Previous Conferences & Workshops

Nov
07
2011

Members’ Seminar

Strong and Weak Epsilon Nets and Their Applications
2:00pm|S-101

I will describe the notions of strong and weak epsilon nets in range spaces, and explain briefly some of their many applications in Discrete Geometry and Combinatorics, focusing on several recent results in the investigation of the extremal...

Nov
07
2011

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar I

How Bad is Forming Your Own Opinion
Sigal Oren
11:15am|S-101

A long-standing line of work in economic theory has studied models by which a group of people in a social network, each holding a numerical opinion, can arrive at a shared opinion through repeated averaging with their neighbors in the network...