Theory Lunch
Spring 2025 (Every Thursday from 12:00pm to 1:30pm in Ginsburg 503C)
- 1/16 Logistics
- 1/23 Vatsal Sharan Using Algorithms to Understand Transformers, and Using Transformers to Understand Algorithms
- 1/30 Kewen Wu Locally Sampleable Uniform Symmetric Distributions
- 2/6 Jiasen Liu Full Proportional Justified Representation
- 2/13 Jack Spalding-Jamieson Scalable k-Means Clustering for Large k via Seeded Approximate Nearest-Neighbor Search
- 2/20 Curtis Bechtel Incentivizing Efficient Delegation without Payments
- 2/27 NO THEORY LUNCH
- 3/6 PHD VISIT DAY, NO THEORY LUNCH
- 3/13 USC SYMPOSIUM ON THE FUTURE OF COMPUTING, NO THEORY LUNCH
- 3/20 SPRING RECESS, NO THEORY LUNCH
- 3/27 Grayson York Vote Delegation through the Lens of Metric Distortion
- 4/3 Jens Witkowski An Equivalence Between Fair Division and Wagering Mechanisms
- 4/10 Julian Asilis Proper Learnability and the Role of Unlabeled Data
- 4/17 Miryam Huang Towards Publicly Verifiable Cryptography: Obfuscation, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and Proof Carrying State.
- 4/24 Neel Patel
- 5/1 Guangxu Yang
An archive of schedules for older semesters can be found
here.