<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr">This workshop may be of interest. There are also some local speakers :)</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Best,</div><div dir="ltr">Madhur <br><br><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Northwestern Junior Theorists Workshop 2020 <nu.jr.theorists@gmail.com><br><b>Date:</b> December 10, 2020 at 4:09:45 PM CST<br><b>To:</b> Madhur Tulsiani <madhurt@ttic.edu><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Northwestern Fall 2020 Quarterly Theory Workshop showcasing Junior Theorists</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000">Dear Madhur,</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><font color="#000000">We would like to invite you to Northwestern Computer Science’s Fall 2020 Quarterly Theory Workshop highlighting Junior Theorists. The event will be entirely virtual, on December 17 and 18 (Thursday-Friday), 10am-5pm CT. We hope that you and your colleagues will be able to attend. Full details are available on the workshop webpage:</font><div><font color="#000000"><br> <a href="https://theory.cs.northwestern.edu/events/2020-junior-theorists-workshop/" target="_blank">https://theory.cs.northwestern.edu/events/2020-junior-theorists-workshop/</a><br><br>Interested participants need to <a href="http://ec2-52-26-194-35.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/x/d?c=10206856&l=1f55abbe-25d1-46fe-8a48-e7fbe6681657&r=b05f03e5-6aa4-4583-9914-033c0f51a16c" target="_blank">register</a> to receive the gather.town link.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">It would be great if you could also forward this announcement to the rest of your group.<br><br>Best Regards,</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Hedyeh and Jinshuo, on behalf of TCS @ Northwestern<br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">—<br><br>ABOUT THE SERIES<br><br>The Quarterly Theory Workshop brings in three or four theoretical computer science experts to present their perspective and research on a common theme. Chicago and Midwest area researchers with interest in theoretical computer science are invited to attend. The technical program is in the morning and includes coffee and lunch. The afternoon of the workshop will allow for continued discussion between attendees and the speakers.<br><br><br>SYNOPSIS<br><br>The focus of this workshop will be on junior researchers in all areas of theoretical computer science. Each speaker delivers a 30 minute talk. After each hour-long session, there will be time for open discussion. The speakers for this workshop are:</font></div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Yu Chen (UPenn)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Sitan Chen (MIT)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Albert Cheu (Northeastern)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Mahsa Derakhshan (UMD)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Fernando Granha Jeronimo (UChicago)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Christopher Jung (UPenn)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Frederic Koehler (MIT)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Weihao Kong (Stanford/UW)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Jason Li (CMU)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Kuikui Liu (UW)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Nicole Wein (MIT)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Fang-Yi Yu (Harvard)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Peng Zhang (Yale)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Jeroen Zuiddam (NYU)</font></li></ul><font color="#000000"><br>LOGISTICS<br></font><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Organizers: Hedyeh Beyhaghi and Jinshuo Dong.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Date: Thursday-Friday, Dec 17-18, 2020.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Location: Virtual (on Gather.Town and Zoom).</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><font color="#000000">Registration: <a href="https://forms.gle/2iWsiyti8DYUoEZY6" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/2iWsiyti8DYUoEZY6</a></font></li></ul><div><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br>TENTATIVE SCHEDULE<br></div></div>All times are Central (CST), UTC -6.<br><br>Thursday:<br><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">10:00-10:05: Opening Remarks</li><li style="margin-left:15px">10:05-10:35: Peng Zhang (Yale), <i>TBD</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">10:35-11:05: Jeroen Zuiddam (NYU), <i>TBD</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">11:05-11:30: Q&A / Coffee</li><li style="margin-left:15px">11:30-12:00: Fernando Jeronimo (UChicago), <i>Decoding Ta-Shma’s Binary Codes</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">12:00-12:30: Kuikui Liu (UW), <i>TBD</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">12:30-2:00: Q&A / Lunch (on you own)</li><li style="margin-left:15px">2:00-2:30: Frederic Koehler (MIT), <i>TBD</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">2:30-3:00: Weihao Kong (Stanford/UW), <i>Meta-learning for mixed linear regression</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">3:00-3:30: Q&A / Coffee</li><li style="margin-left:15px">3:30-4:00: Albert Cheu (Northeastern), <i>Differential Privacy in the Shuffle Model</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">4:00-4:30: Sitan Chen (MIT), <i>Learning Deep ReLU Networks when Gradient Descent Fails</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">4:30-5:00: Q&A / Coffee</li></ul>Friday:<br><br><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">10:00-10:30: Nicole Wein (MIT), <i>Approximating the Diameter of a Graph</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">10:30-11:00: Yu Chen (UPenn), <i>Near-linear Size Hypergraph Cut Sparsifiers</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">11:00-11:30: Q&A / Coffee</li><li style="margin-left:15px">11:30-12:00: Jason Li (CMU), <i>TBD</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">12:00-12:30: Christopher Jung (UPenn), <i>Moment Multicalibration for Uncertainty Estimation</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">12:30-2:00: Q&A / Lunch (on you own)</li><li style="margin-left:15px">2:00-2:30: Mahsa Derakhshan (UMD), <i>TBD</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">2:30-3:00: Fang-Yi Yu (Harvard), <i>Escaping Saddle Points in Constant Dimensional Spaces: an Agent-based Modeling Perspective</i></li><li style="margin-left:15px">3:00-3:30: Q&A / Coffee</li><li style="margin-left:15px">3:30-4:30: Northwestern spotlight talks</li><li style="margin-left:15px">4:30-5:00: Q&A / Coffee</li></ul></div></div>
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