The ACO Seminar (2024–2025)

The seminar will occur on Thursdays at 3:00pm in Wean Hall 8220.
If you want to be a speaker or have questions or suggestions about the seminar, please contact the organizer: Chris Eur.

Spring 2025

January 16, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
TBD, TBD
TBA

January 23, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Alan Lew, Carnegie Mellon University
TBA

January 30, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Caroline Klivans, Brown University
TBA

February 13, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Dhruv Mubayi, Univeristy of Illinois Chicago
TBA

February 20, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
TBD, TBD
TBA

February 27, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Swee Hong Chan, Rutgers University
TBA

March 13, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Luis Ferroni, Institute for Advanced Study
TBA

March 20, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Tom Kelly, Georgia Tech
TBA

March 27, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Marcus Michelen, University of Illinois Chicago
TBA

April 3, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Eric Katz, Ohio State University
TBA

April 17, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Nitya Mani, Massachussetts Institute of Technology
TBA

April 24, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Vasu Tewari, University of Toronto Mississauga
TBA

Fall 2024

September 5, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Robert Krueger, Carnegie Mellon University
Lipschitz functions on weak expanders

September 12, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Imre Leader, University of Cambridge
Turan densities for daisies and hypercubes

September 19, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Quentin Dubroff, Carnegie Mellon University
Thresholds for graph containment in $G_{n,p}$ and coupon collectors

September 26, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Colin Tang, Carnegie Mellon University
Simplex slicing: an asymptotically-sharp lower bound

October 3, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Chris Eur, Carnegie Mellon University
Using Hodge–Riemann relations

October 10, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Zongchen Chen, Georgia Tech
Entropy Contractions in Markov Chains: Half-Step, Full-Step and Continuous-Time

October 24, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Ramon van Handel, Princeton
A new approach to strong convergence

October 31, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Yuval Wigderson, ETH Zurich
Graph decompositions, Ramsey theory, and random graphs

November 7, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Gary Miller, Carnegie Mellon University
Voting Systems And A Normalized Random Walk On A Graph

November 14, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Andrew Newman, Carnegie Mellon University
The Turán problem for spheres

November 21, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Anton Dochtermann, Texas State University
Parking functions and h-vectors of matroids

December 5, 3:00pm, Wean 8220
Jakob Hofstad, Carnegie Mellon University
Note on Two-Point Concentration of the Independence Number of $G_{n,m}$

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