Seminars

The Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics Seminars will take place every Monday at 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and every Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at the Institute for Advanced Study. The lectures will be held in S-101, the seminar room in Simonyi Hall, unless stated otherwise.

If you are interested in attending future seminars and are not already on our mailing list from previous years, please send an e-mail to Andrea Lass and ask to be added.

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Upcoming Seminar Titles Include:

Mar
19
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

Geodesics and Minimal Surfaces in a Random Environment
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

Endow the edges of the $Z^D$ lattice with positive weights, sampled independently from a suitable distribution (e.g., uniformly distributed on [a,b] for some b>a>0). We wish to study the geometric properties of the resulting network, focusing on the...

Apr
09
2024

Computer Science/Discrete Mathematics Seminar II

The Method of Hypergraph Containers
Wojciech Samotij
10:30am|Simonyi Hall 101 and Remote Access

The method of hypergraph containers is a widely-applicable technique in probabilistic combinatorics. The method enables one to gain control over the independent sets of many `interesting' hypergraphs by exploiting the fact that these sets exhibit a...