Previous Conferences & Workshops

Apr
04
2017

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Computability and complexity in analysis and dynamics
10:30am

We will give a high-level overview of computable analysis---an area studying the computational properties of continuous objects such as functions and measures on $\mathbb R^d$. We will then discuss some applications to the computability and...

Apr
03
2017

Reading Group on Mirror Symmetry by Examples

Mirror symmetry for a toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold
4:00pm

I will describe the non-homological (i.e. enumerative) aspect of mirror symmetry for a particular toric Calabi-Yau 3-fold, the total space of the canonical bundle over $\mathbb P^2$. In this case, there is a simpler B-model on its mirror curve which...

Apr
03
2017

Members’ Seminar

Algebra and geometry of the scattering equations
2:00pm

Four years ago, Cachazo, He and Yuan found a system of algebraic equations, now named the "scattering equations", that effectively encoded the kinematics of massless particles in such a way that the scattering amplitudes, the quantities of physical...

Apr
03
2017

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

A time-space lower bound for a large class of learning problems
11:15am

We prove a general time-space lower bound that applies for a large class of learning problems and shows that for every problem in that class, any learning algorithm requires either a memory of quadratic size or an exponential number of samples. As a...

Apr
01
2017

Workshop on Topology: Identifying Order in Complex Systems

Multiscale methods for dictionary learning, regression and optimal transport for data near low-dimensional sets
Mauro Maggioni
4:45pm

We discuss a family of ideas, algorithms, and results for analyzing various new and classical problems in the analysis of high-dimensional data sets. These methods we discuss perform well when data is (nearly) intrinsically low-dimensional. They...