Friday, April 14, 2017 (3:15 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Tales of Random Projections
Speaker: Kavita Ramanan (Professor of Applied Mathematics and Chair of the Graduate Program, Brown University)
Abstract: The interplay between geometry and probability in high-dimensional spaces is a fascinating subject of active research. Classical theorems in probability theory such as the...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2017 (3:00 p.m. in Yost 306)
Title: Remarks on the (B) conjecture
Speaker: Liran Rotem (Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota)
Abstract: The original (B) conjecture is a question regarding the Gaussian measure, asked by Banaszczyk and popularized by Latała. It was proved in 2004 by Cordero-Erausquin, Fradelizi and Maurey,...