Michael Cohen Memorial Symposium

Nov. 27, 2017

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

All events take place in the Calvin Lab auditorium.

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