THEORY SEMINAR -- Spring 2011

This semester, the theory seminars meet on Fridays at 11-12, followed by a group lunch.  Occasionally, talks will be given out of the normal Friday 11-12 slot.
Talk announcements will be sent to the cstheory mailing list. If you would like to be on the list or to give a talk,  please contact me.

Of related interest,  there is a also a weekly student run theory reading group that reads and discusses a new paper every week.

For information on how to get to HKUST, see this.

Date  Location  Speaker Title

Thursday, Feb 10, 11-12
 
3530 Jian Li
Univ. Maryland
Decision Making under Uncertainty

Tuesday, Feb 15, 4:30p-5:30p
(departmental seminar)
2404 Pankaj K. Agarwal
Duke Univ.
STREAM: Scalable Techniques for High-Resolution Elevation Analysis and Modeling

Thursday, Feb 17, 3-4p
 
3402 Pankaj K. Agarwal
Duke Univ.
Recent results on geometric hitting sets and independent sets

Friday, Mar 11, 2-3p
(joint with Math Departmental colloquium)
3401 Felipe Cucker
CityU
On a Problem posed by Steve Smale

Friday, Mar 25, 11-12
 
3416 Zengfeng Huang
HKUST
Optimal Sampling Algorithms for Frequency Estimation in Distributed Data

Friday, Apr 1, 2:30-3:30p
 
5487 Yufei Tao
CUHK
FIFO Indexes for Decomposable Problems

Friday, Apr 8, 11-12
 
3501 Zhewei Wei &
Zengfeng Huang
HKUST
Beyond Simple Aggregates: Indexing for Summary Queries

Sampling Based Algorithms for Quantile Computation in Sensor Networks

Thursday, Apr 21, 11-12
 
3530 Sunil Arya
HKUST
Approximate Polytope Membership Queries

Thursday, May 5, 11-12
 
3402 Andrew McGregor
UMass
Data Streams, Dyck Languages, and Detecting Dubious Data Structures

Monday, May 23, 11-12
 
3501 Otfried Cheong
KAIST
A generalization of Kakeya’s problem

Monday, May 30, 11-12
 
3501 Rajeev Raman
Univ. Leicester
Random Access to Grammar-Compressed Strings and Trees
Archives of Old Seminars, links and abstracts.
 
Web page maintained by
Ke Yi,
HKUST Theoretical Computer Science Group