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Michael Cohen Memorial Symposium
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Fall 2017
Michael Cohen Memorial Symposium
Nov 27, 2017
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Click on the titles of individual talks for abstract, slides and archived video.
Monday, November 27th, 2017
1:00 pm
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1:20 pm
Coffee and Check-In
1:20 pm
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1:30 pm
Welcome and Bird's Eye View of Michael's Work
Sébastien Bubeck, Microsoft Research
and
Aleksander Mądry, MIT
1:30 pm
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2:00 pm
Uniform Sampling and Inverse Maintenance
Yin Tat Lee, University of Washington
2:00 pm
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2:30 pm
Michael Cohen and Oblivious Routing
Aaron Sidford, Stanford University
2:30 pm
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3:00 pm
Michael Cohen and High-dimensional Probability
James Lee, University of Washington
3:00 pm
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3:30 pm
Break
3:30 pm
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4:00 pm
Michael Cohen and Self-concordant Barriers over L_p Balls
Yuanzhi Li, Princeton University
4:00 pm
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4:30 pm
Michael Cohen and Directed Laplacians
Rasmus Kyng, Yale University
4:30 pm
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5:00 pm
Preconditioning in Expectation
Jakub Pachocki,
O
penAI
5:00 pm
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6:00 pm
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