Speaker: Christina Fragouli, UCLA Title: Gaussian mmWave Networks and Group Testing Abstract: In this talk we briefly present two (disparate) topics. We will first introduce community aware group testing. Traditional group testing assumes that...
Title: Black-box Zeroth Order Optimization (in Theory and in Practice) Abstract: In this talk, we will consider the problem of maximizing a black-box function via noisy and costly queries from a theoretical perspective (a lot of it) as well as applications (an...
Speaker: Sean Meyn, University of Florida Title: Accelerating Optimization and Reinforcement Learning with Quasi-Stochastic Approximation Abstract: The ODE method has been a workhorse for algorithm design and analysis since the introduction of the stochastic...
Speaker: Todd P. Coleman, UCSD Title: Electrical Digestive Engineering Abstract: Gastrointestinal (GI) problems are the second leading cause for missing work or school after the common cold, giving rise to 10 percent of the reasons a patient visits their physician and...
Speaker: Elza Erkip, NYU Title: A Communications Perspective on Graph Matching Abstract: Consider two correlated graphs the first of which has labeled vertices, whereas the second one is unlabeled. Graph matching attempts to recover the labels of the...
Speaker: Damien Woods Title: 21 molecular algorithms using reprogrammable DNA self-assembly Abstract: The history of computing tells us that computers can be made of almost anything: silicon, gears and levers, neurons, flowing water, interacting particles or even...