Meetings: Fridays 12:30-2pm, 732 Evans Hall.
This is a student reading group for topics not far from the convex hull of: analysis related to polynomials, spectral graph theory, discrete probability, combinatorics, algorithms, and random matrices.Schedule
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 9/7 | Onye | large deviations for random graphs |
| 9/14 | Theo | semirandom instances of independent set |
| 9/21 | Archit | logconcave polys and counting, paper |
| 9/28 | Jonathan | logconcave polys and counting, II paper |
| 10/5 | no seminar | |
| 10/12 | Theo | testing PSDness with few moments |
| 10/19 | Jorge | sums of hermitian random matrices with prescribed eigenvalues |
| 10/26 | Sidhanth | a simple proof of Paulsen's conjecture |
| 11/2 | Jonathan | correlation bounds for matroids |
| 11/9 | no seminar | |
| 11/16 | Archit | logconcave polys and mason's conjecture |