Michael Cohen Memorial Symposium

Nov. 27, 2017

Please note that this schedule is subject to change. 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