksander Mądry, MIT

1:30 – 2 p.m.

Uniform Sampling and Inverse Maintenance

Yin Tat Lee, University of Washington

2 – 2:30 p.m.

Michael Cohen and Oblivious Routing

Aaron Sidford, Stanford University

2:30 – 3 p.m.

Michael Cohen and High-dimensional Probability

James Lee, University of Washington

3 – 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 – 4 p.m.

Michael Cohen and Self-concordant Barriers over L_p Balls

Yuanzhi Li, Princeton University

4 – 4:30 p.m.

Michael Cohen and Directed Laplacians

Rasmus Kyng, Yale University

4:30 – 5 p.m.

Preconditioning in Expectation

Jakub Pachocki (Open AI),
Jakub Pachocki (Open AI),
Jakub Pachocki (Open AI)

5 – 6 p.m.

Reception